Dragonbane: "The Secret of the Dragon Emperor." New Campaign!

About the adventure

It was in the oldest times, before the world was covered in forest and iron was tamed by dwarven masters. Before the advent of humanity and the mastery of the bread and ale-making arts. The world was then ruled by dragons and demons. Yes, draconic serpents and demonic creatures were the princes and princesses of the oldest times. They were the primordial forces through which the world and its primeval matter was formed: the sky, the mountains, and the fiery oceans of magma and unthinking life. They were opposing principles that made the world complete. Law and order versus chaos and madness, the stable and fixed versus the wild and eternally fluid. forests and the chasms of the mountains slumber memories from ancient eras when vicious beasts reigned. The hostility between dragons and demons has brought death and ruin upon their ancient civilizations. It seems almost like a fundamental law of nature – that anything created by dragons alone is corrupted by demons, and that anything born of demonic will is burned to ashes by dragonfire. However, this basic and incontrovertible truth also gives cause for hope, for it has created the conditions for other nations, where humans and other races have been able to flourish and go their own way. Dragons versus demons. The most ancient records tell of a draconic empire that once spanned much of the known world, where the emperor’s peace was upheld by cruel dragon-mounted knights. But the texts also contain traces of another great power from a different age, governed by demon princes who shrouded the world in madness and savage rage. Remnants of these realms still rest in the earth beneath our feet. In the depths of the great But the ancient guardians of order and destruction will never leave the world to its fate. As sure as night follows day, the time will come again when dragons and demons contend for power over humanity, nature, and the eternal mysteries. – Excerpt from Godmundag the Elder’s Imperial Chronicle of the Oldest Times and their Remnants