After centuries of war and turmoil, the humans of Dragon Pass persuaded the Dragonewts to speak to them of the Dragons. The humans became heir to a vast amount of Dragon power and knowledge. They formed the Empire of the Wyrms Friends. This empire, centered in Dragon Pass, was proud of and famous for their friendship with the dragons and wyrms of the pass. The peoples and places thrived, made contact with two other continents, and delved deep into spiritual byways.
The Empire of the Wyrms Friends lasted for five centuries and covered the land with a contented peace. Generations of misunderstanding and historical prejudice have heaped that time with rubble and abuse, but the Dragon I talked to said that it wasn’t so. The fault of the empire was not in the misuse of its power but in misunderstanding the nature of it.
The end of the Empire of the Wyrms Friends began when Eriayalaia, called the Veil of the Blue Moon, met in the Dragon’s Eye with the Inhuman King. They spoke of treasonous things and inhuman deeds, about death and genocide, euthanasia and the will of the gods.
The fringes of the empire collapsed first, wrenched with dissension and worship of new and foreign gods or the return of old and vengeful ones. Barbaric civilizations rose and ate away at the borders. In 1042 ST, Dragonewts rose and crushed the heart of the once-mighty civilization. Corrupt remnants, like Delecti and the Unknown survived, but the empire vanished.