On a seemingly normal morn, a guardian narrowly escapes the player from a temple invasion. After wandering aimlessly, the young guardian gets pulled by the grasps of underwater magma block, dragging him deep into an underwater ravine. He flops around the dry tunnels until he finds a purple-ish liquid wall. In desperation, he swings in and enters a dry, hot landscape. He falls unconscious moments later, but awakes, thankful to be alive, next to a lava sea. He flops up and slowly adapts to the heat after a few days, and begins to swim more and more in the only source of liquid, the lava. He wanders about, magma dripping from covering his body, eye strained from intense heat, tail burned off, and eventually finds a red-brick platform near the lava pool and sees a cage. He stays for a minute, wondering what may be trapped inside. Suddenly, a blaze materializes and sees the strange amalgamation, seeing a sort of beauty in it's magma coat and seared mouth. More appear, and stare in wonder at this new sight. After time, they learn to communicate ever so slightly, with more of gestures than any language. They look in awe as he fends off predators with a blood-red beam. They begin to call it the 'Elder Blaze', revering it's power and ability. It grows and adapts more, beginning to dominate the vast ocean and shores of The Nether.