The Dragar Quest: Tying Things Together    

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Prologue
The Dragar Quest has been (like many others) going on for a very long time. The problem with this when it comes to quests, is that the more a quest evolves, the harder and harder it becomes to keep up. Luckily, you all have Azazel here to keep you up to speed. :)

Part One: The Past
This whole quest started when Seer Kristos wished to find answers to his past. Kristos brought a group of adventurers to the Isle of Fire. Where at the Daemon Temple the adventurers found a talking ankh. The ankh gave riddles to the party, and several 'seals' were to be found. The party had to visit many different places around the world to collect the seals each riddle led them to. One of the seals was kept by a green dragon named Skorr. For a small fee Skorr agreed to give up his seal.

When all the seals were collected, everyone ventured back to the Daemon Temple on the Isle of Fire. Kristos performed a ritual which opened a gate to the tomb of Rothar. Hoping for the best, the worst ended up happening. Dragons and hell hounds started appearing out of no where, and many men fell to the ground. Instead of shedding light on his past, Kristos had opened a gate of pure evil, for out of the gate popped Dragar. Dragar immediately thanked everyone for freeing him, but then swore death to all of this world. Ages ago, Dragar and his dragons swarmed the land.

Kristos and Dragar knew each other, but Kristos had only a vague memory of how. Long ago Dragar had tried to gain ancient mystical pieces of Ice Armour. This ice armour would give anyone who wears it absolute power. The catch was, you needed to have the entire set of the armour to exploit it's full potential. Rothar was a person from Dragar's time, who tried to stop Dragar, and prevent him from getting the ice armour. Dragar had gone to Rothar's tomb in search of more pieces, but became imprisoned instead. Until now.

The race was on, Kristos told everyone that Dragar was going to continue his long delayed quest and acquire all the pieces of Ice Armour. Kristos said that Dragar must not be allowed to acquire the entire set of ice armour, or he'd be invincible. Word of Dragar's attacks spread quickly, and he was gaining pieces of the armour at an exceedingly fast rate. It seemed as if there would be no stopping Dragar.

After many many battles, and a long time span, Dragar almost had the entire set of ice armour. Lacking the helm, a search was started, and many people sought the helm, to get it before Dragar did. Then something happened which changed that.

The following was written by Emmeril Cimber of Skara Brae. "Lord Captain Arkon and a squad of guards began their search for Aaron, a man convicted of killing his business partner. Aaron was shortly found and after a long search of his jewellery shop, evidence was located which cleared his name. This evidence came in the form of two books. The first book was a tome of notes taken on the ice armour and the exact location of each piece. The second book was the journal of Tasha, the late businessman's widow, who killed her husband Brett, was a jewel smuggler, and was in league with Dragar! Though the page in the first book which revealed the location of the ice helm had been torn asunder from the rest of the book, Tasha's journal not only revealed the location of the ice helm, but the exact date and time of Dragar's attack."

So the helm was found in a shop's display case inside at Nujel'm. When it came time for Dragar's known attack, almost eighty defenders showed up to stop him. Hundreds of dragons laid siege to Nujel'm, which were probably just a diversion in the first place. The City was torn to chaos as each and every warrior ran from two or three dragons. There was much confusion and even more death. Aside from it all, the entire battle was for naught; Dragar obtained the ice helm, and now had the complete set of armour.

A few days later Dragar was sighted at the Village of Humility. The Village of Humility was having their grand opening of the Wyvern's Lair Tavern.

"None may oppose me. Now that I have the armour, what need have I of such beasts? Soon I will be ready. Not even Skorr and his kind can defeat me now. The essence of the dragons will serve me well..." Dragar said.

Right then and there Dragar admitted to defying the dragons which had helped him up to then. He denied Skorr, and claimed the essence of the dragons to be his! Surly, now that he had the full set of ice armour, the power had gone to his head.

This is where an Astronomer named Galen Solstarre who lived in Moonglow, comes into the plot line. Galen was keeping track of a meteorite he thought would hit our planet. The meteorite did, and Galen believed he could use it to forge a weapon of destruction which could be used against Dragar. Galen kept to himself after this, as his research made him a very busy man.

Shortly there after, The Town Crier published a story which told of a woodsman who had happened upon three dragon corpses. Each of the corpses had big gashing wounds in their sides. Upon closer examination the wounds contained a sort of speckled glowing metallic colour in them. It was evident that this was residue from Dragar's ice sword, he had killed the dragons. In fact, later on it was found that Dragar had battled many dragons, and succeeded in imprisoning Skorr.

Part Two: The Present

I am sending you this letter because my research is complete at last! My studies have revealed an obscure alchemical process, which may allow me to smelt the meteorite into ingots. Unfortunately, I am missing several components that will be needed to test this theory. Please ask any that would be willing to aid me in this matter to meet me at the Telescope in Moonglow at 10:00 pm CST on Saturday eve (10-16-99).

Thank you,
Galen

I had the pleasure of taking an active role in this quest about this time. I met up with Galen on the 16th, along with some others. Galen wasn't completely ready for us though, he still needed a few items before he could continue his work. He told us three vials of Dragon's blood were needed, and that we'd have to find them for him. Aren't there just times you wish there was a shop which sold whatever you wanted?

Because Skorr had had such an involvement in this quest before, we decided he would be the perfect person to obtain the blood from. Skorr had been just recently rescued, so he was nimble and weak when we found him at his cave.

