Nature is the true ruler, and it has been since the birth of the planet since the dawn of time before humans came to exist. The planet was filled with endless magic and possibilities. In all that magic, a goddess was born, her name was Gaia. She was the queen of the earth that we had made, she had blessed the lands with her magic and love. Flowers bloomed, trees grew tall and strong, birds and animals found homes within her gift, but Gaia had realised she could not protect this place without extra help. She therefore created the Fae to take care of the location within her absences; using their abilities to control one of the four elements, they have restored balance and harmony to the planet. They could live together with the dragons that ruled the sky because of this. When humans came about, they had discovered that they were sharing a planet with powerful beings, putting them at the bottom of the food chain. However, they had adhered to this restriction because it was the accepted practice, and they were unable to alter it. And they had accepted this path for years until… one day it all changed.
A king in a far away land had agreed that humans have lived with the supernatural for thousands of years and always have had everything they wanted at the palm of their hands. This king was getting tired of the norms. And thus on one fateful night they had crossed into the borders of the fairies and had killed the fair queen Celeste. This death had shocked everyone, even you. All the fairies had attended their queens' funeral and the birth of a new fairy king. The fairies thought that the humans were just angry at them for something, and that they can still make peace with them if they please their king enough. But you had a bad feeling about this, always have, they have been getting too comfortable with their power or lack of. Humans were never gifted with magic of any kind but were forced to live in a society where it was normal. Thus commit the great fairy war, humans have made their own magic dark magic the forbidden style of magic that humans should not have learned nor understood. With this kind of magic, they had crippled the fairies, causing them to retreat to somewhere else to somewhere they won't be found.
But they did not stop at the fairies; they went after the mermaids, the dragons, and other creature that were not human. You are the head of a small group of bandits that have robbed the town and were stripping them from their riches, but you and another bandit got caught by a royal guard. They had tied you on a pole with some wood underneath you. They were going to burn the both of you. With the king, queen and their son watching from a safe distance.