Sky Island's lower level, Shandia Tribe.
At the center of a cluster of pointed tents, the Shandia Chieftain, wearing a wolf-head headdress with long white hair, slowly emerged from his tent, leaning on a cane.
His gaze stared blankly at the enormous green vine rising from the Shandia Tribe and stretching all the way into the upper sea of clouds. Above the vine lay God's Island Upper Yard.
Today, Ziegel, leader of the Shandia Tribe's guerrilla forces, had led half their warriors to that island, intending to reclaim their homeland and light Shandora's Light.
The chieftain knew this battle would be unimaginably brutal. The Shandia Tribe and the Sky Island priests had fought for over four hundred years without reclaiming their homeland, and every battle had brought devastating casualties...
This time would likely be no different!
In truth, the chieftain no longer hoped to reclaim their homeland. He only wanted to find Shandora's Light, that ancient and sacred golden bell. Upon that old bell lay a secret his Shandia Tribe needed to protect for generations...
As time passed and the world changed, the secret that once had to be passed down orally by every generation of chieftains had long since been reduced to a few scattered fragments. Even he no longer knew what secret their ancestors had sworn to protect unto death!
He only knew that this secret would one day bring change to the world.
Therefore, although the chieftain knew that continuing to fight the Sky Island priests was extremely unwise, he had never stopped those guerrilla warriors who wished to reclaim their homeland.
Suddenly!
A familiar red-haired figure raced down from the distant giant vine at incredible speed, yet not a single guerrilla warrior followed behind him!
A dreadful thought rose in the old chieftain's heart. Leaning on