The History of The Shrouded Isles (Overview)

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A long time ago, the world was shaped by dragons. Their fire tore through villages and they ruled all of the isles. The people of the isles would offer their children as sacrifices, and honor these tyrants as gods. Then came the time of Turoon's rebellion. The 10 of them, all of different colors, became the deities and demons of the land.

Turoon was a human slave who spent years in the criminal underground building up an underground army. He seemed to never age as he spent centuries raising more and more support all under the dragons' nose. Finally, in the year 0, his rebels rose up, and through bloodshed, chained up the immortal dragons and sentenced them to imprisonment in the center of the archipelago.

After the dragons were defeated, Turoon realized that the power of the dragons is essential for the continuing of life in the isles. So he constructed a great prism to contain the power of these dragons and use it to free magical forces the isles. Wizards, sorcerers, warlocks, and magical priests all appeared scattered throughout the islands. Clerics came forth and healed the diseases of the world with the newly unleashed dragon magic.

Then the people of the isles established governments. Each island was assigned a dragon, and color to contain. Each island was given some independence from the others, but all of them were ruled from the center isle of Storm's Keep. In Storm's Keep the Emperor, first Turoon then his descendants, rules loosely over the individual islands. The islands are allowed much autonomy, and are formally free to have whatever kind of government they wish, as long as they swear fealty to the Emperor.