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The future was granted to the elves and their kin, to rise into an age of beauty and fruitfulness with the Guardian dragons keeping watch through the centuries.
The peace, however, came too late for the children of men. To the few remaining of their species, immortality and magic were granted. When a thousand years had passed, only two remained - the others having slowly disappeared over the years, never to be heard from again.
It was the Guardians who first realized that something was amiss. Reality itself was dwindling - it seemed, perhaps, that the age was at an end, but as the sky turned to fire and mysterious plagues swept across the land without symptoms or reason, they realized that this was no natural progression into a new era, but rather an imbalance that, if left unchecked, would leave nothing but desolation in its wake.
The Umlathan - Guardian of Beginnings and Endings, carried the remaining two humans on her back to the castle of Chatha - home of the elven royalty. There, the man and woman met the Princess Shavadreil and her Prince Tokidrias, and so story goes, all four were sacrificed in the Guardians' temple to become creatures never seen before. When Umlathan emerged cradling the four babes in her claws, the scorching sun was covered by dark clouds, and rain poured down to begin healing the cracked earth.
So the age of the elves, too, was at an end. The future belonged to those tiny creatures created in a bonding of immortality and dust - of magic and logic. And in the years to follow, they too came to rule their world, and create things beautiful and terrible in tribute to the Guardian Dragons - the story of their birth immortalized in stained glass.
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- Monday, November 18, 2002
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