The Creation of Nyr

The Titans' Betrayal
Hymr is the eldest of Nyr's divine along with his twin brother Rymr. The twin dragons were birthed from a dying star and were imbued with it's terrible power: Rymr, the white dragon, received the gift of destruction. Hymr, the black dragon, received the gift of creation. For countless ages, the cosmic dragons drifted among the stars in search of others of their kind. For countless ages, they found nothing.

The Titans, who called themselves the Travelers, had wrought a great ruin upon their once beautiful home. Their unquenchable thirst for power sundered their world, killing all but a few. Those who remained boarded a great ship named the Sundfair and sailed the outer dark for three hundred years before meeting Hymr and Rymr. As the Titans too had no home, Hymr offered to allow the Titans to live along his great back until they found a new home. The Titans spoke with honeyed words of a paradise that was awaiting them, and the impulsive Rymr went ahead in search of it while Hymr remained to protect their intriguing guests.

Now alone, the Titans called to Hymr: Give us a scale from your hide, so that we may fashion a shield to defend ourselves. Hymr obliged, plucking an armored scale from his back. Give us a fang from your fearsome maw, so that we may fashion a spear to fend off enemies. Hymr obliged, prying a massive fang from his mouth. The Titans laughed, for they knew of no paradise. In their travels they had only ever seen endless void. They took up the spear fashioned from Hymr's fang and plunged it deep into the tender flesh that Hymr had exposed by removing one of his scales. The Titans slew the dragon and created their new home among Hymr's corpse. They used his bones to create fertile lands, his blood to create teeming oceans, and the rest to manufacture foul machines and races of servants to operate them.

Centuries later, Rymr returned to his brother bearing news that he had failed to find their new home. But when he saw the defilement Hymr had suffered at the hands of the Titans, he flew into an unquenchable rage. The Titans had forged keen weapons of war to fend off Rymr upon his return, but were woefully outmatched by the dragon's fury. Using all but a fraction of his strength, Hymr unleashed a wave of extinction that obliterated the foolhardy titans in an instant. Withered and bitter, Hymr curled himself around what remained of his beloved brother and fell still. And while he slept, the now liberated servants abandoned the Titans works and crafted their own destinies.