Far beneath the waves slumbered the ancient regal viper in darkness. But one day, it awoke to shed its skin. For the first time, it opened its eyes and saw. It saw a blinding realm of life and death. A confusing realm of gods and monsters. A realm that it had been no part of.
The regal viper called upon the starlight and folded it into an empire of the seas, a dominion to rival the world above. A crowning achievement that threatened to overtake every other. War became inevitable. And so, the Tribunal cast the regal viper down and it was no more.
Yet one day, five sea serpents found the shed skin of the regal viper: Iaculum, Reclem, Zarnix, and the rivalrous brothers Ferlon and Oncille. They feasted on the husk of the fallen god, each consuming an aspect of its boundless ambition, birthing the five Serpents.
And so, the regal light was complete.