The Reign

The Tale of the Reign
The Strange Ones are believed to have been born of the Divine, and so too the Dragons are made of the Strange Ones. This is unwritten but it is known.

That the Dragons created the Giants, as servants to build great monuments the Dragons could not, and as heirs to their immortality, is recorded in markings on the ruins of these monuments.

The Giants, once freed from their masters, created the Elves, a smaller people to whom they could act as father figures until passing The Reign - guiding and teaching them.

The Elves were disappointing children. They did not want to teach; they, like the Dragons, wanted a people to build for them, to care for them. So they built Men in their image, but blunted their nobility - flattened their ears, shortened their chins, lowered cheekbones, dulled hair, darkened eyes.

But we were slaves for only a short time before the Lord of Graves appeared in the skies and the dead of The Moribund rose. We fought beside the few remaining Giants and our master Elves and we defeated the dead.

And in our greatest moment of triumph, we created a most despicable act of greed as we turned on our masters, weakened by the war, and ripped the mantle of immortality from them.

But we were cursed by the gods and our forebears: The heirloom was burned by our envy. The Giants left this world in disgust and the Elves fled to the highest mountains and the deepest forests.

And we were alone.