>>5297835>THE GODS OF DARKENSS WERE NEVER UNIFIED. THERE WAS NO SCHISM. WE HAVE EACH ALWAYS GONE OUR OWN WAY. WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG, WE CRAFTED OUR DRAGONS AND OUR OTHER CHAMPIONS FROM FIRE AND FLESH, STONE AND SCALE, AND WE WARRED. ONLY THE COMING OF THE GODS OF LIGHT EVER UNIFIED OUR PURPOSE. AND THEN… WE LOST.You all lost—Dark Gods and Reptilian alike. It is a shameful truth, but it is known. But… Why not strengthen your race for another battle? Why did they allow the noble dragons to go extinct, and never to return?
>WE WERE DISAPPOINTED IN OUR PERFORMANCE IN THAT WAR, AND IN OUR CREATIONS. EACH OF US HAD OUR OWN STRATEGY FOR HOW TO RECTIFY THE SITUATION. THE BEHOLDER CREATED THE AKASHIC RECORD, AND BEGAN TO COMPILE OUR HISTORIES AND TO STUDY THEM THERE, TO DISCOVER HOW WE HAD FAILED SO WE WOULD NOT REPEAT THOSE MISTAKES.You have heard tell of the Akashic Record of the Dark Gods—a hidden library of moments, events, histories unwritten, hidden in the shadows between instants, beheld only by half-mad prophets of The Master of the Insightful Eye.
>THE PERSECUTOR SOUGHT TO PURIFY YOUR RACES OF TAINT AND WEAKNESS WITH HIS CASTE SYSTEM, HIS TRADITIONS AND LAWS, HIS CHASTITY… BUT HE DISCOURAGED YOU TO STRIVE, TO ADVANCE. HA, HE MUST LOATHE YOUR TAINTED HERITAGE, AND WHAT YOU ARE BECOMING WITH YOUR BAND OF MISFITS AND OUTCASTS.The thought of a Dark God (and one you have such little direct knowledge of) being aware of an actively ANTAGONISTIC towards you is an alarming one. You gulp.
>AS FOR THE MOTHER, SHE AND I CAME TO DISAGREE UPON HER SIGNATURE DRAGONS. SHE BELIEVED THAT WE SHOULD GIVE RISE, AS A COLLECTIVE, TO STILL GREATER CHAMPIONS, OF VARYING SORTS—DEMIGODS BORN STRONG, AND BRED FOR GREATER AND GREATER STRENGTH, BIRTHING THEM IN GREAT SWEEPING HORDES THAT COULD CONSUME THE STARS.“And you… Disagreed?” you ask, perplexed, before you can stop yourself. What favour will THIS question entitle this great serpent to, you half-wonder and half-dread.
>BAH. IT IS PART AND PARCEL TO YOUR LAST QUESTION. I AM ABOVE SUCH PETTY GAMES AND TECHNICALITIES. YES, I DISAGREED. DRAGONS GREW USELESS TO US -BECAUSE- THEY WERE BORN SO STRONG, BECAUSE THEY HAD SUCH ARMIES BY THEIR NATURE. This is… Startling, to say the least. How can he who praised you for your draconic nature now disavow and disparage the nature of dragons?
>A NATURAL KING, RAISED BY RIGHT OF BIRTH, DOES NOT STRIVE. HE SITS UPON HIS GOLDEN THRONE, GROWS FAT ON OFFERINGS, DOZES AND DWELLS ON HIS UNEARNED GLORY. A KING BY CONQUEST, BY STRENGTH AND HONOUR, HE STAYS WORTHY. HE CAN CONQUER GODS AND CONSUME STARS!You think you understand. The Dark Gods saw weakness in your race following your failure but, unable to settle upon a single root failure—ignorance, inherent physical insufficiency, lack of discipline and moral integrity, lack of ambition—they each retreated into their own projects, rather than unifying behind a single plan.
