Seven Dragon deities there were in the begining, who created all, and ruled all of Ryunarasu. They were children of an unknown source, but had come to settle in the desolate void of another dimension. For what reason, not even the wisest priest can determine. There was nothing in that world when the Deities, the Zhulna, had arrived.

 

Then, mightest of the Zhulna, Salm, stepped forth, and using his own breath, he made the Wind of Life, a perpetually blowing orb of silver air. From this appeared Existence. Thus, the begining of life itself. Sakata, second most powerful, conjured flames. Releasing it into the air, the fire spread throughout Existence and made Time. Anyone who caught a trailing Flame of Time would be granted the gift of time travel, the ability to walk back and forth through the ages.

 

When the deeds had been done, Sagufai, the Stone King and Father of Trees, and Sveit, the River Queen made lands further than the eye could see, formed in numerous contortions and in unique layouts. Earth and Water had been created. Sirwe was the Night, therefore the Mistress of Stars, younger sister to Salm, and Sirwa, was the Day, Master of the Sun, and younger brother to Sakata. Sirwe is mournful and troubled, which doubles her role as Sorrow, and the Night. Sirwa is joyful and positive, Happiness. Finally, Sach, the lone goddess of sound, let her voice into the air, and noises were heard.

 

Thus, the world had been created, and now it was time to populate it.

 

Dragons were the first to rise out of the Breath of Life, for they were the first creatures to come to the mind of Salm. They became dominant, and awesomely powerful. Mortal Men came second, born from Sakata, followed by the lesser and stupid creatures of the world. Men were feeble, but were given the light of Sirwa, and were eventually guided to intellegence. 

 

But little tells of how Ryunarasu came to be. A slightly tragic story, but it explains the true origination of Ryunarasu. About how seven deities... dropped to five deities.

 

After the creation of Existence, and of the birth of Dragons, Salm was weary, and had prepared to lay on the earth in hopes of dying into Mortality from too much toil. His soul had nearly been half spent in his work, and no longer saw the purpose of living through time as a wasted being.

 

He prepared to pass his powers on not to Sakata, who at the time was not known as second mightiest, but to Sagufai, her older brother. Sagufai had promised everlasting life to all Salm had created, with his own sister at his side, for he had adored Sakata for her firey presence, and thought it useful and convenient if she should help him.

 

But Sakata had never adored Sagufai. She loved Salm as a father, as a brother, and as a man. She refused to let the Wind Lord give up on life itself. She told him that she would fill the void of his half life, if he were to rise again and continue to live his life as a Zhulna, for she would mourn to only gaze upon him as a mortal, even if the mortals were beings that of her creation.

 

Salm painfully ignored her embrace, and let himself die into mortality, leaving his body behind for his soul to take form of another. Sakata wailed and cried for his loss, as Sagufai was in glory, finally recognized as the mightiest Zhulna. But when he had tried for Sakata's love, she rejected him and fought back. In the skirmish between brother and sister, Sakata was finally proven to be the true strongest Zhulna, for she had mercilessly and easily defeated Sagufai with a wheel of fire to his face.

 

Taking the power Salm had given to the Stone King, Sakata passed it not to herself, but to the lesser Zhulna. The deities of Sun and Moon, Sirwe and Sirwa, whom were younger siblings under Salm and Sakata, became the higher authorities.

 

Then, she unsheathed Sagufai's own dagger from his scabbard, lit with his deadly poison. Laying herself beside what remained of Salm, she plunged the dagger into her own broken heart, literally killing herself into mortality in search of the loved one she had lost.

 

Finally, after years of searching and trial, the Wind Lord and Fire Lady were united in an unbroken peace for one another. And in his embrace, Sakata bore Salm his children. They were twins, one male, and the other female. And because Salm was father of Dragons, Sakata mother of Mortals, the children were the same; dragon mortals. At one moment, they were dragons, swift, charcoal black, winged, and powerful. But then at the other, they were Mortal humans. Tall like a Zhulna, black haired like Salm, and fair skinned like Sakata. But Sagufai's poison, green and hating, lurked in the wounds of Sakata, and the eyes of the children were green, now with a hating taste for those who displeased them.

 

These were the first Ryunarasu. 

 

For the first hundred years, the Ryunarasu family was small, and pure of blood. They maintained their form as dragons, and lived off the meat and bones of stranded animals and humans. But they could not live this routine forever. Soon, they began to starve, and became very desperate. They assaulted the tribes of Men, devouring at least one third of each of their cities. This reign of terror lasted for approximately fifty years.

 

Until finally, a Mortal stepped out from the wrecks of village. The Ryunarasu know not of what his true name was, but they call him 'Jhing-kalastav', 'Eye-plucker' for he had driven his foul mortal spear into the eye of Tsebema, one of the greatest and earliest Kings of Ryunarasu. But Tsebema needed not his eye to kill. He swallowed Jhing-kalastav whole. Yet by doing this foolish act, the Mortal plunged his spear directly through Tsebema's belly.

