AEONS AND AEONS HAS IT BEEN AN OLD STORY TOLD AGAIN AND AGAIN. PERHAPS IN FEAR OF THE LOVING ONE IT THAT SHAPED THIS WORLD, THIS STORY WAS FORGOTTEN. BUT BE AS IT MAY, NOTHING, NOR NO ONE, CAN PROVE THE TRUTH OF THIS STORY CENTRE OF THIS WORLD, THE AXIS OF THE WORLD-PLATE SURROUNDED BY A SCORCHING DESERT, ITSELF BY A LUSH WASTELAND ITSELF BY FOGGY HILLS ITSELF BY A COLD AND DESOLATE DARKNESS. UNDER THE DIRECT LIGHT OF THE EGG STAND, TALL, UNKNOWN, UNCLIMBED THE TOWER. MUST YOU CLIMB ? MUST YOU FORSAKE ALL THAT YOU HAVE KNOWN, TO ENTER THE BLACK TEMPLE ? YOU MUST, FOR TO CHANGE THIS WORLD EVERYTHING MUST BE LOST, SO THAT EVERYTHING CAN BE GAINED. YOU KNOW THIS DEEP INSIDE AND HAVE KNOWN IT FOR YEARS. YOUR ENTIRE LIFE YOU HAVE SWORE THAT ONE DAY, THIS LAND SHALL HOLD STILL IN PEACE WITHOUT PLAGUE AND ILLNESS POVERTY OR WAR. EVERYTHING PRECIOUS TO YOU MUST BE LOST, TO THEN BE GAINED. AND SO YOU ENTER.