History of the Forgotten Realms

The Draco Holy Wars

Merrourboros, circa -25,500 DR

Quick upon the heals of the truce with the giants that ended the Thousand Year War, a sect of silver dragons launches a sneak attack against the gold dragons claiming the sole divine favor of the deity Asgorath. The gods retaliate against the silvers, greens attack reds, and soon all of dragonkind is drawn into the conflict. Their ranks already depleted from the war with the giants, this five hundred year conflict is enough to significantly deplete the dragon population on Toril and actually threaten extinction. »

Numerous settlements and many more elf patrols fall before a trio of nycoloths rampaging through the forest of Cormanthor. Rumors say jealous Netherese archwizards summoned and sent the yugoloths in to the Elven Wood merely to test what magics they had to array against Netheril. In truth, the archwizard Aldlas Sodhese sought the long-missing Nether Scrolls (the source of Netherese magic). He had tracked the artifacts to somewhere within the Elven Woods, and he summoned the greater nycoloths to wreak havoc and uncover his ancestor's greatest magic.

The nycoloths, while normally competitive and argumentative, worked well together in their roles as strategist (Aulmpiter), stealthy warrior (Malimshaer), and terrible berserker (Gaulguth). The trio destroyed many villages of elves, whole tribes of satyrs and centaurs and at least two green dragons under Cormanthyr's boughs.

Despite his not-inconsiderable power, Aldlas Sodhese was sorely outmatched against elven High Magic and bladesingers armed with magic enough to give the Khov'Anilessa pause. While elven casualties were still high over the daylong battle, they managed to nearly slay Gaulguth and Malimshaear and subdue Aulmpiter. Aldlas died when, in a spellbattle against the Grand Mage, an arcane hand reached to wring and twist his mantle around him, crushing him under the power of his own shattering magic.

Coronal Miirphys, the High Mages, and a number of priests then used the N'Quor'Khaor High Magic ritual to bind and imprison the three. The nycoloths' invisable undetectable subdimensional prison floated high above the city of elves, unnoticed by all. It could be permeated by all sorts of energy and matter, yet it held the nycoloths as if its walls were adamantine. The nycoloths kept all their items and weapons, since their prison rendered both them and their equipment powerless and unable even to return to their home planes. They floated more than a mile above the capital, where they looked down upon the growing splendor of the city they failed to destroy. The elves set the binding ritual so that the only key to freeing the three was when a "red dragon that never knew malice or greed in its heart flies over the Coronal's throne". »

Kythorn 6 The Exiles' War (Weeping War: Campaign #4)
A.K.A.: The Bone and Briar Battles
Farther east of the mythal lay the towers and tree-homes of a number of exiled elf wizards and necromancers not welcome in Myth Drannor. Still, with the Army of Darkness forced through their lands and plundering as they went, these disparate exiles still banded together (with themselves and various N'Vaelahr agents) for the war effort. Notes about this battle include the necromancers' animation of those they slew among the Army, not to mention at least one enslaved green dracolich. The Exiles achieved victory by their swift strike of fireballs that destroyed the charge of a lending orgish party, which they then animated against their comrades. Most Exiles were merely concerned with defending their own lands and towers, caring little about the elves who denied them welcome in Myth Drannor. However, the humility of some elves (especially Spell-Major Josidiah Starym) and the obvious challenge drew a few out of exile and into the Akh'Faer.

This event lasts until Kythorn 10, 712 DR »

Kythorn 11 Clochir's Ridge (Weeping War: Campaign # 11)
A.K.A.: The Last Charge of the Wing and Horn, Last Run of the Moonherds, Final Fall at Clochiir
As the cavalry reunited for its first time in months with the return of the Wing cavalry, it might have won this ground battle had it not last its greatest aerial conflich high above. Aulmpiter had enslaved Naxorlytaslsxar the Terror Tenebrous, a mature adult black dragon, as a "pet". This, and other wyverns and other creatures were controlled by the magical Staff of the Windrider. In the hands of the mezzoloth General Nyzhink of the Imperious. The Jhyrennstar-made staff and its carrier wove a flying web of death about the surviving flights of cavalry when they didn't harass the ground forces, pulling wyverns, Naxor the black dragon, and two wandering green dragons against the pegasi and griffons and dragons.

Until the Lady Ahskahala Durothil and her gold dragon companion Garlokantha snatched the staff from Nyzhink's hold, the Wing and Claw lost more than two-thirds of their members. Once the charm of the Windrider's Staff was broken on Naxor and the other flying attackers, many of them scattered, their natures not suited to open warfare or risky situations. The black wyrm, however, was far more offended and vengeful, and turned on the creatures that dared enslave her. The mezzoloth general was swallowed in two bites, as Naxor severed its head to ensure its death. Still, her attacks on Aulmpiter only ended a battle that had long since become a rout of the Allies. To this day, the strangely honorable black wyrm awaits a chance to repay the favor she owes to Garlokantha the gold dragon, though she isn't going out of her way to do so.

