Constellation Wyrm

The following is part of a history I am writing for my campaign setting.  It
describes the discovery of a unique pholgiston feature called "The
Constellation Wyrm."  Check it out and let me know what you think, and later
I'll email out part two of this section.

- The Desert Dog, Coyote



Part One

The elven nation of Druanallani existed centuries ago, near the beginning of
the First Unhuman wars.  This elven nation was spread across several lands
on several worlds, but they were all within the same star system.  The elves
called this star system, or crystal sphere, Druanspace, after its sun
Druanallis.  The elven military forces of Druanspace were strong, but their
nation was isolated, far away from the centers of elven power such as
Lionheart and Realmspace, on the very fringe of the explored spheres.  As
the First Unhuman Wars wore on this isolation became their bane, as
Draunspace became cut off from the rest of Known Space.  Several goblinoid
space fleets conquered the explored star systems surrounding it, and laid
siege to the pholgiston rivers that connected it with the rest of explored
space.  This sandwiched Druanspace between the Unhuman forces and the
unexplored reaches beyond.  A massive series of battles followed, as the
Unhumans tried to take over Druanspace and consolidate their power.  The
Draunallani fought hard, and survived the onslaught, but not without massive
casualties.

History would have been different, if not for the next wave of goblinoid
forces that passed through Druanspace shortly later.  They were fleeing as
an elven fleet dispatched from Lionheart reconquered the star systems
surroundeding Draunspace.  The refugee goblinoid forces met little
resistance as they passed through Druanspace, for the Druanallani had been
weakened too much by the previous fighting.  The homelands of the
Druanellani were completely razed by the Unhumans, and the few elves who
survived fled in spelljammers.  These elven refugees were pushed ahead of
the goblinoid fleets into unknown space.  Ironically, they never knew a
massive elven fleet that could have rescued them was behind the new
goblinoid invasion, pushing it in their direction as it came to liberate
them, and when the fleet from Lionheart reached the lands of the Druanallani
they mistakenly beleived that the elven nation had been completely
obliterated.

The elven refugees of Druanspace fled through the pholgiston and away from
all the explored spheres, with the goblinoids hot on their heels.  Unaware
that elven refugees were being pushed ahead of the goblinoids, the elves
from Lionheart broke off their chase, and left the goblinoids to flee into
the unexplored reaches beyond.

The Unhumans did not break off their chase, however, lusting to take their
frustrations out on the helpless refugees before them.  Eventually, running
low on food and vital supplies, the elven refugees decided to die rather
than be captured and tortured or eaten.  Coming upon a massive void where
the rainbow colored aether of the pholgiston thinned to nothing, with a huge
dragon-shaped cloud of pholgiston far away in the distance, they decided to
leave the flow and head into the nothingness.  They hoped the goblinoids
would fear the lack of pholgiston, not wanting to become trapped in it
themselves, and so would break off pursuit and leave the elves to float
helplessly off into emptiness, where they could die a better death.

As the elven refugees approached the void, desperation overtook them, and
they prayed to Sylvanus, the diety their nation worshipped, for a miracle.
Though in the flow, where dieties supposedly do not extend their power, a
miracle happened!  The elven refugee ships somehow sped up to a tremendous
speed, far surpassing any known spelljamming speed, and raced into the void.
  They were headed straight for the dragon-shaped cloud of pholgiston that
floated far away, eatheral, surrounded by a black emptiness in which none of
the rainbow colors of the aether shone.  No one knows what happened to the
pursuing goblinoids.  They either broke of their chase or drifted into the
void themselves at far slower speeds, and perished from hunger and lack of
air.  The elves raced ahead of them, somehow caught in an invisible current
of massive velocity, and shot towards the dragon-shaped cloud of pholgiston.

As they approached, they discovered that the cloud was massive, holding
hundreds and hundreds of crystal spheres inside of it.  It seemed completely
cut off from the rest of the pholgiston by the massive void around it.  As
they moved onwards, tiny, far away thread-like rivers of pholgiston could be
seen running into the wyrm's tail and out of the rainbow-colored flames that
shot from its mouth, spanning the void.  The elves found themselves speeding
towards the pholgiston 'fire' coming out of the dragon cloud's mouth, and
soon entered the aether flames.  Once there, a thick river of Pholgiston
swept them upwards, towards a crystal sphere that floated in one of the
dragon cloud's fangs.  As they approached this sphere a stellar dragon flew
out of the aether to meet them.

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