Lore Dragons

The Lore Dragons were descended from the three guardian dragons who once guarded Morgane’s Tower and watched over the seven shards of the key to the Crown Spires: some say created by Morgane, others say by Daeder.

In an attempt to draw upon the power of the shards, Morgane accidentally destroyed the tower, sending the shards flying into space and landing in different corners of the world. The guardian dragons hunted high and low for the shards: they passed down this instinct for stewardship to their progeny, and after several generations had passed the Lore Dragons became a society in their own right. These children of the guardian dragons no longer sought the seven shards: their inclination to hoarding was less specific and they were captivated by anything of an arcane or scholarly nature.

The Lore Dragons did not exactly profess to worship any gods, as they considered themselves above such mortal abasement, but they held certain deities in high esteem: in particular Crest and Vidal. Those who tend towards Crest were the greater in number and sometimes found themselves at odds with those who prefer Vidal or any of the other gods. Their heart of government was the Hall of Cyngs in the Hinterland and dragons with a role in law-making were called “smoks”.

After the Second War of Fate they harbored the Crescent Order, an order which followed Crest, and was incorporated into the hierarchy of the Church of the Shroud. However they failed to support the loyalists during the civil war and were forced to flee the purge in Greystone.

The Lore Dragons despised outsider or “Verrader” dragons whom they considered lawless and uncivilized. They were also at war with the Methbein Traders: the traders once created a machine that could leech magical energy from Crest’s Moon Fortress, a machine which the dragons confiscated, and which sat in their museum beneath the Hall of Cyngs to this day.

The Lore Dragons sometimes accepted non-draconic servants and disciples. Talented wizards, sorcerors, warlocks and bards were all eligible: however, the notion that draconic blood ran through the veins of one profession more than any other was an absurd myth. Only those who proved their devotion to the Lore Dragons were permitted to learn their secrets: their pseudo draconic powers were a gift, not an inheritance.