The Dragon Lords: A New Era (Sandbox RPG)

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The Dragon Lords
Long ago, the world of Ceshr was ruled by a race extinct today, they are only known through elven texts that describe them as a mighty and powerful race that was divided by an ancient enmity and individual wills to dominate all life. This race is belived to have been neither good or evil, just there, destruction and power incarnate and embodied. they created the elves, fairest and wisest of all, the first servants to the Dragon Lords. They also created the Lizard Warriors of the South, tall powerful and rebellious and lastly, their greatest creation, dragons...
But the elves revolted, they realised they were nothing in the eyes of their masters and the elves had been rewarded with too much free will. For a year, the elves waged a terrible war with the Dragon Lords and eventually, they destroyed them. They banished the lizards back to the southern rainforests and killed the last dragons and all was peace. But, from the North, out of the Yurnel Desert came something new... man. Travel weary and half starved they found the vast hill lands Goriu and the Neglo-ithic Mountains with the huge Turop Lake in the middle and the forests of the elves, just north of the mountains and south of the desert, east of the hill lands and along the western coast. Man settled, driving the elves into the vast forests and taking control of the hill lands and the Mountains, but the Lizard Warriors, kept the Rainforests safe, the border was small compared to Ceshr. None have made it across the Yurnel Desert, it kills all...

The New Era
Dragon Lords lay forgotten for two thousand years, gone, almost no trace left, then, strange stones began to appear, mainly among men but also among elves, someone was deliberatly sending these stones to them, someone was after something, they were creating something and they were powerful...
Unknown to most of Ceshr, these stones would in time hatch, and only for those who recieved these stones, they were eggs, and from them, came forth dragons. When the egg hatched a note would appear, from someone called, The Dragon Emporer. A new breed of Dragon Lords was coming, but would they work good or did The Dragon Emporer have more sinister plans...

Dragons have been sighted, only a few and far between each other, heading into the Yurnel Desert, why here is unknown to men and elves alike. However, the elves, while carefully studying their history scrolls, came across a prophecy. It toold of a new era, when Dragon Lords would come again in the form of elves and men. The elves realised that some elves and some men would become new Dragon Lords and to them, it was worrying that these new beings of destruction and power would know good and evil and be able to commit evil or act for good, it would make the new Dragon Lords all the more unpredictable...

Land of Ceshr

Poins of Interest:

• All cities and towns on the Dashan Plains belong to the Dashan Kingdom
  
• All cities and towns with ' in their name belong to the Ki'meus kingdom
  
• Kervoth and Nemen are independent City States
  
• All the other towns and cities belong to the Ashar Empire
  
• Elven towns not marked on due to us humans being unable to enter the elven forests let alone have the ability to find them.

This is, as the title says, a sandbox RPG so I am not going to be very picky about some details, of course observe the rules. Minions (yes you might get some, they are mentioned later on) also have to abide by these rules, e.g. I have twenty foot tall demons with demon armour and demon weapons making them invincible and I give them magic powers to make them invisible all the time and I have three billion of them and they constantly respawn... Don't do something like this, or very supid or something taht will ruin other peoples fun in this RPG.

Base
More powerful and/or skilled Dragon Lords will be able to begin construction of their base, home or place of rule. there can only be one of these and it can only be developed slowly. Ask the GM (me and Zig if he plays) whether you can add something on to your base, send this in the PM or you could well be ignored. You all so need to say what you plan on building and be ready to accept alternatives or changes to it if somethings are OPish or just, I don't know the word for it e.g. Huge underground spawning pits to create minions, or a Dragon Hatchery.

Minions
Minions (or slaves) are something or things a Dragon Lord creates ( PM GM about this, certain things will also most likely have specific requirements, power or skill of a Dragon Lord will also effect this) or captures ( same as last set of brackets) they basically fight, build or do stuff for you. They are very useful but aren't necessary if you have a paranoid or loner Dragon Lord.

Power and Skill
Once an elf or human has recived an egg and it has hatched, they will begin to develop mysterious powers that will get stronger and stronger over time. The Dragon Lord will get more powerful over time. It appears that Dragon Lords don't follow normal rules for many skills, for them Power is Skill.

