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Long ago Zylx was created bit by bit by a god called Kraah Shohk. He made the sky, the water, rocks and plants. He also made elves. The elves followed Kraah Shohk very loyaly at first, but with each generation their obedience grew weaker. After a couple of centries, they forsooke him completely. In his pain, Kraah Shohk created many malevolent beasts. Finally, he created twelve other gods who he could share his immortal life with. Kraah Shohk and the holy twelve left Zylx to live in a rainbow paradise, the Gods' Spring, high above the mortal's petty world.
Five mortals were blessed by Kurok with the power of an elemental pillar. Two of the five, Bidan the wolf and Dokkdan the vampire, ultimately became corrupt and were dismissed. Two more, Shidan the minotaur and Lybridan the vampire, were chosen to take their places.
Zylx was, for many centries, ruled exclusively by elves. Vampires, who were originally sired by Death, lived in the wilds of Zylx. They attacked all elves they saw, killing many. The elven king, seeking to end the countless murders of his people, offered the vampirian leader equal control over the kingdom. The vampire accepted and vampires and elves became equals. Zylx prospered and the vampires were no longer savage creatures that ambushed travelers on dark nights.
But all was not well. A couple generations passed in peace and then ideas began to stir amoung the elven population. They began to believe that vampires were beasts far below them. They were ashamed to share a kingdom with such animals. These thoughts devoured the elven community, spreading like a disease until even their king, the great grandson of the man who'd offered the vampires equality, believed that vampires had no place in such a kingdom as theirs.
He hired a mercenary to get rid of the vampires.The mercenary was a centaur who, like all centaurs, lived in the dense forests. Centaurs had, in recent years, been very destructive, burning down villages and killing merchants. The king promised the mercenary that centaurs could take the vampires' place as the elves' equals. With this promise, the mercenary went out and, with his band of loyal murderers, he ambushed vampirian cities and burned them to the ground. In one night, he killed nearly all the vampires. Those that didn't die were driven into the barren Koa Kurok desert and left to die there.
Peace did not last even amoung the gods, however. With each generation of gods, hate towards mortals lessened. This caused discord and conflict between the old gods who believed mortals must be punished and new gods who believed mortals must be forgiven. The new gods were cast out onto Zylx by the old gods who thought this would make them change their ways. The new gods did not change, though. Instead, they used their divine powers to help the mortals they could.
Furious, the old gods went to war with the new gods. Many died on either side, including the creator Kraah Shohk. Kraah Shohk's son, Kurok, stood up after his father's death and took control of the batlle. It was by his hand the war was won for the old gods.
Kurok did not want to see such pain as that battle again so he gave godlike powers to a mortal. The mortal was a unicorn who had saved his life in the battle. This unicorn, Bregdan, became the first High Guardian, trusted with all the power of the light pillar.
The king of elves was very pleased by this. He praised and congradulated the mercenary. The centaur, disgusted by this worm of a creature, killed the elven king and sent his men to do the same to all the elves save those living in the large city of Ti Tunfa. These elves were spared as a token of sick gratitude towards the dead king for giving the mercenary this chance to rise to power.
The centaurs were the undisputed rulers of Zylx from then on. Elves stayed more or less within the confines of Ti Tunfa, carefully avoiding their equine rulers. The vampires broke off and divided into different villages distinguished by shapes they tattooed upon themselves. With the vampirian villages constantly at war with each other and the elves unable to rebel, the centaurs had no reason to fear a fall from power.
But it is the tendancy of all kings to be paranoid. They did not dwell however on the elves. Elves were no threat. They were harmless creatures, weak and never very good with magic. Instead the centaurian kings focused on the state of the Koa Kurok. There were spies every where in the desert, listening. When underground societies formed with the interest of uniting the Vampirian race and taking back power, the centaurian monarchs learned of it and put an end to it immediately with genocidal raids of the desert.
Life was grim for vampires and they learned to accept it that way. They lived best as they could in that barren landscape of sand, in constant fear of an assult from the north. It was a sorrowful existance, but it was the best they could do. There were always dreamers, though, who hoped to make their peoples lives something better. But, innevitably, these ideas only brought the children of Cykkus more pain...
