Greetings everyone ! As promised, my first post on Planeshift forums is about my guild, The Dragon Council. Some may think that I?m posting a bit late, but I wanted to entirely finish the guild?s website before doing anything else. Anyway, here is the backgrond of my guild. It\'s quite long and more important information will be found in the second post.

Background

Old Memories

The origins of The Dragon Council may be unknown to many people of Yliakum, even on this very day... However, there was once a time when the word Dragon was common, and known to bring peace and wealth. This time may have been forgotten during the flow of time, infinite and resourceful. Now, only fear and terror is generated by this word, and in some memories, this time is known as... The Dark Age... Still, if it hadn\'t been for the weakness of Yliakum\'s creatures\' mind, everyone would have remembered this wealthy and peaceful time, which began when this powerful family first arrived from the Stone Labyrinth... It happened a very long time ago...

The Arrival

It was only the beginning of spring... Well an Yliakumen spring, but still a spring... There were not many things troubling the peaceful and quiet life of Yliakum\'s inhabitants. Last fall\'s harvest hadn\'t been very good, but it was enough for everyone to live on. So it was really unexpected to see, one of those sunny morning, such a mass of people coming from the Stone Labyrinth. What was even more surprising was that those people seemed to wish to settle in one town or another. Well it\'s what they thought.

Rather than settling in a town like Hydlaa, they chose to build a huge house in the countryside. The construction was finished in no time and the whole people, who were in fact one huge family, began to work hard to gather essential resources. Some went farming and hunting, others looking for every kind of ore they could take to craft weapons and tools. The only thing was that everything was always done perfectly.

Soon the family was known throughout all Yliakum because of it\'s wealth. It\'s also about at that time that the family happened to be called the Dragon Family, as it\'s members had weird beliefs in strange winged and powerful creatures they were calling themselves Dragons. In fact, everywhere on the lands claimed by the Dragon Family, one could have seen the gigantic and magnificent stone beasts they had sculpted.

The Great Alliance

The Dragon Family lived there in peace for ages, until one day a war occurred in the region. A powerful army of Dark Knights coming from the Stone Labyrinth was planning the destruction of all Yliakum. The other people of Yliakum made an alliance, the first one uniting together so many different races, in order to repeal the Dark Army. But no matter with how many they were, the army of the Great Alliance was no match for the bloody Dark Knights.

So, one day, as the Dark Army was getting close to the lands of the Dragon Family, the army of the Great Alliance went to the Dragon Family house to rest, replenish their supplies, but mostly to seek new allies, as even the leaders of the Great Alliance were beginning to lose their winning hope. They didn\'t know what else they could have done anyway. This is how the Dragon Family officially joined the Great Alliance and took part in this war.

The Dark War

It had been a very long time since the members of the Dragon Family had been to war, but as for them training was something that had to be done daily, the Dragon Warriors, as they were called later, were incredible fighters. Seeing the Dragon Warriors putting on their beautiful armours and taking their most beautiful weapons, the soldiers of the army of the Great Alliance where cheering up. Now nothing could possibly stop them. So when the Dragon Family and the army of the Great Alliance were finally ready to fight, the leaders decided to launch an attack in order to surprise the Dark Army and to crush it in no time. At least, that\'s how it was planned...

Performing the strongest assault ever done in all Yliakum, the army encountered an unexpected resistance. In fact, the Dark Knights were in incredible numbers. Even with the surprise attack, the wind of victory seemed to be with the Dark Army once again. At least, the soldiers of the Great Alliance thought so... In a part of the battlefield, the Dark Knights didn\'t seem to be willing to laugh at their enemies or just crush them. They were just wishing to flee as the Dragon Warriors were striking them as hard as they could. Their fighting abilities and their unknown way to use magical powers without the help of Glyphs were unbelievable to say the least...

Inevitable Defeat

Seeing this, the leaders of the Great Alliance felt themselves being held by the wish to crush their enemies. But even then, they weren\'t enough to hold the Dark Knights, and with each enemy falling, new ones were coming more eager to kill Yliakum soldiers. One by one, the chiefs of the Great Alliance were injured so badly that they were on the edge between death and life.

With their leaders lying dying on the battlefield, the soldiers of the Great Alliance, who had already begun to withdraw, were now fleeing as fast as they could. Even the Dragon Family was taking losses now, and many Dragon Warriors had fallen under the swords of the Dark Knights. The defeat seemed inevitable...

