For some time, such was the whole of existence, the titanic struggle of air and water, the industry of the hidden forge, the slumbering of the great mother, and the watchfulness of the great father. Change was inevitable however, even such long lasting beings as the gods are subject to it. While Meren and Aera continued to fight their petty wars, they grew smaller, less frequent, and eventually seemed almost to stop. They had found something that had taken hold of their mutual interests. The constant flow of beautiful and wonderous works that seemed to flow from Inferen’s forge sparked each of their desire to create so they set about taking portions of the earth and shaping them to their desired shapes. They set about collecting them, with Inferen’s works which had not yet been brought to life and could be stolen without his notice, on the surface where he refused to tread. Thus were all the plants, the Beasts of the earth and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea given shape and spread across the surfce of the world. They were, however, still dead having not yet had life breathed into them by the fires of the Forge of Life. Meren and Aera then formed a scheme to sneak into Inferen’s Forge while he rested from his labors. They would then steal a portion of the fire of life to give life to their creations. They set off at once for his realm and having slunk into the Forge and waited for Inferen to return to his place of rest, they made off with a small portion of the fire, an ember, small in comparison to the vast works from which it was pulled but infused with the raw energies needed to imbue life into the empty shells that had been formed. Fleeing back to the surface they set about touching the ember to each of the of the planned creatures. But Meren played a trick on Aera. While the Spark of life was strong, he set about bringing his own creatures to life. These creatures could move, had the beginnings of what in other creatures could be called intelligence or thought but in them is called instinct. By the time that he gave it over to Aera the spark had cooled and when she went to create her creatures there was life but rather than move, they were still, they grew but could not shift their mass. Upon realizing his deception, Aera waged war upon her brother. Their fighting brought destruction upon the entire face of the earth. The creatures and plants that Aera and Meren had created were swept away the continents that had once covered Erta’s form. The air and the waters surged against each other raging in a titanic struggle. The noise of their fighting roused Inferen from his slumber, immediately he saw that his workshop had been broken into and his forge disrupted. Flying into a fury he erupted out of the earth causing the formation of the Caldera Inferen’s Gate which to this day can be seen marking the center of the Vale. Adding his insurmountable power to the struggle, the elements raged and wrought a terrible destruction on the earth. By his joining the fray all three children of the Earth and Sky were now engaged in a struggle of life and death across the whole of the world. There was no place safe on the surface for the creatures and plants that had been wrought the earth and many perished in the maelstrom that ensued.

  Erta, roused from her slumber by the chaos, destruction and pain wrought upon her surface, flew into a fury, and ordered her children to cease their fighting as mothers are wont to do. The Children however ignored their mother as children are wont to do when they have gotten too far into a squabble to mind that what their mother might order them. Exasperated by her inability to bring her children back to order and likewise unable to separate them without potentially causing immeasurable and irreversible damage to them she turned inward to the forge that had been the source of the struggle between her children. There she worked. She worked until she had perfectly shaped and molded the first of the creatures that would walk the earth, swim the waters, and fly air permanently until the end of time. Their bodies cast of her own flesh and fired fully in the forge the first of a new breed took its first steps and began to move and think of their own will. The beasts that came of this effort, though fragile and temporary compared to the Gods, were still enduring and strong took their place at Erta’s side as her representatives to deal with her children and keep them in line. These creatures were the Dragons. The eldest of them Ur-entardaral was their king and the father to many of the dragons that provided armies that fought in the wars of the Gods. The dragons were divided according to their parents into six clans the members of which were those whom the dragons would be born with, train with and then fight with. While each of the clans were led by their respective kings and queens, they all answered to Ur-entardaral. Erta in her wisdom desired to maintain a population of these new guardians to ensure that they remained strong enough to match her children and so for each male she created she also made a female for to be his mate in the same way that she had been to Heuen. Ur-entardaral thus had 5 Brothers and 6 Sisters. The Brothers were in order from eldest to Youngest were Ar-Entheri, As-Ingalum, Or-Pamun, Ys-Amangur and Os-Undura. The Sisters were Kur-Uran, Ten-Gatas, Hal-Isao, Qui-Vren, Pas-Anum, and Kal-Istar. These twelve spent much of their time creating more of themselves, populating the spaces that Erta laid out for them in the layers of earth between the fires of the forge and the surface, so they might prepare in peace from the wrath of the Children and that the Children might exhaust themselves. Ur-entardaral as the most the eldest born of earth and fire was the strongest, largest, wisest, and craftiest of all his siblings led them against the Gods. While these new creatures continued to the grow in strength and number, Erta departed from them and went among her warring children and collected the bodies of the of those creatures and plants that had been the cause of the war. She hid them throughout herself in places where they might be preserved from the ravages of the Siblings. The bones and forms of these creatures imprinted on the stone in which they had been stored can still be found through out the world and many of them grace the halls of many of the world’s museums, academies, and collections.

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  When the Dragons had built their strength to such a point where they felt sure of their victory, they left their subterranean caverns to do battle with the raging children. The Children of Earth and Sky were taken by surprise when the large dragon Clans swept against them. By tooth and talon, with wing and word the dragons fought against the Gods. It The struggle was fierce and many of the younger and weaker dragons were killed, torn asunder by the fury of the winds of Aera, incinerated by the heat of the fire of Inferen, or dragged into the depths and drowned by the waters of Meren, nevertheless the Dragons brought each of the Gods to heel over the course of a long and bloody war. When each had been contained, the Dragons brought them before their Mother and Father where they were administered the first of the Immortal Oaths, The Pact of Life, which bound each of the siblings into a pact of cooperation. They would together, create all the creatures of the land, water, and air, all the beasts of hoof and claw, all the birds of the wing and all the fish of the sea, as well as all of the plants that cover the earth and all of the insects. They would have to work in harmony to create each and maintain every aspect of the life they were creating. As such, when they had finished their creations, Erta and Heuen administered the second of the Immortal Oaths, The Pact of Peace, they would never again raise their hands in anger against each other to such an extent as to threaten the existence of all life.

  I would now like to take a few moments to discus the Dragons before moving on to the further implications of the immortal oaths. Though created together and having spent much of those early years together in the bowels of the earth, the Dragons were by no means a unified species. Soon, within a few generations they had divided very clearly into the clans based on their ancestry. These clans based on their ancestry could only be kept from turning upon each other and detroying themselves, in much the same way that the immortal siblings had been attempting to, by scattering them across the whole of the world. Each of the six mated pairs moved to the far corners of the world, taking with them all of their offspring and establishing for themselves cities in the most secluded parts of the world. Ur-Entardaral and Kur-Uran are said to have established their realm high in the Araconian mountains, hidden by magic and by the mountains they hold court for all the realms of Dragon-kin. Ar-Entheri and Ten Gatas are said to reside in the Athrakan Mountains at the southern most end of Peiramma. As-Ingalum and Hal-Isao reside in the Al Kazneh Desert.