The Stars begin to fall from the sky and shatter on the ground. Quick! Catch them! Surely something terrible will happen if they all break. -- Deathshead419
The Great Golden Dragon and the Great Silver Dragon were going to have a clutch, so they gathered together the firmament into solid shapes to make the perfect world for their children. It would have mountains and oceans, and plenty for all the dragons to eat. Caves and caverns for the ones who wanted to lurk in them. Changing land masses for the ones who wanted to explore. Stocks of creatures and beasts that would periodically become enormous enough to be a good meal. Giant monsters to battle and, perhaps, also consume.
And to inspire the ones inclined to poetry, they needed a wondrous sky.
The Great Silver Dragon joined her hand with the Great Golden Dragon, and reached into the Plane of Magic, and sowed the night with uncounted stars, so that the children could look up and feel wonder.
They took more than the sky could hold, and as they settled on to the world they made, some of those stars fell from their place. The Great Silver Dragon had begun to lay her clutch, to the Great Golden Dragon was left to try and catch them on his own.
Even the Great Gold Dragon could not do everything on his own.
Each star he missed came down to the new soil, and smashed into a million pieces. Each of those pieces sprang up and became an Elf. A creature from the Plane of Magic, who was never meant to dwell in the world.
Once they were there... they did what Elves always do. They made everything around them into a thing to please themselves. They shaped the trees, they shaped the stones, they shaped the plants and the earth and the animals to be abundant for their purposes.
And they dared to challenge the Dragons themselves to own the world made for them.
The Great Golden Dragon might have fought them off, but the world needed a sun, and he was the only magic left to make it. The Great Silver Dragon could have destroyed her, but after her clutch hatched, there was little enough left of her to make the moon.
The children were on their own against the Elves.
And thus the birth of the world came with a war.
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