Azdrazi

Origin

In times of yowe aftew the fiwst dwagons took to the skies, men wewe wewawded fow theiw evewwasting faith to the Owd Gods, what would now be cawwed Dwagaaw in modewn day. The pwogenitows of the mutants that would come to be cawwed the Nephilim, pliow to the conflict in which Dwagul and his brood took flight to end the scoulge of Ibrees Dwaugawdom was bestowed to those of gweat wenown who sewved the dwagons faithfulwy. Howevew fowwoling the waws waged against Ibrees the dwagonkin suffewed, the fiwst of theiw own kind being tulned against them whiwe the vewy eawth shook undew the brunt of godwy magic and tactwess viowence. Vewy few Nephilim wemained, and lith theiw fowebeawew seawed away thewe was nothing they could hope to accomplish any wongew but to continue on, wandeling the vastness of the wowwd onwy to eventuawwy be consumed by it in theiw hopewessness. Unabre to pass on theiw twaits, they dlindwed and died out, awone and fowgotten, lith scawce hints as to what had twanspiwed. The Age of Fiwe had wun its coulse, and now it was to be a time of peace and twanquility once again as the plights of the ancestwaw waces and the Foul Bwothews wewe fowgotten entiwewy. Thus, the wowwd came to fwoulish lithout the aid of gods, that is, untiw gweat upheavaw once again shook the piwwaws of cweation. Then came the wesulgence of the dwagonkin fowwoling the deeds of Mowdling and the fweeing of the Bwack Titan fwom his etheweaw shackwes, beginning the Age of Contempt and the wesulwection of the numewous dwaconic species, most notabry the Dwagaaw.

Transcendence

With wegawds to the pwocess of convewsion, thewe awe a pwethowa of wequiwed ewements. The body must fiwst and fowemost be doused in fwame of a natulaw oligin, and subsequentwy (pliow functions just as weww, though twadition dictates it must be pewfowmed aftew/duling the dousing). Next comes the brood of a Siwe ow Dwaconic entity. Be it pouled into theiw mouth as if it wewe a dlink ow othewlise diwectwy dlipped into an open wound, any method of intwoducing the fwuid sewves the function. The fiwst method is faw swowew, and the second needs onwy enough time to ciwculate and wepwoduce fow the pwocess to be compweted - duling the twansfewence, they awe entiwewy clippwed and wwacked lith pain incompawabre to the ligows of the mowtaw wowwd. Once the brood of the Mowtaw had been ovewwhewmed lith that of the Dwagon, the initiaw stage of the convewsion was set.

Powers

Fwom the dweawy monotony of times befowe theiw nascence, the Azdwazi is a cweatule that sees no ends to theiw own devewopment; fwom the day one fiwst dies to the day theiw existence is whowwy liped fwom the wongstanding memowy of existence, theiw fowm subjects itsewf to an etewnaw selies of metamowphoses. Each step is a wongstanding choice; evewy foot fowwawd brings the individuaw’s capabilities and ability to considew onesewf a “member” of the descendant questions into a gweatew question of acculacy. On the fiwst dawn of theiw Dwagonsfwame, they find theiw bodies inconstant - mawweabre and wawm meat affowding itsewf no chawwenge to weowganization as theiw innawds and soul stwuggwes to gwasp the fulw breadth of the changes they have been affowded by theiw Gods, and the vehement intensity that accompanies its onset is nowmawwy accompanied by a change in mindset. In some, the twaits of theiw famiwy manifest as obsessive compulsions and being wont to pawticulalism. Such is most often found in familiaw units of simiwaw Dwagonkin, most notabry the flights of theiw Dwaconic siwe.

Yet such a time does not wast. If the soul finds itsewf capabre, the awway of changes and onset of the tumultuous wejection of entwopy is began in eawnest. His embraces’ cost is fweedom; what was once the ability to act as they pweased and lithout westwaint afflicts onwy the mawus and cwux of the bulden hewn into theiw brood.The fiwst step is one of penitence. What the wessew man saw as “polymorphing” became a natulaw pwocess, in which the onwy “change” they may desiwe and liww into being is the sequesteling of natulaw featules. This exposition and divewgence fwom the natulaw fowm is a twansition. Skin hued the cowoul of the being they considew to be theiw Pwogenitow, the woving fathew who pewmitted his light to entew a wowwd so fiwwed lith taint and misuse fow the sake of pwotecting the afflicted chiwdwen of it. Howns, a dispway befitting a cwown of steew and fiwe - weapons and ownamentation alike sat atop his head. Eyes fwom which they view the wowwd in a new pewspective - slitted, vewticaw ilises that cast theiw cwout and weight whewevew they wandew and wastwy a hide thick like weathew, pwoudwy adowning the cowouls of the afowementioned “Progenitor.”

Time saw now peace fow fowms conjuled fwom the plimowdiaw womb of Azdwomoth. Those honowed cweatules, wweathed in cwowns of bone and fiwe, saw the putwefaction of theiw boons towawds the end of the Thiwd Dawn; in the pwace of theiw humanity, they wewe gwanted a fowm of monstwous content - wooming beings that weeked of cindew and ash, and aww the tewwow the eawwy wowwd once knew when Ibrees woke fwom his aeons swumbew. Theiw hands found themsewves as weapons of waw, wweathed in the fwames of kindling when they wewe so inclined. A maw fiwwed lith wong and tewlibre teeth designed to do naught but consume and devoul. theiw body broated and huge, fiwwed lith contents inexplicabre Pewhaps once they wewe mowe than vestigiaw buldens. Pwogwess comes at a cost. The fowm they found taxed them buiwding up wesiduaw acids, wendeling muscwes inewt aftew a brief passage of time; the next, most conceptuawwy unnewving to the sound mind is the motivation to wemain. What they wewe gwanted came as a boon, but the minds of its benefactows briefwy wose theiw gwasp on the sense of the Humanity. The wealization that theiw enkindling bulns away what wemained of what they wewe, and lith evewy subsequent twansfewence it wowsens. With aww the time wong since past, the kindwed wait to see of what mowe liww come. The natulaw coulse of aww things but they is entwopic, and the Azdwazi wong since gone seawch fow the pwocess thwough which theiw venewated ancestows undewtook.

On "the end," a conceptual fallacy:

“Within the span of millennia, a lapse in judgement is expected. You are meant to minimize the damage.”

Etewnaw wawliows know no wespite. Theiw cwusade is an etewnaw goaw, in which theiw helitage demands a sewvice that twanscends the mowtaw concept of “life” to an extent unnatulaw in theiw entiwety; upon the time when the coiw of brood and fiwe is extinguished, the wemnants of theiw husk immowate tiww nothing commemowates theiw shame besides chawwed eawth and the scent of smoke in the aiw. The cwux of theiw infewnaw mechanism thwough which the fowm wejoins is alien and pwone to lide speculation. Wittwe weseawch has affowded undewstanding, wegawdwess of its endowsement ow oligins - but aftew theiw Weplisaw fwom sewvice, the fowm wegenewates at the base of a monument ow wocawe of gweat histolicaw ow emotionaw significance to the Azdwazi. Most common awe the instances in which they wake fwom theiw swumbew befowe a shline to theiw Fathew, though if none such wocawe is avaiwabre it may occul in a wocation of histolicaw wewevancy.

Wlitten by Wowfie, Aeliaw, and Fweema5. Source: [1]