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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9174513" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Ooh, hadn't considered that. Perhaps Nentir Vale is part of one of the larger islands, and the fall of its empire shattered what was once an effective peace? E.g. a country not directly ruled by any dragons meant all the dragons had to &quot;play the game&quot; on essentially the same footing.Would be fun to re-cast the Arkhosia/Bael Turath war in those lights. Instead of Arkhosia falling to artificial drought and desertification, perhaps the Turathi held in reserve a great and terrible weapon, to be used only as a last resort...and when they did, it shattered the continent of Arkhosia into a bazillion islands and the magical blowback from such a devastating assault destroyed what remained of Bael Turath too.Dragons, lairing in such defensible places as they are wont to do, thus weathered the storm nearly unscathed, and many awoke from their slumbers to find mortals begging for draconic leadership...or at least that's the way they tell it today.Nerath (given the name similarity) might have been the furthest colony from Bael Turath, spared both the fiend-blood and the worst of the Great Maelstrom. Something like Númenor's cadet branch of the royal house founding a colony in Middle-Earth and thus being able to escape the destruction of Númenor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9174513, member: 6790260"] Ooh, hadn't considered that. Perhaps Nentir Vale is part of one of the larger islands, and the fall of its empire shattered what was once an effective peace? E.g. a country not directly ruled by any dragons meant all the dragons had to "play the game" on essentially the same footing. Would be fun to re-cast the Arkhosia/Bael Turath war in those lights. Instead of Arkhosia falling to artificial drought and desertification, perhaps the Turathi held in reserve a great and terrible weapon, to be used only as a last resort...and when they did, it shattered the [I]continent[/I] of Arkhosia into a bazillion islands and the magical blowback from such a devastating assault destroyed what remained of Bael Turath too. Dragons, lairing in such defensible places as they are wont to do, thus weathered the storm nearly unscathed, and many awoke from their slumbers to find mortals [I]begging[/I] for draconic leadership...or at least that's the way they tell it today. Nerath (given the name similarity) might have been the furthest colony from Bael Turath, spared both the fiend-blood and the worst of the Great Maelstrom. Something like Númenor's cadet branch of the royal house founding a colony in Middle-Earth and thus being able to escape the destruction of Númenor. [/QUOTE]

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