 

Tsebema was slewn, and the Ryunarasu held his ceremony in the Mourning Year the following winter. But what made the Dragon Eye the emblem of Ryunarasu was Jhing-kalastav's fate. He had fled back to his village, and made war to the Ryunarasu. This battle came to be known as The War of the Eye.

 

In this battle, the Ryunarasu proved their superiority to Mortals by slaughtering their population so swiftly, and so harshly, that the Mortals were forced to move to the other side of the continent, across the dividing sea.

 

The Eye is a mark of power and superiority. Thus, it makes the perfect emblem for a powerful and superior clan. This was the end of the First Turn of Time. In the following Turn came great progression in the Clan's technological aides.

 

Sagufai had made sure that the lives of the Ryunarasu were the most toilsome and difficult lives ever lived. He sent earthquakes and droughts for several hundred years, forcing the Ryunarasu to become dragons for the centuries in order to survive. The Earth was still furious after Sakata's highly assertive depearture. With a poisoned heart and mind, he ruled under his younger brother, Sirwa the Sun and his partner, Sirwe the Night. But whatever his new lord and lady tried, none could persuade Sagufai to be still in peace.

 

Then, Sveit the River Queen came to him in his sleep. Since Salm's leavetaking, all Zhulna had considered her as the wise parent, now. Her plan was to consult and counsel him as he rested, so that perhaps wise ideas would reach his mind easier. However, as she looked upon him in the light of sorrow and in the darkness of fate, she felt her heart become one with his, and fell in love. For eleven nights she did this, and the people of the mortal world began to notice the strangest patterns in the water and earth.

 

Finally, on the twelveth night, she did not speak to him through talk, but through song. She sang to him all through the night, and when Sirwa had taken Sirwe's shift, Sagufai awoke with Sveit gone, but with a new sense of peace in his own heart. In addition, he also found the River Stone, a deep blue gem that represented Sveit's heart.

 

Sagufai encountered Sveit in her chambers. He questioned her of her recent activities during the night, but she merely told him that she had been resting for the last many months. When she was sure that he was satisfied with his answer, Sagufai showed her the River Stone he found in his quarters. He told her that her actions were mysterious yet brave and worthy of any Zhulna.

 

He also realized (and proclaimed) that he could easily learn to love her in short time. He had been healed in heart, and she was the cause of it all.

 

After that moment on, earth and water were partner elements, and Sagufai and Sveit were mates. The Ryunarasu were spared, and continued to prosper into a more powerful clan... and a sinfull one at that.

 

Sagufai's poison had caused the children to have a lust for blood and power. Salm and Sakata had finally died from age before they could do anything to stop them. It was evident that Sagufai's poison could not be released unto any other being of any sort. So, the children were impelled to resort to each other for survival.

 

It was then that the law of perpetual intermarriage was formed.

 

For thousands of years, the Ryunarasu blood remained pure, and grew ever stronger over time. Sage Ryunarasu had finally snatched a Flame of Time, one of the wandering fireballs that gave the gift of time and world travel. This greatly increased the Ryunarsu power as they used the Flame to plunder other worlds.

 

 

In the later years, it was said that Salm's spirit had returned in Onikunshu, a promising youth of Ryunarasu. Onikunshu was an Elite Assasin, and a High Healer, thus a worthy heir to the supreme throne under his father, Yagame Ryunarasu. Yagame then sent his son off into another world for a final important task to prove his true desrving worth to the throne.

 

It is also said that during the same time, Sakata was in the heart of Narcisuss, a simple, middle-class girl that lived in the world Onikunshu had to visit. Destiny had struck them, and they had fallen in love.

 

But this was definitely a forbidden defiance of Ryunarasu's greatest law. So, Onikunshu took himeself and his lover into hiding for several years. During that time, Narcisuss became concieved with his child.

 

Though he was glad for his new daughter, guilt had broken Onikunshu's pride. Unwillingly and heartbroken, he abandoned Narcisuss upon the steps of a stranger's mansion, inwardly fearing her fate. And he took his daughter with him, back into his own world, telling his father that he was successful in his mission.

 

Onikunshu never saw Narcisuss again, and never heard of her again in his life. But he had thought of her everyday. He secretly wished for her back. This, in the very back of The Book of Gold, was known as 'The Love That Never Was'.

 

The young child that had Narcisuss' blood grew into a woman, and her appearance was strange among her thousand siblings.  For the final turns of time, and for the final downfall of the clan, she was sent out into the same world for the same mission, requested by Onikunshu. Little did he know what a mistake he had made.

 

Naurglahad was Onikunshu's first and only child. She was an elite assassin by sixteen, and for the first time she had been thrown into another world without warning. Her adventures there are not recorded in the Book of Gold.

 

At the age of nineteen, she was worthy for the throne. This time, she was put into the world with full knowledge and preperation. But there, she had fallen in love with another, and Onikunshu could not save her. She wed out of species, to a man with blonde hair and cerulean eyes, a complete contrast to her family appearance.

 

And one by one, under the influence of Naurglahad, the Ryunarasu came out of Darkness, and passed into the light, were all tradition were destroyed and forgotten. That was the gradual and eventual defeat of Ryunarasu.