"Hmm...it's best if I started from the beginning after all Joris's life is short...I mean he's very young compared to the others." Djaycy replied as he motioned Kryse to sit down at a table with him. Seeing Kryse take a seat, the Iop began the tale, "Now in the beginning, six dragons - children of Osamodas's Dragons were seduced by dolls created by Sadida. And from those unnatural unions, six dragon eggs were produced. These dragon eggs were known as Dofus and the dragon eggs of the six dragons were known as the Six Primordial Dofus. They were Emerald Dofus, Turquoise Dofus, Crimson Dofus, Ochre Dofus, Ivory Dofus, and Ebony Dofus. Each of the Six Primordial Dofus contained a dragon soul.

The Emerald Dofus contained Aerafal the Dragon of Air, the Turquoise Dofus contained Aguabrial the Dragon of Water, the Crimson Dofus contained Ignemikhal the Dragon of Fire, the Ochre Dofus contained Terrakourial the Dragon of Earth, the Ivory Dofus contained Dardondakal the Dragon of White or Holy Magic, and the Ebony Dofus conatined Grougalorasalar the Dragon of Black or Dark Magic. Each Dofus offers unlimited power to anyone who knew how to use it. The Six Primordial Dofus were exceptionally powerful compared to the other true Dofus that came from other dragons and for centuries, people have battled each other in merciless feuds and wars for possession of these six Dofus...cities such as Bonta and Brakmar. Bonta was a city of white magic and one of the many cities that worshiped the six gods of white magic while Brakmar was a demonic city under the control of Rushu."

"Wait, six gods? I thought there were twelve?"

"There were twelve...it's just that six of the twelve gods practiced white magic while the other six practiced black magic and Bonta was one of the many cities who worshiped the six gods that practiced white magic."

"Ah."

"And so, within Bonta and Brakmar, each held a Dofus and each housed a Huppermage who swore to protect the Dofus and represent the city. Now, Huppermages were a group of magic users who served no god and preferred to serve under what was known as the Krosmic Balance. Don't ask me what that is since I don't have a single clue. In the past, the Huppermages had proclaimed themselves as the guardians…the Keepers of the Dofus. So, the Huppermage of Bonta was called Jahash Jurgen – Guardian of Bonta and Keeper of the Ivory Dofus. As for the Huppermage of Brakmar, she was called Julith – the Butcher of Brakmar and Keeper of the Ebony Dofus. The Ivory Dofus and the Ebony Dofus, both containing infinite power, were objects of desire. Blinded with greed and the desire for power, Julith gathered the demon forces of Brakmar and marched towards Bonta in an attempt to lay waste to the city and capture the Ivory Dofus for her own use.”

“Okay, how does this tell me anything about Joris Jurgen? Wait…Jurgen…Jahash’s little brother?” Kryse asked as he tried unsuccessfully to form an initial relationship between Joris Jurgen and Jahash Jurgen.

“Calm down, I’m going to get to that.” Djaycy responded. “And so, in order to defend Bonta, Jahash…he too gathered a holy army from the forces of Bonta and rose up to defend the city from the incoming demon forces. The battle lasted for more than sixty days and both sides were stalemated. At that time, everyone's morale was on the low end as they could see that there was no clear sign of victory. However, on the sixty-ninth day of battle, something strange and shocking to both sides had occurred. The two Huppermages…Jahash and Julith…in the midst of battle and chaos, they fell in love with each other. Maybe it was because of love at first sight…maybe it was because opposites attract…no one knows for sure. But the fact was that the two had fallen in love with each other. Because of this, the war ended abruptly and the demon forces retreated back to Brakmar. Through the marriage of the two Huppermages, Julith and Jahash, peace was brought forth between the two cities. However….”

“However what?”

“Whoa there young Masqueraider, let me take a sip of water. All this talking had made my throat dry.”

“Ah sorry, go ahead. I was just interested. This story is exciting. But when does Joris come in? Could he…could he be the child of Jahash and Julith?!”

“Haha, you’ll know soon enough.” Djaycy replied after taking a swill of refreshing water from his cup.

“Oh…okay.”

