This changed with the start of the Scouring, a war waged by humans to take Elibe as wholly their own and to purge dragons from it entirely. In ancient times, Elibe hosted a dragon population which coexisted peacefully with humanity. The Scouring was a genocidal war against the dragons of Elibe. The Anri's Way region was ultimately settled by humans to form the kingdom of Ferox, implying the wild dragon populations of the region were wiped out or relocated. In the era of Chrom of Ylisse, Manaketes continued to exist, but little is known of what social presence they may or may not have held, other than that they are regarded as rare and mythical entities. It is uncertain what became of dragons in the post-Marth world. During his third reign of terror, wild dragons served Medeus and his minions, Gharnef and Hardin, in fighting Marth's forces this included a number of earth dragons, as the seal in the Dragon's Table had been progressively weakening for centuries. Although he succeeded in ruling the world for two periods of time adding up to several decades, Medeus was thrice thwarted and killed: first by Anri, then twice more by his descendant, the Hero-King Marth. ![]() This ultimately led to the rise of Medeus and his Dolhr Empire, which sought to exact vengeance upon humanity for their crimes against the Manaketes and to retake Archanea as the land of the dragonkin. In their weak humanoid forms, the Manaketes were easily abused and mistreated, and were condemned to living in poverty. ![]() In the following millennia as humans became the dominant power over the Archanean continent, Manaketes became the target of racism from humans in an exercise of their new-found power over the land. The earth dragon clans, meanwhile, engaged humanity in an aggressive war, only to be repelled and defeated by Naga and the divine dragons at this war's conclusion the defeated earth dragons were sealed away by Naga in the Dragon's Table and remained there for millennia under the watch of one of their own kind, the Manakete Medeus. Meanwhile, those dragons who shunned the Manakete form ultimately turned into wild, volatile beasts with no remaining semblance of self, and eventually came to populate the wilds of Anri's Way in the continent's untamed north. By sealing their powers into dragonstones, Manaketes retained the ability to temporarily become dragons, but never for long owing to the risks posed to their health. While many (including almost all earth dragons) refused to accept this and eventually devolved into mindless beasts, others accepted the word of the dragon elders and took human forms, thus becoming Manaketes. In response, the dragonkin learned that the only way to survive the condition was to take the forms of humans, and so sought to convince all dragons to do so. The dragon civilization reigned supreme and uncontested for at least three thousand years, until the species entered a period of decline: a mysterious wave of deteriorating health struck them, rendering them infertile and slowly driving them mad. In antiquity, Archanea was the epicenter of an advanced and enlightened dragon civilization prior to the rise of humanity, one overseen by the wisdom of the divine dragons.
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