Lotus didn’t even hesitate before answering. "I need the whole story, right from the start. Even if you have to go back to the foundation of the pantheon, I will just ask the Green Dragon to fill in the details for me."
"Alright, then we will start with the backstory. Are you familiar with the species known as the Ancients?"
Lotus shook her head.
"Are you familiar with Karl’s Pet Sitter spell? The creatures that it creates?" When Lotus nodded, he continued. "Those are a replica of the Ancients. They’re a curious species, in that they didn’t develop naturally.
They were created by a Pantheon of Gods known as the Creators to manage and develop the worlds that they were making in the Mortal and Immortal Worlds.
The Ancients are the first species that most worlds see, the ones that create and place all other life on a planet.
The very first ancestors of everything in existence.
At least on the worlds that they helped create. However, the Creators Pantheon is a relatively young Pantheon by Divine standards. Both the Beast Pantheon and the Dragon Pantheon were fully formed before the Creators came into existence.
Even the first Human Gods were born before them.
The Dragon Gods have no issue with the Creators making worlds, and even giving them Systems so that the residents can grow more smoothly, without overuse of resources. The point of contention is their attitude.
You see, the Ancients view everything that they create as a form of pet. A plaything that exists under their care.
But the Pantheon of Creators is one that believes in order through chaos.
When all things are chaotic, random and in flux, all things are in balance. That is how they manage their worlds. However, with that attitude comes a particular lack of moral relativity. If they restricted themselves, it would throw the worlds out of balance.
So, they don’t.
One of the things that originally caused issues was that they would allow their Ancients to populate worlds with dragons. Dragons born from outside of the purview of the Pantheons.
It is in a dragon’s very genetic makeup to follow their Patron.
Yet, the Ancients found a way to create them. Not a replica, not an imitation as many other spells might create. But real, living, breathing dragons with Divine Souls and a link to their deity.
Then they raised them as pets.
Much like Karl watches over the hatchlings in his Tiny World, the Ancients oversee entire worlds full of dragons who have the link to their Gods, but no real connection, as they are not raised by the faithful.
Already, Karl has managed to summon a lesser form of the Watchers, in the Pet Sitters.
That is not possible for one with purely human bloodlines. Only one who has embraced the power of the Ancients, and embraced the Divine balance of Chaos, could possibly use the spell."
Karl frowned. "Wait... embraced the Divine balance of Chaos... My power matrix is based on the form of a Chaos Dragon, placed in five dimensions. Could that be what is shaping the direction that my power is growing?"


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