Timeline

0000. Dainn creates Ternion divided between three continents - Esprite, Dur and Habile. He resides in a celestial fold of the Spirit World called Midgar to oversee his creation.

0001. The first three Humans - Adair, Ask and Embla - are created from Dainn's strength and goodness and placed on the northern coast of Dur. The first three Elves - Primfilia, Ymir and Audumbla - are created from Dainn's mentality and neutrality and placed on the western coast of Esprite. The first three Anthros - Aisha, Mathros and Gregoral - are created from Dainn's finesse and evil and placed on the eastern coast of Habile.

The Avatar of the raptor god Archmelech enters Ternion and communes with each race. Where he walks, forests grow.

The humans receive him with humility and gifts of that which they had gathered and he blesses them with the knowledge and a warning for them to seek shelter in the earth to escape the heat of the approaching summer.

Two of the Elves welcome Archmelech with indifference, while Primfilia seduces the avatar and he concedes. She bears a child, Quintus, whose nature magic can be recognized from birth. Ymir and Audumbla act in the ways they have observed and produce a child of their own, Búri. As Archmelech leaves them, he makes a promise to the Elves that "when the red moon glows I will take up a champion and walk with you again."

The Anthros meet him with suspicion and an ambush and Archmelech weeps to see that already evil has entered Dainn's world. He curses each of them with a fear of water and steals Gregoral away from the other two, placing him on the left island off the coast of Dur, where he teaches him how to be good and decent, planting the seeds of structure and family by rising up one of the wild cats who lived there, making it sentient like Gregoral. Aisha and Mathros run from the coast to live out their days in the forest Archmelech had made.

0002. Gregoral's mate gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl. Back in Habile, Mathros stands at the eastern edge of the forest and sees lights glowing across the cape. He and Aisha travel toward the lights and see a skeletal angel and are afraid. Having learned there lesson from the last celestial being they met, they offer it their assistance. He reveals himself as a Valkyrie and offers them a boon that should they bring to him one of the Elves that live on the continent across the ocean as a living sacrifice that he would grant them freedom from Archmelech's curse. Knowing their fear of drowning, the angel speaks into existence a shallow land bridge of coral between the two continents, connecting Habile and Esprite.

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