The Dragon Lord\'s Arrival, the Wrath of the Dragons

When the chiefs of the Great Alliance were almost dead and when all hopes to win or even to live had vanished, a huge shadow spread over the battlefield. At first, the soldiers of the Great Alliance thought that they were dead, until they heard the Dragon Warriors singing old war songs and fighting even harder than before. When they watched the sky, the soldiers could see a huge thing flying at an incredible speed, and on it\'s back was standing the mighty Lord of the Dragon Family, who hadn\'t taken part in the battle until now.

In his shinning golden armor, his powerful sword in one hand and a shield bearing the head of a dragon, symbol of the Dragon Family, in the other hand, that\'s how he joined the battle. Jumping from where he was, he landed uninjured in the very middle of the Dark Army, Dark Knights running away from him, as if they had met a God of Hell...With the Dragon Lord crushing hundreds of Dark Knights with each strike, the unleashed Dragon Family and the survivors of the Great Alliance, the Dark Army was nothing more than a bunch of bugs roaming the battlefield.

Soon the Dark Army was completely destructed thus ending the battle which was later revered to as The Dark Battle as despite the victory had been taken, the army of the Great Alliance wasn\'t looking like an army anymore and even the Dragon Family had suffered some important losses.

Departure

After the battle, there were many heavily injured soldiers on the battlefield, not to mention the leaders of the Great Alliance who were very near death. So the Dragon Family began to heal everyone in a very strange manner. Using there own blood as a medicine, they made everyone drink it. Everyone awakened feeling really well even if they were still injured. No one understood how such a thing could have happened, and of course the Dragon Family never answered.

The Dragon Lord also told them that they hadn\'t come to this land to seek power or glory and so they would go back to the Stone Labyrinth to seek a new place to settle. And so the Dragon Family slowly made itself ready for the long trip that laid ahead of it. Still, some members of the family wanted to stay in Yliakum, among whom was the Dragon Lord\'s son, and so they planned to leave for other countries while the main part of the Dragon Family went back to the Stone Labyrinth.

Birth and Death of a Legend

So while the remnants of the army of the Great Alliance where led back home by their leaders, the last members of the Dragon Family, who were only about ten, began a long journey to find a peaceful land to live in. From this day, they were never seen again. Bringing news of victory with them, the soldiers and the leaders of the army of the Great Alliance were acclaimed by everyone. The events of the Dark Battle reaching the ears of every people, soon the word spread throughout all Yliakum that the Dragon Family members and their Lord were kind of Half-Gods who only came here to protect Yliakum\'s inhabitants. Of course they were wrong...

As time passed, new wars shattered Yliakum without any members of the Dragon Family showing up to stop them. At first, the people of Yliakum began to think that the Dragon Family had been cursed to death by the Dark Knights and that therefore they couldn\'t be of any help. But as time kept flowing, the Dragon Family was slowly put on the background, and as it was always awakening bad memories, people began to think that the Dragon Family was in fact the Dark Army. With even more time passing, the Dragon Family was dropped out of Yliakum\'s memories, and its name only revered to old and dark times...

Toward the New Era, Dragon Generation

Ages later, a young boy called Rioth Selerel was born in Yliakum. Having spent his childhood with his parents in a peaceful countryside, he had never seen weapons, fights or anything of the sort, and that was something really unusual in Yliakum. But even more unusual was that thanks to his parents, he knew about the Dark War and the Dragon Family even though it had happened so long ago. The only thing was that he thought it was a mere legend. When he came of age, he used to wander in the countryside. He hadn\'t carried any weapons, but he wouldn\'t have needed them anyway as it seemed that this area was somehow preserved from any kind of harm.

One day, he reached some old ruins. It was a kind of gigantic house, still magnificent despite the damages it had suffered from the time. There, he saw ancient sculptures of mighty winged beasts and marvellous decorations well kept from the time. As he was about to enter the house, he saw a little blue stone on the door and strange symbols written near it. While he was sure he had never seen such things before, he could understand them easily. It said \"Here stands the house of the mighty Dragon Family, No one but someone with true Dragon Blood may enter this house alive\". Rioth realised that as he was reading those symbols, they were brightening, and some connections between the symbols and the stone made the stone brightening too. Without warning, the door opened, and Rioth entered the house of the Dragon Family.

The house of the Dragon Family was really huge, and Rioth had only visited a few rooms when he reached one which was filled with ancient books. As he walked in, one of the books dragged his attention. The book was filled with the same kind of symbols which were on the entrance door of the house, but again, Rioth understood them easily. This time it was a summary of the Dark War, and what made the Dragon Family leave Yliakum for another world. It also said that some of the members of the Dragon Family had stayed in Yliakum and that only a descendant of those members would be able to read those lines. It was then stated that as soon as it would be done, it wouldn\'t take long for the Dragon Family to rise again in Yliakum as powerful as it used to be and even more...