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[edit] Fall of the Dragons
The Fall of the Dragons marked the revival of human culture after half a century of oppression by said dragons. This was made possible by the achievements of the one Dragon Slayer, as well as the peoples of the kingdoms, who combined resulted in the death of five of the ten Chaos Dragons.
- 369: The Dragon Slayer had discovered the old Emperor's Codex, and along with it his wisdom on how to destroy the dragons: challenge them to the air during a thunderstorm!
- 370: Finally, the opportunity came. The Dragon Slayer raised the 100-feet-long metallic standard-pole of the Second Empire over Mount Arkanros, the highest summit in the Crescent Mountains. Two dragons surged forth from their nearby nests, into the dark stormy night, rising in the air as they came upon the Dragon Slayer. As they came forth, he threw the pole at one of them. It missed, but then the objective was not to impale. A bolt of lightning coursed through the open skies, conducted from cloud to dragon to pole to earth, a great path of lightning that sliced through the king of the dragons. It fell, dead, into Mount Arkanros, burying the Dragon Slayer under its body, though the impact was not enough to kill the Dragon Slayer.
- 372: The Dragon Slayer managed to come out of the mountains once more. The next dragon king realized the threat that the Dragon Slayer posed and thus directed dozens of lesser dragons to confront him, while himself staying behind. The Dragon Slayer stayed at the entrance to the caves of Mount Arkanros as the dragons approached, then retreated, baiting them inward into the immense cave. He then fled out through a pathway back out of the cave, while the dragons remained within in their search for him. Meanwhile, the dragon king watched from atop another peak. The flying dragons inside the cave broke the many walls and columns holding up the roof, which then caved in. All of the lesser dragons sent to burn the Dragon Slayer were thus destroyed in the cave-in. Meanwhile, the dragon king believed that the cave-in also killed the Dragon Slayer.
- 373: The time for the final confrontation was near. The Dragon Slayer's stunning successes had reached everyone's ears.
- 375: The peoples began making preparations for the final slaying in their capital city.
- 377: The populace welcomed the Dragon Slayer into the new capital of Arkanros, named after the location where the dragons were slain. The other dragons knew of this ceremony as well, and sweeped in for the kill on what was a storming day. They were mistaken. By then the townspeople had learned the lesson that the victories had taught them: now their houses were unstable, ready to fall; now they each carried a long metallic pole; now they each had pole-throwing training. As the dragons coursed through the town, under the Dragon Slayer's direction, the people tossed their poles upward and dozens of lightning bolts creased through the sky. The flying dragons knocked down the supports of the town's buildings, which promptly caved in on them. In this final major encounter, two more chaos dragons were slain, as were the vast majority of the lesser dragons. Everyone had become a Dragon Slayer, and beaten dragons retreated back to their old roosts to the northeast.
