Durothil ( prince ) Durothil was the prince of the elven realm Tintageer . He fled with the last survivors of his people , when Tintageer was destroyed by a tremendous flood . With all sun elves of Tintageer and the moon elf Sharlario Moonflower Durothil came to the north of Faerûn . Directly after they arrived on the top of a hill , they were attacked by the red dragon Mahatnartorian . He got lost for some years and was rescued by Lythari . When he returned to his people the sun elves no longer needed a king and so the prince began to study the art of magic . But he also followed a plan to get back his power and maybe even got power over the dragon , who threatened his people . Meeting the Master of Mountains . Durothil had ambitions to ride a dragon . The gold elf prince Durothil faced the red dragon Mahatnartorian . Knowing that elven magic was useless against truly powerful beings like the Master of Mountains , he asked the deity Ghaunadaur for help , which he got . He made a pact with the red dragon . The dragon would kill a silver dragon and kidnap an egg of such a creature for him and Durothil would hand over his friend Sharlario Moonflower to the dragon after two decades during which the dragon was to leave the elves in peace . The background for this bargain was that Durothil had , as mentioned above , ambitions to ride a dragon . It was thought as something of a pilot project for long term cooperation between elves and dragons . He needed the egg to imprint himself on the newly hatched infant dragon so he had it easier to rear it as his mount . The background to hand over his friend was that when Durothil asked for power from Ghaunadaur , he genuinely believed that power that eclipsed his own would be given at no cost , it wasn ’ t and a living sacrifice was required , which was why Mahatnartorian suggested to hand him over Sharlario Moonflower , so he could kill the moon elf , who had once driven him away with a group of avariels , and use the same death as payment to Ghaunadaur . The first Dragonrider . As mentioned above , he needed the dragon egg to imprint himself on the newly hatched infant so he had it easier to rear it as his mount . He kept the hatched silver dragon Silverywing exclusively inside a magical dimension where it learned how to fight in conjunction with elven battle tactics as well as elven culture from Durothil and Moonflower , the three grew close , in the case of Durothil , it was suspected , that he treasured the dragon more than his actual children . Silverywing was only allowed to see the outside through magical scrying , it was planned that the dragon would interact at some later point with other dragons . The chosen date for its first time to fly in the outside world , was the date when Durothil was to hand over Moonflower to Mahatnartorian . The unknowing moon elf was sent to the meeting place under the pretence to check the wind conditions for the silver dragon . When the red one attacked , it was revealed that Durothil didn ’ t have the intention to sacrifice his friend and attacked the red dragon while mounted on Silverywing . Silverywing was quickly killed by the older dragon , but through magic , the Master of Mountains was dropped from the sky onto the ground where it died by the impact . The crash killed Durothil and he died fulfilling his debt to Ghaunadaur by himself instead of sacrificing his friend .