Draconian Wars

### Location

Southern parts of Énelya, mostly on the lands currently held by the Empire of El Sherdan

### Participants

Draconians acting as defenders
Children of Enely (humans, elves and dwarves) acting as aggressors

### Result

Draconians brought to near extinction through war of attrition and scattered across the lands of Énelya
Humans claim the old lands of the draconians and begin to settle with the help of the elves and dwarves

The Draconian Wars were a series of conflicts fought between the draconians and the first humans, elves and dwarves. After recovering from the damages of the First Demon War and successfully banishing most of the remaining demons from the Realm of Mortals, the Children of Enely saw the draconians as the next big threat in front of them. The draconians did not have a clear side in the First Demon War and their enormous and constantly growing powers intimidated the humans greatly. The great mysteries around the draconian race also motivated others to destroy them; no one really knew where they came from and their magical portals and unanswered questions surrounding their existence made people see them as outsiders from another world. The draconians were also ruthless in battle and wielded the elements with great fury; this made them seem more monstrous and demonic, much like the demons of Angmar.

With elves and dwarves bordering them in the east and the west and humans landing on their southern shores, the draconians were eventually pushed to war. The war itself was long and costly for both sides and the draconians main weakness was their low numbers. Dwarves fought side by side with the humans, arming their allies with superior steel that could cut through the scales of the draconians and while the draconians also wielded powerful magic, the elves were able to reverse engineer their portals and use them effectively against them. During the final parts of the war, the Children of Enely destroyed the main hatcheries of the draconians through the use of these portals, crushing their will to fight. This effectively ended the wars as the remaining draconians either fled or surrendered to their fate.

Elven historians have described the draconians in their lore as far more brutish and aggressive compared to the Children of Enely; this is why a large majority of people have accepted the eradication of the draconian race as a just cause. However, as more and more humans have come to doubt written texts of elven origin, these descriptions have also been questioned. Some humans believe that the elves convinced their ancestors and the dwarves to fight against the draconians to push towards their ultimate goal; they wished to be the greatest magicians on the land and the draconians were challenging that position. One could also say that the vast arcane knowledge of draconian wizards also attracted the attention of the elves. A few have even suggested that the elves used forbidden and particularly destructive magic to cause near extinction to the draconians as the long conflict proved to be unsolvable by conventional ways of warfare, and this in turn lead to the birth of the Ebony Gauntlet. Whatever their true motives and actions were is rather unclear as the only written history remaining from these wars comes from the elves themselves.