Franklin Cattelona

Dragon King

There weren’t always dragons in this valley. There hadn’t been anyways since the Great War of the three kingdoms, the last of the dragon wars. There hadn’t been a dragon seen since the conflict ended and the lineage of dragon kings along with it. Sargon the black king of the scorched valley saw to that. The history books tell a tale of a king, black of heart that turned a once beautiful and prosperous kingdom to ruin in his lust for power and wealth. Once his resources in the kingdom ran out he turned his ire to other kingdoms, who unable to unite against a common foe, one by one began to fall until only two kingdoms remained; the kingdom of Narrowdath and the kingdom of the Dragon Kings and the Dragon Whisperers. The black king had spread his armies thin and resources even thinner, so in response he began starving his conquered subjects and plague and famine became old companies even amongst his own ranks. Rebellions arose and began to take their tolls on his forces that seemingly continued to dwindle. Narrowdath was too strong and too determined to be defeated by some plague ridden, half starved slave army and once the black king marched his armies over the great jagged stone mountains they were met with ferocity and metal and driven back up the lowland hills and rocky crags. But the people of Narrowdath, preferring peace to war allowed the black king to remain alive and well, dwelling in his newly conquered rocky waste land. Battered by volatile weather he and his men barely clung on and a bitter stalemate ensued. Raiding parties and constant patroles and armies stationed at the borders, ever ready. But the black king had a trick up his sleeve and he set to work on his most devious plan yet using the spies of Antiod now in his employ. They found the hidden gate to the kingdom of dragons and what’s more, they found the hidden location of the dragon stone. No man who wasn’t in the lineage of the Dragon Kings had ever laid eyes upon the hidden gate, much less passed it nor ever seen or held the Dragon Stone.