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The Fall of Wrythanistan brought about many changes, but the most powerful began
when Dargotten left. H'roathryll tapped Wrythanistan to empower himself in a way
Dargotten had not foretold.
Wrythanistan was Chaos and Law even as Dargotten was, but his fall caused most of
the bindings of law to snap; thus, magic was almost all chaos, with a few simple
but powerful laws to rule it. H'roathyll took advantage of this nearly pure chaos,
and burrowed under the earth. He broke off ten of Faeterna's roots and changed them.
Faeterna was creation personified, and the shaping of Creation using the mix of
Chaos and Law that was Wrythanistan brought into being ten creatures he called Dragons.
Each was nearly the power of a god, a physical embodiment of magic and creation.
A pair of dragons could overwhelm a god, and Horathyll, now the Wyrm, desired
to be their lord.
Bewresha, as Keeper of the Balance, did the one thing she could do; she gave the
dragons free will. The Wyrm fled with five of his creations, and using the power
of entropy in a way that must not be, began warping creation--shaping things that
were not precisely alive, and others that did not precisely die.
The Grey Lady was enraged at the usurpation of her power over death, and so gave
a gift to those beings who would ultimately fight the Wyrm's minions: she gave
them the knowledge to seperate Entropy from themselves and others; thus they would
die only of wounds or actions, not of old age, and they would keep themselves from
being warped against their will into the Wyrm's creations.
The Wyrm turned to seduction, and a great mage went to him. The god and the dragons
subjected him to horrors beyond imagining, and twisted him such that what he had
been before no longer had meaning.
Bewresha felt the Weave move and sang its movements into a prophecy. She sent the
prophecy to the minds of the recipients of the Grey Lady's gift--the mages. The
Wyrm and his followers disappeared, and the mortals wrote down the Prophecy so as
not to forget, though forget they did, save for a few.
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