“Anyways, during a year or so of peace, young Joris was born and he grew up lovingly in the arms of his father and mother. You would expect that they would live happily ever after but…the story does not end there. It occurred a few months after Joris was born – that horrendous and tear-jerking event that happened to Joris’s happy life. Someone…we don’t know for sure who it was…whether it was a civilian of Bonta or a demon from Brakmar or even an outsider…someone did not appreciate the happy union between Jahash and Julith. That someone wanted to tear apart this loving couple. And so, that someone stole the Ebony Dofus and reactivated it. While the Ebony Dofus reactivated and started to cause destruction on the city of Bonta, Julith sensed what was occurring and flew towards the Ebony Dofus in order to appease the dragon soul within it and deactivate the Ebony Dofus. However, it seemed that was the plan all along.”

“What plan?”

“The plan…to frame Julith…to make her out to be the evil villain who, blinded by greed and desire, broke the sacred marriage contract between her and her husband in order to spread havoc onto the city of Bonta once more and steal the Ivory Dofus. She was labeled by the city of Bonta as someone who, although she told everyone that she had given up on her desire for the Ivory Dofus as she had found true love at her place with Jahash, secretly pined for the Ivory Dofus and did not truly love Jahash but was instead using him for her own greed.”

“That's terrible! Then…what happened?”

“Well, Julith didn’t know someone was framing her so she walked right into the trap. As she flew towards the Ebony Dofus and attempted to calm the dragon soul down, she was attacked by the holy army of Bonta. Defenseless, she was easily pierced through by the many holy attacks and she fell to the depths of the bottom of Bonta – the sewers where everyone believed her to be dead. With Julith supposedly dead and out of commission, there was no one available to deactivate and control the Ebony Dofus, which reactivated itself when it lost connection with its Keeper and spun out of control as it started attacking everything in Bonta. The Ebony Dofus was reaching a breaking point where it would explode and unleash all of its built up power onto the weak city of Bonta. And so, Jahash made a life-changing decision. He handed his child, Joris, to his good friend Kerub Crepin - an Ecaflip demigod and one of the twenty-two sons of the god Ecaflip - for safekeeping and protection. Then, he brought out his Ivory Dofus and flew towards the Ebony Dofus. With a speeding charge, Jahash lifted the Ivory Dofus and smashed it into the Ebony Dofus. The collision between the two Primordial Dofus caused a massive explosion in the air. The explosion destroyed the shell of the Ebony Dofus, breaking it into pieces and causing the dragon soul Grougalorasalar to escape. Grougalorasalar had to find a vessel to reside in quickly and finally, he laid his eyes on young Joris. With a flutter, the dragon soul entered Joris’s body. While the Ebony Dofus laid broken and empty, the Ivory Dofus was said to have been completely consumed and vanished from existence. As for the great Huppermage Jahash Jurgen…he had sacrificed his life to save Bonta."

"That...that's so sad."

"Yea, well, that's not the half of it. So, young Joris was kept away in a relatively safe place...a small city called Astrub. He was adopted as a grandson by Kerub Crepin and they lived in peace at Kerub's Shushu house Luis that also turned into a bazaar that sold all of the treasures Kerub had acquired throughout his many adventures as well as some miscellaneous items. For ten years, Kerub had kept young Joris in the dark about who he was and who his parents were. So, young Joris would constantly fantasize about who his parents were. He even believed that his parents were some famous Gobbowl champions after all Joris was a huge fan of Gobbowl. Now Gobbowl is a type of sport that the civilians of Amakna loved to play.... Ah, sorry, I digress. Anyways, they - Joris, his adopted grandfather Kerub, his pet Pupuce, his Shushu house Luis, his maid Simone, and his Ouginak friend Lilotte lived happily in Astrub for ten years until, that is, something unprecedented occurred.

Ever since Jahash sacrificed his life to save Bonta, the city would gather each year to celebrate and give tribute to their savior. Now, ten years later in the year 400, the city of Bonta had gathered once again to celebrate the passing of their savior Jahash Jurgen - the greatest of all Huppermages. Unlike previous years, there was something different on the tenth year. On that year, a new Huppermage was elected to follow the footsteps of the previous guardian Jahash as the new guardian of the city of Bonta. She was Bakara Jurgen - sister of Jahash Jurgen and aunt of Joris Jurgen. The celebration was all good and everything was going according to plan...the ritual and celebration would have been a success if it wasn't for the fact that Julith - long thought to be dead - came back and crashed the party. She forcibly stole back the broken Ebony Dofus and used the empty dragon shell to locate Grougalorasalar - the Ebony dragon soul."

