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Welcome to the City of Dragonport
Dragonport is a the largets city in the world, its history is thousands of years old and it is the oldest city in the realms. It is hard to even come close to surpass it in any way. It is a city of high adventure and dark entreags.But it is not what it used to be, after the Asteroid strike on the mountains, the Tsunami, the cataclysmic earthquakes and the chaos taking the city for a short time, made the city in part in ruins. The wizards guild tower has dissapeared, many parts of the city is in ruins and many of the enhabentants left for safeer places to live. The city was evaculated for a short time b ut when the Sea lords (city rulers) came back they were in awe. The city faired out will but some districts did not fair out as will as the other did. Many of the guilds left and will probably never come back while other are coming in for business. Companies are starting to come in for salvage and rebuilding of the city. What is going on int he shadows is another story. foriegn thieves guilds moving in, unchecked wizards, many of the districts are in anarchy, chaos cults are starting to slowly come back and it is rumored that he assassins guild is gone or in huiding from some great evil.
The Short History of the Great City:
Found buy 5 adventurers when they descovered a great dungeon. When they decided to settle down they new they will be abble to make more money buy selloing weapons, armor, equipment and having a Inn and stable to people who want to travel to the depths of the dungeon.
People started to settle the land around the the Inn and store. Farmers found the land to there liking and the fishing was really good.
the small settlement became a hammlet with own Burgomiester. and the Burgomiester was the last of the original founders. One of the original adventurers. The rest past away from old age.
The Hammlet got larger when there was more a influx of people to start a busines selloing good to the influx of adventurers to the dungeon below.
The hammlet now a village has a industry of fishing and farming and have trading with other communities on the north
The Village turns into a Town with the influx of people and refugees from wars.
The Town is now a city and the first war was faught even though at small scale with local militia and mercs to fend off a small barbarian army.
Wizards and sorcerers started coming in droves to find a safer place to live since many are pursacuted int here old communities. They are welcomed with open arms but are told they will ahve to help defend and police there own. the Mages agree and start the first wizards guild, later other wizards guild start to pop up, even magic lodges are starting to come in.
many religions start to come.
The great dragon Bloodmeregreates awakens and attacks the city. She was killed but the mages and priest in the city.
two years later Bloodmeregretes children, young dragons, half dragons and a few drakes seek revenge and try to see the down fall of the city. It was thrated buy a group of adventurers and local militia. The fallout will be from this will be the possible detruction of the great city?
After the attacks from Dragons and there kine some people left and some did not trade for a long while. But ever so slowly many came back and it grow to larger proportions and the city grew larger and now They have free status and have built a armed force with the latest weapons known at that time.
A unknown disease sweeps the city and kills 30% off the city before the priest and the mages are find a cure.
Alchemy from Al - Khemia was brang from the southern lands and many wizards take to it liking. Some experaments go wrong and blow up sections of the city. Alchemy was outlawed for a while before laws in it use was and saftey rules were put into place.
The city grows and gains power for the next 4 to 5 thousand years. Growing and fighting wars, defending from the build up of chaos, and the ever expanding city. There are guild wars, and the city ever expantion brings thieves and assassins to the city with there guilds. ( The city history may be expoanded, but for game since and website space, and I do not want to type all day to type the full history of the City, this is the bare bones and it will be good for role play because most do not now the full history of the city anyways).
The History of the City from the Last 500 years:
1100 The city is at its Hieght the Sea lords are making millions of gold pieces in just Taxes alone and the city while does have poor and beggars, amny do work and there are plaunty of Jobs. There is a wizard academy, several schools, a Bard college, a regular college, two great Librariesone which is owned buy the wizards guild. The Chaos cults are slowly dieing out? and there is trade with many nations.
1120 a strange Disease that attacked mages and arcane users. This disease would strip the mage of all there magic and leave them with sever flu symptons. A non magic cure was found buy a alchemist who was also a priest of the god Marduk. Many came to religion.
1130 Wars and fighting with the influx of worshippers of the evil gods, The city saw much destruction not from the worshippers but from the evil gods. So in the fear of making the evil gods angry they decided to have a district made were both good and evil religions will represent there apposing faiths. As long evil faiths folloow the law then the sea lords have no problem. They do have witchhunters and spys watching the bveries evil churchs and temples int he city. The worship of the chaos gods is still Illegal and exacution is the standard punishment for people found guilty of this crime.
1155 Infiltration of Chaos cults try to take over the city, But fail when a group of adventurers track the groups down and with the help of the witchhunter and the local city watch extermanate them.
1157 A large explosion opens a hole int he Sea ward and many monsters come from twhat is now called the great dungeon. It was finally seal buy the Wizards guild.
