The Warbringer:

"The last race is due next month, prepare your speech, this will be the last time you'll act as a mediator between the races so don't disappoint me."

"Yes, sir." I said without a shred of doubt in my voice, and with utmost confidence.

Even after all these thousands of years he still gives me the glare like it's my first time doing this. I fear that my lord still doesn't trust me enough. *Sigh* Yet this speech is nothing special, just another race entering in this mess, no ... the last race entering this mess. As a dragon I swore my alliance to my people, but these poor creatures won't have that choice, even with enough time to prepare it just won't be enough, and the worst of all ... they won't even realize they are tricked into submission."

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That's what I've thought back then and now that I look at them I can't help but feel the same way, this planet, insignificant like the rest, but equally important to The Greater One plan. I can't help it but feel a bit of pity for these lessers, they are not aware of the impermanence of being, the permanence of him. ...

At least frozen with fear they will listen, and after all this is over so will be my job ... I'm the Warbringer ... mediator between races, the one announcing the beginning of their end.

"Listen here, humans, what I'm about to tell each and everyone one of you will mark the beginning of a new era."

That's how it always starts, vague, almost positive, maybe even peaceful, but that's not how it ends, and once this story is over they will have to make the decision for themselves.

"First and foremost you need to know the real history before you learn the truth and what's in store for you ... So I shall begin the tale and you better LISTEN." I said with a tone as menacing as possible, asserting my authority so that I make sure they won't dare to ignore my presence ... that's my job. A job that I've been doing for so many years...

"Your race ... to my knowledge has two explanations on how the universe came to be, and I'm here to clarify that both are right, the "big bang" and your "god" are one and the same. Before everything came to be, there was nothing but one consciousness, a consciousness that existed in nothing, but this entity I'm telling you about started to have a feeling hard to describe, maybe it was loneliness, maybe just dissatisfaction with how nothing was happening. So THEY created ... the primordial explosion that gave birth to everything are the consequences of THEIR action, THEIR hammer striking what would be called the beginning of life, the beginning of time ... the beginning of everything itself. And what you'll get into is an order from THEIR majesty ... The Greater One ... The universe as you know came to be from one explosion that was created by The Greater One for their plan ... a plan to create another one like THEM, to find a suitable partner for the everlasting contemplation, and the way to find them is through the most basic selective process ... the war."

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Survival of the fittest, a cruel fate for multiple races that fail to meet the standards, but a fate that doesn't mean total destruction The Four Great Races concluded, there's another way out in this, this way still bestows a miserable outcome on some, but nothing in this is fair, not even ... The Greater One.

"THEY created everything for a selfish reason you might say, and that's entirely true, take my words to the heart you lessers, NOTHING, not even GOD THYSELF is fair." I said as I opened my eyes larger and larger like I was trying to impale their very soul so they don't forget my warning.

"The Four Great Races are the ones you will have the first encounter with: The Dragon Race, The Leviathan Race, The Demon Race, The Angel Race, we're the four pillars of The Greater One, and the most promissable candidates. ... I'm but a mediator right now, and you're the last race to awaken so next time, based on your choices, we will be either allies, or enemies."

I said letting as much malice leak from my voice to make them believe the choice is obvious, but it wasn't, in reality the war had yet to begin, at this very moment the real war is on what these lessers would call political field, getting 'allies', a fancy word to describe cannon meat. Soldiers born from subjugating the weak, making them think they fight for the greater good, for victory, soldiers to throw against possible large scale attacks, when someone was dumb enough to create a scene upfront. ...

Most of the important battles are dealt with using the promising candidates from the prime races, the elites of the four leaders. If one of these lessers shows potential then they are brought forward and they are implanted with more knowledge, brainwashing them in the process, making them the perfect beasts to attack an enemy of a higher caliber, an ally ... or their own kin.

" ... The history that you know so far, the myths, the legends about everything mystic in this world are all true, they have always been true. ... There are different planets, with different races in this universe, all created from the beginning but all planned to awaken at different times. It might seem unfair to you, like you have no chance, and that might as well be true but don't lose yourselves humans ... The Greater One wouldn't have made it in this way if THEY only believed in the The Great Four. Now onto the main subject, how do you have a chance to fight in this or to prove yourself and maybe *chuckle* even possibly win? The answer is very simple, it's what you humans often dreamed about, it's a power that will change your lives forever, or bring your ultimate doom ..."

"... It's magic."