Io's Blood Isles (CWS)

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It lies in an isolated stretch of ocean, far from the continents where humankind thrives. Its distant shores range from sandy beach to lush jungle, icy plain to steamy swamp. Its islands form a chain that starts in the frigid Ice Sea, passes through the more hospitable Coral and Blood Seas, and ends among the boiling waves of the Burning Sea. It is the Io's Blood island chain, whose varied isles are bound in an an- cient covenant of claw and wing. 
Dragons rule these isles. They hold that the greater god Io, the Ninefold Dragon, created these islands specifically for their kind. They have maintained this belief in story and legends millennia old. But the true history, as told by the great dragon-sages, tells a more intricate tale... a tale of squandered gifts, dragon wars, and a dire threat that nearly ended dragonkind's dominion of the Io's Blood isles.