After going all the way to the Great Glacier and spending several months undergoing Anivia's trial, some people found it completely unacceptable that the result was "merely" a story.
However, Lux and Ashe did not object to this result. To them, the reward Anivia had prepared was probably not the story itself, but the valuable information contained within it.
Thus, the two quietly watched Eggnivia, waiting for her story.
"The story begins a very, very long time ago." The crystal ice phoenix egg wobbled back and forth, seemingly enjoying the feeling of telling a story. "Back then, I was just an egg. Ornn said I was born amid a snowstorm, just as he was born amid flames and Volibear was born amid a thunderstorm."
"And back then, it was an age overflowing with elements..."
Before human civilization appeared, Runeterra had once experienced an age of chaos.
Back then, many of the lesser planes and demiplanes dependent on Runeterra had yet to separate from it. Under the attraction and repulsion of heavenly energy, abundant magic and turbulent elements formed oscillating tides that washed over Runeterra.
Most of Runeterra's landmasses today had taken shape during that era. Freljord, Valoran, Shurima, and Camavor had all been born then.
And during that chaotic age, because magic was abundant and the spiritual and soul planes had not yet separated from Runeterra, changing reality with magic was far easier than it was now.
Just as Ixtal had its elemental gradient barriers, allowing the Ixtali to readily formalize and utilize the elements for spellcasting, in that age of active elemental energy and abundant magic, newly born life could easily guide various energies to alter reality.
Thus, it was an age of chaos and disorder. As one ancient life-form after another awakened, they began remodeling the world