Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Aeva/The Raptorlords (section)

=Tempestuous Love=
Despite their lust for war and structure, the Raptorlords are a surprisingly prolific people when it comes to the oral tradition. Though much of it is incredibly fanciful and considered as hearsay, many of their tales can amazingly be relevant to the current age. One significant example is a story which suggests a connection between the Raptorlords and the Lord of the Tempest from the Northern Sea in which it borders. '''Ulpaka''', as the Raptorlords call the Lord, existed from a time before even the Old Empires, during the time of the '''Itol''' seafarers who ruled the world's oceans. Ulpaka was a known as a great warrior capable of immense brutality as well as practiced finesse in battle. His strength and agility so impressed the goddess Aeva that She fell in love with Him. She then manifested as a mortal woman in order to express Her love to Ulpaka, laying with Him and eventually bearing four daughters and three sons.

The seafaring Itol were considered enemies of the land, seething when they have learned of Aeva's mortal form coupled with the fearsome warrior Ulpaka. But they also saw potential for their own progress in the goddess's assumed mortality. They would concoct a cunning plan to rid the world of its land and cover it with boundless ocean by perverting Aeva's powers. The Itol waited ever so patiently until Ulpaka was caught unawares and captured the goddess's mortal form. With the goddess in their clutches, the Itol began to ceaselessly lash at Her formerly pure form, the loss of Her flesh resulting in entire sections of the world falling into churning seas. So enraged was Ulpaka that he proceeded to chase the Itol on land, and when the land beneath his feet fell into the sea, he swam the seas fueled by an indescribable fury at his loss.

When Ulpaka caught up with the Itol, there would indeed be revenge. Lashing at Aeva once more, the Itol had then cast Her out of their vessel, buying them just enough time to rise forth from the waves and into the skies. The distraction was enough to send Ulpaka's finishing strike at the remnants of the Itol, encasing them in a prison of ice, never to be seen from again. The sight of Her scarred body made Him weep with the deepest sorrows, sorrows which would soon ignite into a boundless rage as he pursued the villainous Itol once more across the ocean, drifting away from Aeva and their children as He grasped at His enemies, barely out of reach. Undeniably scarred by the Itol's evil, Aeva became terrified of the mortality She had assumed, resuming the form of the goddess once more and descending back into the earth. Now without their father Ulpaka to guide them and with Aeva in dire need of love once more, their seven children began to fight with one another, forming the Cairns and perpetuating a war that lasts to this very day.