by tink and jasper
In the old world, The Dendro Dragon Apep.
was suspected to the the ruler of Sumeru as one of the members of the Seven Elemental Sovereigns.
During the great war a member of the original Seelie race, most likely being Nabu Malikata, survivied the downfall of the Seelie race.
During the archon was Nabu Malikata, Greater lord Rukkhadevata and King Deshret formed a bond with eachother and became known as the God-Kings of Sumeru.
At one point in time Nabu Malikata foresaw the events that would later be known as the cataclysm.
In response, she creates a shard of Khvarena and would leave it in the care of Greater lord Rukkhadevata.
Rukkhadevata would turn that shard into the divine bird, Simurgh.
She charged Simurgh with “the guardianship of the border between new birth and death”.
The 3 god-kings of Sumeru build Ay-Khanoum, the ‘city of Amphitheaters’, which means ‘City of the Moon Maiden’.
Nabu Malikata later dies “due to the malice of the burning sun and yellow sand” and the city of Ay-Khanoum is destroyed.
After separating from King Deshret, Greater lord Rukkhadevata goes to the east of the Great Red Sand and creates the Varuna Contraption that terraformed a part of the desert into a rainforest.
At the border between the rainforest and desert, the Wall of Samiel was created to protect the rain forest from undergoing desertification.
With the help of her followers, who would later go on to establish the Amurta Darshan of the Sumeru Akademiya, Rukkhadevata delevoped a flourishing rainforest.
Sumeru City was built on the Divine Tree, a particularly massive tree located in Sumeru's forest region.