Of the five founding families who guard the elemental runes, no individual is more mysterious than perhaps the Sage of Lighting.

The Sage of Lighting or the Lighting Emporer as he is known in the homeland was said to have been the teacher who guided the other families. It is a widely accepted belief that he had been the original bearer of the Rune of Lighting. Not much is known about his motives or background, even his death is shrouded in mystery - although dark rumours abound that he was murdered by the ancestor of the current rulers.

The only consistancy in all the myths is this...that he left a curse upon the land for his murder that will wash the land in blood if nothing is done within 200 years of his death.
The truth of this myth might soon be reveal of only 10 years remain till that day.