关于艾伯伦世界背景的小科普

作者 夏非半
The Beginning ofEverything

In thebeginning, there was only chaos, a mixture of energy and matter in whichnothing and everything existed. The rulers of this universe were called the ProgenitorWyrms, and they were the most powerful divine beings to have ever existed. Ofthe Wyrms, three sisters stood out as the most powerful: Golden Siberys, GentleEberron, and Cruel Khyber. Together, these three beings represented the variouspowers of existence. Siberys was the master of all magics, both arcane anddivine. Eberron was the master of life. Khyber was the master of knowledge anddarkness. Using their combined talents, the three Progenitor Wyrms fashionedthe Draconic Prophecy, a detailed description of the future of all existence.Following this prophecy, the three sisters worked together to create a worldout of the churning chaos.

Atfirst, all was well. The Astral Plane was separated from the chaos first,followed by various other astral and elemental planes. However, as theseregions were created, the difference between the two more powerful siblingsbecame more and more pronounced. Khyber wanted creation to reflect moremightily on her own views of cruelty and selfishness, and fashioned the planesKythri, Mabar, and Xoriat. Siberys responded by creating Daanvi, Fernia, andIrian. Eberron, the least of the three sisters, tried to pacify the other twoby creating neutral planes. This attempt was unsuccessful, however, as Siberysand Khyber marked the planes that Eberron created to more match their ownbeliefs, Siberys claiming Thelanis and Khyber claiming Dolurrh.

As the13 planes were finished, the sisters turned towards creating the center worldaround which all the other planes would orbit. They began with a simple sphereof rock, crafted from the chaotic matters of the beginning. They then set thissphere on an orbit around a sun, linking the sun to Fernia. Finally, theycrafted 13 moons and set them to orbit the nondescript sphere, linking eachmoon with a plane.

As thesisters turned towards the last piece of creation, Siberys and Khyber began toargue over what the center world should be like. Neither would compromise withthe other, and in a fit of rage Khyber lashed out at her sibling, tearing afatal wound into Golden Siberys' side and scattering her essence across thesky. Eberron, faced with a fight she had no hope of winning, instead embracedher cruel sister and merged with the planet everyone had been fighting over.Taking her own essence, Eberron created life on the planet that she had becomea part of. Remembering the importance of the Prophecy that started it all,Eberron scribed the signs of the prophecy on rocks all over the world. Siberysbecame the golden ring that sparkles in the sky. Khyber became the underworld,trapped where she could do no more harm... yet.



万物之始

在一开始，天地间只有混沌一片，可以成为万物的能量和物质交织存在在其中。这个宇宙的统治者被称为远古巨龙，它们是宇宙中存在的最为强大的神祇。在巨龙之中，有三姐妹最为强大脱颖而出，她们就是黄金之西伯瑞斯，文雅之艾伯伦以及残酷之基波尔。同时，这三者的存在代表了宇宙中所有的力量。西伯瑞斯是魔法之主，包括神术和奥术。艾伯伦是生命之主。基波尔则是知识和黑暗之主。这三条远古巨龙将她们的能力结合起来创造了巨龙预言。巨龙预言详细的描述了宇宙中所有存在物的未来。根据这个预言，三姐妹一起创造了一个脱离了混沌漩涡的世界。

起初，就像我们都知道的那样。星界是第一个被分离开混沌的世界，紧接着是其他的各种星辰和元素的世界。但是，随着这些世界被创造出来，两位较为强大的姐妹之间的分歧变得越来越明显。基波尔希望她的创造物能够更强烈的反映她关于残酷和自私的观点，于是创造了凯瑞斯（Kythri），玛巴尔（Mabar）和克索利埃特（Xoriat）。西伯瑞斯则创造了达安维（Daanvi），费尼亚（Fernia）和伊瑞安（Irian）来作为回应。艾伯伦作为三姐妹中最小的一名，试图通过创造中立的世界来缓和其他两位的关系。但是这次尝试并没有成功。因为西伯瑞斯和基波尔瞄准了艾伯伦创造的世界想要使之更好的和她们自己的信条所契合，于是西伯瑞斯在艾伯伦创造的中立世界中创造了泰兰尼斯（Thelanis），而基波尔就在中立世界中创造了杜伦（Dolurrh）。

