Interlude: History part 1
At one time, there were four races of echidna. Three of them are not well known. The Clans, as they were called, were the Mystic, Shadow, Twilight, and Dark echidnas. The Mystic Echidna Race symbolized the Guardian. The Shadow Echidna symbolized the Warrior. The Twilight Echidna symbolized the Mage. And finally the Dark Echidna Race symbolized the Conqueror. Each had a sacred relic to signify their power; The Mystic had the Master Emerald. The Shadow had the Great Sword. The Twilight had the Staff of Protection. The Dark had the Silver Ring.
There was time when all of the echidna races were united. They lived together in peace. They believed in Egyptian Gods like, Horus, Ra, Anubis, and Isis. They believed that they had placed their power into four echidnas. There was only one hedgehog living with the tribes, a silversmith. Horus commanded him to create a ring of silver, a relic that would express power and rule over all echidnas. The silversmith did as he was told, and created this ring with ancient echidna symbols embedded into it.
Greed over took Horus, and he enslaved the echidnas forcing them to work and make precious items for him. Anubis, god of Shadow, took all of he echidna that were black with red stripes and carried the mark of the white star, he created and army of incredible size and strength. The echidna races warred over greed until it tore them into four separate races, Mystic, the Guardians, Shadow, the warriors, Twilight, the Mages, and Dark, the Conquerors.
But this separation was not the end of war. Burning with rage at this defeat, Horus embedded his lifeline in those whose fur was pitch black. And so, the Dark Echidnas, fueled by greed, hatred, and malice, became the Conquerors. And with this power, they used the Silver ring to dominate all the other races. Their leader was a mighty necromancer, known only as Seraph. He sought to dominate this world and many others.
One by one, free lands fell before the power of the Silver Ring, until, only the three other clans remained. Seraph sought to take the power of the Master and Chaos Emeralds from the Guardians. If he were to succeed, then nothing would stand in his way. But the Warriors would not let this stand. They gathered together what forces they had, and struck out at the Conquerors. A terrible war ensued, until finally, the two mighty leaders faced each other in combat.
Both were masters of their artifacts and they began a battle that was so terrible, that the earth itself screamed in agony. When the smoke cleared, both leaders were dead. But the power of the silver ring was so great, and the hatred that fueled Seraph was so complete, that he rose from the dead to become one those that today we call vampires. But his battle had weakened him greatly, and so the Mages imprisoned him and his followers in an ancient mural. The armies of the necromancer faded and the war ended.