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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7033058" data-attributes="member: 12388">"Dragon Dreams Of The Forest Kingdom"1. Catchy title, don't you think?2. There are more dragons sleeping in lairs in the Thunder Peaks and Stormhorns than you might imagine--far more.3. If all of these dragons were to wake up and go gallivanting through Cormyr, raiding and eating and causing mayhem as they went, they'd all of them be breaking treaties and Draconic Law.4. Draconic Law bound the mighty black dragon Thauglorimorgorus, when that creature lost a Feint of Honor to the elf Iliphar, known widely in Cormanthyr to the northeast as the Lord of Scepters. And so rule over the Forest Country passed from dragon to elf in the Year of Good Hunting, -205 DR.5. 231 years later, the Fair Folk of the Forest Country bound themselves by treaty to the human settlers that lived along the southern coast of Iliphar's realm. And so rule over the Forest Country passed from elves to humans in the Year of Opening Doors, 26 DR.6. Humans have ruled what is now called the Forest Kingdom for fourteen and a half centuries. But the dragons who were once vassals of the mighty Purple Dragon--as Thauglorimorgorus was known--remember when all the forests and mountains were called the Lands of the Purple Dragon. Likewise the dragons that came to the mountains after elves and men took over, the former quietly settling in and waiting.7. The madness that overwhelms all dragons in the Realms bathed Cormyr--and much of the Heartlands--in destruction. No treaty or Law of Dragons could prevent what occurred in 1018 DR, Year of the Dracorage. If the rumors were true then Old Thaug himself was pulled out of his slumber only to die an unworthy death at the hands of humans of the Forest Kingdom.8. Yet the dragons that survived saw an opportunity to raid the lairs of their less fortunate kin. Some did this immediately, while others saw first to the defense of their own lairs and the slaying of rivals sure to come knocking at the door, before searching out that rival's lair to take all that could be found. But the lair of Thauglor was never found. Or at least, it was never found in the decade or so following the Rage of Dragons.9. As the dragons settled back into their lairs, they wondered, "Whither Thauglor?" If the Purple Dragon was truly slain, did it not follow that a grand hoard lay unguarded? The rumblings that ran scattershot through the Thunder Peaks and Stormhorns over the next decade were not earthquakes, but draconic shivers of delight at the thought of so much treasure waiting to be claimed.10. Some dragons shivered in fear, however, knowing as they did that Thauglor was no mere trickster, but a cunning dragon that had defeated all challengers once century after the next. To hunt for Thauglor's lair was to court disaster--but even they could not resist.11. The search for Thauglor's lair continues in modern-day Cormyr. Bold adventurers oft proclaim they are searching for it, and these are almost certainly not agents of any of the sleeping dragons that lair in the mountains that surround Cormyr on three sides.12. Humans and members of the other lesser races who do search for the Lair Most Coveted do not realize they are doing the work of dragons. The few that do often end up dead. A rare few are given to understand just who they are working for; for some this is a thrill, for others a terror. Regardless, the work continues.13. To be thrall to a dragon is to carry a mark. Usually a tattoo or other subtle mark not easily visible, such as the image of a dragon's head no wider than a fingertip placed behind one's ear that is the color of the dragon to whom the thrall is bound.14. Such individuals are pieces on a grand chessboard that all the sleeping dragons can see in their mind's eye while they sleep.15. The minds of sleeping dragons ride the ebb and flow of magic. Simply casting a spell can lure to one's self the Sleeping Eye of a dragon. The caster won't see the eye--it's something far more subtle than the invisible sensor from a Scrying spell--nor will the dragon speak or try to communicate through it. The dragon is after all sleeping, and the eye only watches.16. Sages have speculated over how sleeping dragons can seem unaffected by centuries of slumber; how they move about as though the changing world never passed them by. The answer is simple: The mind of a dragon remembers what it sees in its sleep. Older dragons are capable of seeing many events at the same time. The eldest can ever so subtly influence these events--if they relate to magic.17. And with all that out of the way, I think the next best question to ask is: What do the sleeping dragons that lair around modern-day (1491 DR) Cormyr see? Who do they focus on? And what do they truly dream about when the focus of their sleeping minds turns away from the world to ponder ideas or tactics, and imagine outcomes? What does Cormyr under their dreaming draconic thumb look like? And when they are awake, what moves will they make to see their vision turned into a reality?18. This is fodder for a DMs Guild sourcebook.</blockquote>

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