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To achieve that end, the Vlagh periodically enveloped itself in a woven cocoon in its dark nest in the center of the Wasteland, and when it eed from its cocoon, it was a creature of an entirely different aspect than it had been before Then it tested the capabilities of its new form to deter its strengths and weaknesses And then once again it enclosed itself in the cocoon, and when it eer there and the strengths had been enhanced

Thus, by experih altered and hly specific creature, and once it was satisfied, it reproduced that creature by the thousands so that it would have servants enough to achieve its ultioal

Then That-Called-the-Vlagh returned to its nest and began again, creating yet another form with yet another specific task

And so it is that all of the varied creatures which eh are not the creatures of the Doe combinations, part insect, part reptile, part warm-blooded animal, and each of these variations has specific tasks in its service to the Vlagh

The one and only characteristic the creatures of the Wasteland share is an obsessive need to expand the Doh until the entirety of the Land of Dhrall lies in its grasp

And the Vlagh sent forth many of its creatures to intrude theods of Dhrall, and carried those intruders back to the Vlagh everything which they had observed And the Vlagh considered each tiny nibble of truth which its servants brought to it, and after eons uncounted, it perceived a flahich it could exploit during the transfer of power and authority froods unto the next

For truly, the elder gods greeary and forgetful as they longed for sleep; and the younger gods were yet only half awake

And the spirit of the Vlagh was filled with anticipation at this revelation And laid it then its plans and marshaled its servants in preparation for a hereby it could surely destroy the true gods of Dhrall And there in the Wasteland it dreamed of the day when its nest could expand into the ions of the Land of Dhrall, where there would be er be restrained by the lack of food And then the Vlagh drea for the day when the entirety of the world englobed would be its nest, and its children would grow to nus would be their food

Then and only then would the Vlagh be content

Now, Mother Sea and Father Earth paid scant heed to the antics of any gods of any lands, and neither did they rest, for to the the life of the creatures of earth and sea, and woe to him, huentle though they may appear, Mother Sea and Father Earth have disasters beyond i at their disposal, should they appear necessary for the continuation of life