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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 349244" data-attributes="member: 221">Dragon IsleOverview:  Dragon Isle is the popular name for a small island in the Reaanarian Bay.  The island is actually an old volcanic mountain whose peak rises about a half a mile out of the Reanaarian bay and is flat at the top.  The island itself is three miles long and a mile wide at its widest.  There are two bays in the northern half of the island and a wide strip of relatively flat forested land.  At the southern tip of the island is a smaller strip of flat land, also covered in forest.  Though boats are able to land along the smaller southern beach and almost anywhere along the northernmost part of the island, the middle of the island has no beach and the sides of the mountain rise steeply out of the water.  Though the southern slope of the mountain is less steep than the northern half, the mountain is still very steep on all sides and very difficult to ascend.       No one remembers whether Dragon Isle is named for the old and powerful green dragon that dwells atop the mountain or for the many unusual lizards that inhabit the island.  One thing is certain, there are many lizards on the island that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.  There are flying lizards that dwell in nests in the trees of the mountain, there are great plant eating spined lizards that inhabit the shores of the two bays.  There are small flesh eating lizards that run in packs and eat anything they can find.  In addition to these there is also Gilkamen, a green dragon of exceptional age who rules over all the island including the tribes of kobolds who dwell in and on the island.  Gilkamen has bred with the kobolds upon occasion, providing the kobolds with rulers.  He has also allowed some of his pure dragon offspring to live and grow on the island, only driving them off after they reach maturity.      In large part because of the dragon and the kobolds, but also because so much of the island is mountainous and unusable, men have left the Island alone.  There are other, better places to live most reason.  But it was not always so.  About 300 years ago, when piracy was just starting to really take off in the Reanaarian Bay, one wealthy pirate, dedicated to the service of the Creator of Strife, built a small settlement on the southern beach and created a temple to his evil God on the southern slop of the volcano.  It was an evil place, filled with demons and discord.  Eventually, a group of elven adventurers destroyed the beach settlement and the temple.  In the final battle, these mighty warriors were unable to defeat the most powerful denizen of the temple, a demon of great strength and ability, but they managed to use a wish to seal the demon within a tomb.  They then sealed the tomb and built many traps over the tomb, eventually abandoning it.      The fate of the temple is not common knowledge, but someone has discovered the existance of the trapped demon and seeks now to loose it once more on the world.  He is a cleric of the Imposter and has gathered together a group of pirates who, thinking they are after buried treasure, seek to help him.  They have made a truce of sorts with the dragon through offering the ancient creature food and a share of any found treasure and now work to uncover the site of the ancient temple.  The kobolds on the northern half of the island know about the pirates but will not bother them unless the dragon directs them too.  The dragon knows they search for the temple but does not know about the demon.  Meanwhile, a group of about 60 villagers have been spirited from the Fautee Peninsula by the pirates and these poor wretches are being fed to the dragon two at a time.  There are only 30 of the villagers left.Location OverviewsA. Pirates Boats. The pirates have beached here and keep about ten men aboard their ship and ten men on the beach.  The ship itself can hold a crew of fifty.  There are two long boats on the beach. B. Slave campThe pirates keep the remaining slaves here.  They have built a rope operated elevator to transport the slaves up the side of the cliff.  There are ten pirates who run this aspect of the operation and each day, two of these pirates set out with the slaves, taking them to feed the dragon in return for his lack of interference with their exploration.C. Kobold VillageThis is the smallest of the two main kobold villages.  They are led by a kobold half-dragon and make their living fishing the waters of the small bay and hunting. D. Kobold VillageThis kobold village is built on both sides of the second island bay.  Like the other village, these kobolds make their way through fishing and hunting.  There are several kobold half-dragons that dwell here and the strongest of these leads the village.E. Kobolds temples.  Clerics of both the Queen of Inequity and the Harvester of Souls have temples here and the many kobolds that dwell here are in large part supported by the kobolds on the island below.  These temples answer both to the dragon and to their gods and if the dragon is displeased with anything the clerics learn of it first, often the hard way..  The temples often send clerics to help “lead” the kobolds that dwell below.   F. The ancient templeAn ancient pirate built a temple here, now it is overgrown and decayed.  However the dungeon under the temple is mostly intact and unbenownst to its inhabitants (and the inhabitants of the island, there is a powerful demon imprisoned within.G. Gilkamen’s lairGilkamen is one of the oldest green dragons in the world.  His spouse, dwells in the midst of the Obakasek jungle and these two are the parents (or grandparents) of many of the green dragons roaming the world today.  Gilkamen’s lair is heavily guarded by both half-dragon kobolds, young green dragons and by traps and magical creatures.  It is also almost impossible to reach short of flight.  Gilkamen himself is most often in his lair, but there are occassions when he leaves, to visit with the kobolds (whom he finds both amusing and helpful as allies), to raid and plunder ships in the bay, or to simply swim in the depths of the ocean.  On these occassions, his huge wingspan and powerful body are both awe-inspiring and terrifying.</blockquote>

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