NoralyBlue Guardian Vetala (or Vitala in KDNF): Female, age 759. A dragon that watches over the Silver Crown and the Great Magic Circle around it in the Mirror Arad. When the Great Metastasis occurred thanks to the sacrifice of the fairies, the Great Magic Circle was reformed and preserved, but due to their absence someone needed to maintain the weakening magic. A few dragons came to realize the direness of the situation and stepped up, Vetala being one of them. She's also devoted herself to helping out the adventurers who arrive at Silver Crown, giving them directions and advice. Due to her elegant looks and calm voice some imagine her to be a fairy. It is uncertain whether Vetala is still alive or even exists at all in Plane: Arad (our dimension).
'Planes' refer to parallel dimensions that were created when the 'Great Will' Carloso clashed with the 12 artificial gods and a great dimensional rift was formed.
Plane: Mirror Arad is an alternate version of Arad where a cataclysmic event called the Great Metastasis occurred. When Carloso absorbed a piece of himself in this Plane, an enormous burst of energy swept Arad, distorting the landscape and devastating the habitat, to the point where even the Great Magic Circle of Myre was destroyed. The survivors of Hendon Myre gathered at Silver Crown, a tree whose magic can protect those around it from the effects of the Metastasis, and formed small villages on its branches. For a time this was where the adventurers began their story. 'The Great Metastasis' is also the name of the major update that KDNF had on September 11th 2013 (when Neople's DFOG began service anew after the closing of Nexon's DFOG this update was already included). This update completely changed the storyline of DFO, formally introducing the concept of 'Planes', or alternate realities. The original storyline of Arad became that of the Mirror Arad and the main story followed the events of a completely changed world. The rebooted story had many problems however, with many plot holes, inconsistencies and contradicting lore. To fix this, a new major update called 'The Origin' (September 20th 2017 in KDNF, February 27th 2018 in DFOG) performed a 're-retcon', reverting the main dimension to be the one where Great Metastasis didn't happen. The timeline of Great Metastasis instead became the Mirror Arad, and the story has followed henceforth.
Tl;dr this was what happened with 'the Origin' update: Main dimension - Great Metastasis --> no Great Metastasis Mirror Arad - no Great Metastasis --> Great Metastasis
Special thanks to halfmango for helping with the background lore.
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