1176 The Sea Lords Rebilds there Army with Updated weapons with weapons baught from Ascaria with the Navy updated from Naval advisers Avalonia made there naval power quit awesome. it will take several more years to be fully trained and updated with these weapons.They will be later update several times buy the same kingdoms and allies.
1190 A chaos cult Assassinated a beloved Sea lord the cult was found and extermanated.
1199 The Sea district which is the more poorer district has a large scale riot over condissions in the city. The sea lords crush the riots with alchemical weapons and kills many who riot. New states any one who riots is killed on sight. But the Sea lords in the commpassion rebuilds the district opens many of the walls and were many fisherman and boot repairs start up shop. The district later becomes quit a usefull tools for the citizions and the Sealords.
1200 New Year day a magical cloud engulfs the Mage district were it came from was never found. But it mutated many people there and killed others. The magical pollution from the Mage district has gotten really bad from the years, and the Wizards try to keep it from spewing out in other close district but with little success.
1220 Minor war with Pirates from the Isle of tecnos the Naval force roughted the Pirate force and destroyed there bhome base on tecnos. Tecnos will later become a Dragonport Penal colony were there will be a Quarry for marble and there is a Silbver and gold mine ont he Island too.
1250 Drugs are getting worse ont he streets and the sealords try to take out the the dealers but with litle succes this abot the same time when crime starts to rise and the city watch starting to have a hard time in finding these criminals. Later the drugs and the crime lowers but it was not the city watch it was from a unknown force in the city. (Note to the players, It was the creation of a New thioeves guild, that would be able to control crime, who is better in policing the criminals then the criminals themselves, The guild later destroys all the opther thieves guilds and become the one and only Thief guild)
1290 The thief guild has internal fighting which erupts on the streets of the great city. At the end there is a new unknown leader of the guild and the person is very powerful in magic!
1320 The Wizards guild is given full power in policing all magic users in the city, They set up a guild that will aid the capturing of renegade mages in the city and had gotten the Sea Lords to make it into law that all magic user if they live permanatly in the city to register in the guild and later become a member. The guild that is controlled mbuy the wizards guild called the Witchhunters guild were they hunt down chaos cults, crimes that deals with magic. and the keeping the outalw of necromancy, exception of good priest and arcane healing technigues, This last laws was put into the books because the missuse of necromancy in the murder and crimes of the city, and were citizens found the family members animated buy magic from necromacers. The guilsd may licencse a magic user in the use of necromancy in reserch.
1350 The attack of the Nightlords. For two weeks straight a cult calling themselves the night lords who warship a chaos god devoted to the true anarchy so every night fro two weeks wanted to destablalize the governmat buy sabatageing the governmanet and causing riots and chaos the nightlords were finally found buy the withchunters and a small group from the thioeves guild who saw many of there operations gone sour because of the anarchy in the city. They found and exacuted every member of the of the cult and put there bodies up int he bazarr for a a week to show that there will not be any talleration in anarchy and crimes agaisnt the government.
1390 A increase of Banditry outside the gates, many people who lived outside the gates ask for protection from the city militia. The Sealords thought this was a chance to increase there lands so they annexed 20 mile radius of land around the city and built tol towers and guard houses across the land.
1450 Gnoll, Goblin and Ogre Horde try to take the city but withen a 3 days time they were destroyed.
1475 Strange Yellow moon brings followers of the king in Yellow to a grand ritual that failed. Failer killed hundreds in the trade district. The distruction brings a chnace for the lords to increase the size of the city and adds another 50 miles of wall. The wall are built with magic and mason. Rumors states that the craftmason help with there magic and sacred Geometry.
1500 Year of Piracy, Pirate attacks has increased 10 fold and after a year of fighting finally destroyed the pirates. Tell this day there is priates that still hunt for merchant ships but with alot of caution and tactics.
1526 A Night of gods, some of the gods some unknown reason came to the city and were in disguise while with there agents and priest in the no were looking for something. Some ended up battling each other before leaving back to the outerplanes. Several districts and many lives were lost. Tell this day the priesthoods invaolved willnnot tell the reason why some gods came to the city.
1528 Several adventuars came came back from the great dungeon and came up with a artifact and powerful magical items. what they did not now is that it was a ancient seal to the abyss. after many nights of drinking and parting and bragging about what they had and was planning to seel all there loot to the wizards guild. Before they can sell the loot they were jumped buy a cult who killed all of them and then planned to use the artifact to open a gate to the abyss to allow the monsters, Deons and hopefully a demon lord. But there plan was throuted buy a group of adventuars which included a witchhunter.