The steads

The Steads are the gods of the world, originally there were thousands of them, and after the stead war, we are left with only 2. The steads are made up of magic, and each has a constellation corresponding to the stead, that gives them power. They can all shape shift, and can possess any person that has a line of an animal they have killed ex: Klid has killed the Heron, so if somone had the line of the heron then Klid could posess them.

The steads are the ancient magic. This magic was formed into 6 animals that are all huge. When a stead kills another stead, They absorb that steads power, which just makes them bigger, and makes the other stead die. The only way to kill a stead, is to break the part of the body that the consciousness resides in. The consciousness is about the size of a human brain. Steads can change how they look, and can change form into a human. They can also give power to other living things like people, and plants. Doing so just gives the plants/animals more energy, and can heal people, or accelerate growth in plants, or give plants special properties. Steads have always had the mind of an adult, and have always been on the single continent of the world. The first Stead killed was Parayuk (the giant eagle) by accident by Klid (the giant goat). This started the Stead war, which ended just as the King rises book starts. The Stead war ended with the mass expulsion of power from Skalos (Giant Crab). The Steads have been alive for thousands of year.