From circa Common Year –4210 to 1758, dragons were so rare in the
Land of the Diamond Throne that few could claim to have ever seen one,
or to have known someone who has seen one. Each dragon lived in such
utter seclusion that people began to think them merely beings of legend
and myth—particularly the noble and good metallic dragons. Many of
these strange, enigmatic creatures went mad. Those still sane were wise
in ways that no other living creature could be.
Then, in Common Year 1758, the squamous horde returned. In
Thartholan and Verdune the sky darkened with their coming. In the
Central Plains and Zalavat their homecoming was far more subtle. Their
agents, the dracha, came first—and even then in small numbers. The
dracha obtained an assessment of the current political situation and the
disposition of each of the major races. With few exceptions, every city,
town, and village was new to the dragons, despite having once dwelled in
this land for so long. In some cases, even the geography itself had
changed, albeit usually in small ways.
Within months, a draconic envoy arrived in De-Shamod. No fewer
than 30 massive dragons and a cadre of smaller specimens and dracha
sought audience with Lady Protector Ia-Thordani. They came
bearing gifts of gratitude—artifacts of magical power the likes of
which no one had ever seen. These treasures they presented to
the giants to pay their respects to the champions who had
destroyed the dramojh once and for all.
Then, calling upon pacts and treaties forged more than five
thousand years earlier by Erixilimar himself, the dragons
demanded that the giants leave the land they called Dor-
Erthenos—a land that the dragons called Serranstel, the Star of
Serran, or simply, the Land of the Dragons.
Today, they await the giant’s response.
