The Vanguards of Wisdom — Immortal Flame Series #4

Fetus Squid
Paras Media
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6 min readJan 31, 2021

What is the Great wisdom?
Is it power?
A treasure that is hard to find?

Many want it, but they don’t know the real meaning of it.

To be granted by great wisdom, one can live in a blissful life of happiness.
But to others deprived by it… will live in a state of sadness.
Conflicting emotions create enmity; one can be entirely driven by hate.
And anyone who lost it will be petrified by fear and dismay.
to those who ignore it, maybe live in a life of serenity, without conflicts or concern.

Yet all of whom — the Great wisdom is revered.

As all emotions in disregard, claiming one is to claim enlightenment

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The Great Wisdom

The Great Wisdom is the full understanding of all the elements. Thus gaining it will give its bearer the full potential to manipulate anything and everything, making the bearer the most powerful spellcaster in the world.

History of the Vanguards

The Legend of the Vanguard of Wisdom

In the first pantheon war, the goddess of wisdom has a champion named Saint Sha the Enlightened, which brought the Gregan Pantheon to its victory.
Because of her feats of fearlessly attacking and heading first on battles, she was called The Vanguard of Wisdom.

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After the war has ended, Saint Sha infiltrated the Realm of Wisdom which stores the Anhuran Relics, the prized powerful weapons made from An’ura’s body, the slayer of First Signature. She stole the Blood of An’ura, which is an elixir of immortality and grants someone godlike abilities.

However, it wasn’t Saint Sha that stole the elixir but a Fallen with an ability to reshape herself to someone’s image. Sha however was mistakenly captured and horrendously punished to death.

But Sha survived and escaped. She left her servitude to the Goddess of Wisdom, but little did the goddess knew that Sha caught the infiltrator and retrieved the elixir before she got punished. She never drank the elixir, but she hid it.

Sha then met Yur, a mortal who formerly served the God of Destruction — Bah’d during War of the Fallens, and together they crossed the Sea of Levus in the north and discovered an uninhabited snowy continent where they hide.

But still, they were being tracked by the Goddess of War, Eris, and followed them to the north. When Eris found them, she engages and almost her entire army was lost, but she heavily wounded Sha and Yur.

Sha, with the elixir she had kept, let Yur drink it before she succumbs to her death. Yur got revived and became an Immortal. He defeated Eris and the remnants of her army, forcing her to retreat.

Amala, who finally found out the reality, came late and saw the dead body of her champion. She immediately broke her ties to Eris and the Gregan Pantheon and to redeem her grave mistake on Sha, she cursed herself to never leave the Realm of Wisdom.

The Goddess then entrusted Scarlet Skyflower, the retainer of Sha, to help Yur build a nation where Sha died, the nation will be later known as The Sha Dominion.

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The Six Vanguards of Wisdom

More than 20 Years passed, The Sha Dominion became a great nation and is known for its advancement on science. As its location is detached from the mainland, it stays away from the conflicts that were happening in the world.

When the Council of Gods was established, which unites all Pantheons after the Second Pantheon War. Scarlet appealed to Amala to make herself as her champion to represent the Goddess of Wisdom in the council, to which the goddess granted and gave her the Great Wisdom.

Scarlet summoned a false-deity, named The Blood Hunter, and possessed a woman named Carmilla. She tasked her to hunt the infiltrator of the Realm of Wisdom using her ability to track her targets anywhere. To which Scarlet gave a part of the Great Wisdom the goddess given to her, the full understanding of Darkness.

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But she went awry as she made the Assassin’s guild, killing kings and other leaders of other nations, which disturbed the existing peace that was established by the Council of Gods.

Scarlet calls aid from Velvet Silentstorm of the Anhurans and Sk’ahak of the Nipolese Culture to stop Carmilla. To which Scarlet gave another part of the Great Wisdom to them, the full understanding of Light and Earth, respectively. However, Velvet used it to invade the Kingdom of Sal.

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It horrified Scarlet of what she had done and went to the war-torn Kingdom of Sal where she found two wounded girls.

After tending them, the girls introduced themselves. They are Cattleya and Wilhelmina.

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Both girls wanted revenge on the Anhurans, which reminds her of her past, and so she let them borrow the Great Wisdom, the Wind for Wilhelmina and Water for Cattleya. Scarlet is confident that they are still young and have no further intent to it as she kept the most destructive element, Fire, to herself.

However, she learns that Wilhelmina is the daughter of King Sal. So she hid her on the Island of Nipo under the care Sk’ahak, fearing she’ll be hunted down by Velvet or Carmilla.

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Meanwhile, Cattleya was taught personally by Scarlet in Arcanes and traveled to Holn Kingdom to further study under the tutelage of High Wizard Myr.

10 Years later, Cattleya decided to travel to the Island of Nipo to see Wilhelmina. She would later learn that Wilhelmina created an impossible Arcane, the Levitation, which allows her to fight Anhurans in the air. They then gathered forces to bring vengeance on the Anhurans and reclaim their kingdom.

After a bloody battle, they achieved victory and ended the reign of Anhurans over the skies. Cattleya and Wilhelmina then visit Scarlet on Sha Dominion to return the Great Wisdom, but Scarlet insisted them to keep it and help her seek Carmilla and the infiltrator of the Realm of Wisdom.

However, a certain robed man arrived in the Kingdom of Sal, bringing a storm along with him.

The Story of the Book of Dragons had begun.

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Fetus Squid
Paras Media

Fantasy and Fan Artist, Avid Gamer and Writer.