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

Draconic Empire Lyrewood

The city of Lyrewood was the last to fall to the Draconic Empire, with constant fighting between the joined armies of the Kingdom of Moonfall and the Kingdom of Vyss against the Xannti Dragons and their Dracothar shock-troopers plaguing her walls daily. The city, once one of the ancient cities built by the Elves for the Humans, became a smoldering battlefield with few buildings left standing, families hidden in their cellars and fighting day in and day out.

Their plans for Lyrewood were much like their plans for Hastenworth had been; to use Humans to breed hybrids for an army they meant to use to eventually conquer Shalzaar. Since Humans aren't Asyndi, there is no true Draconian law that forbids them to breed with them, so the process of doing so was widely embraced. Lyrewood had been costly for the Dragons to hold however with causalities mounting almost daily. Thanaxiscar was a very old and very stubborn Dragon and did not give up his new territory so easily, even if it meant slaughtering every Human it had and freezing the ground their city stood on to lifeless ruin.

By the end of the War of Shadows, there is simply nothing left of Lyrewood worth rebuilding.The Human refugees that were spared have abandoned the city to the Xannti and left for Grand Duchy lands, when given leave by the new Empress, Tashalasheeri. The ruined city stands in silent effigy to the horrors this most recent war has brought upon innocent people.

Eventually, Lyrewood was rebuilt right before the Peasant's Rebellion of 1351 AC, by many of the humans and Dragonoids in the surrounding area who wished to see it flourish again. After six years of hard work, the town stood new again, though much smaller than before.