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Overview In Ages past Dragons ruled the world of Evermoor. Set there by the Creator at the time of Making, they served as the Wards of the Seals which bound the Dark One, whose name was Daemos, into his prison in the world of Darkmoor. Caged there, Daemos could do nothing against the vigilance of the Dragons, and so the balance put in place by the Creator during the Making was preserved. Along with the great Dragons the Creator had sung another race into Evermoor. These were the humans, pale dwellers in the forest. The Dragons, aware of the Song in the humans, allowed them to prosper. As the ages of the Dragon's watch passed, the humans removed themselves from the trees, and came out onto the plains to found towns, plant farms, and increase their numbers. Time changed the Dragons, also, and there were some who hated the humans, and did not remember the Song. These came against the humans, and shed much blood. Thus came the DragonWar of which humans still sing. In this great conflict the race of Dragons was broken on the slopes of the mountains of Dragonhome. At the last only Greyl, the DragonMother and eldest of all living things, survived. To her at the end of the last battle came the Druid Braeth. He brought her a message from one of her kin who had died on the slopes of the mountain. A message of hope and rebirth. But Greyl told the Druid that she was not strong enough; that one dragon could not ward the Seals, and so Daemos would soon be free. There was one chance, one hope to keep Daemos from Evermoor: if Greyl could survive long enough, the Creator would certainly choose to favor her with an egg. If an egg came, then in nine years another dragon could be born, another to help in the Warding. The Druid swore to the great Dragon an oath: he and his sons and the sons of his sons would protect her, guard her secret, until the time came, and the egg was produced. Generations passed, and the sons of Braeth kept their oath, until the day one hundred years later when Greyl appeared to the Druid Andric, Braeth's descendent, to announce that the Creator had favored her with an egg. Andric revealed the miracle to the Council of Druids, but to one Druid the news was not unexpected. Cardmon, a distinguished member of the Council, had been for years the first Priest of Daemos in Evermoor. Leaving the Council he communicated with the spirit of Daemos the fact that the egg had been produced, and was lying in the cavern of Sha'Dnae, ancient birthing hold of the DragonKin. Acting on this knowledge, Daemos worked through the cracks in the seals to attack the wards Greyl had placed on the Cavern. With the wards down, he used his power to open a small portal, too small for him to cross, yet large enough for dozens of his vile spawn to enter the Cavern of Sha'Dnae. In the battle that followed Greyl slew the Darkspawn, but the egg was taken through the portal. In two years Cardmon will use the blood of the Unborn Dragon in a ritual at the Hour of Conjunction, when the three moons of Evermoor align. With the power of the Dragons he will open a portal between the worlds large enough for Daemos to cross. As the player enters the game the egg has just been stolen, and the Druidic Council is in an uproar. Greyl has cast strong wards around the cavern and will not emerge. Yet she tells Andric, the only Druid who, by bloodright, may enter the cavern, that the egg is still in Evermoor. She would know otherwise. She also tells him what can be done, by evil rites, with the blood of an Unborn Dragon, and what she suspects Daemos plans to do. Desperately the Council searches for a hero to regain the egg, and humanity's hope for keeping Daemos at bay. This story may not be reprinted either whole or in part without the express, written consent of Cog Interactive.
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