By André Machado.
I write this for the future, as it seems death
is always in the horizon, and knowledge should not die with its owner, but
preserved as flowers in a garden.
The common
elf will more often than not be able to properly identify the two main types of
dragons, Chromatic and Metallic, as these Dragons are native to the material
plane and found here in a bothersome, if decreasing, amount. Chromatic dragons
were unconscious creations of Mercius, a dream of power thrusted them into the
Telluric flux early in creation forever setting its tone. As I understand, this
is the equivalent of divine dreamwalking.
According
to reliable information from several sources, Thiamat was a merging of the most
powerful of these to create a being capable of claiming godhood. Its drive and
ambition were pathological and incapable of coexistence with previous forces.
Such is the nature of almost all chromatic dragons. Almost, for it is so easily
forgotten, but three chromatic dragons were essential for the elven rebellion
as spies. Their reasons are assumed to be their superior (if unusual) moral
character, they risked their lives and all perished in the end. Writing their
names would take longer than the scroll permits, but if you cast history to the
7th day exacly two hours after the second total solar eclipse since
the death of Sarevok in this scroll you will hear me recite them.
The King pressioned by his sons was way too extreme in condemning all chromatic dragons to death, but he was
gonna see reason in time. If not for those traitors. For the ridiculousliness
that is the elven council, this whole situation could have been dealth with
long ago. For dragons, are extremelly greedy and ambitious, but only a few are
incapable of coexistence and dangerous. Not everyone wants to take the chance
tho.
So the gods
embarked on a quest to create something that would be able to fight the other
dragons. Unlike the chromatic dragons who were created in the material plane by
Mercius dreams of power, this would take place properly, in the dreamworld.
First Mercius tried creating the next dragons by using the earth itself.
The sages
tell that Mercius, at First alone, started using raw earth elements to shape
dragons into being. At first he used the most pristine and precious Gems he
found in several planes, even in the material one.
These were
sometimes called, Gem Dragons. The
Jade Dragon was created around this time, the only one of its kind. Apparently
Mercius was not enjoying the results of his creation. They were tipical
examples of Mercius vision that came somewhat uninspired, as if the deity was
not in the mood of doing what he was doing. The earth based dragons were aloof,
solitary and self-centered, even if curious and neutral. After trying over 20
types of earths, he was frustrated, and decided to try to make a divine-like
being that would be able to act as a god against thiamat.
His first
attempt was the jade dragon, this extremelly powerfull spirit was even more
powerfull back then, and he immediately resented having being made to fight
thiamat, and was interested in other stuff (again reflecting Mercius state).
Still it was sent along with a horde of gem dragons to fight the chromatic
dominion of thiamat.
It was a
spectacular failure, Mercius tried something he shouldn’t, chronomancy for
going back in time, to fix all his mistakes, but unaware of it then, he opened
creation to the paradox. This interdimensional cancer will consume all
realities, and its attracted by space-time continuum bending. So even
teleporting it can create ripples that attack the aberrations. The lesson here
is never send someone uninterested to do an intellectual job, even the
creator.”
The
chromatic dragons won so big, that they acted as if they became unstoppable,
they had just defeated the creator and were on their way to invade the heavens
and takeover. Training massive armies, and increasing their power every day.
Then Mercius summoned his most powerfull children to assess the situation, and
lend him different perspectives on what should be done. Any solution that
didn’t involve him taking an active role was his desire.
Bahamut was
the solution. As before a dragon would be created to fight Thiamat, but this
time, it was done in a spectacular scale. Using knowledge from previous
attempts, the help of Petrus and Ursonis and the incriedible power of Aestus, they created Bahamut, the
Dragon God of metallic dragons, eternal enemy of thiamat, chaos and evil. His
greatest gift, is the capacity to create metallic dragons in the dreamworld.
The gods
returned to their own affairs and left Bahamut to create a true army in the
ancient dream realm of Elysium. After a laboring process, that was aided by
many spirits, ursonis, and aestus, an army of 10 thousand was ready. He ordered
them into the material plane thro the ursonis kept dreamgates and established
powerbases immediately. What followed is the great draconic war.
This war
lasted many centuries with neither side making a move. Until the three spies
enabled the existance of an elven resistance. When the elves started being
supplied with top notch intel, they were able to attack while their overlords
were engaged in battle, and cause significant damage before help could arrive.
The
elementals eventually joined the fight, and an alliance between the air
elementals, elves and metallic dragons was created against the chromatic dragons,
other elementals and their subjects. It was risky for the elfs to rebel so many
took refuge with the dragons, but the majority ran to the elemental plane of
air, where the dragons usually were killed quickly by the 1st
Phlogiston tactical brigade.
Despite the
metallic contribution, by the end of the war after thiamat died there were many
traitors on both sides, many chromatic dragons had changed sides more than
once, and a few metallic dragons turned out to be chromatic dragons in
disguise. Their disguise was so good that it was impossible to divine it by
magical means. And so the king made a decree by which every dragon would be
treated as foe until proven otherwise.
And well,
when you have the necessity to verify something that is impossible to verify,
that pretty much becomes a death sentence! As paranoia and Dracophobia were
rampant at the time, they were at first shunned, then driven away from elven
lands, and finally, hunted down, for never again the risk of thiamat was to be
allowed to exist.
Eventually
the king found out a way to track dragons by binding his blood to them, maybe
that’s why he acquired such extreme attitudes… and invited all the curses that
befell him, blessed be his name, Sarevok the Dragonslayer. His measures were
extreme, but it worked.
