The Monster Factory

While I was busy relaxing, regaining the power I used to imbue them with a minor power of creation. Better that way it gave them time to make all their own children, their own monsters so that I didn't have to waste energy doing so. Tiamat was the first to give birth or create a new species depending on how you want to look at it. She had plucked a red scale from the red dragon's head and used that as the basis for creating one of the first dragon species, which would be the strongest of the chromatic dragons. 

Then Bahamut began making, plucking a golden scale, and crafting a golden scale egg. One that would rival the red dragons in terms of power but not in personality, not in what their innate nature would be. Where the red dragons would be a symbol of a dragon's destructive power and arrogance, the gold dragons would be their wisdom, the best of dragon kind besides Bahamut. At least that would be how a human interprets them, all I cared about is that one side would represent order and the other chaos no matter the form. 

The elementals too were beginning the creation process, after their realms had been stabilized and properly integrated into their home plane, my plane did they get to work. Leviathan was creating massive beasts of the sea, beings made of flesh and water, or in some cases entirely made out of water, bringing in the elemental water magic. A bit more complex than what Tiamat or Bahamut were doing but they had a better grasp on it somehow, perhaps because they were doing it in their own realm. 

Behemoth created creatures of the earth, those who would burrow beneath the ground and who would breathe life into the underground. Unlike Leviathan they create a variety of gigantic ones but small ones as well, the tiny ones you would never bat an eye at if you saw them for a second. They looked like a mixture of worms, moles, creatures that dig and burrow beneath the earth mixed with gems and rocks. 

Then there was Aetharious, he created winged creatures like Leviathan and Behemoth did, mixing the flesh and power of the air, of storms. They mostly made true elementals, however, beings made of storms or the air, limiting the type of creatures he made with flesh or more physical substance. Instead of being more tied to the physical plane, they were more attuned to the spiritual or magic side of things. I could tell they would be a bit more intelligent than the rest, maybe not as much as the dragons would be but they would understand magic a bit deeper than most. 

Finally Vulcanus, from the realm that became my plane's sun did they craft monsters of power and might. Ones that existed purely for whatever extreme they wished, some were made of rock and lava, others of pure flames. Vulcanus gave them each a purpose, some would be passionate beings pursuing art, others destructive and powerful who would shape the realm as they wanted. 

While they would all be monsters to mortals, to beings who weren't like them, they would not all be purely evil. Some would give inspiration to mortals across the universe once everything was ready when they had gained wisdom and knowledge. When they understood what their purpose in this world was, what they wished to do with their existence. While following your instincts is good and all, if they didn't have a purpose beyond it, even while knowing they weren't mindless animals or beasts they had a mind, intelligence, sentience, and most importantly sapience. 

They knew they could think, make decisions of their own, and had self-awareness of their existence. Even Drasilaga while they weren't making monsters of animals right away, they were spreading life across my world, the plane we existed in. Tartarus is the place where monsters would go after death and in some cases exist before, it would be their purgatory. Neither heaven nor hell, for it would not be paradise for them but neither would it be a torturous existence. 

It would simply be like earth, a place for them to rest and return to the world when they saw fit. Well, that was if there wasn't a special case, something that would force them to return or be forced to stay. This also brought up another point I needed to iron out, would those who died be granted physical forms again? 

I mean some corporations from when I was human simply reused old material, they recycled and just kept on using the same stuff over and over. So why couldn't I, this place would be their purgatory, a place where they could live again so of course I would grant them a physical body. I might've been one of the weakest of the Elder gods but I could grant them this. 

It was a monster factory after all, best to reuse materials instead of always scrambling to come up with new ones. A little uncreative yes but it would free up some time for me to come up with new ones, to put a bit more thought into potential new releases. 

Again though I needed to rest, to let them create for a while and bring about more mana into this environment, create a place where magic could be used freely. Maybe I would try my hand at the blue slime creature again, only a bit more refined, less mana used when creating it. It was possible this would weaken the overall power of the creature so I would need to figure out the specifics, trial and error as they say. 

I think the only reason the first seven worked out well so far was because I had a basis for what I wanted, I based Tiamat and Bahamut on Tiamat from DnD although Bahamut was a metallic dragon instead of chromatic, it still applied however. Drasilaga was based on Yggdrasil albeit with more draconic parts to them, with the elemental beings more based on either real life animals or in some cases mythological or legendary ones. 

No I needed to plan for my next work, an original monster, so for now let my monster factory thrive, it would be worth it soon enough.