Circles within circles

Lines within lines

Endless spirals

From small to great

The path lies ahead

Where destiny awaits

The runes of the ancient inscription were carved out of weakening limestone as part of a crumbling gate. The centerpiece of the gate was an enormous relic, a huge ammonite fossil. Vines twisted around each column of the limestone gate, moss and algae filling in the cracks. A forest of ginkgo trees lined either side of the path beneath the gate, worn by countless twin and three-toed footprints. Avian dinosaurs from other lands traveled to the Oasis in pilgrimage, to catch a glimpse of the massive ammonite relic. This was their origin point west of the once vast sea that divided an entire continent. It was protected by the mysterious elemental magic hidden within the ammonite, harnessed by Clepsydra in order to save her kind from extinction.

Hundreds of years later, the distant active fire-river-mountain, and invading tyrants, had other plans…

And when Iara was marked with the ammonite scar on her face, her journey of self discovery would begin…