Elan named Silijic escapes from a slave caravan, and wanders out into the desert to live and develop in seclusion, and plot his revenge. He stumbles across the ruins of the destroyed and ruined ancient city of Kish.
A long dead Champion/Dragon/SK named Sargon had made his home there, until he infuriated the Dragon by using the slaves allocated for the levy from his city to power the 28th stage of his metamorphosis. He had accomplished this in utter secrecy, without any of the telltale economic signs of research and construction. Borys arrived for the levy, and Sargon instead attempted to present him with an indestructible tablet detailing the process of Dragon metamorphosis using only a fraction of the usual resources, due to an increased use of Psionics in the process. Sargon wanted to raise all of the SKs to full Dragon status, and proceed to conquer the lands beyond the Known World(the lands included in any printed material), and maintaining the Prison of Rajaat with so many full Dragons and his newer psionic-intensive psionic Enchantments, the need for the levy would be eliminated. The tablelands would slowly come back to life, if the biggest defilers defiled less often.
The Dragon was not inclined to let anyone else match his power, and he did not want the sorceror kings to be free from his levy or his rule. The Dragon cared not for the world beyond the Jagged Cliffs or the Sea of Silt. Here, in the Tablelands, he was the mightiest of all, and the scarred state of the land reminded everyone there of his power and rage, every single day. Who knew what lived in the rest of the world, unscarred by his rage? Perhaps entities mightier than himself, who would come and take his lands and nations and slaves and power from him.
The Dragon would not lose his lofty place, where he commanded all life and death. He wanted the levy to be needed, so he could hoard slaves and peasants and nations and kings as his personal trophies of his war against Rajaat. Sargon's blueprints for an easier, more rapid transformation would take everything from him. So he took the tablet, and discarded it in a deep cave in the desert, so far down that nobody would ever find it, because they wouldn't be able to drag enough supplies and water for the spiraling, miles deep cave he dug to contain it. The air down there was so poor in oxygen, no creature that drew breath could survive.
Borys waited until Sargon began the metamorphosis to 9th stage dragon,(or so Borys thought) and slew him and his entire city. Sargon, however, was not becoming a higher level Dragon, he was becoming something entirely different. With the help of his Templars, and every Psionicist or Wizard in his city, Sargon had been in the throes of a transformation from 8th stage Dragon to 10th stage Avangion,and Borys had just killed a mighty chance for the restoration of the known world. However, when Sargon realized none of the other SKs had ever recieved his gift of knowledge, he secretly sent a copy of his research, and personal journals on ecology and the impact of defiling and genocide, to his only true friend among the Champions, Keltis, who would one day become Oronis of Kurn.
When Silijic destroyed the slave caravan, he manifested the Elan's innate power to sustain themselves on 1 PP a day(repletion), with no need for water or nourishment. He entered the nearest cave he could find, and just kept exploring deeper and deeper. He was a strong defiler, and was moderately strong in the Way. Something deep in the cave was emanating dark power and knowledge, and he wanted it. How fortunate that he had been caught by slavers in his wasteland encampment, after depleting his PP and daily spells in research. The slavers didn't suspect his nature, and treated him like any other prisoner. Escape had been easy. He simply killed them all with minor manifestations. Then he had seen the cave, and wandered in. Absently, he psionically rent a chunk of obsidian from the cave wall, and began to psionically mold it into a sphere. One never knew when they would need some extra PP, and obsidian made for easy storage if crafted properly. And the cave was absolutely encrusted with it, the further down he went. He would only guess later that the deep, smooth obsidian lining was the result of Borys the Dragon pumping everything he had into the psionics driving him deeper into the earth, turning the rock to magma, which cooled to obsidian. Borys didn't remain long enough for the tunnel to cool, and had no idea that he had just inadvertantly created a perfect conduit for the storage of Psionic energy, which Silijic would name 'The Dragon's Coil'.
One thousand years later, Silijic burst forth from the earth with all the force of a volcanic eruption.he had found the Coil, and the treasure in its deepest reaches. He used the Way to decipher the instructions for Dragon metamorphosis, and used the Coil to store the psionic energy required. With no other tasks before him, and only 1 pp daily required to sustain him, Silijic amassed a battery of Psionic power capable of fueling his transformation. Midway through his stages of metamorphosis, he discovered the second use of the Dragon's Coil - it let him absorb life force for dragon magic from any source up to a mile away, and two miles vertically. Silijic was careful not to draw too much at once, lest he be discovered. His secrecy paid off, and even as Dregoth was defeated and Tectuktitlay's Living Vortex was set free by those who defeated him, Silijic drew strong and deep from the lifeforce of everything within his reach, for the final stage of his transformation. The Living Vortex took notice, and attached itself to him. Silijic burst forth from the earth in triumphant fury, ready to rain terror on any slaver he came across before he left to kill the Sorceror Kings,to consolidate his base of power. Then he would leave to conquer the unknown lands described and guessed at in Sargon's journal.
