The Dragons' Legacy by Dan Zangari & Robert Zangari

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  The red dragons had proved cunning in their confrontations with the tethering stone. Through their magic they could escape the pull of the breach and avoid exile. This, coupled with Selgas’s destruction, made it clear to the leaders of the Kaldean Alliance that control, unwavering control, would be the only way to achieve peace for Kalda.

  In a short amount of time, the draconic sages created the Au’misha’k, otherwise known as the Amulet of Draconic Control. The amulet comprised three parts; the metallic housing, the Ruby of Lish and the activating scroll. At the bottom of the amulet were three claw-like prongs that clutched the tethering stone.

  Immediately after the Au’misha’k was completed, a battle was wrought over an island to the west of the ruins of Merath. As the forces of the Alliance and the Empire clashed, the platinum dragon who had wielded the tethering stone in the past unleashed the power of the amulet. Rays of crimson light burst forth and engulfed the island plain and the red dragons in the air all stopped in mid-motion. They plummeted to the ground, unable to act. Using the amulet, the platinum dragon commanded his draconic foes to come to him, and the red dragons were acted upon in such a way which had never been seen. With their wills stripped from them, the red dragons obeyed their platinum dragon master who immediately opened a breach to a distant realm.

  For the next couple of years blood and carnage veiled the world. Many of the red dragons were caught in the power of the amulet and exiled to Kalish; the name of the realm where the red dragons were disposed. During the amulet’s construction, the leaders of the Alliance decided upon finding a remote world to send those who had instigated the war; to a realm far from the others they had exiled.

  After three years, the Kaldean Alliance triumphed; Cheserith was sealed away by the draconic sages and the last of the chromatic brutes were banished to Kalish, or so the leaders of the Alliance believed.