The Birth of Aura

It was a warm autumn night, in the midst of deadly slaughter by the hands of the feared dark creatures whom shall not be named. When from a small hut aloft a towering tree, a shimmering rainbow light spilled from all openings and poured across the forests surrounding the City-state of Gridania. The light cleansed the great forest of all evil and darkness, ridding the Wildwood Elezen colony of their woes, and restoring life to those who had fallen in the brutal massacre spanning the many days before.

Eerie silence followed the great aurora of light, and lasted but a few minutes before a triumphant cheer rang out from Gridinia deep within the forest. Their blight had ended, and it was the work of one little miracle in a small hut aloft a towering tree.

Baby cries echoed across the village as its many citizens worked their way to the small hut to steal a peek at their almighty savior. From the back of the hut, a small portal-like window near the ceiling, let in the light of the moon through the enormous Gridanian trees outside. A head popped up in the window, the face of an Elezen boy. His age resembled a Hyuran teenager, but being an Elezen, he had no doubt already see many more years than even the oldest of Hyuran.

The Elezen boy glared in, scanning the room, slowly working his way to the bed where an exhausted Elezen women lay with something in her arms. The Elezen boy gazed upon the cradled baby, gleaming with an aura of every color in existence.

Another Elezen woman entered the doorway, pushing her way through the crowd before shutting the door behind her. The baby's cries sang like melodious notes to the ears of the grateful Gridanians, as the Elezen nurse walked over to the new mother. The nurse asked the mother in a soothing voice, "Have you named him yet?" And the mother looked down upon his shining face, smiled the biggest smile a mother could ever smile, and began to cry. She spoke only these words, "His name..." she worked to speak through the exhaustion, "...he shall be called... Aura." Her smile slowly faded, as her head fell back to the Elezen silk and down pillows. Her limbs went limp and the baby slipped to her side. The nurse quickly caught the newborne Aura, and held him close in her arms, knowing his mother would never awaken again.