#If Valerina still exists during the girls' time she would be a ghost protecting the 2nd temple

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The Story of the Calamity Box

From the Amphibian Perspective

No one truly knows where the Calamity Gems come from, their existence being lost to myth and faded to forgottenness by all but a select few. One of those that remember was Valerina, a salamander who found the gems and used them to power a music box that could open portals to other dimensions. She presented it to her king so that Amphibia could benefit from interdimensional travel and trade with other sentient life.

What the salamander didn't know is that those that remain in contact with the box for too long begin to see visions (of the past, present, future, and of other dimensions) that have the potential to drive them mad. This happened to the king, Atlas Leviathan, who became even more paranoid of these other dimensions and began a hundreds of years long conquest of other worlds, raising his descendants to do the same.

When he died, he preserved his consciousness in the box and was able to communicate with his living descendants, who all did the same. This collective became known as The Night. These traditions continued through ten monarchs before the reign of King Andrias.

On the day of his coronation, one of his best friends, Leif Plantar, killed the queen and stole the box and escaped in an act of treason never before seen. Barrel the Bold, Andrias’ personal guard, was blamed for allowing this to occur and banished to the outskirts where he would defend toad villages until the day he died. Leif, meanwhile, sought sanctuary from an olm friend, Eidothea the Wise (Mother Olm), and together they hid the box in another dimension.

What they didn't know that just a thousand years later, the box would be stolen by a group of kids who would present the box to the very monster they risked everything to steal it from.

How The Box Came to be

The Cosmic Axolotl and another interdimensional being were talking about the effect powerful magical being could have on Earth. They predict that, if the Earth's ambient magical aura were to increase or a powerful enough magical being were to enter this dimension, dangerous beings from other dimensions could see Earth as a new player in the interdimensional sphere. 

In order to protect Earth from conquest and/or complete destruction, they condensed all of the ambient magic of Earth into four small round gems. Minimizing their aura and hiding them would allow Earth to remain under the radar until the humans could be ready for that attention. 

Each stone took a different aspect of being and both developed asterism (the thing that distinguishes a star sapphire from a regular sapphire) and turned a different color as a result: The quartz that absorbs mind became teal, body became pink, heart became indigo, and soul became yellow.

In order to nudge the human race into the right direction to eventually become a player on the interdimensional board, The Cosmic Axolotl places the stones in a small ceramic jar in the home of a creative and good person who reminds them a little of a shooting star of a girl. This person, instead of discovering that these gems were magic, they decided to set the four into a music box they were making.

They finished the music box but when they go to test it, the box disappears.

Key:

The other interdimensional god-like being: Glossaryck

The powerful magical being on Earth: Star Butterfly

The shooting star of a girl: Mabel Pines

The creative and good-hearted person who made the music box: Hailey Banks