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"Our people, including the dragons, have been roaming these lands for hundreds of years. Dragons and humans were all over, always happy, always trusting, and always around when you needed them.
"About thirty years ago, however, our philosophers and sorcerers realized that we were settling on too small an area. It seemed that we lived in the center of our beloved Retoxamni, and that we should settle other regions.
"But, that's when we met everyone else.
"The northwest was turned into a life-less tundra, and the northeast was changed to never-ending cloudiness and darkness. The south was stormed with dominets, and the Gorge Mountains became the homes of terrible monsters and evil creatures. The southwest changed from a happy plain to a giant forest filled with brainless killing machines. The west became populated with electrical menaces while the east became homes to beasts grown from molten lava, and giant, mutant trees.
"As you can tell, none of these events were known to us, and nothing had happened to our lands at all. Our beloved Retoxamni was falling apart before our eyes. It took only two years for the creatures in all the twisted regions to find us, too."
"What kind of creatures?" Samus asked.
King Andrew's face grew darker, "The south had become the home of hundreds of dwarfs. These dwarfs weren't very friendly, either. When they found us, they accused us of kidnapping hundreds of their people, and their livestock. They attacked our Riders without mercy, and killed many of them. Our dragons were able to push them southward, into their evil forests.
"We found out that the kidnapped dwarfs had been taken to the tundras in the northeast, so we sent some Riders there to take a look.
"They said that the dwarfs had come on their own accord, to serve the leader which sat at a palace made completely of ice. Her name was the 'White Witch', and her minions were sent out to kill our Riders. They did a poor job, but when the White Witch and her sorcerers and sorceresses came out, they did a number on us. Again, many dragons and Riders were killed there.
"The commotion in the northwest made the creatures in the northeast uneasy, so they attacked us. Vampires. Hundreds and hundreds of vampires attacked our villiages here. They slaughtered much of our people, and took many hostages to their lands. They feasted on animals. When they found us, humans, we were just feasts to them. Even our dragons were being eaten by those beasts.
"Their leader, Dracula, lured dragons to his castle by kidnapping their respective Riders as bait. Then, they would ambush the dragon and eat their hide, while they were still alive."
He paused.
"Our armies started war with the vampires and sent armies to the east to set camps. This is how the war started. This is also how our land of Retoxamni was claimed irrelevant and was attacked on all sides.
"This started in the east. While the vampires took full force against us in the northeast, the armies in the east found cities of machines. The main one, which they called 'Machine City', was home to their leader. The one robot which had been created here, was able to escape and build a whole city. He created a whole robot civilization. When our armies came to camp there, the leader accused us of invading and whiped out our eastern armies.
"They then declared war on us.
"The vampires didn't like that, however, and attacked the machines. The vampires declared war. They lost. The machines took much of the vampires 'land'. When we heard that part of the story, what we feared came to realize.
"Retoxamni was no longer the name of this whole island. It is but the name of the territory we control. From then on, we had Retoxamni, and they had their own names. Now, this wasn't a war for revenge, for fun, or for substanence... it was for control.
"When the northwest heard of the plight between the machines and the vampires, they decided to invade the vampires land, which they called Untylvania. The White Witch called her land Ainran, and took alot of Untylvania for themselves, turning it into a tundra like the rest of it.
"We took the initiative to attack the vampires land, making part of Untylvania a part of Retoxamni. The machines attacked, too, dubbing their land Zion. By then the machines had full control over the Gorge Mountains, but failed to put any posts or cities in them.
"We took that chance. We sent many Riders and dragons to the Gorge Mountains, where they set up camps, and even settlements. Some still are there today. We attacked the machines from the west and east of their Zion, and narrowed it down so that Machine City and only a few other settlements remained. Although we didn't have official control over the Gorge Mountains, we were still able to widen Retoxamni eastward.
"But then, Ainran invaded Retoxamni and slaughtered a few Riders and dragons, again. For that, both us and the vampires attacked Ainran and stole much of their land. Their tundra weakened in power, and both Untylvania and Retoxamni were leading the war.
"As you've probably noticed, the west was not a threat. The creatures there did not name their land, nor did they participate in the war at all. That is, until Ainran sent their armies to rest there.
"The leader of the west, a sorcerer named Sarumon, ordered the White Witch to send back her armies. When she refused, Sarumon declared his territory part of the war, and killed off the White Witches army before they were able to attack Retoxamni. He named his territory Noraz.
"Fortunately, Noraz saw that Retoxamni was leading the war, and they had the smallest territory. They made an alliance with us, and helped each other out during Ainran's attacks.
"Our Riders and dragons were easily able to defend Noraz, and they had a huge impact on our defences, too. But, Noraz saw fit to start expanding their land, and moved southward.
"Noraz demanded that the south belong to them. The only people to stop them were the dwarfs. They came and whiped out their forces, as well as ours when we went to defend them. The machines in Zion realized that the dwarfs had their own territory controlled, and decided to invade. The dwarfs, however, were easily able to defeat them.
"Once again, the dwarfs attacked us after defeating the machines.
"Noraz, Retoxamni and Zion realized that the dwarfs had the most superior armies, and wanted to allign with them. The dwarfs refused, however, and attacked all three territories.
"Since the south was not an option, Noraz and Retoxamni chose to keep attacking Untylvania and Ainran, who, by then, had alligned.
"Zion continued to bombard the vampires while Noraz and Retoxamni were defending themselves from the White Witches armies.
"Then, an Orc, the natives of Noraz, accidentally killed an innocent dragon, causing an uproar in Retoxamni. They invaded, and stole much of Noraz's land. In that time, Noraz was losing the war and Ainran was winning it.
"That all changed, however, when the MUM showed up."
