By 30,000 years ago, non-corporeal lifeforms known as the "Prophets" began influencing Bajoran society. They described themselves as "of Bajor", and were worshipped as gods by the Bajorans. The Prophets had enmity for a group of fellow non-corporeals called the "Pah-wraiths". One of each were sealed together in a stone tablet in a city that was abandoned 5,000 years later. Here, the beings would be imprisoned for tens of thousands of years, awaiting an important religious figure described as the Emissary.