The Dragons' Legacy by Dan Zangari & Robert Zangari

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  It wasn’t until nine hundred and twenty three years after the first skirmish that a decisive power was completed: Shiz’nak or the tethering stone. Its power can send one to many of the vast stars that illuminate the night sky of our world.

  The tethering stone is a sphere of pure rogulin which has been infused with magic through a rigorous ritual by the Irum’mak’sha; draconic sages who possessed the highest knowledge of each form of magic. Through their joint power they created a means for the stone to bind worlds together by opening a spherical-breach between the two realms. They were the first to traverse this gateway-of-sorts and discovered realms suitable for their intentions of triumph in what seemed to them as an endless war.

  Three hundred years passed away since the dragons, humans and elves had left Kardorth’s protective barsion. At that time, they ventured forth to once again battle with the army that besieged their home. At their head was a platinum dragon who held the tethering stone in his grasp. He single handedly plunged himself into the heart of the besieging army and uttered the incantation to bring the tethering stone’s effects to life.

  In an instant, a flash of brilliant light engulfed the battlefield and within the sky above the ground floated the breach to a distant barren world. Through the power of the stone, all those within a close vicinity to the breach were pulled toward it, including the dragon who possessed the tethering stone.

  Hundreds of dragons and thousands of men were pulled into the breach. On the other side, those drawn through were thrust from the breach. Many of the dragons loyal to the corrupted Ril’Sha attempted to pass back through, but were barred by a form of barsionary magic on that side of the breach. Only the platinum dragon that had tethered the worlds returned, for in his possession was a shard of orange rock, Tel’k’shak or Key of the Stars; it allowed the dragon to return through the barsion magic barring the others.

  That battle lasted many days before the besieging army retreated. It was a great day for the Kaldean Alliance, and although many had died upon the vast battlefield there was hope that the war would end.

  Many battles followed soon after and when the tethering stone was seen it struck fear into the enemies of freedom.