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Bear with me; the wiki sucks, and this one is long.
There's an old story about the beginning of the world: in the beginning, there was nothing but a Goddess - the embodiment of wakfu, the cardinal force of motion and life - and a Dragon - the embodiment of stasis, the cardinal force of stillness and destruction. The two, so the tale says, met in the middle of this nothingness, fell in love, and began a 'Dance' (i.e. endless celestial sex): they formed egg-shaped galaxies, planets, and everything now known as the Krosmoz. After a time of this, though, they grew lonely; they wanted children terribly, something to live on in their big ol' world. From their second Dance, they brought forth six dragon eggs, each containing one dragon and one humanoid space elf Eliatrope. These twelve - referred to as the 'Eliatrope Council' in later years - would reincarnate for eternity, destined to be the leaders of their people.
So begins the story of Qilby, his dragon sister Shinonome, and their ten 'brothers and sisters.'
As it happened, Qilby turned out to be a gifted scientist, capable of making great medical and scientific advances; he and his brother, the inventor/prophet/patriarch... general jack-of-all-trades Chibi, worked together on many of the inventions the Eliatrope people relied on. The convenient Zaap system of portals, the (much later) Wik-Fi you can laugh network of flowers that enabled communication over long distances... Qilby had some hand in it all. He solved plagues, likely figured out ways to grow plants to optimize their wakfu yield (a Big Thing for Eliatropes, whose powers rely on wakfu), and generally scienced up everything imaginable.
--But there was one drawback: Remember how they reincarnate endlessly? The other ten siblings didn't retain their memories from their past lives; their minds were essentially wiped clean. Qilby and Shinonome, though, remembered everything. Every single life's journey, every mistake, every triumph, every slight and rejection: Qilby remembered it all.
Cool, right? Nah. Imagine watching your loved ones make the same mistakes over and over again, never bothering to listen to you - and imagine being a naturally curious mind who's stuck in a room forever. For Qilby, an inquisitive mind with millennia of scope, that 'room' was their homeworld. After he had exhausted the planet's natural secrets over and over again, becoming more and more frustrated with a lack of things to do, he figured something had to change. What had to change, more specifically, was that they had to get off their planet.
Qilby decided that the best idea was to start a war with the Mechasms, a robotic race next door with whom the Eliatropes had a cheerful-enough relationship. (Great idea, right? Send the giant space robots down? Sure.) He stole the heart of their youngest member, Orgonax, created an artifact of unimaginable power out of it, and used it to propel the remainder of their people to the stars after a long, hard battle. The mountain he carved his spaceship from, Mount Zinit, would later become a holy land; Qilby would become very bitter about this.
The problem with spaceflight, of course, is that it requires power. The problem with power in this universe, of course, is that it comes from living things. Combine the amount of rapid spaceflight they did to escape the Mechasms and the massive amount of power said spaceflight required, and... The Eliatropes touched down on countless planets, only to kill all their inhabitants in the process of taking off. It's remarkable how much Qilby didn't give a shit about all the deaths he was responsible for.
They did the space-faring thing for awhile, but when the Mechasms were deemed less of a threat, the Eliatropes decided to settle down on a little, out-of-the-way planet. (It sucks to raise children on a spaceship that leaves a trail of dead planets, after all.) They lived for awhile in peace: Chibi as their king, their sister Mina as his high priestess and secret lover, their young and naive brother Yugo as Chibi's protege, and Qilby feeling generally put out by the whole thing. Qilby could have been happy here for awhile... But this world, too, became stale. Qilby became disillusioned with the Eliatropes' growing allegiance to religion, the Council's secretive nature, and their life on one planet. The only thing Qilby could look forward to was the possibility of his old friend giving him the title of king - so when Chibi finally died and gave the throne to Yugo, not Qilby, the latter was furious.
Nobody knows whether it was Qilby who tipped the Mechasms off to their location, or whether Orgonax just found the planet itself. Either way, Qilby's original treachery was made known when Orgonax came down, raining fire and stasis and general unpleasantness. The dragon Phaeris bit off Qilby's left arm in rage. The now-king Yugo fought bitterly with an Eliacube-augmented
And so Qilby was sealed within the "Blank Dimension," a literal dimension of pure white nothingness. The world ended outside, leaving a smoldering crater and a couple of dragons to lord over it. Someday, life would return to the World of Twelve, but not before ten thousand years passed.
Ten thousand years of complete isolation would be enough to make anyone crazy, right? It'd be enough to make anyone lie about being king, manipulate a literal thirteen-year-old, try to kill said literal thirteen-year-old, and make a pact with a demon to go to the stars... Right? But I'll be taking him from just after he's released from that imprisonment, and before any of that happens.