The Keeper Weapons

A year would come, the year of stories, where men on all the settled realms would tell a tale; a tale so powerful and moving that it lit their people's souls ablaze. When this first great tale was told and the white went into those who heard it, the great spasm of magic that was unleashed awakened the Titans, who had slumbered within the very cores of the shard worlds. From each populated asteroid, a mighty weapon rose out of the ground, and with it embedded in their heads, four-legged titans grew, made out of their distilled elements: Water, Fire, Lightning, Earth, and Wind.   The titans arose and mankind held its breath before their awesome might. As the seconds ticked away eons of dark anticipation, one man or woman would step forth and stand in front of each titan; one per world. They would reach out, and the titans would lower their heads and touch their hands.

— Excerpt from "a History of Faith on Aqualon: The Old World"

  These are the five Keeper Weapons: Aalandra, the Water, Saramaganta, the Fire, Ankerias, the Lightning, Kaplumbağa, the Earth, and Orzelgryf, the Wind. Seven iterations of the world ago on the planet then called "Terra", there was a great sorcerer simply known by the moniker "the Smith", who created so many of the eternal arms and armor that have endured past the breaking and remaking of new worlds since. Tricked by his own apprentice, who bore the soul of the Lord of Water, he smelted a fraction of the Ur-Soul of Water into a concentrated ingot, from which he forged the first Keeper Blade.   He dubbed it Aalandra and presented it to his apprentice, who betrayed him and ushered in a dark age in the world of Terra, bending his amplified connection to his element as well as the many powerful pieces of armor he had forged under the tutelage of his former master towards evil purposes.   Betrayed and defeated but not dead, the Smith reached out to the League of Sorcerers and with their help found the other Keeper Souls, who agreed to stand against the Lord of Water.   For each of them, the Smith forged a blade, each made from a mighty ingot smelted out of the souls of their elements. And so the Keeper Weapons were created and the connection between Keeper and Element would forever become amplified yet narrower than it had been before, suffering great diminishing when the weapon was too far away or sealed behind magic locks.   These weapons are enchanted with powerful magic, and if anyone other than their rightful owner touches them without express permission, they will count themselves lucky if their hand is the only thing they lose on that day...