The Animalian King
Of all the Cores, the Life Cores are closer to a 'being' than the others - feelings, forming bonds and creating a sort of persona - perhaps because of their links to and of life. They are responsible for all sorts of life on the planets according to different biology.
The Animalian King is essential the Animal Core, he is the youngest of the 4 'siblings' and would later go on to create the first Mind (another word for race) that is the Humans which would then go on to become the template for all other Minds.
This favouritism of one of the mammals would create vengeful jealously in the reptiles, birds, fish and insects which would then mutate into their own version of Minds in order to war against the Humans. To aid them the Animalian King extended his branches into a select few human's DNA, allowing them shift their forms back and forth between other mammals - entirely biologically. This would become The Animalian Thread within a new race called Animalians. As he'd hoped, the act balanced the war.
For a time. Something... happened, appeared, and the scale of war tipped horribly. Truly fearing for the lives of there delicate mortals he so loved, the Animalian King 'gave up his essence' and became a mortal himself, an event that would be named The Great Passing. Fearing for their sibling's safety, The Protista King and The Plantae Queen did something similar to grant other mortals power - the power of nature in something called 'magic'. This created The Magic Thread and allowed for the first druids to rise.
The Animalian King would go on to die a mortal death from old age which set off the events of The Great Divide.
While a mortal form of the Animal Core passed on, his essence had been released. Many believe it now lives on in The Animalian Thread, in animals and in Animalians themselves.
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