The Dragons' Legacy
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Despite all their efforts, those who had fought Cheserith were failing. The ranks of his armies continued to swell years after the Empire’s establishment. This next generation of men had only known life within the Cheserithean Empire, and believed in their false deity’s cause without question.
Eventually, the Kaldean Alliance pulled back to a single place, the newly constructed capitol city of the elves, Kardorth. Many of the great elven cities had been destroyed at the onset and throughout the early years of the war: Melar, Kildath, Torgath, Merath and Milarn.
Through various means of barsionary magic, Kardorth remained unscathed for hundreds of years. Throughout that time the alliance of dragons, elves and humans sought various means to triumph over their adversaries; these strategies and acts produced a desired effect that temporarily lasted but was rendered useless in due time; one of which was a transformative curse that caused great internal turmoil within the Empire.
Eventually, the corrupt Ril’Sha were not satisfied with this level of victory. The war had made many of those dragons bitter, and they desired all that opposed them be eradicated and their blood used as an offering to their living deity. For hundreds of years, the beguiled armies of men encamped Kardorth upon the great river which surrounded the home of the Kaldean Alliance.