From that wound came the Void—hunger given shape, appetite given law. It is important to understand: the Void was not the same as Death. Death ends; the Void consumes. In this era, the world’s first great terrors appeared: places where warmth was eaten, where sound thinned, where memory stuttered. And from the Dragon’s ruin came new peoples—Krymatemoun from spilled blood, “Touched within Death,” and later Smaragblut from flesh, “Created from Envy.” These births are treated differently in the chronicles: the former with sorrow, the latter with suspicion.