Metals
Many metals are found on Ceshr, mostly in the Neglo-ithic Mountains, but can be found else where.
Yurinchi: A rare red metal found in the three peaks. No Human or Elven forge has even been able to smelt the ore so it is not mined. However some accounts tell of a powerful Dragon Lord who flew upon a black dragon and had forged Yurinchi armour.
Jelrok: A strange blue metal that has many magical properties, most commonly used to make powerful magical devices, staffs and has been used to make some weapons as well. jelrok is not widely used due to it being expensive mainly for its properties, it is an uncommon metal.
Uirk: A very strong metal, very dark grey. Not widelyy used but not rare. The knowledge needed to smelt and forge this metal is difficult to learn and find.
Iron: Mans best friend when it comes to metals...
BikrssvAn Elven metal, similar in some ways to Iron but more silvery. Used by elves, found in Elven forests
Gold: We all love it, makes good decor.
Silver: Makes good decor
Inferior Metals: make them up, describe them well enough and the get listed down here!
Emeradia: Not really much use, stronger than iron and Bikrssv and probably similar to Uirk. Dark Green in colour, not worth searching for as it is difficult to obtain.

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Dragon Lords character sheet

Name:
Race:
Age(The Dragon Emporer will go for teenagers):
Appearance:
Egg description(the description of you dragon egg, simples!):
Clothing:
History (helpful but not necessary):
Personality:

Name: Aeir-esh
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Age(The Dragon Emporer will go for teenagers): 13
Appearance: Average height, green eyes that change colour depedning on his mood, brown wavy hair, slim, broadening shoulders, slender fingers and hands
Egg description(the description of you dragon egg, simples!): An emerald Green colour with strange scale like patterns
Clothing: Brown peasants smock, brown ragged leggings
History (helpful but not necessary): A dock hand in a small town on the Turop lake shore. He picked up the stone while going through lobster post searching for anything broken. His family is poor and he was hoping to sell the stone when he found it.
Personality: mood swings, strange, distant at times, dreamer, difficult toproperly anger but once angry...

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Name: Gius Malacor
Race: Human
Age: 17
Appearance: Dark Blonde hair, tribal tattoos, one blue eye and one brown, extreemly gaunt and pale.
Egg Desc. Dark purple with jewels encrusted into the shell, has parts which are clear.
Clothes: Dark purple robes with fur on the collar and on the end of sleeves, with steel plates on peices of the garments for protection
History: He grew up in the wild, being raised by wolves with several other children, he is the only survivor out of the group besides the wolves. He found an abandoned home in a cave which he moved into at the age of 15. He has become the leader of the pack that raised him.
Personality: Prefers seclusion from other humans, smart, patient, cunning, can be aggressive when needs to be, kind, loves animals and most animals love him back.

Name: Sorven Merlasi
Race: Elf
Age:16
Appearance: Fairly tall, with dark hair that covers his ears. Has a clear, handsome face that is free from lines or wrinkles.
Egg description: Silver, with wite waves on it.
Clothing: Usually either white or green and brown, either robes or otherwise depending on what he is doing.
History: Found the egg while meditating under his favourite tree. He heard a creature i npain, went to see what was happening. He freed it's leg, caught underneath a rock, and examined the rock, relising something about it was different. Now he always kept it when he meditated, or did almost anything really. He is the son of a wealthy elf tradesmen.
Personality: surprisingly knowledgable and wise for his age. He often seems heartless or cold, but underneath he does feel emotions , but he doesn't like them to show.

Yurnek was a small town on the shore of Lake Turop. Aeir-esh or Aeir as he preferred to be called was bent over. He had pulled as much of as possible under his bent back. The rain was sleeting down onto the lake and the town, making the rubbish in the streets float and the lake splashed water onto the sodden docks as the downpour stirred up its waters. Aeir was going through Lobster pots, he was searching for broken pots so that he could repair them for money, he was a lowly dockhand, he liked broken equipment to come to his peir, he could fix it and help bring some money in for his already impoverished family. His brother, was a street sweeper and also older than him by 6 months, how this was possible, Aeir didn't know. Aeir came across something strange while sorting through the boxes, in one box, with the netting bent and the frame smashed beyond repair was a large rock it was An emerald Green colour with strange scale like patterns on it. He quickly crammed the stone up the front of his smock, threw the pot into the water, to hide it and rushed home, hiding the stone from people, just incase they tried to steal it or demand he return it to them and call him a thief. He got into the house to find his brother, dirty, wet and smelly. "Brother look what I found!" Aeir said excitedly bringing the stone from out under his smock. "Hey bro, where'd you get that pretty thing? Those there Merchies will think you nicked it from 'em." The brother cried.
"I found it in the lobster pots, I thought we could sell it for money. Where is Dad? I got... I ain't good with these, what are they?" Aeir put the stone on the rickety old table that was food spotted, he also poured some brass coins on the table and one silver coin.
"Errm, let me see those there. 16 Kolts and one Herr, you lucky blighter wait till dad gets in!"