当这13个世界被创造完成后，三姐妹开始创造被其他所有13个世界所围绕着的中心世界。她们从一块简单的石球开始，这个石球由最初的混沌物质锻造而成。然后她们将这个石球放在围绕着太阳的轨道上，将太阳与费尼亚相连。最后，她们创造了十三个月亮并且让它们围绕在那个什么都不是的石球周围，每个月亮连接一个世界。

到了三姐妹创造最后的创造物的时候，西伯瑞斯和基波尔开始为了这个中心世界应该是什么样子的开始争吵不休。谁也不肯让步，基波尔一怒之下攻击了她的姐妹西伯瑞斯，在西伯瑞斯身侧划出一道致命的创口，并将其精华挥散到天空中。面对着一场毫无胜算的战斗，艾伯伦决定抱着她残酷的姐姐与这个她们争论不休的世界融为一体。艾伯伦用她自己的精华在这颗成为她的一部分的星球上创造出了生命。为了纪念这开始了一切的预言的重要性，艾伯伦在世界各地的巨石上留下了预言的痕迹。西伯瑞斯变成了天空中闪耀的黄金之环，而基波尔，则变成了地底世界，被困在其中无法作恶……暂时。

Life in Eberron

Atfirst, the only life on the newborn planet was the primitive life that Eberronhad created. However, as the blood of Siberys fell from the sky, it spawned arace that combined the aspects of Eberron and Siberys magnificently: Dragons.Wherever a drop fell, a dragon would be created, and as the various dragonswere formed, it became quite obvious that these were beings of great power.Capable of the divine and arcane magic that Siberys embodied, dragons roamedthe world freely, exploring the lands and examining the inhabitants. The onlycompetition the dragons had were the mysterious couatls, a draconic race formedfrom the blood of Siberys before it came in contact with Eberron. Effectivelyimmortal, the couatls did not have the taint of mortality that Eberron hadgifted her creations with. However, this purity also meant that the couatlswere much more emotionally detached from the new world, keeping almost entirelyto their home of Sarlona, leaving the dragons unopposed everywhere else. Thiscontinued for an unknown amount of time, an era in which dragons ruled all andvery little changed.

CruelKhyber, however, eventually found a way to interfere with the creations of hersisters. All of a sudden, an army of horrors erupted from the Underdark thatKhyber resided in. This army was lead by the Overlords, demonic beings ofalmost god-like power. The dragons, not unified and prone to infighting, wereno match to these creatures, and were enslaved for more than a hundred thousandyears under the rule of the Overlords. Followed primarily by legions ofRakshasa, the Overlords were just as immortal as the Couatls and faced noopposition.

Then,a blue dragon named Ourelonastrix and a Couatl named Hezcalipa begandiscovering odd signs left on various rocks around the world. Working together,these two became the first to read a part of the Draconic Prophecy, left tothem by Eberron. This prophecy showed the two how to defeat the the overlords,and they began to spread the message to others to prepare for war.



艾伯伦的生命

起初，在新生的星球上只存在艾伯伦创造的最原始的生命。但是，由于西伯瑞斯的血液从天空中落下，产生了一个将艾伯伦和西伯瑞斯的特性极好的结合在一起的种族：龙。无论在哪儿，每坠落一滴西伯瑞斯的血液就有一头龙诞生，而且随着各种各样的龙的形成，它们明显成为了一种拥有强大力量的存在。龙族拥有西伯瑞斯代表的神术和奥术魔法的力量，可以在世间随意行走，探索大陆并且审视生物。龙唯一的对手就是神秘的羽蛇。羽蛇是一种形成于西伯瑞斯的血液与艾伯伦接触之前的类龙生物。这些超凡的生物，并未获得艾伯伦给予她的造物的凡人性。但是这种纯粹也意味着羽蛇在情感上会脱离这个新世界，它们几乎完全固守着自己的家乡sarlona，这让龙族在除了sarlona的其他地方毫无敌手。这种情况持续了很久，这是一个龙族统治了所有，一切都没什么改变的纪元。

