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Imarel Travel Guide - by T.A. Saunders ©2010 v1.2

Draconic Empire Hastenworth

With the fall of Davenshire, Hastenworth was next on the Dragons' agenda. By this time the Kingdom had gotten a runner to Moonfall and his Majesty's armies were on the march but it would be some time before they could reach the doomed city. As before, Thanaxiscar gave the residents of Hastenworth the choice to surrender. The residents didn't need the Van'su scholars to give them a history of the Dragons; enough stories of what had happened in Davenshire were enough to bring Hastenworth to submission with very little bloodshed.

There were those who fought of course, mainly adventuring types, heroes that had been visiting family and friends in the city at the time of the conflict, but they were simply eradicated by the fierce army of Dragons. Unwilling to lose their homes, crops and families, Hastenworth willingly lowered the standard of the Grand Duchy from their city hall and raised the black and yellow banner of Thanaxiscar and the Dragon Empire.

In the passing of time since the conquest of this particular city, Hastenworth had become something of a breeding ground for dragon half-breeds; the Dracothar were taken and cruelly trained as shock-troopers nearly from their birth, while Dragonoid children were taken and trained as keepers for their human slaves. The first generations of these Dracothar shock-troopers and Dragonoid keepers have matured to adulthood, finished their instruction and have been integrated back into Hastenworth's society with mixed success. The ultimate goal was to make Hastenworth so heavy with draconic influence that the Humans would prefer to stay within the Draconic Empire, rather than seek to revolt or flee for the Grand Duchy of Brookshire, or the Kingdom of Vyss.

As with Davenshire, with the end of the War of Shadows citizens of Hastenworth were given free passage from the city to Grand Duchy lands, though with so many of these Humans succumbing to the Xannti and breeding hybrid children, many of these families with Dragonoid and Dracothar siblings and children have decided to stay and rebuild instead. Since Hastenworth did not suffer as Davenshire did, there are more people overall and less damage to repair from the war.