"What? Joris's mother Julith was alive?! How did that happen?"

"Yea, we all thought she was dead but apparently, when she fell to the sewers of Bonta, she was still alive even though all those attacks that pierced her should have killed her but apparently it had only weakened her. With some fortunate luck, she was able to heal her wounds and come back for revenge. Using the broken and empty Ebony Dofus shell which had a connection of some sort with the Ebony dragon soul, Julith was able to track and find the location of where the Ebony dragon soul was hiding. Joris's aunt, Bakara, rushed to find Kerub and Joris and warn them of the incoming danger but she was too late. Before she and Kerub were able to tell Joris of the situation, Julith arrived and blasted Luis's front door open. Bakara and Kerub both tried to attack Julith but she was stronger than before. Quickly, Bakara was defeated. Kerub called forth his ultimate armor - 1001 Claws Armor which was a golden full body armor with a spiked tail that broke into pieces before forming onto his body. Kerub reached over and grabbed his favorite weapon - a huge golden nunchuck with spiked ends. In addition to that, the old demigod Ecaflip had a special skill of breathing out fire once he took a few sips of his specially brewed alcohol."

"And Julith got defeated right? A demigod versus a mere mortal, of course the demigod would win."

"You forget she had the shell of the Ebony Dofus."

"Yea, but isn't that just a shell now? There's no dragon soul in the Ebony Dofus so Julith wouldn't be able to get any power boost right?"

"The primordial energy of the Ebony Dofus had permeated into the Dofus as a whole, so even the shell had some remnants of the primordial power. Thus, even without the Ebony dragon soul, the shell still contained enough primordial energy for Julith to unleash her potential and defeat Kerub in the battle."

"Ah, is that so...then, what happened next?"

"Well, Kerub was defeated. He tried to block a condensed beam attack that was fired at Joris."

"Wait, but isn't Joris Julith's son?"

"Julith didn't know that. She had assumed her son was still in Bonta. Anyways, with Kerub defeated, Julith grabbed Joris and attempted to extract the Ebony dragon soul from Joris's body. When Julith found out that the boy in front of her was actually her long lost son, her heart faltered a bit. Now fun fact here, Joris's eyes are actually blue but the Ebony dragon soul within him had made them black. Anyways, she continued to drain the Ebony dragon soul from Joris. But an attack from Bakara, who just gained consciousness again, distracted Julith long enough for Kerub to suddenly leap forth and grab Joris. Summoning a portal, Joris and the others jumped in. Now, this portal was known as a dimension portal and only demigods had access to it. The group transported to Ecaflip's Dimension where Kerub breathed his last and died - his soul flew towards the Cycle of Incarnation. Before he died, Kerub told Joris about his Huppermage parents and of how the Ivory Dofus, that was supposedly destroyed, was actually still in one piece and hidden within his temple."

"So...Kerub died? That's so sad."

"Well, actually, Kerub revived."

"What? How?"

"Kerub was an Ecaflip demigod, he was able to revive because he had nine lives. But, the downside was that he revived as a baby Ecaflip."

"Ah...I see...at least that's a good ending there."

"Yea, so anyways, in Ecaflip's Dimension, no one except the sons of Ecaflip and those who gained permission from them could enter. Thus, because of this rule, Julith was unable to follow them. In order to solve that problem, Julith went to Brakmar and found her faithful servant Atcham Crepin - brother of Kerub and also one of the twenty-two sons of Ecaflip. Atcham was of the Cat Folk and was known as the Assassin of Brakmar. He was a hairless, skinny beastman with a long skinny tail and long torn up ears. He smoked a pipe and carried two long blades. Julith gave the demigod a mission to find Joris which he agreed. Atcham tracked down Joris and his group and after a few scuffles, Atcham stopped attacking Joris after he was saved from certain death by Joris."

"So Atcham now owes Joris a debt for saving his life eh?"