另一方面，冷酷的基波尔最终找到了一条妨碍她的姐妹的创造物的道路。一支恐怖军突然之间从基波尔所居住的幽暗地域中崛起。这只军队由恶魔领主们所领导，这些恶魔们拥有几乎神一样的力量。而龙们，即不统一，也没有战斗准备，根本无法与这些恶魔领主们与之一战，由此被恶魔领主们统治了超过10万年。被众多邪兽鬼追随着的恶魔领主们和羽蛇一样不死且所向无敌。

后来，有一条名叫Ourelonastrix的蓝龙和一条叫Hezcalipa的羽蛇开始发现了留在世界各地各种石头上的奇怪的痕迹。二者合力成为了第一个阅读了艾伯伦留下的巨龙预言的一部分的生物。这个预言为二者显示了应该如何去打败恶魔领主，于是它们将这则信息传播给其他同伴来做好战争的准备。

The War and its Aftermath

At first, the war seemed hopeless. TheOverlords pride had lead them to spread themselves thinly across the world,meaning only one had to be fought at a time. However, every time an Overlordwas killed, it would rise again shortly after. Faced with impossible odds,Hezcalipa convinced his people to sacrifice themselves in order to permanentlydestroy the Overlords. The couatls, also a race of immortals, used their ownessences to create the Silver Cataclysm, a force that managed to imprison theOverlords where they could do no harm. Without their godly leaders, theremaining forces were easily handled by the dragons and a few remaining couatl.The dragons became the only powerful beings left on the face of the world. Withsignificantly fewer numbers, but a new sense of racial unity, the dragonsretreated to Argonnesen, creating new rules and laws to prevent future wars.

Faced with an age of solitary peace, thedragons devoted themselves to further studying of the Prophecy and developingthe magical powers that had grown enormously during the war. However, asmillenia passed, the dragons began to express interest in the outside worldthat they had fought so hard to protect. When they finally set out to see howthe world had changed, they found dozens of new civilizations. The mostadvanced were the giants of Xen'drik, and some dragons decided to give thiscivilization the secrets to magic. Most other dragons decided instead toconquer as much of the world as they could, which lead to extreme internalconflicts. As dragons began fighting each other, one of the original Overlordsbegan to awaken: Tiamat, the true Daughter of Khyber. All dragons, essentiallynephews of Khyber, carried a piece of her corruption inside of them, andTiamat's power was to awaken this corruption. From her underground prison,Tiamat corrupted hundreds of dragons, and when these dragons laid their eggs,the Spawn of Tiamat hatched into an army. Faced with imminent destruction, thedragons quickly reunified and destroyed all of the tainted dragons and theirbroods.

In order to better understand how anOverlord had managed to spread so much influence, the dragons turned to theProphecy for much more intense study. What they found, they refused to sharewith anyone but the very elite of the dragon race, except for one thing: thesudden spread of draconic conquest lead to Tiamat's rise. After the incident,all dragons were called back to Argonnessen, leaving the subjugated races toface the newly magical Giants.

战争与其后的事件

一开始，这场战争看起来毫无希望。恶魔领主们的自负使得他们零散的分布在世界各地，这意味着他们每个人都是独自战斗的。但是每有一个恶魔领主被杀死，很快它又会再次复活。面对着这种毫无胜算的情况，Hezcalipa劝说他的同胞们牺牲他们自己来永远的杀死恶魔领主们。作为同样不朽的一族，羽蛇用它们自己的精华创造了银色灾变，这种力量能够将恶魔领主们囚禁在它们无法再作恶的地方。没有了它们和神一般的领导者，其余的势力很容易就被龙和少数剩余的羽蛇所处理掉了。龙变成了世界地面上剩下的最强大的存在。伴随着成员数量的明显减少，以及一种全新的种族团结意识，龙撤退回了Argonnesen，创造了新的规则和法律来预防未来的战争。

