ABOUT THE STORY:

The Trial Trilogy consists of three bookes:

1.      Trials of the Guardians

2.      Trials of the Roses

3.      Trials of Hell

During the beginning of existence, the Gods created man and all of the races—elves and various sub-types, dwarves, faeries, et cetera—as well as all of the languages and ideals of these races. The trickster god Loki, and his evil daughter Hel, created ideals that went against the purist foundations of the other Gods. Thus the seven Sins were created: Lust, Greed, Vanity, Avarice, Gluttony, Wrath, and Sloth.

These Sins burrowed themselves into the hearts of man, causing the world (Midgard) to begin to loose its innocent luster that the Gods had intended it to posses. So the Aesir—a group of Gods that monitored human behavior—gathered up the Sins and tried to rid themselves of them forever, but when they tried, they found that the Sins had become so entwined with human souls and their nature, that they could not get rid of the Sins without also destroying the human race, and all races of Midgard.

So they locked the Sins away in a box, securing their power, and weakening their hold on the race of man until the bond would become weak enough to destroy without harming the races of the world.

The box was sealed with a silver lock that could only be opened once a millennia, and then passed the box down to a threesome of some of the most beautiful women the world had ever seen, and so named them the Pan’Dora Sisterhood. They would watch the box and guard it with their lives in order to contain the horrors within, though they were never told what those horrors consisted of. They were given the gift of immortality, and afforded every luxury they would ever wish for, and the Gods built them an opulent palace at the peak of the highest mountain in all of Zaikiir (the continent where the story takes place).

For many, many years the Sisterhood watched over the box, and for many, many years it remained closed.

But curiosity is a powerful force.

On the night that the millennia switched over, one of the three woman looked upon the box with longing in her eyes. What could be in such a beautiful box? Why would it need guarding so? She had to know. One simple peak wouldn’t harm anything, if the Gods didn’t know about it. She wouldn’t let it out…she only wanted to look at it…

The moment her hand lifted the latch the lid to the box flew open and out sprang the frantic, maniacal laughter of the Sins as they washed over the realms of man once more, poisoning Midgard once more with their evil.

The Gods were furious and damned the Pan’Dora Sisterhood to everlasting perdition, changing the gifts they had given the woman around so that they were now forced to walk the realms as vagabonds and varlets to the Powers That Be.

Soon after the Sins had been released, Loki and Hel, who had been watching the whole affair with little more than mild intrigue, were ecstatic. They gathered the Sins together and took a small piece of each one, and gave it form, crafting each and every one into beings that were the perfect quintessence of the Sin itself. They cast the embodiments of the Sins out into the world to bring forth the destruction of man so that the two might come to Midgard, and rule it, becoming more and more powerful as the humans fed off of the Sins, and then finally challenge the other Gods, and eventually destroy them, leaving Loki and Hel with ultimate power.

Their plan was working.

The world was at war.

During the war the great Kings of the world banded together against the forces of darkness that rose up from all sides to take control over the land and make way for their dark lords to claim Midgard. The Kings were loosing fast and prayed furiously to the Gods to aid them, to drive their enemies back into Niflheim (the hell from which they were spawn). Eventually their prayers were answered, and the Gods created something known as the Star of Algiz.

The Star was a heliotrope gem that had the power to unlock the full potential of the human mind, giving the possessor such abilities as levitation, telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and above all the power to push the sins back into submission.

But the Gods fool proofed the Star, making it so that only an Innocent (one who is untouched by Sin) could use it.

With the power of the Star, the Kings of Zaikiir were able to end the epic war that had lasted fro nearly a decade, but at a price. The Star of Algiz was the only thing that could hold the Sins at bay, for the hearts of man give over to the darkness so easily, but the force of it proved far too great for any one person to handle. And so as the mind of the Innocent it had chosen to help it stop the war, so did the Star, breaking off into four parts that split apart, and buried themselves deep between the walls that separated the Nine Realms.

Legend says that the pieces of the Star would come together once again to protect Midgard from the Ragnarok (the end of days), each piece taking on a host to channel its power through. But the hosts of the Star are weak, and unable to protect themselves while in the throws of spell casting, and so the Gods created five more gems, gems that possessed the ability to harness the elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Electricity, and Water. Those who where chosen to carry these gems would be known as the Guardians, and it was their job to protect the Psyons.

The Ragnarok is coming…

Can those few chosen by the Gods have the strength, honor, and courage to lock the Sins of man away once and for all, and save the world from the dark fate that awaits it should they fail…?

Or is Earth’s last hope resting in the hands of a group of traitors?