Long ago, there was only one circle, the Otarchs. They governed each level and kept peace in the land for an estimated 3,000 years. But the Otarchs were there from the beginning when Laanx and Talad were known to roam the lands. Laanx and Talad helped the Otarchs in eternal peace threwout the levels, but after Laanx and Talad said they must keep peace on their own, they knew this would not work.
So after some deliberation the Otarchs grouped nine scholars and warriors and dubbed them \"The Kanarbies\". The Kanarbies were scouts mainly and reported of evil happenings threw out the land. When brawls started they would bring the one of blame to the council of Otarchs where his or her fate would then be decided.
Over time the Kanarbies gained much fame. They were known very much threw out the levels of Yliakum and were sometimes called the peace keepers. But when comes fame, also comes hate. All the thieves and murderers hated them and pelted them with anything they could find when they got a chance. But of course they were then thrown in a prison, or sometimes killed.
Overtime crime grew like the flowers in spring. There was no stopping it all, but they could stop some. As the crime grew, so did its head quarters. Crime stretched as far as the eye could see and even farther.
So the Kanarbies went by each other\'s self and had to travel a long distance to report to their captain, Mister Edvicimo Cartona. So Cartona devised the plan of communication using seeing stones.
They were dark, black stones with a violet flame glittering in the center of the circular stone. One stone was given to each of the nine Kanarbies so they could speak to and see each other from quite a distance.
But once the information about the stones spread, many wondered what else they could see if emmense power was used on them. But also the criminals wanted just but one stone, because then they could track them down to their death.
So one day a group of five thieves devised a plan to murder the Kanarbies. They called themselves simply \"The Syndicate\" and their names were forgotten at their deaths.
One day one of the Kanarbies was going to a local grocery to buy an apple, when he saw a person being pulled into a back alley. He climbed onto his silver steed known to many as \"Adronicus\" and went to the alley. He jumped off his horse and unsheathed his blade. He walked quietly into the alley and saw a man, gripping a tangerine in his right hand, lying dead in a pool of blood. A sword was in his left hand but apparently the man had no time to act for he was dead.
He heard something break but before he had time to turn around, a blade was in mid-air aimed at his head. The blade swung to the right, then to the left and decapitated the Kanarbie.
The thieves had gotten a stone and their plan had commensed. They called to the others through the stone and said, \"If you ever want to see your stupid friend again, meet me at the Black Cove.\"
The Black Cove was a small cave, leading to an even smaller and narrow tunnel leading to the center of an in-active volcano known as \"Mount Caradine\".
The Kanarbies had no other choice but to go to the cove. They met a black bearded man, with a stub for an arm, and a blade in his hand. He smiled, his teeth yellow and rotten gleeming, as he pointed his sword at the decapitated head of Sir Draifus dangling from a rope tied to the ceiling.
Before the Kanarbies could unsheath their swords they were killed by arrows shot by the other thieves. The bodies were disposed of in a nearby river and was found by some pesant. The pesant mysteriously disappeared, and the bodies were gone. The Octarchs covered it up and said they no longer needed them and they had been replaced. This is when the Vigesimi came into the picture.
The thieves were later murdered one by one, by a single man. This man was demented and needed care, but no one knew about him. He loved riddles and decided to have a bit of fun.
He placed each seeing stone in front of an entrance leading to a chest holding a thousand riches.
He then got the ninth stone and placed it in a place known only by him. He gave a riddle, telling the ninth stone\'s location, to a man on the street he had never met.
The man never figured out the point of and the actual riddle itself.
He passed it on threw his family, and now it belongs to a drunken man sitting in the \"Gadiva Inn\" every night for 5 hours drinking heavily. If you meet him, and give him a drink, he might just give you the riddle showing the key to the one of the finest treasures in the history of Yliakum.
