Introduction to TOA.

Episode starts with a black screen, a voice (Bookkeeper) narrating.The screen turns slightly lighter as it pans down.
"The human race is in constant seek of knowledge."
Black silhouettes of people roaming a wasteland seen at first, the original picture fading out and buildings forming around the people as they become more and more organized.
"Exploring the world around, searching for answers to questions no one would have asked just a few years ago. Technology is advancing more each week than it did in a year during the twentieth century."
The picture of the now-city fades to black.
"But questions still remain, and those who know to seek me find me and ask them, and just a year ago I would have said that I know everything. But something changed."
A silhouette of a man with a perfect posture standing in the middle of the screen appears as the screen pans up. The man has the outline of a book in his right hand.
"Something truly mesmerized me, questions striking down upon me like lightning from clear sky. And I am not the only one."
Silhouettes of more people appear in the background, these slightly faded and lighter.
"The question has bothered man and God alike for longer than even I can remember. It's the question of the meaning of death."
As the monologue continues, more figures appear next to the first one: A figure at least a head taller than the first, outlines of tentacles protruding from it's back; A figure around the same height as the first, seemingly straightening his tie with one hand and holding a suitcase in the other. The silhouettes get smaller very slowly as the screen zooms out.
"Not even the Gods who believe themselves controlling over it are capable of explaining what it truly is, how some mortals escape it and some don't, how some immortals even suffer from it unexpectedly. But the answer lies deeper than the surface, deeper than the answer on what happens after you are gone and if you truly are."
Another fade to black, a slow pan down.
"And the answer lies in the town of Aerilon."
Pan down to a large group of silhouettes. The figures change to become non-human, some growing Hylian ears, some getting red, glowing eyes, some stretching taller, some going shorter, others generating claws, blades and other unnatural appendages from their arms, backs, legs, heads, ETC.
"The town of Aerilon is a place like no other on our blue marble. It appears as if only those destined to enter can find it, and they always do, making Aerilon a ground full of human outcasts, demons and beasts from other dimensions. But it is also a place where my story, and that of many others, unfolds."
Fade to black. Switch to next scene.

(Additional note: silhouettes are inanimate.)