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[Lady Mal]

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On a shard not unlike our own:

After The War of The False Prophet, in which the Gargoyles waged war on Britannia to save their dying civilization, The Avatar did not return to Britannia for two hundred years. With the threat of evil gone, Britannia's citizens resumed their normal life. Life that did not call for the aid of an otherworldly hero.
The following of The Way of the Avatar began to wane. Many people felt that they were failures for not being able to uphold The Eight Virtues. Furthermore, society was not able to focus upon a role-model. For many people The Avatar was just a legend.
In this spiritual vacuum The Fellowship came into existence, approximately twenty years before the return of The Avatar. It was founded by Batlin, who assumed the leading role, and the twins Elizabeth and Abraham , who held high administrative positions within the organization. Around this time mages started to turn insane and the moongates began to function unreliably. Seemingly, the age of magic was coming to an end. Many people turned to The Fellowship, who represented an optimistic future and a vision that wasn't tied to Britannia's mythical past.
The organization rapidly grew in popularity and The Fellowship halls - church-like buildings where members would meet every evening to meditate - increased in number. Its headquarters were located in Britain . The Fellowship shelter in Paws tended to those in need.
A few years before The Avatar returned to Britannia, an ambitious nobleman who wanted to disband The Fellowship was found murdered in a storehouse near The Castle of Lord British, his body horribly mutilated. There were several more ritualistic murders in the months that followed. The victims were all opponents of The Fellowship and/or its philosophy.
Research conducted by the scholar Alagner showed that the principles of the Fellowship were not as positive as they seemed.
Furthermore, Alagner observed that the inner circle of The Fellowship, was serving an entity from another dimension known as The Guardian, and that the "inner voice of reason" was actually the voice of this Guardian.

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Of course, all of this took place on a shard very similar to our own. All of it would have gone unknown, but for an incident that occurred. An incident in which a man manages to enter our world with a book of those events. How he got here is unknown, for he didn't survive the trip to Atlantic, dying in the woods outside Empath Abbey, where his body was discovered by a scribe.

That scribe found on the man's person that book, chronicling all that had occurred. Being the knowledge-hungry documentarian that she is, Mal was vastly intrigued by the discovery. Mal had some suspicion that the man was insane, and would have left his book as ramblings of such, had she not found another item in his backpack. She discovered a device that appeared to fit around one's wrist, like a timepiece, only it was fashioned of a substance she had never seen. Shiny yet soft, and bendable. Numbers flashed on the face of it, she assumed for time-keeping purposes.

Mal never reported the mysterious body. She kept the book and the watch for herself, and dedicated her studies to discovering more of the truth of this matter. Various publications which she has had an active hand in are "Dimensional Travel Monthly" and "Living in Peace: It IS Possible". She has recently founded, on our shard, a new Fellowship of the Guardian.

A mysterious voice tells her that peace is possible, provided certain events take place.

[Lady Mal]

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