At the very beginning of our history, in the ancient times, when the thoughts were born and the dreams became real, there was only one world surrounded by the endless nothingness - Netheran, later called Empire of Dreams. The legends tell it is a huge ball made of mere light.

In those ancient times Netheran and its people had no enemies. Two races lived on its surface. The more numerous were the Dreamers, creatures with innate unimaginable imagination. They wove a thread of dreams and never left their world. Using their visions they changed the endless nothingness to places with shapes and colours. The most capable of them created new worlds, the other ones made the landscape of these worlds and the least capable put many various creatures who settled them. Besides the Dreamers, the Empire of Dreams was the home of Dream Dragons, creatures longing for the deepest knowledge of the Universe. In those ancient times the Dragons were travelling through the nothingness, visiting new worlds and spreading the knowledge over the space. Soon the worlds visited by Dragons tasted the power of creation and their inhabitants lived in the age of prosperity. No one had a clue that the era of endless variety is approaching to its end. It was only a matter of time when one of the Dreamers tried to understand and bound the Power of Creation. So in the deepest part of nothingness the secret world of Alvatar, later called the Empire of Dark, rose to power. His creator called himself the Dreadmaster and using the rest of his powers he summoned the twenty-heads Dragon. On his back he left the Empire of Dreams.

Alvatar the huge spiral blackhole began to absorb the light of worlds in its vicinity. Its power grew enormously but the desire of the Dreadmaster to understand the very essence of the Creation had no limits.

Many worlds called the Empire of Dreams for help. The delegation of Dream Dragons vainly tried to negotiate with the Dreadmaster. The clash was inevitable. All the power of the Dreamers focused upon the one goal, to bring the Universe back to its origin. Unfortunately, the outflow of light meant the decay of many worlds. Their powers of creation were too weak and without support of the Dreamers these worlds were absorbed in nothingness.

The rest of worlds with help of Dragons focus their powers and bound them to Crystals, the Stones of Power, which preserved all the light. Once for all they became independend on the Empire of Dreams. The Dreamers now fully concentrate their power on the Dark Hall of Alvatar. But the Dreadmaster was ready.

No one has ever found out who stroke first. But it is our own decision to which side we will join.

From the notes of sage Bardeban, the caretaker of the Crystal of Iridion, the world of Rainbow.