Shards of Ardothun

The Shards of Ardothun are ten Exalted-class deities who were born through the splitting of the Primordial Ardothun's essence at this death. Each of them is said to be a manifestation of a different aspect of the fallen Primordial, which is reflected in their appearances as dragons of different colors, and each became the originator of their respective Dragonflight.

The Shards

Chromatic Shards

Metallic Shards

At their inception, each of these Shards was as powerful as another of their number, but as they began growing their Dragonflights' numbers, clear rifts began to form between them, both in terms of power and their relations to each other. In particular, Mith and Rhūiz despised each other to the point of two major wars being fought in their names, eventually ending with both deities' demise, as well as the Silver Dragonflight being brought to the brink of extinction due to a genocidal plot by the Red Dragonflight following the Second Red-Silver War.