On the Origins of Raul

Elves
In the beginning, there was the sea of fire and an island. The island was home to the goddess Inndo, and the sea was the domain of Kythan, the day. Each morning Inndo would tend to her plants, and each afternoon Kythan would burn any who had grown too close to his sea. Inndo would cry each night for her lost children, and begin again the next day anew.
Inndo had created many things in her garden. She had created the dwarves to tend to the earth, and the humans to tend to her animals. But yet all was not right, as each night Kythan would continue his assault on the gerden, and her tears would continue to flow.
One night, while Inndo wept at the destruction of her children, one of her tears fell on a single flower. This flower was transformed by the magic of the goddess, into Rogar, first of the elves. Inndo took him in, as he was the only creature not created to serve the garden, and she decided to teach him the ways of the druid.
Many years passed, and Inndo no longer wept every night. With the help of Rogar, the garden stopped approaching the sea, and it flourished. This angered Kythan, as he believed it was his right to destroy what he pleased. Furious, Kythan flung fire from the sea, and burnt much of the garden. This angered Rogar, who plotted revenge. Taking burnt wood from trees that Kythan had felled, gut from an animal Kythan had slaughtered, and metal from the world of the dwarves, Rogar fashioned a bow and arrow and confronted Kythan.
"Lord of the Day, your terror is over!" Rogar bellowed at the open ocean of fire.
Kythan approached the shore, standing many times as tall as Rogar. "Tiny bug, what are you going to do? This land is mine to do as I please! Without me, you are nothing!"
With that, Rogar pulled, for he was part god. He used all the pain of the burning garden, all the anguish of his mother, and fired an arrow straight through the god. This lifted him up, far far away, into the night sky.
Taking this opportunity, Inndo banished Kythan from the surface of the earth. This lakes of fire were quenched with seas of water, and should he ever land his fires would be destroyed. Satisfied, Inndo granted all the gardens of the earth to the elves, to keep safe and nourish life.
Of course, the dwarves have a different idea altogether...
Dwarves
In the beginning there was the Grand Forge. From this forge, everything came. The first thing created from the forge was Kargin, The Forgemaster, inbuned with the ability to work any material. Kargin took it upon himself to create the other gods from the forge: Marcse, the Battlemaster, Kored the Merchant, Gassat the Apprentice, and Osil the Slow. Kargin was proud of his work, and set the other gods on their tasks: Marcse was to develop honor and war, Kored was to develop writing and math, Gassat was to learn all there was to learn, and Osil was to create the dwarves out of clay.
However, Osil did not want to use clay. He believed himself to be a better smith then his creator, and dreamed of creating gleaming collosus out of metal. However, the only place he could do that was the Grand Forge, and he was forbidden from touching it. So in secret, Osil made a forge out of clay, and stole a ember from the Grand Forge in his cloak, and got to work building his colossus. For ninety days and ninety nights the gods toiled, until Osil completed his construction. The colossus was bigger than any of them, and as a final piece, Osil added the ember he had stolen and gave the colossus life.
If Osil had asked Gassat, he would have found his flaw. If Osil had asked Kored, he would have noticed his mistake. If he had asked Kagrin, he would have stopped him. But Osil had pride, and it was his undoing. The colossus ate Osil, and used him to stoke it's fire, but it was never enough. The only place to quench it's hunger was the Grand Forge.
So the colossus stole away to the grand forge, and took all of the embers, save one. The heat from the embers caused him to glow and the other gods took notice, rushing to save the Froge. It was to late, and the colossus rushed off to the unfinished universe.
There was only one ember left, not enough for a weapon, but Kagrin came up with an idea. He quickly made the dwarves that Osil had forgotten. Kroed and Gassat gave them knowledge, and Kagrin grabbed a piece of unrefined ore from the nothing. On one side he placed the last ember and on the other side a drop of water to quench the metal. On this ore he placed the dwarves, and instructed them to turn this ore into the mightiest of weapons, then threw it after the colossus.
To this day, the dwarves continue to forge the ultimate weapon, for the day when it will finally strike the fatal blow to the beast.