Zir the Black. Baalesh. Levirax. Margath the Unkind. The dragonlords and their armies struck the fair realms without warning, burning cities and toppling dynasties in the Dragon Wars. His goal: The fabled Stars of Timmorran in the treasury of Terrinoth and the realms of the other Fair Races.
It was Margath the Unkind that killed Trevnor Soulstone, last in the line of the Elder Kings. It was Margath who burned Tamalir. It was Margath who struck an alliance with the Black Legion, tempting the baleful warrior clan of orcs to join the Dragons' cause with gifts of runebound shards.
But it was Baron Roland of Kell who ended Margath's reign of terror. The well-traveled youth was an elf-friend and was always on the hunt for glory and destiny. He found both in the skies above the Mountains of Despair. Riding Valera, one of the rare winged horses of the elves, Roland met Margath in his full fury.
For hours they fought before they slew one another. Man, horse, and dragon plunged to the earth in a mortal embrace, the flame and destruction of their fall crumbling the mountainside below them.
But some whisper that both dragon and baron live, that their battle still rages beneath the Mountains of Despair. Many storms haunt those peaks, and the rumblings of the earth beneath the mountains are taken as proof by the Dread---the dragon cult---that Margath will one day rise again.
References
- Runebound (Third Edition)