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The Dragon Wars
By: Dungeon Master Date: September 5, 2023, 5:14 pm
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The First Dragon War happened when a red dragon warlord by the
name of Crematia assassinated three of the five metallic clan
leaders. The good dragons petitioned aid from the mortal races
of Krynn to counter Crematia’s Ogre armies. Silvanos, the latter
founder of the first elven nation, aided the dragons with this
and was bestowed with five dragon stones to capture the souls of
the chromatic dragons. The forces of good won, and almost all
the chromatic dragons were slain or put into soulless slumber.
Eventually, the exiled Crematia would manipulate the dwarves
into accidentally unearthing the now-buried dragon stones, her
son taking over the mantle of warlord and calling upon Takhisis’
aid.
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The Second Dragon War began when the reawakened chromatic
survivors assaulted the elven nation of Silvanesti. This time,
the elves were pushed into a seemingly unwinnable situation, and
three elven sorcerers conducted an arcane ritual with which they
knew little about given the newness of the knowledge of spells.
The chromatic dragon army was wiped out, but so was much of
Silvanesti’s landscape. The three Gods of Magic teleported the
sorcerers into a hidden citadel in order to teach them how to
master their powers, and the metallic dragons dedicated the next
few centuries to helping the humanoid races rebuild society.
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The Third Dragon War* was the most famous one of its kind in
Ansalonian history and folklore when it comes to dragons.
Takhisis once again sought to take over the world, but this time
the mortal races had raised veritable civilizations of their
own: knights, wizards, empires, and all that good stuff were
present for a properly epic fantasy feel. It was during this
time that a humble Knight of Solamnia by the name of Huma
Dragonbane would go on a quest with his wizard companion and
other friends. Eventually, he would come to wield the mighty
Dragonlance, a new and unknown weapon at the time, to fight
Takhisis herself. This mere mortal defeated a god and forced her
to withdraw her power from Krynn, along with her chromatic
minion,s via an Oath. This Oath also bound the metallic dragons
due to the Balance, and they went into a self-imposed exile to
the distant Dragon Isles. Dragons then became so rare as to be
mythical on Ansalon at this time, the legacy of Huma and the
Dragonlances passing into the annals of myth and legend.
*Which amusingly is referred to dragonkind as the Human War due
to most nations involved being human and whose warriors and
leaders were the major focus of said war.
The Age of Despair and War of the Lance was also a monumental
time, for it marked the return of dragons to Ansalon. After the
collapse of the Empire of Istar and the departure of the gods
from the world, Takhisis enacted a series of secret plans to
regain influence in the mortal realm. By stealing the metallic
dragon eggs while they slept, she blackmailed them into
noninterference while her mortal champions raised a Dragon
Empire in her name. With the aid of divine magic, draconic
might, and having the only standing army of significance on the
continent, they cut a bloody swath across Ansalon. It was the
actions of a few good friends who would later become known as
the Heroes of the Lance who would save Krynn from evil: they not
only rediscovered divine magic, but also the forge of the
legendary Dragonlances, as well as the secret location of the
metallic dragon eggs. They had help from others, such as the
silver dragon D’argent, who violated her people’s oath of
noninterference to subtly supply aid in regards to the latter
two actions. Many of the most famous dragons in recent memory
would be huge players in this war, and the skies over major
battlefields were full of hundreds of dragons and their mounted
riders clashing across the horizon.
After Takhisis’ defeat yet again, the dragons would become
regular fixtures in the lives of mortals, helping their
respective sides rebuild or conquer territory. The Chaos War
would bring the deaths of dragons on both sides, but the most
catastrophic time was yet to come. When Takhisis stole the world
to make herself the One God of Krynn, she passed by alien realms
in the Ethereal Sea. And one such realm was home to titanic
dragons, a half-dozen of which made their way to Krynn. Their
sheer size and ability to reshape the land itself would cause
them to be dubbed the Dragon Overlords, and their possession of
strange magical items known as skull totems let them grow even
more powerful with the skulls of slain dragons. The Overlords
took over wide swathes of the continent and expended much of
their power and resources in hunting down and killing as many
dragons as possible. This act of genocide would later become
known as the Dragon Purge. Add to this the semi-related War of
Souls, where Takhisis’ new faith clashed against the Overlords
and all those who did not bow before her, and almost the entire
draconic race was wiped off the face of Krynn.
Today, the dragons are rarer than ever. Gone are the days when
they numbered hundreds in armies. Gone are the days when their
respective progenitor deities of Paladine and Takhisis stood
watch over Creation. Such drastic changes have left their mark
on each one of them, and how they choose to spend their lives in
this new Age of Mortals varies wildly by both clan and
individual.
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