Draconic Apsu

Draconic Apsu is a 4,000-line epic recounting the creation of the true dragons as recorded in the fourth generation by the gold dragon sage Gunnarrex.¹ Most famous are the first nine lines of the epic, portions of which appear throughout draconic literature and the most legendary of draconic locales.

“

I shall then be Apsu,
for I am the first.
I am the primeval,
who was of Heaven
and of Material
before they had names,
for I created them with Chaos.
I then shall go
and I shall end Death.

”

The first two lines are by far the most widely encountered excerpt from this passage, and are carved into the faces of the Obelisks of Fate and Destiny. The final line, "and I shall end death," appears throughout Dragonfall, and is frequently used as a battle cry by metallic dragons when they enter combat with their chromatic kin.²³

References

↑ Paizo ceased the use of metallic dragons with the publication of Monster Core, as part of the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. When mentioned in Monster Core and subsequent publications, existing metallic dragons might be retroactively changed to new or equivalent types of non-metallic dragons.
↑ Mike McArtor. “Dragons of Golarion” in Fortress of the Stone Giants, 61. Paizo Inc., 2007
↑ Paizo ceased the use of chromatic dragons with the publication of Monster Core, as part of the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. When mentioned in Monster Core and subsequent publications, existing chromatic dragons might be retroactively changed to new or equivalent types of non-chromatic dragons.

[1] Paizo ceased the use of metallic dragons with the publication of Monster Core, as part of the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. When mentioned in Monster Core and subsequent publications, existing metallic dragons might be retroactively changed to new or equivalent types of non-metallic dragons.

[fortress-of-the-stone-giants-61-2] Mike McArtor. “Dragons of Golarion” in Fortress of the Stone Giants, 61. Paizo Inc., 2007

[3] Paizo ceased the use of chromatic dragons with the publication of Monster Core, as part of the Pathfinder Second Edition Remaster Project. When mentioned in Monster Core and subsequent publications, existing chromatic dragons might be retroactively changed to new or equivalent types of non-chromatic dragons.

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