Editing Age Of Dragons: Endless Night (section)

===The Ascendancy===
When ''Endless Night'' initially climbed out from the earth, he presented himself to a council of local draconic nobles, comprised of  two Blood Dragons, three Sable Dragons, a Ghost Dragon and a Velvet Dragon. When he declared that he had arrived to claim his throne, he was met with suitable derision and the angry Blood Dragons moved forward to destroy him for his presumption.
<br>It is said that ''Endless Night'' spoke a single word of command, and that the shadows themselves moved forward to entangle and paralyse his attackers, and then to do the same to the other dragons present.
<br>He forgave them their disobedience, but demanded that they pledge their obedience to him.
<br>Over the next century, his coterie of dragons expanded, and through their might and his own he threw down the local mortal kingdoms and installed his own rule in place. This Empire he called the ''Ascendancy'', named after the central tenet that he was a dragon ascended to godhood, and that he and his draconic followers were the rightful inheritors of the earth. He would brook no rule besides his own, and so began a period of aggressive conquest.
<br>The Ascendancy was seemingly unstoppable. United behind ''Endless Night'' the draconic and mortal armies swept across the land, crushing all who stood before them. Dragons were given the choice between bending the knee to ''Endless Night'', or being killed. Mortals were given the choice of converting to the worship of ''Endless Night'', or being burnt for heresy. Mortal monarchies and republics were conquered, and in their place the ''Theocracy of the Ascendancy'' was installed. ''Endless Night'' ruled over the Dragons of the Ascendancy, who direct the ''Priesthood of Night'' in his name, and who in turn rule the conquered mortal peoples through a combination of fear, force of arms and religious control.
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