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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 3603586" data-attributes="member: 4936">As the dust entered the shadow of the planet, Whisper burst free of the place that had been her shelter...her prison. She spread over the world like a blanket, exulting. She saw the newer gods, playing with their newer toys...and saw potential. She heard the words of her elder, the Emptiness, and heard opportunity.Hash'Mileak felt a chill around him, as shadow thickened and a pair of eyes emerged, burning out of a half-seen, half-glimpsed figure wreathed in eye-teasing darkness.You are fond of these new beings, who's lives you can end. They are not like the first; the creations of the Empyreal, who live and live and only grow stronger. You have given them mighty gifts of fire and power, but I tell you now that such gifts are squandered on them right now...for they lack the qualities to USE them. Ambition. A drive to know and to learn. To BUILD. You cannot give them these things, but there is one who can. When this sphere turns and the fires at the center of Creation burn in the sky, call to the Empyreal and ask Him to light his fire in their hearts... They will gain his drive to create and to learn. They will prosper and grow strong.Meanwhile, a voice came to one of the dragons, a young one not far from the egg.Look at the nest, fledgeling. Look at all the eggs that will be your siblings. Your mother is great and mighty...but will her love be divided between all of these? There will be more for you if you take one of these eggs when no one watches...take it and move it far away. No, do not murder it...but take it where the heat will still hatch it. To the desert. Bury it in the sand in a place only you know, and tell no one. Tell no one. You will not be guilty of any crime, and you will reap the rewards...To the Emptiness, which she reached by stretching out in the vast cone of shadow in the planet's wake, she said:You depend too much on the Empyreal. What you need, you can do yourself...with my aid. I will give to you one dragon, to shape and fill as you see fit. What I ask in return is to touch the heart of the mother dragon where she lies in her nest, asleep and graven with eggs. Reach out to her in the night when the Nexus' eye is closed to you...and place there a seed of emptiness, such that she will know desire for things of value, and pass this to her children and their children, for all time. Give her greed, o' Void...a gift that the Empyreal could never impart. Make her -covet- that which she does not have, and use her power to get them. Do this, and I will raise from the desert sands a secret dragon that you may call your own.</blockquote>

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