The world is in turmoil.

Earth is in shambles.

The universe cries out in eternal suffering.

On Earth, the world is in destructive and utter conflict.

The planet Earth, once thought to be the salvation and hope for intelligent and sapient life was lost suddenly and completely with the insufferable struggle to exist.

The conflict.

The War.

If a person were to ask the questions as to how, why, when, who, or what, the answer would likely be ambiguous. Most of the creatures of the world simply either didn't know, or didn't care. It was no longer the past, but was reality.

Little did the inhabitants of Earth truly expect the concept of war. The closest to violence the world has ever seen were crimes within the "society". While egregious and evil, they could never compare to the weight, price, and sheer fear of an organized, large-scale conflict. Unlike such petty crimes, warfare didn't have a few individuals involved, but had the whole people involved.

The questions' answers may elude the masses, but those that did know kept it to themselves, either being selfish or wishing to spare the world the suffering meant for countless innocents.

Sometimes, it is better for questions to have no answers.

However, unfortunately, the questions do have answers.

Why? Well, it was due to a combination of factors.

Lands of some enter a grey area where one could be perceived as a possession of the other, or some wish to take for themselves. Land is a valuable resource as a place full of space to exist on, an area filled with resources to ensure survival, and a location to bring a people together. Even if disputed, selfishness is more powerful, especially for those with the most of this dangerous strength.

The value of a creature also is brought into consideration. One byproduct of the "society" would be the certain worth a being was. To be more specific, some creatures were born with opportunities and organized power within this world, while others were born with nothing, being under those above them. When some creatures are given value like objects, when those beings are lost, emotions tend to guide actions as opposed to intelligence.

Prejudice played a part as well. Prejudice is a bizarre anomaly that is a no-brainer for the masses, but make next to no sense for those that notice it, being heavily offended by its existence, as it causes a race of sapient beings to dislike another race of equally intelligent creatures. It could be conjured up from something simple, like appearance, to sheer experience with each other. It doesn't matter how similar they may be, for their intelligence tries to find everything different and wrong they are. This could obviously lead to violence among such intelligent creatures.

However, none of this actually matters.

Beings born into such a terrible and dark time in history saw it as just reality, without giving such reason thought.

You either adapt, or die.

Who are the ones responsible?

Dragonkind.

Two of the four races were on thin ice with one another. These were the fire dragons and their earth counter parts.

Fire dragons, in the volcanic ash and burned, grey, and red earth of the extreme heat of volcanoes, sought superiority against the earth dragons.

Being the only two of the dragon races to share the same landmass to occupy obviously led to unsolvable tension.

The loss one such being of value also caused a fatal quest for retribution to destroy not only those involved, but those who would oppose them at any cost necessary.

The anger they had towards one another was so great, each side found it unfathomable that the other so much as exist to make their lives a little harder to work in the name of survival.

The tough-hided earth drakes didn't want to pay any mind to them, as they felt the other three draconic races relied on them for not only creating earthen structures for them to live on, but to also generate and ensure the plentiful harvest of crops needed to ensure the survival of the masses. They also felt that their earth-based abilities surpassed all the others, able to manipulate the world around them more than any other. They felt entitled to praise and respect. Their mighty mountains, caves, fissures, and forests nearly impenetrable, they bathed in their pride against all others.

This, and a past of hatred, fear, and sadness, led to the flame and magma-resisting fire dragons to finally say they had enough of what they saw as oppression instead of laying down to die.

And so, war was waged on the race of beings for the wrongful actions of some, history of irritation and tension, and the benefits of wiping out the other.

The other races of beings either didn't want any part of it or were the true victims of the War.

The ice dragons, existing in the far North and South of the planet, lived in nearly uninhabitable snow and ice-covered wastelands at frigid and insufferable temperatures. They were not only on island-like masses, but most of the soil was dead, with nearly no living vegetation or terrestrial creatures.

If a person wanted to find a place to live, they would choose anywhere but in ice dragon territory.

This ultimately led to ice dragons being isolationist and very cold against their far away draconic cousins. With their frost-resisting scales and bodies, they survived the impossible, being easily one of the most adapted creatures in the world, able to survive on their dangerous and nearly life-less turf. Having a very brutal and strict society of their own, their isolationist attitude caused them to naturally dislike those of opportunity and embrace the lack of contact with the outside world, leading them to keep to themselves.

The electric dragons were a different story.

A polar opposite to the ice drakes, the electric dragons were very outgoing and peace-loving. Living on the highest of all the land available to be with their natural territory, the sky, they lived with little thought of warfare. While they lived in places with almost no fertile soil, they lived peacefully and happily. Their general location also made it a challenge in of itself to so much as see them.

