Long before the Frogs were a kingdom, long before they had kings and queens and even before they had the ability to communicate with each other.
They lived along the rivers and streams just as normal frogs do in our world today. leaping all day and singing the light away.
But they weren't alone at the river. There was another group that called the river home.
The Fish of Igneous. They were the sons and daughters of the First Conflagration and the Last of Monoliths.
They were baby elementals in there own right. All of molten metal and all of varying kinds. From copper to Tungsten they ranged from the hardest to find and even some that haven't been used in lifetimes. The Smallest of them were the Koper (copper) dwarf fish. They lived in swarms of over Five hundred fish that reflected the light of the sun so intensely that if they stayed in one spot long enough that the trees along the river bank were set on fire.
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The next of the kin were the Argent (silver) gill that lived solitary lives but also helped corral the Koper from eating everything in there path.
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The biggest of the River kin were the Ginto (gold) Koi. They were the rulers of the waterways. Every other fish steered clear when they led their swarms down to open waters. They are rarer then the rest after all, just like with humanity there is only one ruler for millions.
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But those are all honestly very common Kin. The rarest is the Iridium paddlefish. They sit at the bottom of the deepest part of the ways. Most people never see one in there life, but if your lucky and the water is clear then you can shine a light down there and see the purple reflections they put out from the light.
I started this story off with long ago for the sole reason that the water ways haven't been seen by a man or women in more than a lifetime. I'm hoping someone will have seen the rivers of molten fish. I doubt they'll see the frogs though. They had left just before the last of the fishing trips my people hosted yearly. We have unfortunately stopped that too. It got too dangerous for us up there, the magic of humanity is fading fast while the magic of the world is growing even faster.