A man, A tree and colorful ponies
There once was a creature before most were made, he helped other species start out on their journey of evolution. During these times chaos and harmony clashed heavily for some years were filled with to much harmony and some filled to the brim with chaos. The creature had a plan to help keep balance between the two forces it would create chaos when to much harmony was present, it would create harmony when to much chaos was present, it was a simple seed that would grow into a beautiful tree. Its the tree of Harmony, to balance chaos and harmony it would influence the world around using other creatures to bear its power if they have the attribute the power is connected to, if things got out of control it would balance things itself. The creature knew he would die soon so he planted the seed that would balance the world till the end of time. To set the stage in present time your a human an adventurer in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe the wrong at the right time.