Sorven sat in the hollow under his tree, the rock in his lap. His hands rested on it as he meditated, and felt all the plants and creatures and insects around him with his mind. It was a valuable skill, and very rare among humans, and even uncommon amongst elves. The ability to extend your mind; to feel the things around you. The rock felt strange; like a rock, yet also curiously...not.
He smiled as a squirrel hopped inot the clearing, and froze as it saw him. Sorven smiled at it, and the squirrel calmed a little. It crept slightly closer, nibbling at a nut. Then it darted off as Sorven's father walked into the clearing.
"Sorven; come on, back to the house. Remember, we have guests tonight." His father said sternly.
Sorven forced a smile. "Yes, father."



The Dragon Emperor surveyed his fellow Dragon Lords. Only four of them; none of them paticuarly exemplary. Adragos there was a powerful fighter, and Morvos was the best mage, and Grellis the thinker of the group. But Yurzek was by far the most destructive, cruel, and downright nasty. He also fought like a well defended berserker, which made up easily for his lack of skill.
Overall, a very good group; none of them powerful enough in themselves to rise against him. Of course, nobody was, but it was safe to be sure.
They milled around the room, Grellis and Adragos playing a strategy game, Yurzek tormenting an eagle, as he often did, and Morvos was asleep next to his dragon.
The Emperors own dragon lay behind his draconic throne, and with every breath a little bit of flame sparked up, singing the terrified cow clutched in the dragons black claws. He was a fearsome spectacle; gloss black, with scales, each one like the finest black onyx ever seen. His dark red spikes ran along his back, and down his legs, except for a small bit below the neck, where the Emperor sat when flying. Ah, he had not flown for so long...
Soon, he told himself. Soon.

Gius was exploring a new part of the forest, he did not ever venture here because the wolves told tales of scary tree creatures. Gius smiled at the thought and continued onwards. He just finished climbing when he saw a fire between the trees and two legged creatures dancing around it. He turned and moved further into a darker part of the woods.
He saw a human hunter and a deer caught in one of his traps. Gius Pulled out his clawed gauntlets and went to free the creature from it's oppressor. He succeded in knocking out the hunter and he freed the animal, he then turned and started going up a deep slope. At the top was a huge fallen tree, empty on the inside but for one stone.
Gius went inside the tree and took a look at the stone, it was dark purple and it had jewels growing in it. Rubies, sapphires, diamonds and the like. It was also warm to the touch and so Gius took it and ran back to the pack's cave. He then placed it next to his little collection of treasures that he and the wolves found. The wolves were suprised on what the tailess pack leader collected. Instead of an interesting stick, he collected things that were shiny! Strange indeed...

Aeir was pleased with what he had brought in yesterday, his father had been expecially happy when he saw the 26 kolts and the herr, enough to give them all two meals for the next days, that is bread and gruel fro breakfast and dinner, lunch is what you find. But Aeir could hardly complain, even gruel was difficult for them to get.It was during the morning when he nothing to do, the dragon flew over the town, calling out in its roars. Aeir had been awed by the sight but the Merchants and the rich folk had been worried and later that day poster had gone up, his brother said that they basically said if any dragon of any age is found it is to be killed immediately and brought to the castle and the killer will recieve a reward. It was in thenight that something, most unexpected happened to Aeir...

Gius was sitting by his pack brothers and sisters sharing hunting tales when all of a sudden the wolves started howling. Gius went outside the cave and he saw something flying overhead. He was soo amazed he almost forgot to calm his pack. He then took a look at his treasures and saw that the weird pebble was slightly shaking. Gius dismissed it as his eyes and went back to story telling. The stone then started faintly glowing in a purple tone behind Gius' back...

