The World of the Dragonfall Campaign


I have listened to a couple of hundred of hours of DnD 5e podcast, but its been more then 20 year since I actually played DnD. And then it was, well, different. So, the obvious place to start DMing 5e is the Lost Mine of Phandelver. Even though it is a good adventure to start with I wanted a bigger story for what could/ hopefully should, be a long campaign. 

 

So I made one. Here is the setting for the campaign I gave the family:

Dragonfall: 

Thirty years ago the mighty kindom of Asuarta was invaded by a dark alliance led by the red dragon Falak. The army consisted of orcs, goblinoids, undead, led by vampires, evil mages, lesser dragons and other dark forces Falak had managed to recruit in her schemed or forced to join her in her conquest of the greatest kingdom of men.    

Falak conquered the capitol Darkwater and murdered King Alexander and hunted down hos entire family to make sure that no one would challenge her. The royal guard died to a man trying to defend the royals.       

 

Even though they were occupied the resistance wasn’t dead. Cassander, a young officer in the army and son of the captain of the royal guard, started organizing the scattered remains of Asuartas forces to fight back. He founded the Order of the Dragon, dedicated to protect the world from Falak and dragons like her. The next years the order found allies among the elves, dwarfs an uncommon races in the fight against the dragons alliance. Five years after Falak murdered the king they organized a daring attack on the royal castle where dragon had made her lair. Good mages opened magic portals close to the castle and with great losses the order fought her way into her lair. They surrounded the dragon and, despite great losses, defeated her. The last blow was struck by Cassander himself. In defat her body exploded in white fire, searing half of Cassanders face – a wound that proved impossible to heal.  

 

The nobels of Asuarta made Cassander new king of– and he goes under the nickname “The burnt king.” People know him as a stern, but wise ruler. He changed the name of Darkwater to Dragonfall, and made it the seat of the Order of the Dragon. The goal of the order is to ensure that no country falls to a dragon again.   

 

Since the fall of Falak Asuarta has mostly been experiencing peace and growth. But, the last years tings have started to change. The roads are unsafe. Monsters are attacking villages, and for he first time in thirty years people have seen dragons in the skies of Asuarta. Something is going on.  



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