Age Of Dragons: Dragonwar
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It has been just under three millennia since the Ascendancy began its spree of conquest, and a mere millennium since the Alliance formed in enmity to the Ascendancy. Though this is a mere space of a few generations for dragons, most of those who witnessed the Alliance's formation have already passed on, and a new generation of Dragon's has been born into a world that has been riven in two. Even the eldest have barely any memory of how things once were - tales of the time of their grandfathers seem lost in ancient history.
For mortals, three millennia is far longer. Entire civilisations were put to the sword in the North, and now all that is known and remembered is the Ascendancy. Mortals in the North may not even have heard of the Mother Goddess, and have come to accept life in the Ascendancy's empire as the way things have always been. In the south, folk are better educated in history, but even then the draconic Alliance has had mortal effects. Whereas once the City States of Arrantis warred amongst themselves, they now consider themselves a single nation. Whereas once the Arrantians looked upon the desertfolk of Kalarn as dark-skinned infidel, they now see them as trading partners and friends, and it is far beyond mortal memory when this was otherwise. Mortal men are aware of the existence of the "Alliance of Dragons" and of their guidance over their society, just as they are filled with fear at the thought of the "Empire of Night" that is in the distant North. Of course, with their short lifespans, the threat in the North may seem less immediate... Both Dragon and human analysts believe that it can only be a century or two at most before all out war reaches the South, but what is mere moments to a Dragon is a half dozen or more generations away to men.
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