面对着一个隐居的和平的时代，龙将自己致力于预言更近一步的研究以及在战争中迅猛成长起来的魔法力量的提高。但是，上千年过去后，龙开始对它们曾经为之如此艰难的去保护而战斗的外部世界表现出了极大的兴趣，当它们终于出发准备去看一看世界到底变成什么样子了的时候，它们发现了许多新的文明。其中最为先进的文明就是泽恩德瑞克大陆的巨人文明，一些龙决定要给予这个文明魔法的秘密。而大多数其他的龙则决定要尽可能多的去征服世界上其他的文明，这引起了它们内部极大的冲突。随着龙开始反目成仇，原本的恶魔领主之一开始苏醒了，这就是Tiamat，基波尔真正的女儿。所有的龙从本质上来讲都是基波尔的血亲，它们体内都带有一些基波尔的腐败因子，而Tiamat的力量就是为了唤醒这种腐败。Tiamat在她的地底监狱中腐化了上百头龙，当这些龙生蛋的时候，基波尔的后裔就诞生了并且被孵化成一支军队。面对着即将到来的灾难，龙迅速再次团结起来并且摧毁了所有被污染的龙和它们的孩子。

为了更好的了解恶魔领主是如何做到散布如此大的影响的，龙开始对预言进行更为急切的研究。除了龙族中精英中的精英，它们拒绝与任何人分享从预言中找到的成果。只有一件事例外：迅速传播开来的对于龙族的腐化导致了Tiamat的崛起。这次事件发生后，所有的龙族被召唤回了Argonnessen，留下被征服的种族去面对全新的拥有了魔法的巨人。

Reign of the Giants

As the dragons left, so did theirenforcement of the laws on magic. The dragons were a very traditional race, andhad followed certain restrictions on how magic was to be used, most of whichhad been written by Ourelonastrix. Once the dragons left the giants alone withtheir new knowledge of the arcane arts, the giants began to explore into areasthe dragons had forbidden, particularly blood spells and planar magic. However,the dragons now feared what would happen if they became involved in outsidematters, and resolved to simply watch as the giants began to conquer the restof the world. The giants used the enslaved elves as laborers, and soon becamethe undisputed rulers of all of Xen'drik.

Elsewhere in existence, troubles werearising. Dal Quor, the plane of dreams, has a very strange life cycle. Thealignment of the plane is directly tied to the alignment of the Material Plane,and every time there was a major shift, all of the Quori would effectively dieand be reborn with new memories and ideals. Understanding that something in theMaterial Plane was about to cause a massive change, the Quori invaded Xen'drikand destroyed anything that they thought would help cause the shift. Faced withcomplete destruction, a dragon known as the Truthful One disobeyed his race andforged an alliance with a giant leader known as the Stormreaver. Using animpressive display of magic, the two managed to knock the plane of Dal Quor outof its usual orbit around the Material Plane, making it impossible for anyQuori to manifest. The Stormreaver vanished, and with the nation of giantsincredibly weakened against the onslaught, their slaves began to revolt. In theend, the elves succeeded in freeing themselves, some setting off for Aerenaland others remaining to become Drow.

Also, after seeing what happens when"lesser beings" made use of their magic, the dragons of Argonnesseninstituted a new law: No secrets can be told to non-dragons.



