Prologue 2: The First Flame and Fall of Demons and Dragons

Gods were very powerful beings, but they were also selfish, cruel, and arrogant. And thus, they could not accept another ruling race but themselves, so they despised demons and dragons alike, wishing to end their reigns were but unable to do so, knowing they were forces they couldn't face in battle. Until they found it while roaming the land, hidden deep within the earth; a source of pure, raw, primeval power; the First Flame. The God King, who shall not be named, was the first to draw power from it, by taking a Soul of Light, soon, the rest of his kind followed, taking souls of various elements that made the natural world, little by little consuming the Flame.

But one of them found something else. They say he was the youngest son of the God King, no bigger than a human. As the Fist flame was almost extinguished, among the last embers he found within the last soul, a special soul, a unique soul; the Dark Soul, and though it was no bigger than his own fingertip, it was by far the mightiest of them all, for this one soul also held the Secret of Dreams and Memory; the very Truth of the World.

And it granted him more than just power, it showed him Truth itself; all that was, is and will be, and the nameless atrocities his own father would commit in the name of their vanity and shallow glory. He confronted him about this, but the God King only demanded him to hand over his Soul, but he refused and was banished from his home and hunted by the rest of the gods. Thus, he snatched it and fled from the Heavens, falling to the earth and hiding in a deep cave, knowing that one day, one would come to reclaim it, to bring freedom to the world and to end the tyranny of the gods. But we´ve yet to reach that part, until then be patient and listen…

The gods searched for him but couldn't find him, and eventually forgot about him, and proceeded to plan the fall of their enemies, but even with the power of the Flame, the gods were reluctant to directly challenge either demons or dragons, and so they chose to use cunning instead of strength. While the Demon Clan was unified under END´s rule, there were some who hated him and wished to seize the throne of demon-kind for themselves. The gods sought these treacherous demons and shared the power of the Flame with them. With these new power, a faction of demons rebelled against END and those who were loyal to him, demanding of him to step down and give up his crown as Demon King. At first END tried to solve this rebellion peacefully, but soon, ambition and madness turned demon against demon, and a full blown civil war exploded. By the time it was over, there was nothing left to salvage, for never before had demons fought in such massive scale; in their fight to see who would rule over them, they annihilated themselves, and the Demon Clan ceased to be, END alone survived, and he chose exile. The gods hunted him, thinking they could take him down as he was the last demon, but he was nowhere to be found. And he would remain that way for many years, only returning later to improve this tale.

As word of the fall of the Demon Clan spread fast around the continent, dragon-kind took no joy from this news but grief; an entire race had been exterminated, not by time, not because it was righteous, but because of greed and ambition, and they knew that the gods would march soon against them. There was one dragon, who unlike his brethren, was born without scales, only pale skin and a deformed shape, Seath was his name, but the rest of the dragons called him simply 'The Worm'. He envied their scales, and when he heard about the Demon Clan´s fate, he chose to betray his kind, and sought the gods to do this.

In exchange for a fragment of the God King´s Soul, Seath gave him the secret to fight dragons, for even though they never fought to the death, only dragon claws could pierce dragon scales. Following Seath´s plan, the God King sent emissaries to gather mortal servants. Humans, fearful and naïve, served him without question. He handed them over to Seath, who turned them into weapons to fight the dragons. He gave them small shards of his and god like power making them stronger, arming them with the power to equal dragons, the power of Dragon-slayers.

Seath set them loose against his kind, and these dragon-slayers fought fearlessly under the false promise that all those who killed a dragon would be awarded with a place in the high heavens alongside the gods. Thus began the Dragon War. Though dragons were greatly faster and stronger than their human counterparts, the sheer number of the enemies along with the fact that they had help from the Worm and the gods´ legions eventually overwhelmed them. In a matter of months, the mighty dragon-kind was annihilated, Belserion himself was felled by Seath. The gods and their allies celebrated their victory, only to discover one dragon still remained. She was the daughter of Belserion, the Dragon Princess even stronger than her father, now turned Queen by his death. She challenged Seath in a duel for vengeance and he complied, bringing with him his entire army of dragon slayers. But as he arrived at the battlefield the confidence of his victory turned to dread. For standing along the Dragon Queen stood END, the Demon King.

They had met after the Demon Clan war, while END wandered the land in grieving. They became companions, then friends, and eventually lovers. When Belserion was slain, he mourned with her and promised her they would avenge them, both their races. And so, these pair of unlikely mates mounted a desperate las stand against those responsible for the murder of their people. An army of gods, dragon-slayers, and a dragon against the last demon and dragon. The mighty battle raged for several weeks, shaking earth and sky as the two sides sought each other's death. But by the time it was over, there was nothing left. Faearha, the Dragon Queen, was slain as she gave death to Seath and as many dragon-slayers as she could, her mate END was felled only after killing the rest of them, of the gods´ forces only one third remained. Legend says they died holding each other's hands, and that two stars appeared in the firmament in honor of their love.

With demons and dragons gone, the gods were free to do their will, as they began their tyrannical rule upon the world, and the mortal races were left to suffer the worst of it.