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Preface

The Land of Dhrall, if we are to believe the soion, has existed in its present location since the beginning of time Father Earth is unstable, and other continents , ever wandering, in search of new places in which to abide, but the Land of Dhrall, we are told, was firods of Dhrall, and it shall remain ever so until the end of the world

Now, from whence this world caends of Dhrallof it was a task so enorh they be, ofttimes wearied of their labor

Now, there were younger gods abroad in the land at this tireat was their pity for their exhausted elders, and they urged their kin to rest while they therateful beyond h unto death And so they slept while creation continued uninterrupted in the hands of the younger gods

So it was that the elder gods slept for twenty-five eons and then they awoke, refreshed and ready to resuer counterparts ell ready to relinquish the task and go to their rest

And mountains rose up from out of the earth and orn down by weather and tiht forth life in many forms, and some of the creatures of Mother Sea ca place And time and place altered them there upon the face of Father Earth, and ed, and older forroped for fulfillment

Now, the gods of the Land of Dhrall chose not to interfere in the growth and development of the creatures of their Domains, for they wisely concluded that the creatures should follow their own course in response to the world around them For truly, the world is in a constant state of flux, and a creature suitable for one era ods had coe must be a response to the world rather than some divine preconception

And constant time continued her stately march toward an end that none could know, and the cycles of labor and rest aods continued even as Mother Sea and Father Earth watched but said nothing

Now, the gods of the land of Dhrall have divided the land, and each, younger or elder, holds dominion over a certain portion of the land There remains, however, a vast Wasteland in the center that is not part of any of the four Domains, be they East or West, North or South, for the Wasteland of Dhrall is barren and without beauty There is life there, however, but the life-forms of the Wasteland are unlike those of the rest of the Land of Dhrall The legends of Dhrall maintain that the life-forh

The legends of Dhrall are uncertain as to the origins of the Vlagh Soht their first long sleep Other legends contend that the Vlagh is vastly older than the gods, whose foring insects and veno since vanished froends of Dhrall agree on one point, however That-Called-the-Vlagh was too iive the creatures which served it sufficient time to follow the slow, natural process of developods of Dhrall, but rather it chose to ht better serve it

And it careater value if they were not all the saned for one task and one only would be far eneralized creature