Sorven sat, bored, at his father's table. Their guests, a rich investor in the textile industry, was visiting, and he was also a work friend of Sorven's father.
Sorven had his silver rock in his pocket, his hands on it. It helped to calm him.
Then the egg shuddered. And again. And then again, alot now.
Sorven looked up hurriedly.
"Please, excuse me, I must go to my room. I am very sorry; wonderful to have met you!" he said quickly, and ran to his room.
The egg had a crack now, and a flake of rock fell off it. This continued for 10 minutes, and then crack!, it fell apart into two halves.
In Sorven's lap, a tiny silver dragon sat shaking the little flecks of rock off it, and it unfurled it's tiny wings.


The Emperor smiled. The eggs were beginning to hatch.
He tied a note to his ravens' feet, and sent all three of them off.
Each note said;
To the new Dragon Lord,
Congratulations. you are now part of a greater story, on your way to better things. I sent your egg; I chose you. I am powerful indeed; come to me, in the Yurmel Desert. You're dragon will be able to find me. If you come, perhaps someday you may be as strong as me, as rich as me, and perhaps even become The Dragon Emperor.

Aeir was awoken by the fact the stone kept banging his back, his brother must have woken up and was now teasing him by hitting him with the stone, Aeir thought. he rolled over to tell his brother to stop it when the stone hit him in the face. He jumped up, almost yelping in surprise. The stone was hot to the touch, he bent down to stop it moving when...
CRAAACCKKK!
The top of the stone came off and a small reptilian head appeared out of the hole, it then forced its way out of the remnants of the stone, shook itself then crawled over to Aeir.
He shook awake his brother and showed him the dragon which was already growing at a remarkable rate, its wings getting bigger by the second, it was lean, long and had spikes running down its back, its head was armoured, almost like an exo-skeleton and the end of its tail had two spikes sticking out to the left and the right, it was also emerald green and appeared to have some sort of substance forming over the top of its scales, slime.
"Brother, look, I need to get out of the town in secret with this, for a few days! I can't let the Baron find this, he is a cruel man, you know what would happen to it." Aeir cried, the he noticed to note. His brother read it to him.
"Interesting thingy here Aeir, maybe you should go find him, I will tell dad a merchant tried to have you done in for something you didn't do, he will understand, just come back to us one day, before dad dies, please. Now go, take this route..." Aeirs brother gave him instructions...
By dawn, the dragon was the size of Aeir and Aeir was far from the town, with his dragon flying ahead of him...

Later as the entire pack was eating it's dinner, a juicy young deer fowl, Ror-shka the youngest of the adults brought in a raven and attached to the birds leg was a note. "For you Tailless!" Said Ror-shka in wolf tongue. Gius took the note and read it out loud much to the confusion of his pack. Gius turned around to see a cub investigating the stone as it started to hatch.
The egg broke into 3 pieces and out came a small dark purple dragon with soft purple scales. It also had small horns on it's head and a small potruding spine. It unfurled its black feathered wings and unwrapped it's fine tail. It shook off peices of egg when the cub patted it with it's paw. the dragon sneezed strange purple and black sparks which frightened the pup to it's mother. Gius walked over to it and picked it up. The dragon yawned and then sneezed again and cuddled up against Gius' thumb and went to sleep.
Gius' turned to the eldest wolf, Var-kashkar and told him to keep the pack safe and then he went on his way to the desert. Gius was amazed when he stepped out of the forest, everything was so bright! He then made his long trek to the meeting point...

Sorven eventually went to sleep with his new little baby dragon lying aginst him in bed.
In the morning, Sorven woke early to find the dragon at least three times the size, and lying on the floor, occaisionally sneezing blue and white sparks.
Sorven frowned. He couldn't stay, not with a fast growing dragon.
A raven flew into the room, dropped a message, then flew out equally suddenly. Sorven picked it up and read it.
He was suspicious.
"Hm...I don't think it's safe, do you, little dragon?" He said. The dragon sneezed in response.
He smiled.
"You need a name. Hm...Asirin. Yes. that sounds right." He said, and went over, and laid his hand on Asirin's shoulder. "Let's go, Asirin."
That day, while his mother and father were out, he took Asirin, and began the journey to the coast of Cormesh.