The aftermath of battle revealed the worst. All the airborne cavalry and their riders were either sorely wounded or dead; of the dragonrider leaders, but three remained alive with five dragons among them. Despite grave misgivings, Captain Selorn allowed Lady Ahskahala Durothil to sithdraw the cavalry from the war and retreat into their mountain lairs closer to Semberholme. Both strategists knew the end was near, and they knew that keeping the cavalry active would mean their deaths and leave Elven Court (or other realms) unprotected in the future. With heavy hearts, the dragons and riders of the Wing and Horn flew weakly to the west, never to see the wonders of living Myth Drannor again.

This event lasts until Kythorn 13, 714 DR. »

Tordath Ironfist, blood of Turgo, the dwarven lord and his followers were returning to the Forlorn Hills after visiting kin working a small mine in the depths of the High Forest, but they are forced to take shelter amid the ruins of Starshadow Tower by the passage of an errant green wyrm. The ghost baron Erthaer Javilarhhsson, possessed Tordath and then led him back to Firehammer Hold, where the charismatic young clan leader convinced many of his kinsman to return with him to the vale. The stout folk rebuilt Starshadow Tower within a matter of months, and then set about establishing a ruby mine along a nearby ridge.

Less than two months after their arrival, the dwarves of Starshadow Tower were no more, and the ghost baron's keep was once again a smoking ruin. The great red dragon named Imvaernarhro, torn from slumber by the madness of the Rage, set fire to the vale, quickly killing Tordath and his followers and tearing into the ruby-laden ridge with his grasping claws. Since that time, the stout folk have avoided Starshadow Vale, but tales still speak of the fortune in rubies they left behind of Imvaernarhro's lair. »

In response to the destruction he wreaks on Battledale, Tasseldale, and Featherdale, the green dragon Dretchroyaster of Cormanthor is attacked and grievously wounded by an adventuring band known as the Crossed Swords. After being unable to find his hidden lair, they slay him outright. »

An aged and deranged elven Harper bard named Lady Iriador Wintermist (using the alias Garnet) convinces the green dragon Grimnoshtadrano, the Riddling Dragon of the High Forest, to give her a magic harp called the Morninglark. In revenge for the decline of the bard schools, she unleashes drought, chaos, and death upon Waterdeep and disrupts the Shieldmeet Festival. Elaith Craulnober and Danilo solve the riddle of the dragon, with the help of the Elfsong sung by Danilo, and the green dragon carries Lady Iriador off to her death.

Elaith later reveals his true intentions by stealing the Morninglark in an attempt to reactivate his dormant Moonblade to re-honor his bloodline for his daughter, Azariah Craulnober. The Moonblade is later reactivated, but not by the artifact, but by the selfless sacrifice of the elf for his daughter. Elaith takes Azahariah to Evermeet where she is to become a ward of the royal court and trained to meet the demands of the Moonblade she is to inherit from her father.

Later, Khelben Arunsun approaches Danilo and offers the title of one of the Lords of Waterdeep. »

Mirtul 22 The great green wyrm Sirvinhandra, thought dead for centuries, emerges from a hidden lair in the Dun Hills and lays siege to the Abby of the Just Hammer. After inflicting great devastation, the dragon is laid low by Lord High Justicar High Avenger Deren Eriach. »

Antasillix, the green dragon who resides in an abandoned bathhouse in Unthalass near the Pit of Many Colors, heeds a call from Tiamat to plunge into the Pit of Many Colors to join her. After the rage was over, he emerged from the pit infused with infernal energy. »

Claugiyliamatar (an ancient green dragon) becomes embroiled in a series of fights when she is attacked by the green dragons of Neverwinter Wood. Fleeing the forest, she comes upon waiting representatives from the Cult of the Dragon, who offers her protection and the possibility of becoming a dracolich. She accepts their gifts, and begins to seriously consider their offer. »

Uktar 30 The Battle of Selgaunt begins and ends. The Saerloonian forces, bolstered by the green dragon Vendemniharen and summoned elementals breach Selgaunt's walls. However, Selgaunt's forces repel the Saerloonians with the aid of two Princes of Shade - Rivalen and Brennus - and the timely appearances of the newly raised, floating Shadovar city of Sakkors. All elements of the Saerloonian army are destroyed or captured. »