Drake
Rightful King of High Peak
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Written Backstory
(to be submitted)Shadows Over Arda
The bronze aasimar Drake, a leader of a band of local dragons, had left High Peak on a journey to better understand his neighbors in Rian. he traveled with his draconic wife, Shyalla, leaving behind their young son Fayell in the care of Drake's half-brother Ra'Kor. Acting quickly to secure power for himself, Ra'Kor imprisoned Fayell, and shipped him off as an offering to cement his newest alliance - one with the extraplanar fetchlings. He sent one of his lieutenants to act as intermediary with a local Shadow cult to oversee the formation of this new alliance. Drake and Shyalla heard rumors of a new cult that was practicing on a nearby mountain that was led by a renegade dragon. Following the rumors of the cult, they joined forces with Ea Graveltongue , a dwarven exile from the Golden Mountain .At the cult's hideout, they found their son rotting in the cult's prison, the next offering to their extraplanar allies. They rescued him, but were soon found out.As Drake, Ea, and Shyalla fled the mountain prison with their emaciated son, with the renegade dragon's forces on their heels, they ran into the khan's party (along with Rotund), and faced the dragon and his cultists together, defeating them. The khan, impressed with their performance, proffered they join the Grand Moot that was going to take place in a few days in the capital, Thule. Drake opts not to participate, but instead joins the other festivities of the Moot with Shyalla while Fayell participated in the Moot.
In the five years that would follow after this campaign, the party would have returned to High Peak, finding that Ra'Kor has overtaken Drake's home with the help of the fetchlings and the Shadow. After a valiant struggle, they realized they would need to rely on outside help - the Torches. As time went on, Rotund would eventually head south to Romanorum to found a monastery in Romanorum to teach the Wandering Fist before eventually rejoining the fight as a Torch himself. Ea, now granted access to Khazad-Mor, became a soldier, but quickly distinguished herself, becoming a powerful general in her own right. Drake continues the fight against Ra'Kor, helping to direct the efforts of the Torches and the remaining dragons free of Ra'Kor's tyranny. The result has long been a stalemate, with the Torches waiting for the right something, or someone to join the cause.
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