Thread:Petsuchos/@comment-30921738-20191219184948

While I would rather side with the animals, you do make some very good points and I never thought imprisoning phantoms for decoration was very cool. I actually have made up my own lore and theories about the phantoms.

I believe that originally phantoms were the first created species, and they were originally very intelligent, kind creatures. They were great engineers and incredibly smart in mathematics and such. However, then Mira and Zios created the animals, quickly creating more and more species. There was originally five phantom kings and a single phantom queen. The phantom queen was jealous of the animals and felt threatened by their rapidly growing numbers, and worried that Mira and Zios would care about them more and forget the phantoms.

The phantom queen ended up having an encounter with another animal, who was being insensitive and unintentionally insulted the phantoms. In a fit of rage, the queen attacked the animal and injured it badly. When the animals heard about it, they demanded that Mira and Zios punished the phantoms. They instead only scolded the phantom queen, but the animals felt that justice hadn't been served and begn mistreating the phantoms. The phantoms retaliated and fought back, encouraged by their furious queen.

Things worsened and the two began fighting one another, not just by insults but by violence. Mira and Zios tried to stop it, but both sides now felt themselves higher than the other and deserving of more, and couldn't be convinced into peace. The phantom queen grew more furious by every insult to her kind and in her rage, killed several animals.

That was the moment that sealed every creatures fate. The first deaths of all of Mira and Zios's creaions. Before the animals could retaliate, the Gods sent the phantoms into another dimension, where war couldn't start. There they grew more and more bitter, sucking the life out of the realm they had been sent to. The Gods still cared about the phantoms and visted them frequently, but each visit the phantom queen became more angry, swearing revenge on the animals. Finally, one visit she attacked the Gods and attempted to kill them. Mira and Zios were forced to fight back and injured the queen, who eventually died from her wounds.

The phantoms thought that their Guardians killed her on purpose and swore revenge on them. Without their queen they had no way to reproduce, so they made machines that could create new phantoms (as seen in the adventures). These new phantoms had the original phantoms engineering and mathematic skills, but had little emotions and very little creativity- and terrible writing and grammar. They were also specially created to live on Jamaa, as they thrived on emotions and sucked the life energy out of Jamaalian plants. The majority of them were mindless drones (that are seen in adventures) that have no emotion and only do what they are told to. But each and every phantom was created with a deep hatred for animals.

Eventually all the original phantoms died off (apart from the kings) all the animals forgot about the phantoms that were once their rivals. But eventually the phantoms were able to create a portal to Jamaa from their dimension, and using the technology from their ancestors, they stormed Jamaa and the first Phantom War started, where Zios was slain and the Alphas were born.

PHEW okay I hoped you enjoyed my long essay on how a war was started from nothing but a jealous queen and an insensitive animal 