Blood Dragon

About this adventure

In the frost-bitten peaks of the Kelvaran Range, where glaciers grind against ancient stone and storms howl like mourning gods, there dwells a terror older than the kingdoms of men. Ignareth the Undying — a colossal red dragon of such magnitude that his wingspan blots out the winter sun — has awakened from a century of slumber with a rage none can explain. His breath has turned three highland villages to cinders. His roar has shaken the mountain passes so violently that the only road through the Kelvarans has collapsed, severing the northern kingdoms from their southern allies as war looms on every border. The High King of Valdremor, desperate and out of options, has issued the Ashen Crown Decree: any warrior, mage, rogue, or wanderer who can slay Ignareth and return with proof of the deed shall receive lands, titles, and a fortune in gold enough to sustain three generations. But those who have attempted the climb have not returned. Their armor has been found melted into the ice. Their horses found headless at the base of Ignareth's peak — a mountain the locals call Emberspire. Yet something darker stirs beneath the surface of this quest. Ignareth did not simply wake from hunger. Ancient draconic runes have been found carved into the ice around Emberspire — runes that match no known mortal language. Whispers among scholars suggest someone, or something, woke the dragon deliberately. The real question is not merely how to kill a god-sized fire drake on a frozen mountain — but why he was set loose, and by whose hand.