Loneliness.
Despair.
Loss.
His sister, torn away from him.
His world, cast out of.
His father, killed.
Imprisoned in an Elemental Plane with only the clothes on his back, and the blade he wields, Tanin settles down to wait.
And wait.
And wait.
Eras are born, and Eras fall. Eons come and pass, and time flows on, an eternal river that cannot be stopped.
13 million years.
He waited.
And one day, something changed.