CHAPTER 1: INTRO - LIGHT REFLECTIONS (2)
The precursor kingdom of the Initial Golden King was one of the most organized. It developed formidably until it headed towards the summit of the evolution of all lineages. The kingdom of dragons was a very profound reign, full of magic and harmony, but it was doomed to be constantly restarted. This was only known by the Golden King since, according to the stipulations of the demigod itself, the only way that the Kingdom of the Dragons could survive and evolve was through the reinstatement of itself.
But how would such a kingdom be renewed? Taking into consideration that these were one of the most powerful creatures in the history of the planet, organized by a divine dragon, created by nature itself. Born with the purest of essences. Essences fragmented from the most splendid corners of all the planet. In addition, the Golden King forged an empire along with seven burly supreme dragons. Without mentioning, the army of centenarians of dragons committed to the orders of all these before mentioned, which trained for all the spaces of time, protecting the world and becoming increasingly strong in their activities of defense. It was practically an unwavering offspring; perfect, indestructible.
The only way to renew the Kingdom was through self-destruction, and self-renewal. The Kingdom was to restart itself throughout the centuries and millennia. It was about forging an empire, consolidated and complying with protection, and then allowing its end to give way to the appearance of a new kingdom, a better one. Evolving and advancing in magic and energy.
Only the Initial Golden King knew this could be achieved through the replacement of the Golden King; a new King with new ideals, with new intentions. A King with the necessary forces to create a new and improved empire.
According to Elgoneth's Law, in order to dismiss the Golden King, it needed to beget a new one. And for the initiation of a new reign to begin, a dragon must reveal itself on its own. A single dragon was to attack the entire empire, absorb the energy of all the dragons and, once finished, the Initial Golden King would integrate the Kingdom with him.
The spirits that lived within the Dragons were called Raēn. And these energies were really one. They were all connected, but physically scattered. So, in order to regenerate the Kingdom, the whole empire needed to transfer all their energy towards one Raēn. This rebel dragon must have enough courage and strength to annihilate thousands of dragons, devastate the entire army, defeat the Seven Supreme Dragons, fight against the Golden King, win, and finally absorb his energy. The Legend clarified that the New Golden King, needed to come from any descendant of the seven supreme sacred lineages; although secretly, some lineages were naturally more suitable for this position than others, and some characteristics favored more than others, to win and become the New King. In the end, everything really depended on the level of strength, attitude and purpose by which the rebel dragon was born.
Every time the defiant dragon pulverized a dragon in battle, it absorbed its energy. As it destroyed more dragons, it absorbed more of it, and the stronger the dragons he defeated, the stronger the energy this challenger received. In this way, when it came time to face the Golden King, an equitable duel persisted. If the challenger won, Elgoneth appeared to him and he would immediately become the New King. The deity would transform his physique into that of a Golden King, and this would give him the basis to create his Seven Supreme Dragons, and thus form a new Kingdom of Dragons. Only in this way, the law could be successfully completed. This was the Legend of Restitutio, and this was ruled in this way from the day of the creation of the Initial Golden King, by the Architect of Life.
The only ones allowed to know about the Legend of Restitutio were the Golden Kings. In theory, these were the only capable to know, since once, these had to enforced it. At some point in time, they had also been Challenger Dragons. They were living witnesses of this process.
Nevertheless, assuming this inevitable condition was a King’s charge, and a price to pay as one. These being the only experts of the Law; accepting the idea, that someday a dragon of his own kingdom would inevitably reveal himself and destroy the empire that they themselves had carefully built and consolidated over millennia.
The secret of the Law provided the opportunity for the revelation of a Challenger Dragon became a natural course, for Elgoneth feared that the disclosure of this could cause dragons with excessive ambitions to reach the divine throne. So, in reality, guarding this a secret was a fundamental commitment of the Golden King. It allowed him to step into a true renovation process.
The culture of the dragons was based on respect, admiration, and loyalty to the reign. The Golden King was considered a generous father, compassionate benefactor, and forerunner of the entire home that was created. Therefore, the dragon who had enough boldness to make the decision to challenge the kingdom and destroy it before his own peers, before his own King or father must come from a true mutant.
It was considered that, since the inescapable birth of this one, the transfiguration towards the New Kingdom began, and its confrontation was only a further manifestation of it. It was already written. And this Raēn must have an attitude and a posture superior enough to go against the stimuli, and rules within its environment. Only with these attributes, the desired transition could be achieved.
This Law, however violent it was, effectively endured for millennia. It was the only way these creatures had to evolve their race, and thus lay new reigns. It worked perfectly, and progress proliferated in the lands of these creatures. The evolution of the Dragon Kingdom was satisfactory, and the demigod was pleased with its creation. As new golden kings emerged, new and better kingdoms emerged as well.
Although this process had very positive results, the period in which it occurred was considered the wildest in the entire creation of Kepler. It was known among dragons as the Interval of Destruction; a divine task given to them when these were within its space.
It became a temporary state in which a whole generation of dragons was founded, and the transition from one reign to another occurred. It was the war that formed when the Legend of Restitutio was enforced. A stage of so much extermination and so much energetic interaction that Kepler's spacetime was distorted; Mother Nature was forced to isolated the space where the great battle took place, and in this designated scenario, time stopped. One rimerian day, represented one hundred Rimerian years.
Usually, the Destruction Interval happened over a period of one hundred to two hundred years, which represented one or two regular days. So, in this war, dragons were temporarily in a different dimension.
Life generated this temporal isolation in this way, because dragons were the main protectors of the world; the main protectors of the terrestrials, a special race for Elgoneth's purposes. They should not spend much time absent from the dragon surveillance.
