Cyril confronts The Devourer

At the last Equinox, many of the family of the Dragon-Kings were destroyed, along with their patron golden dragons. At the head of this massacre was the black dragon Scallandriax, The Devourer, who had grievously defeated the silver dragon Aristeele above the mountains of Svarth and was now convinced of his own invulnerability.

The tenacious rule of the golden ones in Kandang had been an irritation to Scallandriax for decades, and he tore into their civilization without mercy. Many of the humans fled into the eastern forests of Qual for refuge, where groups of elves known as the Sylvan Covenant took pity on them and helped to shelter them.