The sun climbs over the horizon,
illuminating this world in which the so called "living" are otherwise blind...

Blind to the light, blind to injustice... And blind to the truth.

There is only one truth...
Only one story, and one requirement to life that so many cannot truly grasp...

This one truth is love, it is the story of compassion and the only requirement is selflessness...

All living creatures have an inherent capacity for each of these...

Yet, for each to find eternal life, it must be proven that each
of these elements exist within one’s mortal soul in their purest form...

There is no perfection...
Each are perfectly what they are...
All that awaits is purity.

All creation exists in twos...
Light and dark, good and evil, truth and lie, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow...
Male and female...

The balance is ever present and united...
Without the one, the other cannot exist...

Each soul is created as a single spirit...
This spirit is far too complex and powerful for one mortal shell to contain,
so it is split into two complimentary halves of the whole...

Then, each are placed into two separate mortal shells...

As a pair... Mates.

At daybreak these two souls depart the Amber Realm in search of one another...
They must travel beyond the Violet Depth of space, to the world of the living, the Vivid Rift...

This "test of time", or "lifetime" spent in the Vivid Rift, challenges each spirit in a jaded world,
serving to test the two souls of their purity...

Only if both mortal souls can endure this test and seek the other out
durring their time in the Vivid Rift, will they be allowed back into the Amber Realm...

Then, and only then, can the final purging of the mortal shell take place.

The Amber Realm has two gates which lead on to eternal fate...

The Olive Arbor, which leads on to Gold Ethereal,
and the Cerulean Tow; a river leading to the Crimson Pit.

If the soul denies the purification, then it moves slowly in the direction of the Cerulean Tow...
A downward spiral which clouds the mind of better judgment,
erases conscience and eventually removes all memory of the soul's
mortal existence before it is delivered to the Crimson Pit.

And yet, if the soul accepts the purification, then it moves onward in the direction of the Olive Arbor.
An ascent which enlightens the mind, commands a greater respect of life,
and eventually expands and refines all of life's experiences
in preparation for the ascension to Gold Ethereal.

Here lies the beginning and the end of each soul's journey...
A harbor and dispatch of the inner soul.
A safeguard of judgment...

The Amber Realm.