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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameDoc" data-source="post: 6388563" data-attributes="member: 53915">Here's a crack at dragonborn that pays a bit of homage to the 4e origin of being transported from Aiber in an event that also destroyed Unther and Mulhorand (which also gets rid of the Egyptian and Babylonian pantheons, leaving only the Faerunian Powers).[HR][/HR]                   DRAGONBORN     AT A GLANCE:  The Dragonborn are relative newcomers to the Realms and only in the past century well known enough to walk openly among civilized folk without being thought monsters.  They are somewhat larger than humans, with scaled skin and largely draconic features, although they lack tails or wings.  Their scales range in color from rust red to greenish bronze to pale gray, but never the bright colors or pure metallic hues of true dragons.      ELMINSTER’S NOTES: The Dragonborn were transplanted here from another world in the Year of the (1052 DR).  A great storm of some unknown magical origin (which came to be known as the Dragonstorm) began in the Alamber Sea and expanded outward.  By the time it subsided, it had swept away nearly all traces of central Unther and Mulhorand and the people who lived there.  The Dragonborn city of Tymanchaber and a great mote of the earth it sat upon was deposited in the eye of the storm and promptly began to sink into the sea.  The fleeing inhabitants washed ashore along the southern coast and slowly began rebuilding.         With aught but wastelands in all directions, the Dragonborn initially turned to a seafaring life for survival, exploring outward towards the Inner Sea.  It was not until much later that overland trade routes were established with the lands of the Shaar.  To date, the lands held by the Dragonborn (which they named Tymanther) are not large enough to support their numbers, and Dragonborn clans have established themselves in other parts of the Realms, generally agreeing to abide by the laws of the cities and nations where they take up residence.  Many clans remain eternal seafarers, born, raised, and dying aboard ship and buried at sea.       Dragonborn are remiss to speak of the Dragonstorm or of the world they came from, although it may be of note that they often call it “Other-Toril”.  Whether they simply use “Toril” as a generic word for “world” or whether the implication is that they come from some parallel version of Aiber-Toril itself is unknown.</blockquote>

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