Chaos Shards

At the begining of time the Primordial Overlords were the masters of Kyros. They had created the world and were the undisputed rulers. With their power they raised the mountains, filled the oceans, and gave life to the creatures of Kyros. They wielded this power through the six Chaos Shards: Earthshard, Fireshard, Stormshard, Soulshard, Watershard, and Windshard. Each of these shards is an avatar of the different aspects of the Elemental Chaos itself.

The Chaos Shards in the Creation War
Apart from being tools of creation, the Chaos Shards were powerful weapons against Kord and Bane during the course of the Creation War. It is said that when a god clashed with an Overlord wielding a Chaos Shard, the forces of the battle would cause the world itself would groan and even fracture. Suffice to say, Kord and Bane were both terribly wounded several times and many of their armies were decimated by the power of the Chaos Shards.

The Scattering of the Shards
At the conclusion of the Creation War, the six Chaos Shards were left in Kyros. In the mayhem that followed, both Kord and Bane briefly sought these shards for themselves, but to no avail. Before their departure, the Primordials had taken care that these vast instuments of power would not fall into the hands of their enemies and scattered them across Kyros. The Gods, needing to return to the Astral Sea, could not hunt indefinately and had to call off their search. In the years since many people have dedicated their lives to find the Chaos Shards, but the ancient myths are confusing, vague, and conflicting. Most people of Kyros regard these artefacts as little more than folktales passed of from generation to generation, but there are those who have dedicated their lives to the pursuit of the vast elemental power offered by the Chaos Shards. However, even if a mortal was to come into posession of a Chaos Shard it is doubtful that they would have the raw power necessary to wield such a powerful instrument of the Elemental Chaos.