In the beginning, there were no wars. The three major races, Humans, Yoshies, and Koopas, all had their own territories, and lived peacefully. The world was created in the vision of seven Gods and Goddesses, a world of peace. But then, the Koopas found something the seven deities never intended anyone to find: Knowledge of power. A giant portion of the Koopa race became greedy for power, for land, and under a leader named X'uro Seredon, began attacking the humans' territory in the masses. The bloodshed was on a colossal scale, and the humans were beaten back until they built a giant castle. There, they hid, while the Koopas kept trying to knock down the walls. The mountain-sized structure stood, while the humans dug an underground tunnel that led them into the Yoshies' land. The Megalith's walls were finally destroyed, and the Koopas, ravenous for power, flooded into the castle, but found nobody, nothing. The koopas soon discovered the underground tunnel; the giant road that led the humans to survival.

The Yoshies were very surprised to see humans in the thousands entering their land, all exhausted. They told the stories of the Koopas' conquest for dominance. By the end of three days, the two races formed an alliance. Together, they built the second Megalith, and created the elemental forces of fire, water, ice, earth, energy, light, darkness, and eclipse. The Yoshies learned how to use swords and other weapons. Thirteen years passed, when X'uro began plotting the conquest for the last territory. One of his armies crossed the borderline, and were never heard from again. Within two weeks, the alliance pushed the Koopas all the way back to the very edge of their own territory, which ended at the ocean. X'uro built the third Megalith, the largest and tallest of them all. It completely encased his capital city, and rose higher than the clouds. But it did not stop a single man from putting an end to him. Morfin Callas snuck into the third Castle, and for two months, made his way to the highest tower, until he finally confronted X'uro. Only he knew what happened at the top of the tower, and he finally came back from that long journey, after the alliance had driven the koopas from the third Megalith. He told three dozen people around a camp fire at night, that he fought until he drove X'uro off the tower. "The last I saw of him, he disappeared below the clouds screaming." Those words were never changed as the stories passed down from father to son, from grandfather to grandson. Over the years, the alliance crumbled, only to the point where in some cities, Yoshies and humans lived together, but just acted if the other was a bystander. The Koopa empire's remnants were torn apart, and there were occasions that groups of Koopas were in the major cities. The Three Megaliths were abandoned, and nothing remained in them...

But soon there were rumors of hidden artifacts in the Megaliths, artifacts that would give one power beyond any imagination. Those who entered to search for these artifacts never returned, and once, a traveller swore to his dying day that he heard a scream from one of the Megaliths.

It passed down into a rumor, that in each Megalith, a terrible creature guarded each artifact, which were presumed to be very powerful weapons. In different versions of the rumor, the guardians were said to be dragons, demons, giant boos; anything that would terrify someone. But nobody ever dared to find out. Children were heard boasting to their friends that they could touch the walls of a Megalith, and others are even seen doing it, being watched by their friends, who only dare to get close, even when adults discourage it, by telling them lies of bad luck and curses that happen even if you get near, and that soon became part of the rumor. As people stopped entering the megaliths, some passerby claimed to have heard someone singing in a strange language, with a clear male voice, that made them fall on their knees and feel full of sorrow. That one voice came to be many voices, to the point where it seemed two groups were singing different verses of sorrow. One man said he heard somone yelling from in one of the Megaliths, "Will nobody come and join us to weep for all that we lost?" It seemed that the power in the Megaliths was growing stronger. Magikoopa Seers began predicting a time where seven people would enter the Megaliths and destroy the evil that lay in each one, until they brought everlasting peace to the world.

Alas, the tale of the seven begins. Tarus, Turin, and Terah, the three Megaliths...