The essence of death perceived that Tiamat would not survive the war, now that the humans were involved. So, going before Bahamut, death appealed to his mercy, asking that he have pity on Tiamat, the last immortal dragon, and spare her from the inevitable death in her defeat. But Bahamut had known of death’s deception all along, and he saw the manipulation that was at the heart of this request.

 

He answered death with both grace and wisdom. He chose to grant death’s request, and he plucked Tiamat from the dragon war, casting her onto an empty and frozen planet, on the outer edges of the cosmos. And at the same time, he revealed to the other Esconil the conspiracy that death had plotted and the pain and damage that had ensued as a result.

The Esconil were grieved to see that such loss could originate from within their midst, so they agreed that death should be removed from them and banished permanently from the heavens. Together, they created a prison for Tiamat, made of powerful magic's, with the intent of protecting creation from her treachery.

 

Without Tiamat, the dragon rebellion crumbled, and The Great War came to a swift end. And there was rejoicing again throughout all of creation, for peace and goodness had been restored. A new kinship had been forged between dragons and humans – a mutual respect for each other’s place in creation and a willingness to display the goodness and truth that Bahamut had instilled within them.

 

 

 

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