巨人的统治

随着龙的离开，同样的它们关于魔法使用的律法的强制力也就随之不复存在了。龙是一个非常传统保守的种族，它们在魔法的使用上遵循着一些限制条件。而大多数的这种限制条件是由Ourelonastrix所规定的。龙带着它们关于奥术能力的新知识一离开，巨人就开始探索那些龙所禁止接触的领域，尤其是血魔法和异界魔法。然而，龙现在害怕如果它们被卷入外部世界的事务的话不知道会发生什么，所以当巨人开始去征服世界上剩下的其他文明的时候它们就选择仅仅只是旁观。巨人把它们奴役的精灵当劳工用，而且很快巨人就成为了整个泽恩德瑞克大陆无可争议的统治者。

而在宇宙中的其他世界里，一些麻烦正在滋生。梦境世界达库尔有着非常奇怪的生命循环。达库尔的属性和物质世界的属性直接相关，而每当达库尔的属性有重大转变时，实际上所有的梦灵都会死亡，然后再带着新的记忆和思想重生。梦灵们认为物质世界里的一些东西将会造成一个巨大的改变，所以它们入侵了泽恩德瑞克大陆并且摧毁所有它们认为将会有助于造成这个转变的东西。面对着这样一个几乎完全的毁灭，有一头名叫真理之龙的龙背叛了它的种族并且和一位名为风暴使徒的巨人统领缔结了联盟。两者使用了使用了一个声势浩大的魔法来将达库尔踢出它原本围绕着物质世界的轨道，断开了与物质世界的联系，使得任何一个梦灵都不可能再产生。风暴使徒陨落了，而且巨人的国度也在梦灵的屠杀下迅速衰落，于是它们的奴隶开始反抗。最终，精灵成功的解放了它们自己，一些精灵出发去了艾伦诺而其余的则变成了黑暗精灵。

此外，在目睹过了当“次等种族”利用了它们的魔法会发生什么之后，阿贡尼森的龙创立了一条全新的律法：任何秘密都不能告知给非龙族。

The Daelkyr War and the founding of theCults of Khyber

As the new Elvennations began to develop, they began to develop an interest in magic. Afterthousands of years of studying, the Aerenal elves managed their crowningachievement: the use of Necromancy, powered by the plane of Irian, to createthe Undying Court, an alliance of completely immortal elves with powers closeto those of the Overlords. Faced with yet another power that could rise againstthem, the dragons began an assault on the elvish forces. It became quiteapparent that the dragons did not have their heart in the war, however, as verylittle of their force was committed to the fighting. The war has continued on andoff up to the present day, mainly made up of long periods of peace and short,sudden bursts of fighting.

Then, one day, ablack dragon named Vvaraak foresaw a terrible danger coming. Faced with astubborn council that refused to help the other races prepare for theonslaught, Vvaraak left Argonnessen and began teaching the humanoids druidicmagic in preparation for what was coming. These druids became the Gatekeepers,and Vvaraak had less than a century of teaching before she mysteriouslyvanished from the face of the planet.

Some 7000 yearsafter Vvaraaks dissappearance, a new threat appeared: the Daelkyr, beings fromXoriat with incredible powers of creation and destruction. The Daelkyr are thesupreme rulers of their plane, and each one created his own personal race ofabberation to reflect his personal preferences. As these demigods floodedthrough with their minions into the continent of Khorvaire, they were met bythe now strongly established Gatekeeper druids. The war raged for millenia,destroying most of the continent and ruining the powerful Dhakaanicivilization, until the Gatekeepers managed to kill or banish all but 6 of theDaelkyr lords. These were the most powerful of the Daelkyr, and were barelydefeated by the druids. However, before they could be entirely imprisoned inKhyber like the Overlords, the final Daelkyr lords created the Cult of theDragon Below and reinvigorated the cult of the Lords of Dust, in the hopes ofbeing released later.

The Cult of theDragon Below serves Khyber, and seeks to break the balance in power between thecreatures of Siberys and those of Khyber to release all those captured in thedepths of the world. Should they reach their goals, hell would literally breakloose over Eberron, as the god-like Overlords would be realeased without anyhope of being defeated or reimprisoned without couatls.

The Lords ofDust is primarily made up of the surviving Rakshasa from the Great War betweenthe Overlords and the dragons. This organization is much more selective andsecretive than the Cult, and is known for infiltrating organizations around theworld (including the Cult) to pursue their ultimate goal: the release of theLords of Dust, the most powerful of the Overlords trapped in Khyber.

