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Wander Over Yonder Sketches - Embers

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These come as a follow up to me previous sketchdump, mostly
because some people showed interest in my headcannon background for Dominator.


As it is, there were three powerful races living in the
center of the Universe: Golden Griffons, Nova Salamanders and Neo-Humans.
Unfortunately their technology and their energy and material needs made their
coexistence difficult for the most of time, and outright impossible in some occasions.
War broke out, eventually, and the three factions threw themselves against each
other. This war, though, was unlike any other in universal history. All
factions used massive drone armies commanded by a single person, and all
factions had many of such commanders. To build and fuel their engines of war they
also stripped planets clean of all resources, leaving dead husks behind. At
first it was supposed to be a quick war, a show of force to decide who would
have the most resources. But all races were much more determined and shrewd
than their enemies perceived, and as battles mounted, the conflict dragged on,
forcing them to spend the very resources they were so keen in claiming for
themselves.


As you might imagine, the galaxy where this war began was
eventually destroyed, planets and stars mined until nothing was left. So the
war expanded into the nearby cluster, and from them into other clusters, until
the entire universe was at the mercy of these now savage all-powerful
civilizations. So was the War of Embers, thus called because that was all that
was left behind the three races’ passage.


Eventually a turning point was achieved. The Nova
Salamanders, being more individualistic than the others, started to gather defeats,
until their last Great Fleet was also surrounded by a Griffon fleet, and annihilated.


Lord Dominator was up to that point mostly an enforcer,
leading her armies against the lesser races, snuffing any rebellion against the
Salamanders in the areas they ruled (which would eventually be sucked dry of
resources anyway). She became known for her cruelty, seen as an evil goddess by
the populations (keep in mind that all three powerful races are extremely
long-lived due to their advanced technology). She was also a dreaded commander
in conventional war against the other races, tending to use guerrilla tactics
against them.


When the Great Fleet met its demise, she attempted to
contact any survivors spread across the universe, but no one responded. She was
either the last one, or everyone else had gone into hiding. So she fled the
battlefields of embers, seeking the more distant galaxies to start the
Salamander war effort once again.


Or at least that was the initial plan. But in those old
galaxies, where stars and planets grew dimmer and the laws of nature broke up
and made magic actually possible, there was no one who could oppose her. Plastered
with power, she preyed on resources and kept annihilating these tiny old
galaxies one after the other, her very presence becoming a dark shadow looming
over the lesser races and talked about in whispers in fear of invoking her and
the doom she brought along.



As always, the characters and the setting belong the original
creators.

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RyuuzakoNightray's avatar
woah this is so cool... you should draw a comic or something, there's a lot of potential <3