The dark tide was  enveloping the land in sickness and sorrow and people were falling before it like wheat before the scythe, with the dea-lords as the harvesters. The kings and lords of the land were terified of the Dea-lords wrath and most knelt before them with no resistance at all those who did stand were given no quarter, shown no mercy but that of a quick death. The only reason that the Dea-lords had been held at bay for so long was the unhuman might and vigilance of the Kalinre and their living weapons, and these warriors of the people were dying off fast as the war continued. So very few of the monks were still able to fight, but fight they did and they wrought a terrible vengance upon the Shadow Nation and their armies. Yet it was to no avail the monks were compleatly wiped out, all except for the four of their greatest warriors. These were Lucia Heclevant of the ax Tempest , Mortanal Vicrit of the spear Cain, Deamon Niage of the sword Tachani, and Kealin Heathman, the leader of the Order of the Monks of Kalinre and weilder of the great bow Kalinteries. Upon realizeing that they were the only monks left they decided to go into hidding and await the arival of the Dark Light, the swordsman that the sacred legends of the Kalinre fortold of. Acording to the prophecy the Dark Light would be sent to Cartania in an age when Shdow ruled the land and the people were in their greatest need. He would be known as the greatest of all the Kalinre higher even than the Deaga-lord himself the ruler of darknes, yet if he should chose wrongly his desiny is unknown for the gods feared to meddle in this issue. The prophesy said that he would be marked from birth by the gods and when the fates brought him to the Sky Forge they would grant him a partner unlike any ever seen before it. As its partner did, it would also bare the mark of the heavens, a winged sword, the legendary Sky Blade.

The last of the Kalinre realized that the young monk would need teachers in the way of the blade or he would be slaughtered like a new born lamb before the Dea-lords might. So they hid away to await the arival of the savior. Shortly after the destruction of the Kalinre the last of the Cartanian kingdoms surendered to the Shadow Nation for they knew all was lost without the Monks of Kalinre, and they chose to live and serve instead of fight and die. As the years passed you could not say that the last four of the greatest warriors to ever live, were sitting idle while the people they were sworn to protect died as slaves of the Deaga-lord. durring their time in hidding they would periodicly begin searching for the one who fates had named the Dark Light. While they searched they would inflict as much harm to the Shadow Nation as possible and they became known as the four winds of the apocolypse, fore they would always travle seperatly when searching, one would go to the North, one to the South, one to the East, and one to the West. They protected those they could and avenged those they couldn't. They seemed untouchable,  fueled by a righteous rage. If the shadow Gaurds heard them coming they fled in terror. But after thirteen years of searching and seeing no results, they began to lose heart had the gods truly abandoned them? Would they die with the prophecy unfufilled? Where was the Dark Light...