"Giving out my blood is not something I'd consider. But sense it is to defeat Dragar, then I will consider it now. But I must ask for something [more] in return. *smirks* Perhaps gold in exchange for my blood? I'll sell one vial [each] for 1000 gold." Skorr told us.

Everyone gladly contributed to buying the blood from Skorr. Three vials were given to Galen, so he could continue his work. The blood wasn't the only thing Galen needed, among a long list he also asked for volcanic ash, and other stuff. It was a long adventure, but we did manage to get everything he wanted.

Galen told us, "I have all I need to smelt the ore, but I am not a skilled enough smith. Please spread the word, and ask all smiths who would help to craft a war mace. Come to my house this wednesday, I will ask the one that has made the finest war mace to forge the mace from the ore of the meteorite."

When Wednesday rolled around, quite a few people were gathered at Galen's house. Galen put all the maces in a bag and chose the one of the best quality. Mits III, of The Killing Fields guild was chosen by Galen, and Mits was to be the smith to craft the war mace out of the meteorite metal. Galen invited us back into his laboratory, where he kept the meteor's ingots. They were a shinny red colour, strong and durable, I'd truly not seen such a sight before. Mits crafted the mace and gladly handed it over to Galen. Now the would-be-weapon of  Dragar's defeat was made, and Galen thanked all who came. The weapon was deemed he name Mace of Fire.

We enter a long void right now. Nor Galen or Dragar are herd from for a long time, until now. Galen had disappeared, and many considered him dead. Not very many people knew what happened, and only now the clues start to surface. Ten Bones a Shadow of Britain witnessed an event at Galen's house. Dragar had apparently found out about the Mace of Fire and attacked Galen's house. The entire area was besieged with undead creatures, and Dragar's diabolical laughs. It was unknown if Galen died, or if Dragar succeeded in obtaining the Mace of Fire.

Around this time several player run towns were being attacked. Not by Dragar, but by another creature. A lich lord with a human name of Ardian lead an army of spiders and attacked PaxLair and the Falconer's Inn, a popular tavern near the City of Yew.

"Bring me Y'thras! *seems to notice the mortals* Why are you not all dead?" Ardian said.

No one knew this Ardian or where he came from. What this had a connection to baffled even the brightest reporters (points to self). I myself put out a call for help, asking for anyone with information on Ardian to come forward. Leighlu, Grandmaster Smith-Guardians of Knighted Souls (GKS), contacted me with vital information.

The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote. It contains the information acquired from Leighlu. "I learned that a good while ago a mage from Vesper, whose name is unknown, lead a raid for the book Ardian speaks about. The raid was to the tomb of Ardian located in the Vesper Graveyard, about three weeks ago.  Legions of undead and Ardian himself were fought to allow the mage to retrieve the text.  Who this mage is, and what he plans for the book is unknown. This is, however, all we know. It is important that more of this information on the raid of Ardian's tomb is found."

When I wrote that article I was still at a loss, I couldn't connect these raids by Ardian to anything, until now. Glenn Wintord sent in the contents of a piece of paper he had found. The paper's contents explained what had happened to Galen!

The following is an excerpt from the paper Glenn found. "Galen was not entirely certain what had happened. He should have known better than to step through the experimental gate he was working on, but when Dragar and his minions attacked his lab in the middle of the procedure, it was his only means of escape. At least it seemed like a good idea at the time, he thought to himself with a laugh. He had managed to escape with the Mace of Skyfire, but he was now trapped in a prison of his own creation. He was safe in his home of Moonglow, but he had no real physical form. No one could see or hear him, and he could not interact with the world around him. "

When Dragar had attacked Galen's house, Galen had tried to save the Mace of Skyfire by escaping through an experimental gate he made. Now Galen was trapped between worlds, and was at a loss. Even though Dragar didn't have the mace, there was no obvious was anyone could get to it, and Galen was lost!

This was also in the paper Glenn found. "In a forgotten room, deep within the mountains, there is a momentary flash of light. A solitary figure emerges to stand before a blood stained altar.

‘Now at last, It begins… the pathetic attempt to create a weapon to oppose me has been dealt with, and Y’thras shall trouble me no more.’

The figure turns to face the energy field behind him, and in a flash of light a Daemon of ice appears before him.

As the light fades, he stumbles and catches himself upon the altar. ‘Curse Y’thras and its interference. I did not realize it had taxed me so… I must feed.’

A slow smile spreads across Dragar’s face as he moves to the next room and sits upon his throne. "

Deliverance at long last! It now appears Y'thras is some sort of enemy of Dragar's! The lich lord Ardian must be a servant of some sort to Y'thras, whoever Y'thras is. In any case, Ardian has the power to create and command huge hoards of spiders, and he himself is very powerful. If Ardian can be reasoned with, he could prove to be a great ally against Dragar.

Epilogue

Just today Dragar attacked the town of PaxLair. Ice Fiends, Elementals, Globs (Blobs?), all sorts of creatures of Ice were everywhere. They attacked with great force, and many defenders of the city were called in. This is the second time Dragar attacked towns of late (he also attacked Corwyn), and he says it's "a taste of what's yet to come."

Shortly after the battle Galen's deformed spirit appeared in front of everyone! Galen was partly invisible, and very hard to see. As he could not talk, it was hard to communicate with him. Nevertheless, Galen conveyed a message to us via a book which stated he needed us to be at his house at 9:00PM EST this Wednesday. Surely Galen has a plan for us to help him, and obtain the Mace of Fire so Dragar can be defeated!

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