Scroll of Avigard

Unable to watch over the vast tree on it's own, the Great Serpent splits itself into two forms: The Serpent of the Roots and the Serpent of the Leaves.   Both serpents take on aspects of the Great Serpent, but lose their contrasting parts. The Serpent Above composed of Light, Fire, and Air. The Serpent Below composed of Darkness, Earth, and Water.

With the Serpent of the Leaves and the Serpent of the Root pursuing eternal vigilance in their domains, the Serpent of the Trunk was left to it's own devices. In this freedom, the Serpent of the Trunk would set forth to create the Cradle of Life.   It molded the centerpoint of the tree into a convergence of the tree's elemental veins of fire, water, earth, and wind, channeled through the wood of the tree itself. This elemental soup would not be enough however, so it stole a shed scale from the Serpent Below to create the underbelly of the cradle of life, and a second shed scale from the Serpent Above to create the surface of the cradle of life.   This was the beginning of Avigard.

Granted light and warmth from the presence of the sun above, the Speldborn eventually return to the World Serpent with pleas of respite from the eternal light. Something that was discomforting to their process of sleeping.   In response, the World Serpent dove below to the Roots of the world tree. Collecting a shed scale from the Serpent of the Roots and returning to the Cradle, it used this scale in combination with a wooden scale of it's own to forge the second Celestial Dragon. However, the chaotic nature of the scale caused it to splinter through the process. Resulting in the creation of the Twin Celestial Dragons, Aranotl and Kalanoks, the two which would become the moons of the cradle.

As the World Serpent herded the Speldborn to prosperity, the Serpent of the Roots became keenly aware of the Cradle of Life through the Celestial Twin Dragons.   As the first of it's schemes it would collect the shedding scales that fell off the World Serpent. Using them in conjunction with it's own scales and breath to create a number of uniquely powerful beings. The most succesful among these creatures were the Klarath.

The Celestial Dragons offered great powers and boons to those who would follow them, rewarding legendary fighters and warriors alike. The Klarath united against the Celestial Dragons. A war waged on land and sea, Klarath mutating their human subjects into terrible objects of war, while the Celestial Dragons refined the speldborn into perfect desired forms that would increase the efficacy of their battle against the Klarath.   The Klarath quickly called it the 'Contest of Tyranny', humored in the fact that the dragons would subject the speldborn to the same way of life they had forced on those they influenced. To the Celestial Dragons, it would be known as the 'Cleansing', a rightful purging of the terrible influence that sought to ruin what was beautiful.

The Avi emerge from their first hibernation and march upon the land after thousands of years. Forced to slumber in order to avoid the violence of the celestial conflict of the last age, they resurfaced with renewed vigor and set to shifting the land like they did in times long past before humanoids walked Avigard.