Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Drakonid Highlands/The Drakonids (section)

=The Second Incursion=
According to official Imperial correspondence, it was said that Prifa had put down the Second Drakonid Incursion. Though the Drakonids indeed fought hard against the suffocating Imperial advance, it could hardly be considered as an Incursion, at least in the context of the First. It was a fact that the next Emperor, '''Alexius II''', would consider in making his foreign policy. The first thing he would do upon taking the throne was to relax the Empire's control of Drakonhelm, an unofficial gesture of peace towards the Drakonids, who were surely still bitter after the devastation the Empire had wrought upon them. Though commoners didn't know of the move, those in the higher echelons of government repeatedly warned the Emperor about it. They feared that it would only invite the Drakonids back to wreak more havoc upon the Empire, that only further pressure against them. But the Emperor held his ground, citing that the "wishes of the Founder were no longer being heeded," that the Empire had "become an engine of War rather than an engine of Service."

The actual Second Drakonid Incursion has yet to come. Surely, there are those among the Drakonids who are planning it. There are also likely those who cannot get the images of the Siege at Drakonhelm out of their heads and wish for it not to happen again. This schism in the future of the Drakonids only serves to allow the great dragon in which the tribe bartered with to furthermore corrupt their minds, formerly unable to do so given their original, singular purpose.

To the northeast of the Western Continent, further north than even the great mountains of Benalor dare reach, lies a frozen land of eternal winter. The winds howl and the snow falls with the lament of its former inhabitants, the Iotold, a people who hail from a time prior to that of even the Old Empires. Despite all of it, life still thrives there, great forests spanning from coast to coast of the peninsula, even people making their lives there.

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