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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 1956323" data-attributes="member: 4682">Well, you'll probably discover the information eventually. But I'll put it in spoiler tags.[spoiler]To begin, the Sorcerer Kings of the Tablelands region are some of the victors over Rajaat. In defeating Rajaat by imprisioning him in an extradimensional prison, the victors need to have one of their number eternally guard and renew the prison. The Sorcerer Kings make one of their number, Borys, into a full fledged dragon. The most powerful entity on the planet. He is simply known as "The Dragon" in the Tablelands. All Sorcerer Kings are all slowly evolving into full dragonhood, but Borys was "rushed" into the end stage for the task of guarding and renewing the prison of Rajaat.It begins with one of the Sorcerer Kings, Kalak, a low-rank "dragon", scheming to concoct a ritual that will elevate him to full dragon status, jumping the middle stages right to the end. As noted, arcane magic in Dark Sun destroys life to fuel it. Mortal arcane casters merely drain plants. The Sorcerer Kings can drain life from sentient beings to cast their magic.Kalak's ritual will involve draining a stadium full of people. Essentially, most of his own city-state will die to make him a end-stage dragon. It fails, as the secret society of preservers, the Veiled Alliance, learn of Kalak's scheme and get an artifact weapon (a spear) of halfling make into the hands of one of the stadium gladiators, who throws the spear through Kalak's heart. Kalak barely survives, but is eventually put down in rear chambers by his own chief Templar and a powerful senator backed by the heroes who flung the spear. The chief Templar is elevated to the seat of "king" of the city, and the senator wrings the clause that all slaves are to be freed.The event sets a chain reaction into motion.Unbeknownst to non-Sorcerer Kings, Borys requires a yearly tithe of 1,000 people (slaves as it is) from each city-state of the Tablelands to help him renew the magic imprisoning Rajaat. Suddenly one city-state is now not meeting its quota, and the other Sorcerer Kings realize that they will have to make up the slack... and they aren't pleased. If Borys doesn't get his allotted sacrifices, he rampages through the lands of the city-state who come up short, and also then grabs more from the other cities. So there was an equilibrium of sorts to keep the Dragon from rampaging.One Sorcerer King makes a move to conquer the newly freed city of Tyr, primarily for resources. His army is turned back by the same heroes. For the time being, the Dragon is taking his tithe out of the other Sorcerer Kings. The heroes believe it is only a matter of time before the Dragon comes for his tithe from the Free City. The heroes are set in motion again. They decide the best option is to kill Dragon to stop the sacrifices. They succeed in killing the Dragon in a showdown.The other Sorcerer Kings are freaked out now, they know that it could be a matter of time when Rajaat breaks out. The heroes learn even more of the truth things. Learning that the Dragon was simple a glorified "prison guard" with a need for lives to power the magic imprisoning an even greater evil. They learn that there was an artifact of an elder age which might help them. Called the Dark Lens, it was used by Rajaat to make the Sorcerer Kings into the new creature that is evolving into "dragonhood". The Dark Lens was also used by the rebel Sorcerer Kings victorious over Rajaat to metamorphose Borys into the endstage Dragon.Borys was Rajaat's Champion tasked with killing all dwarves. With the Cleansing Wars over, a pair of dwarves get revenge on Borys by stealing the Dark Lens from him and going into hiding.The heroes now venture to find the Dark Lens, some under different reasons. The new "king" of the Free City is under the impression that if he gets the Dark Lens, we will bring it to Rajaat, and have Rajaat make him a Sorcerer King. The other heroes want the Dark Lens to use again Rajaat, hopefully to create a new prison that will not require life-sacrificing magic.The Dark Lens is found in the company of giants. The "king" of the Free City gets the Dark Lens and races to where the Dragon once stood guard. The rest of the heroes chase him. Getting there, the heroes meet up with the rest of the Sorcerer Kings, and they all decide to call a "truce" so as to prevent Rajaat from being freed. Unfortunately, the "king" got there first, and Rajaat breaks out. Bunches of Sorcerer Kings are slain by Rajaat. One of the heroes, a human sorceress who had travelled to the Pristine Tower for a solution to keep Rajaat imprisoned, was transformed into a unique powerful spellcaster that now draws energy from the sun itself, rather than life. The human sorceress gets hold of the Dark Lens and puts the "king" into his own prison, and sends Rajaat back to his prison.The new prisons hold, but are unstable and leak elemental energy into its surroundings as a colossal violent storm.[/spoiler]There you go. In a large nutshell. That's from memory, so some bits may be off.Regards,Eric Anondson</blockquote>

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