After the end of the Mythic Age and the split between the material world and the spirit world, where the Elemental Dragons were locked away from their mortal servants, the humans joined the other elder races in the Shantiri Empire, until it fell in the Elder Wars. In 3 YSD, Ronan the Great, High King of the Falcon clan, unified the human tribes of the plains into the great Falcon Empire, which his son was to inherit after him. Sar-Elam, the Seventh Dragon, blessed the new monarch and told him that his line would endure as long as the world did.