(An iris before the 'death' of Dorrad Chaos.)
How would you win a war if you had access to the clasp of time, if you could turn around and go backwards in time. How do you win when you can simply turn around at the end of a lost war to try again? It's actually incredibly simple, all you have to do is wait to start the war until you know for certain that you have won it. Dorrad Chaos was at the steer of the greatest war Dorrad Den would ever see and he knew exactly how to win it.
Here in Original Den, the city that lay directly under Sun, Dorrad Chaos awaits the moment he has greatly anticipated. Chaos boasts a stature almost as big as the city's pyramid, black as the night sky with white spots dotted all around his scales. When Sun made Chaos he used the old night sky as inspiration and so in the scales of Dorrad Chaos you can see constellations that used to sit in the sky back before the gods went into death. Chaos sits wrapped around the golden pyramidion looking down on his city, Original Den, where those that dream and denizens alike walk along the sandy roads basking in the avalanche of gifts the city offers.
Cake and chicken freely appear on the shelves of shops. Everyone drinks, everyone eats and no one gets tired just as the Den was intended for. The Sun finally begins to move east towards the garden, the time had come. A spark falls from Sun and Chaos catches it, placing the spark in his mouth, swallowing it. The outer layer of Chaos' skin begins to molt off and out from inside what once was Dorrad Chaos come five smaller chimeras. Ego, Fear, Shade, Pain and Famine.
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"Go out and make a world ruled by the Dorrad and Sun." Ego says, the second smallest out of the group.
Immediately Pain, the largest of all the Dorrad, takes off and flies eastward with the sun.
"I won't do it." Shade whines, the smallest Dorrad "We should not terrorize the people of the Den if we want them to see the truth."
"Fear." Ego commands
Fear, the second largest Dorrad, grabs Shade in the mouth like a mother cat carrying her young and flies off with Pain.
"May I eat them now?" Famine asks looking down on the citizens of Original Den.
"They will not sate your appetite, they are dreamers and denizens, you need real meat. Seek out the other end of the clasp, there you will find real meat." Ego offers. After all the other Dorrad leave Ego goes down into the pyramid; to the room where Rattcliffe awaits. "I am the ego of Dorrad Chaos." Ego says.
The door pops open and Ego enters, Rattcliffe's jaw agape as no one had ever completed the riddle without at least hearing the rules first. Inside the pyramid Ego walks up to Historical Evidence and says 'Foy Isse Omenco-Cioia' which roughly translates to "A future time I will see the Den is ruled by the Dorrad." And then he disappears into the clasp, thrust forward along the flow of time.