“What do you think so far, kids?” exclaims the mother, stopping and pausing the reading.
“I love it mother!” exclaims one of the children.
“I don’t understand anything, mother!” says Timotheo. “But I really like Dragons, and I would love to have seen a battle between them and the Swamp Monsters!”
“What is that sound?” asks Erin.
Strange sounds rumbled in the place where they were. The walls vibrated, the vault trembled, and the children were frightening, for they had no idea what was happening. The woman didn't know it either, or at least, she was calm enough, for they weren't sounds to worry about.
“Calm down, kids” continues the woman, “as I have told you before, we are going to be here only for a while.” she ends in a confident and delicate voice.
“Although, we still have a good time” continued the woman. “I will continue telling the story, I already got excited! Now, where did we left? Ah, I see, the birth of the humans”
After almost two million Rimerian years, the dragon kingdom was greater than ever. It was constantly evolving and growing. New creatures had formed in the natural process of the world. A new lineage emerged in the land race: the little humans of the Lořn race. It was said that this lineage of humans was a descendant of the Nakluech species, creatures that resembled wolves, but these were much larger, walked upright, and were biologically immortal. They were also created by Elgoneth at the beginning of time, and although his kingdom was part of the four Defending Realms of the planet, his purposes were very different from those of dragons.
These were very fast, and very strong. They were mystical beings, and they had been located in the highest places of a set of icy mountains. In them, they formed a wonderful kingdom. However, one of these werewolves was banished for a betrayal of the Nakluech leader, in times of King Devloban. The name of the deserter, according to the fable, was Cora. The king expelled him from the mountains, and condemned him to mortality through a spell that he cast on him, and which eradicated him from all the assimilation of his race, forever.
Slowly, he wandered through the low forests of the region. The fur of his body fell, his shoulders and arms shrunk, and his face thinned until he was physically perpetuated as a new species: a human being. Welcoming the human race Lořn.
But Cora, was not completely left out of his magical gifts. In fact, he discovered that he could master minimal action with the energy of nature, controlling its environment, and allowing it to reach certain low levels of creation and manifestation. He achieved this by discovering that his feelings influenced his environment. All the natural and physical capacity learned before as a Nakluech had been loss, except for one thing, his heart. Life then was filled with curiosity about Cora, and she decided to create a being based on him, but in feminine form, which was called Ivis. And from these two, there was the genesis of a strange human race, or at least, that is how the Arichromatic Theory of Mortals was established, narrated by the wisest and oldest elves of the times.
Elgoneth then fell in love with humans and began to give them the ability to integrate more and more with the elements of life as generations passed, although very few developed this ability to an advanced level. These new humans began to perform agricultural functions with livestock, blacksmithing, fishing, farming and other activities. And with the discovery of bronze and steel, a relatively imperial era was forged, where the first small kingdoms emerged, in addition to the constant conquest of the people’s honor.
These humans, however, became egocentric and self-destructive beings. Each day that passed, they became more and more self-centered, and this broke into the beneficial destiny of the demigod for them. They had immeasurable potential, despite not being physically strong beings; but energetically, they were an amazing race. Life had allowed its creation to be beings of expression, and of divine recreation through their emotions, where they explored superior attributes such as love, beauty, creativity, inner peace, joy, and consciousness. They developed ideas with pure feelings, which positively affected their surroundings. They promoted a coevolution with life, allowing a miraculous and unforeseen outcome. Through them, diversification was possible.
However, the human being urged to create things primarily for himself. Most of them fell into the runoff of greed, power and pride; flooded by the desire of Passage, the bronze coin with which they exchanged goods and services. This uncontrolled desire resulted in a society that did not believe in equality, but in the pursuit of demonstrating which man had the most power. Which king had the wealthiest empire; which village had the best crops, even in the most diverse regions blessed in fruits and vegetation.
Everyone wanted to become the nation with the greatest dominance over its elements. For generations, humans were increasingly divided, instead of coming together around as one; as one universal cause. Instead of unifying all the talents they had, and form a large community of creative and loving beings, they created societies with distorted visions and principles; fighting each other to determine what rationality was the correct one.
It was obvious that human beings did not understand the real purpose of life, nor the purpose of Elgoneth's Divine Plans. And unfortunately, this lost attitude coexisted more and more in them, making more present, throughout their generations.
For these reasons, the need for a leader arose: a unique being of its kind, who could guide the entire terrestrial race, especially the lost human. This was to engender as a cosmic perfection, a natural perfection, but among the domains of humanity. Only in this way, a being would be achieved with the best of both worlds, the human side, and the Light side; from the nucleus of life, from heavenly intentions, from the greater consciousness. It needed to be a being with the ability to understand and master both axes of life in Kepler: the physical axis and the spiritual axis.
A being with the main ability to create and regenerate creation, with an energy that spells peace in the world. But also, the symbol of strength and hope, like a shield and a defender with the ability to master all the mystical elements; to use them and manage them in favor of their movement and leadership. Lifting humans, lifting lands. Unifying them into a great nation. Breaking down the walls, the divisions. Eliminating borders, eliminating inequalities. This chose one, needed to be the main connection between nature and terrestrials. The intermediary of both worlds. The representative of Elgoneth’s will, because life itself would be expressed through this leader to generate new superspecies. It was the only way to track their paths to the glory and premeditated exteriorization of the great project of life, for they were already preventing this by themselves. They generated danger to themselves. They were the greatest threat of their own kind, allowing their evolution to be influenced by disagreement, violence and disintegration.