However, their value in sheer power could not be understated.

They adapted to live in incredibly high altitudes to be in their natural habitat in the clouds. They also had the most powerful abilities of all, as lightning and electricity was one of the only true fears of the other draconic races, as their scales were natural conductors and their nervous systems could be fried. They also were able to control weather, as their natural affinity with the sky could allow them to manipulate clouds, and in turn, precipitation, allowing them to survive on barren mountainsides. Despite their outgoing personalities, they could defend themselves easily and were nearly invincible given their power and defenses. The ability to control lightning, snow, and rain made even the most determined and hardened drakes regret ever trying to toy with them, making them sluggish, sick, and enter into the most unpredictable and dangerous fortress to exist.

The fire and earth dragons left them both alone, as their lands were either too far and unreachable, or simply not worth the effort. The thought processes of the two races clashed with theirs as well. The sheer power of the two was also a concern, as they as were either more brutal or had to contend with the most adaptable beings on the planet.

However, the ones who suffered from the war the most were the humans.

Being creatures made of weak flesh and naturally being smaller than the drakes, they were incredibly vulnerable to oppression by Dragonkind. The dragons either burned down their homes and people, tore them to shreds, freeze them into fatal images of horror caught in time, or fried them to husks of their former selves.

However, the most heinous crime against Humanity was slavery.

Dragonkind, due to their domination over the humans, sought to use them in ways unspeakable. Thanks to their dexterity, they could create not wonders that benefit the survival of countless in need and in the name of knowledge and curiosity, but tools and objects to benefit only their draconic overlords in the name of death, destruction, and selfish needs. The young, old, and those aged in between would be forced to work in unfathomable conditions, and were cut down, scarred, beaten, and killed if they were to rebel or so much as say "no". Even the electric dragons showed no mercy for them. Despite their intelligence and higher numbers, they had nearly no defense against tyranny except their own wits, for to create a way to bring down the scaled beasts for good, they needed time and resources, something the dragons denied them. Some of the slavers were so brutal, they threatened and actually ate them and used family members as bargaining chips against a powerless species if their usefulness was done and over with.

When Dragonkind needed resources and fresh blood to compete in the War, they would do anything to settle the score, even harming the only other creature that shared their intelligence.

Even Dragonkind was not truly free from this horror, as they were turned into starving scarred husks by their opponents, being turned into indentured servants and slaves themselves. Even Humanity decided to carve into the pie, chaining and defiling draconic bodies for their scales and bones to create weapons and armors to give them a chance against the beasts, and with that, a shine of retaliation and retribution. They did this by capturing the dragons whenever possible to imprison them, never to see the light of day or the dark of the night ever again, or ending their lives in the name of justified hatred.

Dragonkind took their gifts away, and so humans would do the same to them.

Humans captured and tortured dragons and dragons enslaved humans and their draconic cousins. 

This led to the human resistance to the senseless destruction. This became one safe haven for humanity. One last glimmer of courage for the battered and scared race.

That little piece of hope was the D. H. G., the Dragon Hunters Guild.

They were Humanity's finest in combat to take down Dragonkind with all of their races, seeking to not only end the war, but to end the lives of all of beasts in the world to the last dragon and take over the world from them through any means necessary. They brought in as many human refugees as they could, as they could save some, but not all of their people to provide protection against the dragons. However, despite their best efforts, they were only a minor faction in a war of more powerful and less trustworthy monsters.

Regardless, they have grown to be the small yet powerful third faction in the War, slowly but surely becoming a force to be reckoned with.

Three countries. Three worlds. Three peoples. Three leaders.

King Terron of the earth dragons.

King Inferno of the fire dragons.

And Angelica Courtney, the human leader and most feared dragon-slayer of the D.H.G.

In addition to Dragonkind and Humanity, the world around them suffered the consequences. The once fertile earth became either burned, ash-covered wastes, fissured and misshapen beyond repair, and frozen to dead permafrost when the ice drakes got involved. The world throughout the war would become more and more poisoned with volcanic ash, weather patterns when electric drakes fought were out of balance, oxygen became slightly more depleted by the hour, and temperatures were out of sync with their former climates.

The war seemingly, with hundreds upon thousands of lives taken every day, was never going to end.

That is, unless the world was destroyed first.

The only solution: to stop it once and for all for any sacrifice, any sacrifice...

The only hope or greatest threat the slowly decaying Earth had was from somewhere unexpected, but the only way to salvation.

Not the division and separation, but the union of the oppressed and lost to cry out in the name of peace and happiness.

This union would not only decide the fate of Humanity and the world, but also for all of Dragonkind...