Editing Dragon Kings Project:Teleris (section)

==Reign of the Priest-Kings==
For the first few decades after the Leavetaking, Teleris prospered under the reign of the Priest-Kings, each chosen by the astrology of the Trakeen.

However, during the centuries of chaos following the exodus of Dragon Kings, many turned to Teleris to provide answers, especially to the changing rains and weather patterns as Khitus slowly became more arid and barren. But the Priest-King of Teleris and his astrologers denied that Khitus was changing, and continued to give increasingly-inaccurate predictions based on age-old tablets and charts.

When the desert crept across the land, and the rivers dried, many of the neighbouring Makadan settlements grew angry, especially at the Trakeen’s repeated statements that the drought would soon be over and the rain would return. Teleris was no longer the place that people would journey to have their fortunes told, or to gain blessings for future endeavours. Teleris grew poorer.

As the economies of once-prosperous city-states collapsed and cultures sunk into barbarism, Teleris was blamed for causing the drought, and the once-great city of scholars was sacked and burned by the people that had once turned to the Trakeen of Teleris for all their answers. The Great Library was burned and the fine temples of the Dragon King Gulkhai the Star-Watcher were looted and desecrated.

Now, Teleris is considered an example of folly, mocked at by many different people across the face of Khitus. "The Priest-King claimed it would rain, even as the sands of the desert covered and choked him,’ the people say.