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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Idabrius" data-source="post: 4321598" data-attributes="member: 67832">Dragonborn: The Vanished WorldI have been called dragon, slaver, monster. I have been spit upon, shouted at, hated. I have never lived in an eyrie or a tiered city. I have never taken slaves nor have I assaulted men for no reason. Yet there are still those who will say my name as a curse.I have spent my life recovering the fragments of my people's history that remain. To this end, I've spoken with the elder Dragon-kind and I have sifted through the ruins of our tumbled cities to find our history.This is what I know.The Dragons were first. It is said that in those days the three worlds were covered with darkness. When the Dragons came (Ed: The fact that the Dragons came seems to suggest that they were somewhere else originally, but our source has no real insight into this pre-mythical period) they burned away the cloying clouds of shadows. They fought the things that they found there, though from my understanding in no systematic manner like the Giants (Ed: The author is referring to the Gigantine Wars, which myth says is responsible for destroying the 'dark things' that inhabited the Middle World).After the Dragons came my kind, the Dragon-born. I could not discover what the ancient histories had to say about the time between the birth of my kind and the other races. What I do know is that by the time they had emerged the empire of Abuz had already been founded.Abuz's capital was in the far south, in the steaming jungles beyond what you call the Glittering Lands. The empire was ruled over by the Dragons. They were mighty as gods to us, and we served as their priests and intermediaries amongst their captives. The Giants were ever an enemy of great Abuz, seeking to take territory that we had long held as ours. Abuz was not a strong empire; certainly they had warriors and magicians. Socially, the empire was weak. Each Dragon had his own cult, as many still do today. A conflict between Dragons could tear the empire apart.Through years of warfare it wasn't until the Wasting when the Giants became aggressive and dangerous enough to threaten what structure there still remained in Abuz. I don't know what first caused the empire to fracture, but the Giants seemed determined to wage a war of conquest right into its very heart. Countless factions emerged all over Tamal. The unity of Abuz was shattered, and the Dragonborn were all that was left behind. One by one our mighty gods were slain or occulted into hidden places. They fled from the world, and we followed. Those who didn't were slain by the change of the eras--they could not withstand the force of the tide.The outposts of Dragonborn that still remain have hidden themselves away from prying eyes. Some of them go on as though there was no fall, no change from the ancient days. Some were altered by the upheaval in ways that no Dragon could've predicted.Luckily, our very appearance and the memory of our might keeps too many people from making comments. Those that do think twice when my eyes fall on them and single them out in a crowd.</blockquote>

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