The Dracoš Arc

General

The Dracoš Arc is a storyline in the Iron Gate Saga. Its plot largely focuses on the development of the Dracoš archipelago after the war against the Mahr.

Summary

The story begins in the year 7011 A.I.D..

The Dragons of the Dracoš archipelago had been hunted by the Mahr people for a long time and confined to their islands.

When the king of the Mahr - Hannas Sereuth - intensifies the actions against the Dragons out of spite, a war breaks out, with heavy losses for both sides.

The two Magotho Raecar and Ceñua, in their exile on the Thorntoll, learn of the conflict in the upper north and send two of their descendants Len and Lourem there. Their intention behind this is to make the Magotho popular again on Dracoš, as the archipelago once belonged to the empire of their ancestors, which they dream of re-establishing.

Lourem first learns at this time that he has a brother and is assigned to seek him out. Len, who grew up and lives in neutral Thôsco in the mid-south, is surprised by his brother, whom he did not know before, as his mother had never told him of his existence as well. Since Dracoš once belonged to the Magotho Empire, the Dragons there remember them well. Len and Lourem comply with the wishes of their mother and uncle and move to the north.

The Dragons of Dracoš destroy the Mahric capital Steynmahr in the year 7011 A.I.D.. This de facto rips the Mahr out of the High Reich of Luyieverian Estates, to which it belonged. The people of Luyieveria must now come to terms with the changed situation and the shock. Dragons were previously considered by them as extinct mythical creatures or plain animals.

Secretly, Raecar and Ceñua also spread the news that two Dragons from the far south - their own offspring - were involved in the victory, although Len and Lourem didn't play too big a part in ending the war.

The story of the arc starts a while after the destruction of Steynmahr. The city has been razed to the ground and is abandoned. Only in the surrounding countryside there are still some farmers who do not want to or cannot leave their fields and fight for their survival. The monk Admun tries to keep people in line, but has great difficulty doing so as winter approaches.