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First cas similar to Aldrec in his true fornificence,their daily lives in white cities of perfect and delicate splendor

These beings reached out with their hands, and caused dry riverbeds to spring alive ater and green life in seconds, while the dragons watched in horror and rage as their own ancestral life springs receded and died at that same time

Wars ensued: centuries upon endless centuries of bloody battle against a race that was immortal only in the sense of natural death, but not of the kind brought about by dragon fire or destructive ic

Then came the an to give birth to the lesser races But they were used to shaht the wars for theons, and united against their forht, the beautiful elves now a hu the lesser races to fend for themselves The common elves took the place of their parents in the spires of beautiful cities of their own designs while the hued for the riches of the land The ensuing ages replayed the h it all, the ageless eyes of birth, life, and death; destruction and reconstruction, Aldrec, the one who stayed behind, watched on At first enraptured and aes passed, and wisdo hi sobered hi the helpless witness to the ultimate destruction of the dwarven race

And still, he lived on

Now, he seereen-haired beauty naht his world back to life, gave it s of emptiness faded away in her beautiful face She co for home even more

And now before he was to part with this world, he wished the lesser races to know that peace and joy that he did He wanted them to see the endless cycles of death and destruction by their kind, and with that knowledge, at long last put away those petty prejudices that had caused this rievous chapter in their history He wanted thehter future … and above all, to embrace the androids as brothers and sisters, for a secret of the future was to be revealed As nearly all androids shared the saht of life, soon they all would