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From the Lost Histories
By: Dungeon Master Date: September 5, 2023, 5:12 pm
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[center]From the Lost Histories [/center]
date unknown: The last five metallic female dragons, including
gold Aurora and silver Argyn, lay their final clutch of eggs.
date unknown: Aurora, the last of the dragon matriarchs, fights
Red Furyion, son of the Queen of Darkness. She kills him, but is
fatally wounded. With her death, the age of magic comes to an
end.
circa 8500 PC: The eggs of Takhisis, the five-headed Queen of
Darkness, are hatched within Darklady Mountain, where the Queen
has been exiled from Krynn.
circa 8000 PC: The only eggs of the last metallic matriarchs
hatch in a grotto deep within the High Kharolis mountain range.
circa 5000 PC: Crematia, the red daughter of Furyion, is
appointed leader of the other chromatic dragons, having first
killed all the other reds. She leaves Darklady Mountain, the
first chromatic to do so since their queen's exile, and forces
the ogres to acknowledge her as their leader.
Sometime between 5000 & 3553 PC: Of the new metallic dragons,
gold Aurican befriends the elves and learns to shape-shift,
spending most of his time as an elf. Silver Darlantan forges an
immortal alliance between the silver dragons and the Kagonesti,
the wild elves. Bronze Burll finds his own lair, many miles
away, and gradually becomes reclusive. Copper Blayze becomes
aggressive and nasty, finally being driven away from the higher
ranges and the grotto. Brass Smelt learns many languages and
becomes a friend to humans. These traits later become
distinguishing characteristics of each colour's descendants. The
female dragons mainly stay in the grotto.
3553 PC: Silver Kenta and Darlantan mate.
3552 PC: The metallic females of all colours lay their eggs in
the grotto.
3493 PC: Crematia lays her eggs, father unknown.
Sometime between 3493 & 3489 PC: The army of ogres and chromatic
dragons wipes out the city of Aurican’s elves, leaving few
survivors.
3489 PC: The metallic males battle Crematia and her dragons to
avenge the elves. The chromatics are armed with magic, and
Burll, Smelt, and Blayze are killed. Aurican goes on a journey
to find magic, while Darlantan stays to continue avenging the
elves.
3488 - 3480 PC: Darlantan, the elves, and the Kagonesti kill
many ogres in ambushes and short fights.
3480 PC: Aurican returns, bringing magical dragongems in red,
blue, green, black, and white. War is declared by the elves,
wild elves, and humans versus the ogres.
Sometime between 3480 & 3357 PC: Aurican and Darlantan trap the
souls of all the green, black, white, and blue dragons in the
first four dragongems, but Darlantan is killed by the blues.
Crematia is badly wounded and disappears, and without dragons on
the ogre’s side, the first war is won. The metallic eggs hatch.
circa 3000 PC: Crematia’s red eggs hatch, including Deathfyre,
the largest. She re-emerges and tries to force the dwarves to
dig out the dragongems, but the dwarves have power over her
because without them, she can’t get to the stones. They force
her to leave with just one gem and stay away for one hundred
years between each gem.
3000 - 2698 PC: Crematia and Deathfyre gather ogres, minotaurs,
and the bakali, or lizard men, for their army. Twice, Crematia
returns to the dwarves, collecting more gems.
2698 PC: Crematia receives the last dragongem and Deathfyre
destroys all the dwarves’ crops. The chromatic dragons are
released.
2693 PC: The elves are attacked by the chromatic dragons and
their army, and come to the metallics for help. Aurican, the
only metallic of the first generation left, flies to Silvanesti,
the elven city. At his command, the next generation of metallic
dragons gathers in the grotto. Bronze Tharn is tricked into
leading Deathfyre to their hiding place. Crematia is killed by
Aurican, who learns of Deathfyre’s trick. He warns the young
dragons, but dies defending their escape. Only ten young
metallics survive, thanks to the sacrifices of their peers, a
male and a female of each colour. They agree to separate and
hide in colour pairs until they have matured.
2688 PC: The elves finally work a dangerous magic which traps
all the chromatic dragons under the ground, although Deathfyre
almost escapes.
Sometime between 2688 & 1400 PC: The metallic dragons, still
separate although no longer hiding, lay and hatch their eggs.
The new generation of metallics eventually discover each other,
but continue to live separately. The trapped chromatic dragons
all die, apart from Deathfyre, who was further away and was not
get affected as badly.
circa 1300 PC: Deathfyre escapes. He uses shapeshifting magic to
persuade the dwarves to mine for chromatic eggs for him. He then
sells them as pretty baubles, spreading them all over the wrold.
1191 PC: The chromatic eggs hatch, releasing evil hatchlings
throughout Krynn. They live in hiding, feeding on humans.
1056 PC: Deathfyre calls the chromatic dragons to him and raises
an army of ogres and bakali, as well as corrupt humans and
dwarves, to make war against the humans.
1029 PC: The third generation of metallics are now quite old,
and there have been many other clutches of dragons. When they
hear of the new war, the metallic dragons agree to Silver
Heart’s idea of carrying lance-wielding human knights, but her
mate Lectral refuses to join them when he learns that Heart is
in love with a human knight, Huma. He flies to protect the wild
elves instead.
1028-1027 PC: Lectral is wounded, almost fatally. The
Dragonlances wreak havoc. Deathfyre is killed, and red Tombfyre
takes over the chromatics. Takhisis tries to escape her prison,
but is fatally wounded by Huma, who allows her life in exchange
for taking all the chromatic dragons out of Krynn. She does so,
but secretly leaves Tombfyre behind, deep beneath the ground.
Heart is killed during the war. After the war, the humans and
elves tell the metallic dragons they want to be left alone to
look after themselves. The dragons leave the High Kharolis for a
chain of islands to be called the Dragon Isles.
296 AC: All the metallic eggs are stolen from the islands by
chromatic dragons, who force the metallic dragons to swear an
oath to never return to the mainland, even if they receive pleas
for help. If they agree, their eggs will be returned ‘in due
time’. The dragons have no choice but to take the oath.
296 - 352 AC: The chromatic dragons, led by Tombfyre and the
self-styled ‘Emperor’ Ariakas, who rides him, spread across more
than half of Krynn, destroying everything. Silvara leaves the
Isles, although no one knows where she has gone.
352 AC: Silvara returns with the news that the metallic eggs
have been hatched into monstrous draconians for Tombfyre’s army.
The dragons agree to fly with Dragonlances again, including
Lectral this time. Lectral kills Tombfyre, but is killed as
well. Ariakas is killed when his temple to the Dark Queen
collapses on him.
Although the metallic army finally won this last war, the
chromatic dragons were never banished again, and both species
now coexist in the mountains of Krynn, although they continue to
be hereditary enemies.
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