Both the Lordsof Dust and the Cult of the Dragon Below are opposed by the Gatekeepers, whomaintain the seals on the prisons of those imprisoned. While attempts have beenmade, none have been successful so far to release the immensely powerful beingsthat could bring the world into a new age of terror.

达尔克战争和基波尔的教派的建立

随着精灵的国度发展起来，精灵开始对魔法产生了兴趣。通过了上千年的研究之后，艾伦诺精灵成功获得了他们的最高成就：运用死灵法术，由伊里安世界的能量驱动，创造了不朽评议会。不朽的评议会是指一个由完全不朽的精灵们组成的联盟，这些精灵拥有近似于恶魔领主们的力量。面对着另一种可能会发展并与之抗衡的力量，龙开始袭击精灵的势力。但是，很明显龙并没有对这场战争太上心，因为它们的军队几乎没多少在投身战斗。战争就这么断断续续的持续到现在，目前的日子就由长期的和平以及短暂的突然爆发的战斗交织而成。

然后，有一天，一条叫Vvaraak的黑龙预见了一场可怕的危险即将到来。顽固的议会拒绝帮助其他的种族来准备应对这场灾难，面对这样的情况，Vvaraak离开了阿贡尼森并且开始教类人生物德鲁伊魔法来为即将到来的事件做准备。这些德鲁伊变成了护门者，而vvaraak在教导了这些类人生物不到一个世纪之后就从这个星球表面神秘消失了

据Vvaraak消失了约7000年后，一个新的威胁诞生了：达尔克。这种来自克索利埃特的生物有着难以想象的创造与毁灭的强大力量。达尔克是他们世界中至高无上的统治者，每个达尔克都创造了它们各自的异怪的种族来反映它们个人的喜好。这些半神的达尔克带着它们的爪牙涌入了科瓦雷大陆，被现在强有力的建立起来的德鲁伊护门者碰个正着。这场战争持续了上千年，摧毁了科瓦雷大陆的大部分，摧毁了强大的达卡尼文明，直到守门人杀死并驱逐了除了六个达尔克领主以外所有的达尔克为止。这六位达尔克领主是达尔克中最为强大的存在，它们几乎从来没有被德鲁伊打败过。但是，在它们能够像恶魔领主们一样被完全的囚禁在基波尔之前，最后一位达尔克领主创建了黄泉巨龙会并且复兴了灰烬之主的教派以期望在被囚禁之后能够（依靠它们）被释放。

黄泉巨龙会侍奉着基波尔，并且力图打破西伯瑞斯的创造物和基波尔的创造物在力量上的平衡来释放所有那些被关在世界深渊处的生物。要是黄泉巨龙会达到他们的目的，地狱就会完全摆脱艾伯伦，同时如神一般的恶魔领主们将会被释放，没有了羽蛇它们便再无被打败的可能也不可能会再被囚禁起来。

灰尘之主主要是由从恶魔领主与龙的伟大战争中幸存的邪兽鬼所组成的。这个组织比其他邪教更加精挑细选人员也更加隐秘，并且由于渗入影响了全世界的组织（包括邪教）来追求它们的最终目标而闻名。灰尘之主的最终目标是释放灰尘之主，也就是被困在基波尔中最为强大的恶魔领主。灰尘之主和黄泉巨龙会都与守门人为敌，因为护门者维持着那些被囚禁的生物所在监狱的封印。虽然做了这样的尝试，但是迄今为止没有一人能够成功的释放那些将会带领世界进入新的恐怖时代的无比强大的生物。

