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The world was being driven by the gods, a brutal pace of change and developement to not only secure their own power from each other but to one day stand against Death who would come for his harvest of life. He had defeated them all once before but then he had been born admist them all, in the middle of their empires. It was up to them to prepair for his second comming in anyway they saw fit. It seemed though that the gods had very differant ideas on how to do this, the fire god seemed intent on conquest and war with his brother Zaroth. Such was to be expected as fire and water were always opposites in everything. Zaroth seemed to want to secure land and build a mighty civilisation, the air goddess seemed to want a serene and beautiful people. Wyldeheart just wanted life.

The Air goddess Wyvaria came to her people once more and created her flying Varosh who had once been destroyed, they now prospered in the mountains again but life in the mountains was always hard. Even if it was easier now with the trade from Wyldeheart it still did not show kindess or pity to the weak. However as their goddess commanded they obeyed and they set to work on building and improving their people, no longer content to simply just be.

They carved great stone temples in the mountain that rose amidst the peaks, before they set to crafting a better life for themselves. They traded for wool to make strong clothes to protect from the winter winds and dyes to make them pleasing for their goddess, before they set about crafting various things for themselves. Mainly they focsed on archery for the idea of weapons didnt appeal to them greatly, it seemed simple and barbaric. However bows they could work with for they required great skill and soon many of them were accomplished archers, forming groups of flying Varosh and men who sought to out do each other with acrobatic feats in the air while performing shots. This made them excellent hunters, they did not suffer for food and the people grew stronger and healther with more meat to feed them. They became a truly angellic race.

For the messenger she sent the air creature crashed down on the far east coast, or would of if it wasnt made of air. Instead it fell and landed gracefully by the eastern coast of the continent, settling itself with grace. It wasnt far from various indigenous tribes that lived around here but what mission she had given it remained to be seen.

As for Wyldeheart, he tried to do as much as possible as often. Shaping his people into something more than human bit by bit but their changes were small compaired to the work he did on the Elemen, the golem like people who lived underground in the forests of his lands. Before they had been quite content to live in their caves crafting and trading with the humans for more things to improve and work on but at their gods behest they began to dig and dig hard. They soon realised that the majority of land was beneath the surface and they began to dig a net work of tunnels under their forests. A huge underground cavern system that went no where in particular but if it was ever seen properly by human eyes would be considered the most wonderous natural beauty in all of creation. Glistening caves adorned with gems and minerals, strange colours that would not been seen in sunlight but existed all the same. Unusual cave dwelling creatures too, however the soon encountered water too. Large underground lakes which the Elemen people were strangely facinated with even going so far as to errect a small shrine to the water god who they belived help shape the underground too with his rivers.

They also dug a tunnel to the ocean on their gods request and came out near a Naga settlement, at first the Naga reacted with hostility at the invaders. Hurling spears and damaging one elemen as they chipped its head but the slow golems were monumentally slower under water and it soon became quite apparently they were not threatening. They accepted trade with the elemen and went as far as to explore up their tunnels, soon the net work not only had Elemen living in it but also Naga who had gone in to dwell in the lakes. Living side by side almost, the Naga seemed quite content to explore both worlds. They traded with for weapons and shinny things they could not get in the ocean, strange wonders such as animal bone were new to the Naga who had never seen such things. Not to mention wood, a strange substance that kept trying to rise up to the surface. Something that quickly became toy like to the serpent people. The entrance to each side was guarded though and controlled by heavy boulders to stop the underground flooding completely. Elemen on one side and Naga on the other.

But on the surface things did not go quite so to plan, the dinosaurs resisted most attempts to tame them and the carnivores seemed impossible to control. They had limited success with the herbivores but that was it, not all of the Wyldes creations were as cooperative as the beasts. Not to mention the boats either side crafted were still in the early stages, neither one had learnt to make anything more than simple wooden cannoes. Only Zaroths people had learn to make slightly more but even then they were not fit for anything more than small coastal waters, not deep ocean. Not to mention the people struggled to grasp some of the newer concepts, much of Wyldehearts time became teaching them all that he planned and the people were slow to learn. Silk being weaved into robe was one thing but fabric too much time and his people hadnt yet mastered how to make solid fabrics for it.

Nor did they take to building machines well either, it seemed the Wylder's had little affinity for making such things and instead prefered to hunt. Only the elemen really excellened in making mills but simply wooden constructs powered by water or hand were their limit so far. They did however show a great aptitude for connecting with items, the Wylder people soon grasped the idea of crystal balls and all manner of enchanted works. Natures connecting to all things had influenced them greatly and they too could connect with many normally considered "mundane" objects. The Wylde forests soon became known not just for their beautiful crafts but the strange properties some fo these possessed.

The spires though were perhaps too much for the so recently recovered Earth god, it streached his power too thin and instead only one could be creafted and it towered at only fifty feet instead. Still it was a marvel for its time, generating such awe in people although they had little use for it yet. Sailing hadnt yet progessed much.

Power of the Wylde was drained drastically once more, nearly crippling himself with the effort however it was kept afloat by the worship he made. Belief did however rush to Zaroth too, enchancing from from not only the Naga but the elemens minior worship and the earth gods people. It seemed the water god was rising up fast and now was a force to be reckoned with, able to shape the land with divine will. Water and fire neck and neck once more.

As for Wyldehearts investigation into the Death god, little was found before he had to return to his people and continue his efforts to educate them. Save for one thing, a smouldering hole in the ground that had half collapsed and left a scar on the earth. Something had gone down into the darkness.