The first two pages of a strategy guide for a computer game

Dear friends,

i am from Germany and i would like to know the english translation of the text in the following two pictures. This is an excerpt from the first two pages of a strategy guide for a computer game from the 90s and this game and guide has never been translated to english.

The game is essentially about the fight / war between good and evil and using the "Mana" stones to gain the power you need to win this fight. I think the text represents the (beginning of the) story or some excerpts or it describes the mana stones, if this helps for the context.

Is there anyone in this forum who could kindly translate this to me? I am extremely curious about the translation and thank every helping hand already in advance!

Tom

Tomcraft5000 said:

i would like to know the english translation of the text in the following two pictures

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It's stage-setting text, probably similar to if not copied from the introduction of the game.

This first image, probably you're meant to read the center text first and then the text to either side, but I left it in the order it is written in.

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Previously, when the world was still enclosed in darkness, the goddess of mana struck down the eight embodiments of calamity, "The Celestial Beasts" with the "Sword of Mana", and sealed them into the eight keystones. Consequently, the darkness retreated and the world was made. The goddess of mana turned herself into a tree and went into a long sleep, many years passed...

When anguish and sadness merge into the whirlpool of fate, the curtain will rise on a grand tale...

But, the eight Celestial Beasts are released from the keystones and obtain a power greater than a god's, conflict breaks out due to the schemes of those who would make the world their own, peace is at an end...

Mana is swiftly lost in the land, and the tree of mana begins to wither...

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The Legend of the Manastones

The goddess sleeps in the sacred land, and the ancient divine beasts reside in the stones

Guided by those stones, the power of mana will bring about great prosperity

When, through great sadness and resolute will, the eight manastones have been gathered, then the gate to sacred land can be opened.

This seems like a very accurate translation, wow! I am totally impressed by your quick and high-quality translation. Thank you so much!