"The Stormrider artefact?"  Carolina said, raising an eyebrow. "If only children listened in lessons more," she said with a chuckle as Vennar cleared space on his anvil. She took a cloth from under her cloak, spreading it across the anvil. "The story starts more than a century and a half ago, this city was ruled by a tyrant whose name has faded from history, who was dissimilar from Myraz. A young Myraz discovered he had stolen an artefact created by the dragons of the north. Seeking a way to break the king's hold on the city Myraz marched north, gathering an army around him, before finding his way here," she said, pointing to a mountain range at the northern edge of the map. "Dragonblight, fortress of the dragon lords and home to the Lord of all Dragons. Myraz made a deal with him: if the Dragon Lord would help him defeat the tyrant, he would return the artefact to Dragonblight."<br/><br/>"He even forged a new sword for Myraz," Vennar said. "Said to be enchanted with a magic far more ancient than even this city."<br/><br/>"They marched south, and a great battle was fought," Carolina continued. "The tyrant was defeated, and Myraz led the dragon into the treasure room in the dragon's human form. What happened next only Myraz can fully explain, we don't know whether Myraz was corrupted by the tyrant, corrupted by the artefact or had planned to betray the dragon all along, but he slew him with the sword he had been given. When the lord's son attempted to attack Myraz said he could destroy the dragon with little effort, so the creature returned north, offering a chilling threat."<br/><br/>"This is not over," Vennar said, putting on a dramatic voice. "When the time comes the Dragonstorm will fly south, and when it does every human will die in a sea of flame."<br/><br/>"The child who fled north was known, at least in human speech, as Stormrider," Carolina said. "If you are to overthrow Myraz you will need his help, but he considers humans his enemies, nevermind the task of reaching there in the first place. I cannot make any of you go, but as long as he has that artefact no kind of attack on him will succeed by any standard means."