On Scylla, Hal Jorden encounters a giant woman who calls her self Quarra the Creator and is altering the surface of the planet. Unable to defeat her she leaves to join her companions. Returning to Oa Hal is stunned the Guardians react with fear to his construct reconstruction of her and is informed by the Book of Oa that before the people of Maltus even had reason they were ruled by the Triarch gods Quarra the Creator, Archor the Sustainer, and Tzodar the Destroyer. After killing their father, Daalon they leave Maltus vowing that they would one day return...and remake the universe.