By the end of the second day, Aeir could fly on his dragons back, which he had Tur. He passed Mel'ug on the morning of third day, and had reached Den'kor by the end of the second day on his growing dragon. By nightfall of the fourth day, he had arrived at a fortress which appeared to belong to the Dragon Emporer, with Tur close to him, Aeir cautiously entered the fortress.

As Gius was walking he found it increasingly hard to carry the dragon on his shoulder. he stopped for a rest and he saw that the dragon had grown by more than triple his size. Gius also observed that jewels had started growing on his chest and it's shoulders, he also noticed that the dragon's horns had grown longer and sharper. Gius leaned over and stroked his pet on it's head and then he noticed something else, he had grown tufts of fur around in small places. They both continued on their way with no more grouth. His flames got bigger though and now when it growled it almost sounds like it is forming words...

The Emperor descended the stone steps from his fortress into the entrance hall, where Aeir stood.
"Welcome, to the home of the Dragon Lords! And what a magnificent dragon." He coughed, and the other four Dragon Lords lined up at the foot of the steps.
"These are your fellow lords; Adragos, Morvos, Grellis, and Yurzek." He said.

As Gius and his dragon now named Vilanius Broversta was walking Rorw-shana the fastest and prettiest of the wolf pack had followed them. "Tailless! Wait for Rorw-shana!" She panted as she ran to catch up. Gius bent down and hugged the wolf when she got to them and then he asked why she was so far out of territory, she replied "Tailless cannot leave without guardian!" then she walked up to Vilanius and sniffed him. He tapped her on the head with his front paw in response. They all then continued on their journey.
As they past another city Vilanius growled and it sounded as if he said Stunted Growth...

Sorven rested in a glade in the forest. It wasn't too far from the coast, and he sttled down to sleep for a while.
When he woke, Asirin was now considerably bigger then him. It seemed he had very sudden growth spurts. Big enough to ride, even.
A thought occured to Sorven. What did Asirin's mind feel like?
He sat down, and meditated, extending his mind....
Hello.
Sorven jumped. It was the first time he had ever heard another mind speak.
Asirin did something which looked suspiciously like a smug grin.
Took you long enough. Thought you'd never manage it.
Sorven was puzzled.
"What...you could always...you were testing me?" He asked Asirin.
I was indeed. Everything is a test. I am blessed with telepathy, same as you; I can extend my mind. I, however, being a dragon, am naturally far superior at it.
Sorven smiled.
"Well then, we can talk. Can you fly? Can i ride you?" He asked.
Asirin spread his wings wide, and roared, shaking the trees around them.
Climb on.

Gius arrived at the desert and looked at a suspicius looking cave. he turned to Rorw-shana and asked what she thought about the place. "Smells strange!" She replied. Figured thought Gius and then Vilanius growled again sounding like Inside. They went inside the cave and was suprised at what they saw...

"Err... What?" Aeir was confused, here were four killers and an over-dressed Noble who spoke with the sort of flowery speech that peasants cannot understand. "What, is a Dragon, Lord? Who are those? Why are they here? What am I doing here, How did you know where I lived?" The words tumbled out of the now confused Aeirs mouth.

The Emperor looked at him woefully.
"Well now, you are a Dragon Lord. You have a dragon; that makes you one." He took the boy by the shoulder and began to walk him up the stairs.
"The Dragon Lords are a greatly superior- better- people then normal people. For one, we live forever. We are powerful, rich, and could rule the world if we wished. But we are benign so we do not."
Yurzek laughed, quietly.
"I sent the egg; I deemed you worthy to be part of our glorious race." He smiled at Aeir, and walked him into the Throne Room, sitting onto his throne, while his dragon, Onryx, lifted his head as he smelled another dragon.

They entered the cave and started looking around. When they found no one Gius shouted "Hello? Anyone here?" He then looked at Vilanius who said clearly "Stay!" Gius was shocked and he said to him "Wha- What the? You can talk?!" The dragon replied "Yes I can talk. I am a rather intelligent compared to other dragons. Do not let that fool you, all dragons are smart. My breed are smarter than most but we have stunted growth." They then waited to see if a host would find them...