For eons, equilibrium was maintained, the deadlands contained and the cycle of life and death unbroken. At that time, Adon and Cathena parted ways. Adon exploring the possibilities of his powers, desperate to find a way to cure the deadlands and regain the corrupt energy lost, assuming that Cathena did the same. Instead, she was set to find a way to protect her creatures from Adon's touch. Blinded by the love for her own creation Cathena didn't hold the pact with Adon in high regard. Being obsessed with the idea of manifesting enough of her own energy into her creatures to be able to grant them eternal life, while circumventing the expansion of the deadlands.

Knowing what Cathena was trying to conceive, the energy bound to her seemed to withdraw the moment she wanted to transfer it to her creations. But as Cathena explored further, she observed that the energy was allowing her to infuse it with dead subjects, and even allowing her to withdraw it from them rather than from the constant flow of energy around Altea. The realization came quickly, she needed a way of caging the energy, creating a well that only she can tap into, where it would be impossible for it to withdraw from her. To create that well she called to Adon, he should craft a crystal powerful enough to cage the energy.

"Lend me your power Adon, for I have found a way to trap the energy which will empower us to cure the deadlands." - Cathena

Astounded by her surprising breakthrough, Adon didn't hesitate to help her. Once the crystal was crafted Cathena started to gather as much energy as she could and redirected it into the dead stone. Filled to the brim with bustling energy the crystal started to glow bright yellow and as Cathena tapped into her own well of energy creating a young tree seedling, infusing it with all the energy she caged, it didn't withdraw. With the greatest care, she planted the seedling, waiting and watching the tree grow bigger and bigger, hoping to have crafted eternal life that could not be touched by Adon's power.

But after years of continued growth, the tree started to crack at the base, birthing beings that looked like a reflection of herself, with minor differences. It was at that moment that the first elves came to be and Cathena proclaimed them Iolas and Ayda, which from that moment on were known as the Eldest Elves. Born into adulthood the elven twins didn't seem to age even after they had lived many centuries, evidence that Cathena indeed created eternal life.