According to Dominion legend, on one planet, a group of Vorta – a species of small, timid, ape-like forest dwellers living in hollowed-out trees – hid a Changeling from an angry mob, and in return the Changeling promised that one day they would be transformed into powerful beings and placed at the head of a vast interstellar empire.
Solids, fearing the Changelings' metamorphic abilities, beat, hunted and killed them. They went in peace but were too often met with suspicion, hatred, and violence. They roamed the stars searching out other races, so they could add to their knowledge of the galaxy. Several millennia ago, Changelings were a mono-formed race who were given morphogenic abilities by a giant Changeling called the Progenitor. The history of the Dominion begins with the history of the Founders as recorded in the memory of the Great Link.
