The moon shone down upon the lands of the Golden King.

Strewn across the sands and plains of the capitol, the blood of the fallen stained the earth, the indifferent moonlight glinting off of it and into the eyes of those who lay dead and dying.

From the far west, a force of nature had come to reap the sins of the Golden King and his Deities; a force of nature with radiant sword in hand, accompanied by a great beast and the two who had turned their backs on the Golden King.

His empire, carved out over the course of many bloody years, laid in ruins around him. So used to the resistance given by the weak masses of the still-young world, his armies had been but a paper tiger against the vicious draconic storm; at least, those of his armies that had not turned on him when the opportunity to escape their shackles was presented. 

Lying wounded in the ruins of his citadel, the Golden King felt rage build within him.

His reign would not end tonight. The goal to which he strived for those who had left him would not be left unfulfilled; the empire he had spent his life founding would not be destroyed by the hands of the ignorant and the visionless. 

So, hearing the scream of power from the approach of his most despised foe, he pulled himself from the rubble and steeled his body.

He was the single strongest being upon this earth, God-Tree or no God-Tree. He would crush the white destroyer and the great dragon who accompanied him beneath his heel, and he would carve out his empire again with a bloody-minded determination. From the two of his Deities that had survived the battles, the one still able to fight was his greatest and most loyal warrior; he would see to his traitorous brothers. Their scum bodies would be incinerated beneath the rage of the sun, and the spirits of steel and darkness would be reclaimed from their wretched ashes.

His foe neared, and called to him.

And obliging him, the Golden King let out a bellowing roar of rage and leapt towards him as his treasures filled him with all the power they could call forth.

As the world around them [i]shattered[/i].