The Age Of The Council Of Wyrms

Era of Dragons / ~4 million years ago
The Dragon-Giant Wars raged for such a long period that when it finally ended only the Dragon Avatars themselves remembered a time before. Dragons were only able to achieve this victory after finally banding together and cooperating on the world wide scale. Metallics fighting side by side with chromatic dragons, and their millions of warriors from the lesser races working together finally pushed back the giants. Once the balance was finally tipped in the favor of dragon-kind, after about a million years of war, it only took a few centuries to drive the giants back to their remote and isolated homes. The true giants would never really recover from their losses during this great war, and the species of the lesser giants would scatter to the far corners of the world never to be united together again.

From the ashes of the world arose a new order of dragon kind, in an unprecedented age of cooperation among them that came from the alliance made in the Dragon-Giant Wars. In the first true empire of the world, the ten broods of dragons ruled over all and managed their great empire with a Roman-like senate known as The Council of Wyrms. Hundreds of representatives debated and had heated arguments over every aspect of their rule. While the various broods ruled and lived very differently, they were able to agree upon the security and stability of their vast empire for millions of years. The ten Dragon Avatars stayed out of the day to day politicking of the Council, and lived out their lives how they saw fit, seeking out knowledge or ways to improve the status of their brood over the others.

During this age saw the coming of elves to the world, but their origin is not fully known even to their own people. Some tales say they were uplifted by dragons while others tell of a great migration through a portal from a plane of twilight. Perhaps this was opened by the dragons? Either way once here the elves became favored servants and slaves of the dragons due to their affinity for magic that the other lesser races lacked. Soon after, the race known as the Dragonborn first came to the world, and many scholars still today debate their origin. The most popular theory is that the Dragonborn came from the elves, due to manipulation by their dragon overlords.

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