Long ago, the ancient engineers of Time and Memory constructed relics imbued with their very souls. These relics were hidden for a time, and uncovered by those who sought to change the world -- All according to the plan of the Ancients who's goal was to influence the world long after their deaths; for each Relic could reshape the universe according to their wielder, a price was inevitably paid by those who claimed these... Artifacts.

Queen Ara had begun down the path. Realizing that in order to unlock her true potential, she must recover the Relics of the Ancients and collect them all in order to fully manifest her dream into fruition, she sent a knight by the name of Yorich to recover the Pendant of the Ark from high atop a forgotten mountain sanctuary...

After having retrieved the pendant from an innocous chest left atop the mountain, Yorich donned the Pendant around his neck and began his descent. Meanwhile, Ara was in the catacombs beneath her palace -- Searching for the Emerald Chalice, that which when drank from, granted eternal youth...