This breed’s ability to exercise their freedom transcended mortality. When they die and pass through Ellanher's keeping, they retain awareness for long enough to decide whether they may now return to the earth in peace or require another lifetime.
Because they had this unforeseen capability that did not need to be regulated by a higher power, Amalasuntha and the other deities left the third breed of humans to be as they were, with their chosen god holding loose dominion over them.
The ages passed, and they were largely marked by Ellanher's existence, which was as a pendulum. His people's inherent malleability had allowed them to force open the gates of progress. What their forebears began, they adapted and built upon. Civilizations flourished, cities rose. But as the components of these
