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At the conclusion of the war between the [[Divine Dragon|Divine]] and [[Earth Dragon]]s in [[timeline of Archanea, Valentia and Jugdral|the year -740]], the Table was the site where the Divine Dragon leader [[Naga]] imprisoned the defeated Earth Dragons, to ensure they provided no further menace to the fledgling [[human]] population of Archanea.  Using the [[Shield of Seals]] she created, Naga placed almost all Earth Dragons in a permanent sleep underneath the Table,<ref>{{Cite| And then... the divine dragon Naga, strongest of them all, waged a war for humanity. It was a fierce battle, but Naga emerged victorious in the end, and sealed the earth dragons below Dolhr, in a deep sleep. And so that the power of the seal would not wither, she created the "shield of the five orbs" and placed it in the Fane of Raman.|[[Xane]]|New Mystery of the Emblem}}</ref> then entrusted the guardianship of the site to [[Medeus]], the former Earth Dragon prince and the sole Earth Dragon to become a [[Manakete]].<ref>{{Cite|Medeus, an Earth Dragon prince, was the only one of his tribe who become a Manakete. And, as ordered by Naga, he guarded the Dragon's Table.|[[Xane]]|New Mystery of the Emblem}}</ref>  Medeus eventually abandoned the Table after over a thousand years in order to found Dolhr and seek vengeance against the crimes of humanity; additionally, four hundred years earlier the seal upon the imprisoned Earth Dragons was weakened by the breakage of the Shield of Seals by [[Adrah]], the founder of [[Archanea (nation)|Archanea]].  At some point after Medeus's departure, the Table came to be occupied by an assortment of barbarians and other feral dragons.<ref>{{Cite|Prince Marth, in this table lurks many savage barbarians and mage dragons long gone mad.|[[Gotoh]]|New Mystery of the Emblem}}</ref>

In the year 608, three years after Medeus's second death, the Dark Pontifex [[Gharnef]] and his fellowship of heretic priests occupied the Table for use in Medeus's resurrection, hypnotising the Table's assortment of vagabond denizens for use as servants and warriors for their defense.<ref>{{Cite|They have fallen under Gharnef's spell and will attack you given the chance.|[[Gotoh]]|New Mystery of the Emblem}}</ref> By this time, the imprisoned Earth Dragons had begun to awaken and emerge, centuries after the weakening of the seal by the breaking of the Shield of Seals.<ref>{{Cite|Even sleeping earth dragons should not awaken for centuries or so.|[[Gotoh]]|New Mystery of the Emblem}}</ref> However, Prince [[Marth]] of [[Altea]] had restored the Shield to its complete state, and so travelled to the Table to prevent Medeus's revival and the release of the Earth Dragons.  At the Table, he and his army engaged Gharnef and Medeus's followers in battle, slew both again and used the Shield of Seals to return the Earth Dragons to slumber.