The Discovery of Dragonmarks, andthe Eradication of Vol
As the dragons watched the destruction in Khorvaire without action, they alsocontinued studying the ever-important Draconic Prophecy that promised toexplain everything. Then, around 2000 years after the end of the Daelkyr Warand the fall of the Dhakaani empire, the signs that Eberron had inscribed intothe rocks began dissappearing, much to the alarm of the dragons. Even morealarming was the realization that the marks were not dissappearing, butshifting onto the faces of some "lesser beings." Confronted with thefact that the humanoids were also a part of the prophecy, the dragons began toargue heatedly over what they should do with the newly marked creatures. TheLight of Siberys, the army of Argonnessen that had been formed after the GreatWar, wanted to kill anyone who had a dragonmark to prevent any of their enemies(namely the Lords of Dust) from using the information against them. Othersargued that this was the will of Eberron, and that killing them would beblasphemous at the least or world-threatening at the most. The final decisionwould be to waive the rules of non-intervention in humanoid affaris to createThe Chamber, a group of select dragons that would observe and interact with thedragonmarked races.
With the introduction of truly unique power in non-dragons, some dragons becameinterested in what would happen with a dragonmarked dragon cross-breed. A groupof green dragons approached the house of Vol, and in the end the half greendragon Erandis Vol was created. Claiming success, supporters of the projectspread the word that it was an attempt to end the elf-dragon fighting. In theend, it did, as both the elves and the dragons worked together to kill anyonemarked with the sign of Vol. In the end, Erandis Vol's mother sacrificed herlife in order to turn Erandis into a lich, cutting off access to her dragonmarkand saving Erandis from persecution. Erandis Vol has spent the rest of herexistence trying to reestablish her dragonmarked powers, and has formed theBlood of Vol as a religion to aid her.
Later, the Emerald Claw is formed as an additional cult that tries to follow inthe footsteps of the original Emerald Claw: Erandis Vol's father. Their goal isto merge different races with magic to form the perfect race, and the membersare all loyal to Erandis.
The remaining 12 dragonmarked houses become well established, and DDO starts inthis time.

龙纹的发现和沃尔家族的灭绝

龙看着科瓦雷大陆上的灾难而无动于衷，照样继续研究着永远最重要的据说能够保证解释所有一切的巨龙预言。然后，在达尔克战役结束和达卡尼帝国陨落后约2000年，艾伯伦刻进石头里的那些关于预言的痕迹开始消失了，这对龙来说很大程度上是一个警告。而更加令人担忧的是这样一个事实：这些标记并不是消失，而是转移到了一些“次等生物”的表面。面对着类人生物也是预言的一部分这个事实，龙开始热烈的争论它们应该如何对待这些新的有这些印记的生物。西伯瑞斯之光，也就是在龙与恶魔领主的伟大战争后成立的阿贡尼森的军队想要处死所有拥有龙纹的生物来预防任何龙的敌人（特指灰尘之主）不让他们用这些信息来对抗龙族。而其他龙则认为这是艾伯伦的意志，杀死这些拥有龙纹的生物轻则是对艾伯伦的亵渎，重则是对这个世界的威胁。最终它们决定放弃不干涉类人生物事务的规则，创建了龙纹大厅，这是一支由精挑细选出来的龙组成用来观察和相互影响有龙纹的种族的队伍。

随着真正的独特的力量被引入进非龙族，一些龙开始变得对出现有龙纹的半龙的话会发生什么很感兴趣。一群绿龙与沃尔家族走的很近，最后创造出了半绿龙Erandis Vol。取得成功后，这个项目的支持者散布称这是为了终结龙与精灵的战争的一次尝试。而最后，也确实如此，因为不论是精灵还是龙都开始联合起来追杀任何标有沃尔家族印记的生物。最终，Erandis Vol的母亲牺牲了她自己的生命来将Erandis转化成为一名巫妖，她切断了Erandis和龙纹的联系，将Erandis于迫害中救出。Erandis Vol花费了她所有的时间来试图恢复龙纹的力量，并且创建了沃尔血族这个宗教来帮助她。

后来，翡翠利爪被当作是效法最初的翡翠利爪，也就是Erandis Vol的父亲的附属教团而被创立。翡翠利爪的目的是用魔法来融合不同的种族来形成完美的种族，并且这个种族的成员全部效忠于Erandis。

剩余的12个龙纹的家族则顺利发展，而DDO就从此时开始。