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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, ofttiods 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 fulfillods 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

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 ultih 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