In the beginning, the Goddess of the Earth, Gaea, created the faeries to care for her planet. She sent them out into the world and they tended the flora and fauna of the blue and green orb. The faery folk prospered, multiplying and eventually 'built' themselves great cities, working the trees and plants into houses.
But it wasn't meant to last. The God of Chaos, Gaea's brother, decided one day to have a little fun with the faeries. The disappearances came first. Great numbers of the faeries vanished, apparently lost forever as, indeed, they were.
Chaos had plucked them from their safe havens and corrupted them, twisting their bodies and fraying their minds. When he was done, they were nothing more than beasts--dangerous beasts--and he set them loose on the world.
The faeries were nearly overrun by the Soulless, their forsaken brethren, and they begged their Goddess for help.
Gaea responded to their call. She delicately pried a crystal from deep inside the earth and imbued the geode with magical power, bringing forth the first dragon. She worked diligently, nearly exhausting her considerable power to provide each of the great fae cities with a grown dragon and several geodes ready to hatch.
The coming years were bloody and the fighting seemed endless but the dragons eventually exterminated the Soulless and Gaea pushed Chaos back, imprisoning him in the center of the planet.
The wounds were healed with barely a trace of a scar left behind. But, as from the very beginning, the peace wasn't meant to last.
After a time, the Soulless faded from the memories of the faery folk and they began to disrespect the dragons, treating them as simple beasts of burden. The dragons were unhappy with the proceedings and they began to resent the faeries.
Dragon/faery relations deteriorated at an exponential rate into so much dust blowing in the wind and it didn't take much to set them on each other, starting yet another full-scale war.
Gaea could not sit idly by while her creations butchered each other so, yet again, she intervened. The Goddess created a whole new world for the dragons to live on, seperated from the faeries. It pained her--as it had pained her to bring the dragons into the world to rid it of the Soulless, creatures who had been as pure and innocent as any other faery before the hand of Chaos touched them--to send the dragons away but it had to be done. The name of their new world was Ilithestre.
Story done by the lovely Elros Namasi <3
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