"Yea, which he paid back later on. Anyways, I'll get to that part soon. Hence, after searching for a while, they finally found the Ivory Dofus. It was at this time, the Ivory dragon soul appeared and tried to tempt the group and played at their innermost desires. Everyone except for Joris failed the test as they all wanted to use the Ivory Dofus for their own gain...only Joris did not. And because of that, Joris was the only one to pass the test given by the Ivory dragon soul. Thus, the Ivory Dofus chose Joris as his new Keeper. After that, Joris and his group left Ecaflip's dimension and returned to Astrub. They quickly headed to Bonta where Joris and his friends confronted Julith."

"Where they beat up Julith and she repented and they lived happily ever after, right?"

"Not quite. Bakara, blinded by rage and revenge, took the Ivory Dofus from Joris and powered up. She attacked Julith with her newfound powers and almost killed Julith. They clashed until a stray attack flew towards Joris. Bakara was distracted for a second and had the Ivory Dofus stolen from her."

"Wait! What happened to Joris? Did the stray attack get him?"

"Yes...and no. The attack arrived at where Joris was standing but the attack itself was blocked by Atcham with his back. Atcham gave his life up to repay his debt. Of course, like Kerub, Atcham was able to revive as a baby as well. It was at this point in time when Julith finally revealed her reasons for wanting to obtain the Ivory Dofus and the Ebony Dofus - it turned out that she was framed for the activation of the Ebony Dofus years ago and that all she wanted to do was to resurrect Jahash with the power of the two Dofus. However, what she didn't tell them was the method she was prepared to use in order to bring Jahash back. Seeing Joris and the others hesitate, Julith took the two Dofus and hurriedly left. Later, Joris and Bakara found out that in order for Julith to resurrect Jahash, she had to sacrifice a thousand lives using dark magic. This was unacceptable to Joris and he and his friends decided to set out and stop Julith once and for all.

Joris and his friends arrived at the scene of the sacrificial ritual that was about to take place and attacked Julith. Joris retook the Ivory Dofus and they attempted to replay the scene from years ago - smashing the Ivory Dofus into the Ebony Dofus. However, one by one, Joris's friends died until finally, only Joris was left. With one last push, he charged towards the Ebony Dofus and just as he smashed the Ivory Dofus into the Ebony Dofus, Julith stopped him. Julith grabbed the Ivory Dofus and looked at it carefully. Then, she raised her head and looked at the half-resurrected Jahash. As if some telepathic communication was taking place, Julith nodded as if to understand something. Then, she took the Ivory Dofus and, with all her might, smashed it into the Ebony Dofus. Julith died and she was finally reunited with Jahash. However, Joris was all alone. His friends...his family...everyone was dead."

"Don't tell me that was the end?"

"Of course not, let me take another sip of water before I continue." Djaycy replied as he downed a cup of cool and refreshing water. "Now, as Joris wondered about what to do, he was suddenly summoned into a dimension. It was at this time we find out that Joris was bald and black."

"Wait...bald?"

"Yea, all of the body hair he used to half was completely eaten by his pet Pupuce - a creature known to love eating hair."

"Haha, that's funny...but please continue."

"Ah, yes. And so, the dimension was created by the Ivory dragon soul and the Ebony dragon soul. The Ivory dragon soul told Joris that his parents were now reunited and happily moving on towards the Cycle of Incarnation. However, there was the situation with the numerous lives that were sacrificed. The Ivory dragon soul told Joris that he and his brother the Ebony dragon soul can save and release all of the souls that were sacrificed...but Joris had to convince the Ebony dragon soul that he was trustworthy. Joris looked at the Ebony dragon soul in the distance and approached him. The Ebony dragon soul hissed at him because ever since he was born, he was always used as an object of evil. It was so much to the point that he did not easily trust anyone anymore. Joris hugged the Ebony dragon soul and promised that no one will ever use him for evil ever again and that he will always protect them. With this promise, the Ebony dragon soul complied with Joris and the two Dofus released the souls back to the sacrificed civilians, which essentially revived everyone that had died. And so, Joris Jurgen became the Keeper of the Ivory Dofus Dardondakal and the Ebony Dofus Grougalorasalar. Joris saved the city of Bonta and became a hero. His many other adventures served to add to his legend."

"Wow. That was a great story."

"Yea. And this same Joris had recently discovered a new Dofus in need of some help. That's why he needed to create a team to go on the expedition. Joris is interested in you so you better become strong quickly."

"I will. I promised that I will not let you or Joris down."

"Good, now then. Why don't you go see Shaa Kwira for the next part of your training."