Now I don’t
think theres any way to really grasp the full repercussions of his measures,
but as far as I know, no dragon is bothering to mask themselves (its very
costly) if they are attacked regardless of color. Altho for this reason, you can
never fully trust a dragon, unless it’s also a cleric of bahamut. And if its
one powerfull enough to mask his type, boy you are fucked, best hope is being
slaved until better times arrive.
Scroll “On
Dragons, origins of Dragons” Vol V
Today there
are still many dragons hiding out there, even on other planes, the royal family
continues its pursuit with fanatical fervor. I heard many tales of metallic
dragons that didn’t deserve to die being killed, it’s a tragic tale. The smart
ones either went to the dreamworld to try a better life or remained hidden very
far from anyone. The Dragonslayers powers make them such fearsome foes against
the dragons that its not even a contest, and theres no more organized menace,
so they are just being hunted down one by one.
I believe
this is all the councils fault, their hypocrisy is unbelievable, they kill the
king for fear of his extremism, only to continue his most extreme policy with
zero revision. This kind of corrupt mindset will cost us when the third
invasion finally comes ...
According
to the calculations of Ursonis, which I was shown in a dream, the aberrations
and thiamat made a pact of mutually assured indestructability. You see, Thiamat
was made of Mercius dreams, in a way, before they merged, the dragons involved
were the first of their kind, almost gods amongst the other of their kin, and
held massive powers and domains, and they were a part of the root of creation,
in a class of creatures that even mercius cant destroy without severely altering the world.
But their
ambition was almost a cosmic force connected with their massive powers. They
saw that by merging they could elevate themselves to the point of being a deity
of power equal only to chrysalis and mercius. The naturalist in me begs for
this metaphore, imagine thiamat at this point was part like a hugely important
fungus in a primitive ecosystem of dream entities, immensely powerful as a
natural expression of the telluria, it IS impossible to completely destroy
thiamat without also destroying the material plane and the divine coil that
binds everything.
So mercius
decided to go back in time, shattering the Overton window of our reality and
sending the chronomantic ripples that attract the elder gods. With the window
open, the paradox was able to come from the nether in full force, no longer
corrupting reality from the outside, it now had a foothold here and this
changed everything forever.
Scroll “On
Dragons, origins of Dragons” Vol VI
When
mercius realized how impossible and futile it was to undo the damage thiamat
had done to the cosmic alphabet, the cosmic song and the telluric weave he
decided, like most spontaneous divine singularities do, I assume, to reverse
time. The attempt to reverse time was the real original sin of mercius.
Instead of
reversing time, he duped time, a process not fully understood, but when
chronomancy is used in combination with amazing divine powers, there is the
highest known concentration of Paradox ever measured. The accumulated paradox
enters critical mass as by the ursonis equation scroll, and releases a
discharge of interdimensional cosmic energy that causes all sorts of effects.
And I mean ALL sorts of effects. Duplication is simply the simplest form of
energy discharge in the universe.
In the case
of Mercius, it duplicated reality to the moment before he tried it. This
resulted in several realities being created in advance, the equation which
explains their limit is the speed of kronos equation. In the Ursonis dreams Vol
II. It is said that some beings may be able to copy stuff with chronomantic
powers. The aberrations are known to dupe items of power, for instance.
When
thiamat started losing, it was seduced by the paradox elder beings, and made a
pact with them, where, like some kind of .. lich, it was bound to something
else, unreacheable, and indestructable. And that is why we must always fight
it. Thiamat was working with them, and for that, it is only a matter of time before
it comes back. The reasons for this are simple.
There are
cultists of thiamat hidden outside of creation, beyond the reach of any
do-gooder, so its only a matter of time before they amass power and return
because they will always be able to lock in a secure connection due to original
thiamat imprint. The greater the imprint the greater the connection between our
world and the corrupted worlds warped by the paradox. And this imprint can be
increased by evil theomancers like Oprimax and Nimrod.
Or gods
forbid, they make him powerfull enough to activate his mortal coil.It has been
prophezised that the day this happens, the third aberrant invasion will beggin.
The planeswalker legend says that nothing survives entropy, but one can contain
the paradox if one knows how.
Scroll “On
Dragons, origins of Dragons” Vol VII
I have talked
to dragons, and most of chromatic ones really resented the corruption of the
world done by the aberrations but just didn’t care enough to fight them,
specially being hunted by the elves. In a way we forced many of them into going
to them for protection, or into the lower planes.
Altho im
sure its just a matter of time before they attack full force again, I have hope
for the future because I just heard from my friend Graw (the current chosen of
chrysalis) that the gods are supposed to vote on banning teleportation and
magical flight and some other things to reduce the paradox level across the
board, they seem to be coordinating it through kronos (see kronos scroll), so
they all do it at the same time to avoid a paradox wave, and its gonna take
some millenia, but it should happen! Im sure a bunch of wizards will cry their
asses out, but its for the greater good.
The origins
of dragons is a tragic history, with many actors, and endless details, but the
essence of it, is that we in the end, we are only marginally better. And if we
don’t improve, we will end up having the same fate, a dying race with no sense
of real purpose incapable of going thro the world we once claimed as ours as
newer races break the Overton window into existence.
A big
thanks to and for Ursonis, the best thing Mercius ever made, and to my friend
Overton, the scholar planeswalker.
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