At the end of the third age, the Tidelord swam for days, looking for a place to call home. As he swam, prophecies of unwanted futures and consequences echoed in his head. One night, he could take it no longer, and raised his head above the water to gaze upon the night sky. At this moment, a star fell from the sky and shattered, landing in the water around him. A single fragment landed on the Tidelord’s head. Almost immediately, the voices in his head quietened.

The Tidelord blinked. He tipped his head, allowing the fragment to fall gently into his claws. The rock — no, the starfire — glowed slightly with a silver hue, but didn’t seem to hold any magic. Unimpressed, the Tidelord swept up the fragments of starfire in the water and huffed a stream of water magic over them, disintegrating them into tiny pieces. In his haste to leave, he failed to notice that the fragments had begun to glow blue.

Over time, the starfire fragments infused with water magic morphed to take the form of small energy sprites. As the dragon clans grew and multiplied, the sprites decided to take the form of dragon breeds. Slowly, they began to act and live more and more like dragons, with some even gaining elemental magic from other flights. And thus, the Starflyers were born.

As the Starflyers popularity grew among the dragon clans, Beastclans began to take notice. They discovered that any part of a Starflyer could negate dragon magic, regardless of whether the dragon was alive. The Beastclans began hunting the Starflyers in large numbers, slaughtering them for their scales and horns. It became a necessity in Beastclan abodes to have parts of a Starflyer in their homes, protecting it from the destruction of the dragon clans. As naturally peaceful creatures, the Starflyers never stood a chance.

The last known Starflyers disappeared after a skirmish with Maren above the Leviathan Trench. A clanless mated pair and their three hatchlings. The pair had stayed above to hold back the advancing Maren, leaving the two older hatchlings to hide their youngest sibling, barely a moon old. Xe barely managed to hide xem before the deepsea Marens ripped xry hearts from xyr chests and harvested the scales from xyr skin. The youngest Starflyer is said to have been found and perished soon after, but grieving clanmates of other starflyers hold on to the hope that xe is still safe.