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The War of Brother Kings

Among the first Dragonborn to ascend to titan-hood were two brothers: Andes, a gold dragon, and Etlan, a green. Both were impacted by the United Pantheon’s fracturing of the dragonborn by color and were granted the shapeshifting powers common to all first dragons. Neither would reveal their true forms openly, as doing so would expose the other — the brotherhood was well known.

The Ideological Split

The brothers had been expanding their influence as the Brother Kings, but their views on governance diverged irreconcilably:

• Andes believed mortals could be guided through trust and benevolence.
• Etlan believed the only true control over lower life forms was domination.

Taking on humanoid identities, each brother led mortal factions in what appeared to the world as a civil war across the region that would later be known as the Andes Kingdom.

The War

The pressure of their disagreement led Etlan to forge truces with barbaric orc and goblin tribes, bolstering his forces. In the small village of Vivski — which would grow into the Andes Capital — The Wardens uncovered that Etlan’s lead officer, Krandex, was a necromancer. Etlan and Krandex planned to raise an undead army to overwhelm Andes’s forces.

Working with orcs and goblins had already turned much of the region against Etlan, but the exposure of necromancy solidified Andes’s favor with the mortals. With the population unwilling to align with monsters and undead, Etlan’s coalition collapsed. The final battles pushed Etlan to the brink.

The Banishment

In a battle witnessed by no one, Andes confronted his brother in their true dragon forms. Andes was victorious, but he could not bring himself to strike the final blow. Instead, he banished Etlan to The Deep.

Bound by vows to their gods, Etlan would not break the banishment. He spent millennia in The Deep, building a wood elf tribe, regrowing his strength, and continuing his mission of domination under the guise of the false god Zevorus. See Etlan for the full account of his exile and eventual death at the hands of The Dragonslayers.

Aftermath

Andes established a kingdom and took on a succession of identities to maintain it across the ages. His most recent identity was Terrance de’Shay, steward of the Andes Kingdom. See King Andes for more.