#i've been building my lore surrounding my thirteen and their layout

[tflegendarium]

The Birth of the Quintessons

Quintus was given the power of creation and was well beloved. He though possessed a desire to wander and spread out. He went out to create more species, not content to be contained on Cybertron, but before he departed passed on a slice of his power to Micronus, Vector, and Solus who helped to forge Vector Sigma.

Quintus seeded worlds and created stars and life far reaching which resulted in some commonalities across existence. He wandered dancing and laughing and never lingering long once life took hold.

Millennia into his wanderings, he paused on a lone planetoid far from home. His dancing ceased long enough to feel the grief of separation from his siblings and dozing maker. He was inspired to try and create a race made of those aspects he missed most from his siblings.

Solus’s desire for creation.

Liege’s cleverness with words.

Prima’s insistence on perfection.

Megatronus’s pride.

Alchemist’s unrelenting curiosity.

Vector’s penchant for cool headed observation.

Onyx’s appreciation for the changing nature of the world.

Nexus’s desire to share with others.

Micronus’s creativity.

Mortilus’s patience.

Adaptus’s ability for growth and change.

Epistemus’s great intellect.

He proclaimed them the greatest of his children and named them after himself, Quintessons.

Quintus settled with his creations to watch them grow as he had not before and was delighted. His spark bright and filled in a way his wanderings had never inspired. He loved them well and they returned it.

Above all others he loved his First Born, into whom he poured the most of himself and his memories. But within this he also unknowingly included his Creator’s link to Unicron. Unicron felt the shifting of this newness and reached for it. The First Born, much like with her creator, reached back and Unicron poured himself into her.

The Quintessons grew and so did their desire to meet their kin. Quintus was delighted and sent word to his siblings of his children who would come from the stars. The First Born insisted they could not go empty handed and that they must bring gifts for their Creator’s relatives, so the reunion was delayed. But now Quintus’s eyes turned homewards for the first time in thousands of years.

Behind his back his First Born conspired with Unicron.

She wanted the full breadth of her Creator’s powers so she could use it to bend her race to her will and the rest of the “lesser” creations that predated them, for she believed that they were Quintus’s ultimate creation. Unicron would help her in this, but she in turn must help him and he sent her the Great Gifts.

The Requiem Blaster, the Star Saber, and the Sky Shield were hidden among those crafted by the Quintessons and considered the greatest among them.

Quintus was delighted when he saw them and even more so when his First Born showed them they were Mini-Cons, made by the “spark of creation” he left in her and modeled after his dearest sibling Micronus.

Quintus though the most lighthearted of the Primes was no fool and eventually recognized the mark of Unicron. He sought to warn his siblings, but was captured by his First Born, most beloved of his children, whom he could not raise his hand against, and sealed away power ripped from him to serve her.

These poisoned gifts were then sent to his siblings with the tidings that fickle Quintus had been unable to stop his roving feet. The First Born saw these gifts well received and the Mini-Cons awakened and bonded with their Primes before departing with warm words to return in friendship.

With this the War of the Primes was set into motion as Quintus was condemned to be silent and buried, powering his child’s conquest of all those before her.