Dragonhawk Campaigns (updated 2009/12/27)

The Dragonhawk Campaigns are a collection of roleplaying campaigns based in the Dragon Isles of Ambar. Spanning over ten years of play, the campaigns together tell the story of lost secrets, the rediscovery of ancient strongholds of good, their release from the clutches of darkness, and the rise of new nations. The ancient dragons that were once defeated by darkness are being reborn anew.

For thousands of years, the people of the lands around the Dragon Sea languished in slavery under the rule of the Baal and their dragons. Many of the ruling lords were secretly members of the Baal'Mot--the forbidden order of necroalchemists cast out by the Baal in ancient times and thought to be extinct. In their arrogance, the Baal'Mot performed the supreme transgression against gods and nature by performing dark experiments on the sacred dragons who guarded the land. Very few of the dragons escaped the corruption.

After the fall of the Draconian Empire the lands slipped into even greater darkness. Without the dragons to guard them, the Astral Pools were easily corrupted and festered with the taint of the Nameless Old Ones. A black cyst formed in the heart of the plains, folding the land in on itself, and breeding shadows.

Now, half a millennium since the Baal fled, the world is being reborn in white light, steel, and fire. The wilderness is being tamed by holy knights of the north and lost lands explored by intrepid adventurers. The old places of power are being cleansed by heroes who bear the marks of the dragons, the light of the Ithil'Rhi, the power of White Wizardry, and the Dragon Gods. The guardian dragons are being restored and the energies within the earth run cleanly once more. This has revealed a little-known truth that this land was held by Alu">the Alu before the Baal, and that the Baal word Uru (Dragon) is also an Alu word that translates to "Dragonhawk", or dragon-phoenix of the resurrection.

A new nation is emerging in the midst Rochir Plains, its people forged in the fire of battle and rallying to the forces of light. This new land is guarded by Dragons resurrected as Dragonhawks, and the heroes who set them free from the bindings of the Baal'Mot.