WRATH OF FATE

                                PROLOGUE




    NINE MILLION YEARS BEFORE THE BIRTH OF THE HUMAN SAVIOR THERE WAS THE WILL OF THE EARTH. SHE GUIDED US AND SENT US WHERE WE NEEDED TO GO. WE NONHUMANS WERE SPAT ON AND THOUGHT OF AS DEMONS BECAUSE WE WERE OF THE EARTH. THIS WAS OUR TIME, BUT OUR TIME WAS COMING TO A STEADY END.
    THE HUMANS KNEW THEY WERE WEAKER THAN THE REST OF US AND THAT WAS WHY WE WERE FEARED. I AM OF A RARE RACE KNOWN AS CYLAK. WE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF DRAGON AND EARTH SPIRIT. IT WAS OUR BIRTH RITE TO BRING ALL RACES TOGETHER SO THAT THE EARTH DOES NOT SLIP INTO ILLHARMONY. OUR GOD, THE DRAGON KING NEIRROTH, TOLD US TO USE OUR POWER FOR THE GREATER GOOD. WE WERE LIVING PROOF THAT A TRUE HARMONY BETWEEN THE MORTAL RACE AND THE EARTH SPIRIT CAN BE FOUND.
    HOWEVER, THINGS DID NOT GO AS PLANNED. THE FACELESS DEITY WAS YOUNG AND WANTED TO BE TREATED AS EQUAL TO ALL OTHERS. EQUAL WITHOUT EXPERIENCE OR PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE. HE PLACED HIS CREATIONS INTO THE LIFE SPRING BEFORE THEIR TIME. CREATED FROM SOIL,
WATER, AND SPIRIT THESE CREATIONS HAVE ROUGHT HAVOC AMONG THE DIVINE RACES OF NATURE. THIS CREATION IS KNOWN AS MAN KIND, HUMANS.
    THE MAN RACE BEGAN TO DESTROY MY BRETHERN. WE WERE NEARLY WIPED OUT OF EXISTANCE BECAUSE WE DID NOT KNOW OF MALICE OR HATE. WE DID NOT KNOW HOW TO DEFEND OURSELVES FROM SUCH ATTACKS, BUT WE LEARNED.
    THERE WERE TWELVE OF US LEFT IN THE WORLD UNTIL MY BIRTH. I AM THE THIRTEENTH, THE UNKNOWN FACTOR IN THE SCHEME OF REALITY.  THOSE OF US WHO ARE LEFT HAVE DIVIDED INTO TWO FACTIONS. THE KOTH, MY CLAN, ARE DEDICATED TO STOPPING THE OPPOSING CYLACK. THE OPPOSITION IS CLAN DECYTI, A CLAN DEDICATED TO DESTROYING THE HUMAN SPECIES. IT IS MY DUTY TO BRING PEACE TO THE OTHERS; NOT JUST THE CYLACK BUT ALL DIVINE RACES. THIS INCLUDES THE HUMAN MAN RACE.
    I HAVE WALKED THE EARTH FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS LEARNING AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW I WAS TO ACCOMPLISH MY GOAL. I THINK I HAVE FOUND MY ANSWER IN TWO ELVEN WOMAN. THEY ARE AN UNLIKELY PAIR BUT THEY HOLD THE KEYS NEEDED TO END THIS CYLACK WAR. ALL OF MY HOPE LIES WITH THEM. PERHAPS THE GODS WILL BE WITH ME.