No one knows how long humans had lived on Kellaria before the Pashe-ki arrived. Not much information was saved in the great Pashe-ki Raid, and not much of the population of the main continent survived. Before the Pashe-ki, the Kellarians were a technologically advanced people, and were successfully experimenting with genetic enhancement. They had gone as far as experimenting with multi-colored pigmentation in humans and other animals (namely Ganras, whose original colors where brown and white. No Ganras exist in their original coloring today.). The approximate population of the Kellarian provinces before the Pashe-ki was 783 million. After, it had been reduced to 17.9 million.

     The Pashe-ki attacked when the humans were most vulnerable: in the middle of the night, when everybody was sleeping. The Kellarians, seeing no major predators, had very limited protection against the creatures, so it was basically a mass slaughter. They spared no mercy on children and infants.

     What was left of the humans, threatened as they were, set up camp in modern-day Romea. It took them quite a while to move all their supplies to their new headquarters, but with the help of the native dragons (who were extremely intelligent, however, they had hid from the humans until the Pashe-ki had virtually wiped them out), the task was much easier.

     The Pashe-ki attacks kept coming, and their numbers were rapidly increasing. Still no one had figured out how the Pashe-ki had even gotten to Kellaria, and records indicate that by then, the Pashe-ki had taken over both the eastern and western continents.

     More and more people were dying, so finally a council sat down for three days straight and discussed alternatives. Finally a solution arose: they would become allies with the dragons. And not just fighting side-by-side allies, either. They were willing to become a part of each other. This would strengthen communications, and help organization in defenses. This would mean that the dragons would have to undergo genetic implants, while still in the egg. Similar procedures had been done to test subjects in previous years, but the tests were preliminary in the attempt, and they had no idea if it would be successful in such a large scale. The reasons for this type of mental experimentation was performed on small rodents to try and cure human brain disorders (the human would bond to the mouse, and the mouse's brain would have basically the same make-up of the human's, so the human brain, when it came in physical contact with the mouse brain, adapted it into itself, thereby adding more brain mass and perhaps a lost piece of memory). What this experimentation did was that as the subject was a mere embryo, a virus was released into it; a special virus that altered genetic coding. These viruses were programmable, and were programmed to alter the development of the creature, and to change the way the creature's mind works.

     At first this technique was tried only on dragons with only a few eggs in each clutch, but as their experimenting grew more successful, it was seen as an obligation by the dragons.

     The human/dragon bonding was basically perfect but for one drawback. Depending on color pigmentation of the original dragon, a size variation occurred. Some grew larger, and some smaller. This created the modern dragon ranks. The new generation of "dragonriders" were dubbed "Generation Alpha" by the older survivors, for bonding was more common among younger teens. It was the beginning of a new era in Kellarian History.

     Just as bonding had been fully bred into dragons, requiring no human intervention anymore, the Pashe-ki attacked again. There had been a time when they were thought to have been exterminated, for there were no traces of them anywhere on the planet. However, they did come back, with a size similar to the first devastating attack. But this time they were more or less prepared.

     A few weapons had been manufactured, but the most efficient weapons were the dangerous mental abilities of the dragons and their bonded. These traits, too, were developed as a result of the genetic enhancement.

     Although the new "weapons" were advanced in every way, it seems as it wasn't enough to protect the newfound capital city of Romea. All technology was lost, and there were even more fatalities.

     The Pashe-ki, being the completely sadistic creatures they are, backed off after slaughtering only 25% of the population, allowing the Kellarians to regroup (their theory was that if they backed off and let the population grow and become more advanced in warfare, then the kill/hunt would become more interesting).

     A year went by with no sign of the Pashe-ki. Then two, three, five, a decade. The population was increasing; slowly, but surely. 6 new "Citadels" as they had called them came into existence: Cantek, Menti, Telleka (now South Telleka), Necromea, Dryse, and Dentily. After 100 years, Kellaria's population was a steady 175 million.

     Many people chose the route of bonding a dragon, like how nowadays, 80% of the population chooses to do so. The other people occupied themselves with other necessities of life: hunting, fishing, cooking, cleaning, building, weaving, sewing, and blacksmithing. Trade went on only in the main capital of Romea, for various reasons, and under normal circumstances, non-dragonriders paid or gave gifts to those who frequently protected them. There were only 3 settlements of unbonded, the most sheltered and protected: Cantek, Dryse, and Romea.