The Exodus

Era of Dragons / ~1 million years ago
After the Second Scale War was won by the metallic Dragon Avatars, they assessed the ruin of the world with despair. The scope of the devastation across the planet was near total, with few surviving the age unscathed. The lesser races that fared the best were the dwarves and orcs, whom were preoccupied deep under the earth warring with one another. The dragon species as a whole suffered tremendous losses, but especially so the metallics. While they were victorious in the end, the remaining metallics would forever more be outnumbered by their evil chromatic cousins.

Smoke and ash choked the atmosphere as the very earth heaved and erupted new volcanos over the centuries of the Second Scale War due to the sheer amount of raw magic being released. Most settlements of surface dwelling races had been reduced to ruin, with their farmlands burned to cinders. In a momentous decision, the surviving elders of the metallic dragons including the Avatars themselves, decreed they would leave this planet behind and open a gateway to a new world rich with life.

Few historians believe the choice was unanimous, for as many dragons and their servants that stayed behind, it is thought many times more left the world during this event. Thousands of remaining dragons, and uncounted masses of their lesser race servants migrated to the great portal that was opened far out to sea between the worlds great landmasses. However, the tremendous magic needed for such a portal could not be so easily contained, and it leaked into the world resulting in the ever lasting hurricane that now resides with its eye fixed over that ancient location - the Maelstrom.

It is still debated today whether the dragons and their Avatars of good knew this would happen or not, but either way it is agreed if they cared so little for what remained of the world to abandon it, why would they care what happened after they left? This great Exodus of the dragons and their surviving Avatars marked the end of the roughly sixty million year Era of Dragons.

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