Last Landbound War
In the end, we can never know as we only have stories handed down from Before the Time of Tige and Talla.
The last generations of the The First Age saw the great Dragon Lords of Argentii fighting among themselves for breeding territory away from the dangerous People. By the time the war was over, more than half of the living dragons had been slain by their peers. The tribes of frightened people took advantage of the strife to unleash powerful magics against the dragons, thanks to the intervention of U the Chaotic.
In order to protect themselves -- and their breeding grounds -- the dragons banded together to rip the leylines from the ground and leave the people without magic, and the continent torn asunder.
The Conflict
Battlefield
The conflict raged across the continent. In the air, on the sea and beneath the waves, on the land and under the ground. There was neither safety nor stability to be found during the worst periods of strife.
The First Age
The Lost Age
Conditions
The long lives of dragons would offer years of tranquility, only for an entire region to be razed when a dragon's slow and vengeful plan finally ripened and bore flaming fruit. For generations it seemed that any foothold of the people would be torn apart the moment it began to thrive.
We only know it raged for generations upon generations.
c. 13718 BD
The continent was split into several pieces and the people lost access to all but the slowest, most elementary magic.
Belligerents
Dragon Lords
People
Strength
Colossal dragon lords leading clan armies of fierce, fire-spitting predators capable of demolishing entire towns without much effort.
Still at the point of making highly effective tools from wood, stone, and other raw materials.
Casualties
By the end, the number of dragons worldwide had been reduced by more than half.
The rapid breeding time of people means that by the end of the conflict, there were more than there had been at the beginning.
Objectives
The most basic of all drives: survival through breeding. Dragons are territorial, but also intelligent.
The most basic of all drives: survival through stability. People were struggling to establish permanent settlements for agriculture.
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