Now, the Realm was a place of many lands and many peoples, and while there were countless lands beyond, they are of little importance to our story now.
Within the Realm, not all peoples were glad their lands were joined with all others, and not all were pleased they had to send away some of their goods or riches to some other place, even when they got something in return. The Guardians of the Realm swore to keep it safe from all enemies, within and without, thus those in reach who declared themselves the Realm's enemies were few.
Even so, bandits would sometimes waylay wayfarers and steal their things, and the Dragon's horde would swarm out of nowhere to ravage unprotected lands. Yet otherwise the Realm was a peaceful and prosperous place.
Then one day several wizards stumbled across a cave at the edge of the Realm, deep and dark and thought for long to be full of nothing but cold dripping rocks. Instead, the wizards found it to be teeming with the Ravenous Ones, creatures of old, made of pure, powerful enchantment but sharing the Dragon's curse. You see they always were hungry and when they ate, their power grew and grew.
Now, you know it was none other than the Chozo who had created these things, but in those days, their parentage was subject to much speculation and the wizards wanted nothing more than to take these creatures home and study them to unlock the secrets of their great magick, which seemed to have no limit.
But on the trip back to the heart of the Realm, who else but the Dragon, sensing his own kind, should arrive with his horde and slay the Realm wizards? Returning to what was once Chozo lands, he and his horde used their own powers to grow and multiply the devouring beasts we now call Metroids.
Although the Realm had many of its own wizards and nobles, they could not make any way against the horde and called out for all lordless knights who might join them and defeat the Dragon's army to recover the Ravenous Ones in time.
It was then that the Knight known as Samus Aran answered the call and promised to enter and slay all who stood in opposition, even the Great Red Dragon himself.
The rest of the story has been often told and repeated, but the Knight crept deep into the land in secret, knowing all the hidden Chozo byways, and then with magick and arms, slew many in the horde, as well as its Dragon and all the Ravenous Ones the horde yet had produced and even the – but I get ahead of myself.
The Knight Samus had many more adventures after this, too many to name or tell, but some time later the Realm began to grow afraid of the Ravenous Ones and the danger they posed, and so it asked the Knight to go and do likewise to the Metroids in their own cave. This the Knight did, though it took great magick and many days, and at last the Queen Devouring came out to face the Knight, saying there was no man born of woman that might slay her.
Alas for the Queen, she fought no ordinary Knight. But the Realm was saved and at peace.