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By then, much of the vibrant fields covering the
violent rule stood for several years before the Council of
Mornset Countryside were turned to ash, and the Out-
Tal’Dorei convinced Syngorn and Kraghammer to ally
erfolk of the region bent to slavery under this new and
with them for the sake of the realm. They combined their
terrible threat. Calling himself Thordak the Cinder
resources to battle Errevon back to the rift from whence
King, red dragon tyrant was thought slain nearly two
he came, cast him back into the Frostfell, and with the
centuries before over the Ozmit Sea by the vengeful
aid of the Ashari druids, sealed the rift once and for all.
military powers that protect the desert continent of Mar-
The snow began to melt, the fortress toppled into a basin,
quet. The beast claimed dominion over the southern
and the people took their freedom back from the oppres-
lands, expanding his influence through fear and tyranny.
sive cold. This victory is now remembered and celebrated
With the martial forces of the capital city of Emon
annually as the Winter’s Crest festival.
unleashed out of Fort Daxio, a terrible struggle erupted
the cinder King south of the Stormcrest Mountains, leaving many a
good soldier reduced to bone and ember. It wasn’t until
After many generations of peaceful rule within the city a band of renowned adventurers entered the fray, led by
of Emon, there spread word of a shadow in the South the Emon-allied arcanist, Allura Vysoren, that a last-
that threatened outlying townships skirting the edges of ing victory over the Cinder King was won, sealing the
the Council’s influence. Trade caravans that hail from unstoppable wyrm within the Elemental Plane of Fire
the Rifenmist Peninsula began to vanish, while the forever. Or so they thought.
autonomous villages south of the Verdant Expanse sent the chroma conclave
for aid and armed protection against a “nightmare of fire
and malice.” Sovereign Odellan Tal’Dorei felt that the Sixteen years after the sealing of Thordak, daily life in
economic cost of sending a regiment that far south to the region had long returned to the normal quarrels over
outsider communities without confirmation of threat was trade pricing and kobold infestations. It was during those
a misuse of resources. It wasn’t until two years later when sixteen years that an old and unexpected ally of Thordak’s,
reports of a powerful red dragon reached the ears of the a green dragon called Raishan, established communica-
Council of Tal’Dorei that the seriousness of the situation tion from between the planes and plotted the red dragon’s
was considered. return. Mysteriously diseased in her later life and seeking

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