Age of Dragons

The Age of Dragons, or the Dragontime, is the period marked by the dominion of the Realm Dragons and their children. 
As life began to flourish, the continents soon grew crowded and the dragons groaned beneath the weight of their burden. To counter this, Anyu and Taso gave up some of their power to create Veres, the spirit of the hunt. He went about and struck down many spirits, and as their blood flowed into the earth, it cried out, and this cry became the Worm God, called Mortus. The Worm God and Veres began to contend, each believing he was master of the world. Manah chose to intervene, and she appeared in the sky to plead with Veres and Mortus. Both gods fell in love with Manah and strove even harder against each other, seeking to win her. Manah, in despair, tore herself in two, becoming the Water Moon, Eshid, and the Fire Moon, Ayos.
Hila, who was angry that Veres and Mortus had driven his mate to such drastic action, sent his light to Eshid, where it mingled with the waters of Manah and became an egg. The egg hatched and out of it came Nyx. She intended to punish Veres and Mortus, and descended to Vala to seek the gods out. She found Veres first, but he led Nyx on a chase over every continent and hundreds of isles, and everywhere the two passed they disturbed the spirits who danced about in confusion, throwing up mountains and tracing rivers, scattering forests and smoothing plains. At last, Veres tired of being chased, for he was the hunter, not the prey, and he offered Nyx any boon in exchange for ending their rivalry. Nyx asked that Veres serve her as he had expected her mother to serve him. The Green God agreed, and so Veres and Nyx lay together and produced children: Gaumad, Seraya, Rasvin, Ukhraj and the King-to-Come.
Mortus, who was brooding in the Abyss, was jealous of Veres, who had gained a whole family, while the Worm God remained alone. Wanting to end Veres' happiness, Mortus split up his skeleton and sent his bones out to do mischief. The Walking Bones, also called the Eaters, descended from the sky and began to gobble up everything on Vala. As the Walking Bones were born of death, they could not be destroyed, and so Nyx led her children in carving great tombs beneath the earth. The Eaters were lured into the tombs by the smell of Nyx’s spilled blood, and when they had ventured far into the trap, Nyx had doors of iron laid upon the entrances to the Underworld.
To ensure the Eaters remained trapped, Nyx reached into another world-fragment of Yesod and drew forth a race of ‘wise insects,’ the dhurj. They tunneled into the earth, expanding the underworld, and creating such a confusing labyrinth that the Walking Bones could never again escape. With this accomplished, Nyx and her children settled in to watch over Vala, which was content until the coming of the Scions and the Morning War.
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