Dragon's Eye

A cabal that was part of the conflict known as the Clash of the Cabals that resulted from the death of Arkadius Secondsight.

371BE: Arkadius died and his apprentices gathered their followers into independent cabals. One of which was the Dragon's Eye. However as Hollow Truth gained power and Volkalis took the Ark-Tower many had to leave the city itself. Dragon's Eye was one of these. They moved out of the city but retained a presence.

368BE: After internal conflict ripped apart the leading cabal, Hollow Truth, revealing it to actually be made of several smaller internal cabals. Several non-mage assassins were used in a series of killings. This resulted in a sort of open civil war. Blood ran through the streets of Armakania. Many 'normal' people abandoned the city for outlying towns and the protection of other cabals such as the Dragon's Eye.

Volkalis and his cabal took ascendancy in Armakania using the Ark-Tower.

366BE: As the Eye of the Tower didn't not leave Armakania the other cabals such as the Dragon's Eye established other strongholds. The cabal went north to the elven settlement of Weatherdark. They there attempted to control the elven settlement and seize control of its magical forces and treasures.

The conflict almost destroyed Weatherdark with the wizards trying to use intimidation and bribery to take control of Weatherdark's resources and magic. In the new year after a couple of months of this interplay the leaders were revealed to be in league with dragons, which they attempted to use to force the elves to give way to them and accept them as overlords. Positions within the cabal were offered to elven wizards and at least one accepted. As these powerful allies came into the open, Weatherdark was brought to its knees.

However the elven Shrouded called Infestial bluntly opposed the cabal and threatened any elf treacherous enough to side with them. The fear and blended respect the elves held for the Shrouded druid held things in the balance. Eventually this descended into outright conflict with deaths on both sides.

Finally the elven archmage Silvernial rose up to lead the elves of Weatherdark in this conflict. He and Infestial eventually ensured the cabal was broken and its remnants left Weatherdark for good. They did this in different ways but the most dramatic was the killing of the wizards linked to the dragons.

Infestial with a compelled group of fey and four Shadeborn warriors killed one in the middle of the night. This death was not noticed until hours after it had taken place. His underlings found him and his guardians him dead pierced by the thinnest of cuts. It is still uncertain how this was done but all sources claim Infestial as the source.

Silvernial however though less feared caused perhaps the most important upset for the guild. He engaged the wizard Dranic Felbrow in a wizards duel and simply outmatched him openly and utterly. The duel was witnessed by many of both sides and even some independent observers such as the bard Sybilant. Dranic had used Soulcraft to seal himself to a dragon and after some initial set backs dropped all pretense and openly called upon this power. He also wielded significant artifacts of power including the Dragon's Eye amulet, which he also brought to bear. However Silvernial overwhelmed the human 'archmage' and slew him causing such pain to his dragonic ally as to force him to flee. The dramatic nature of the magical defeat shocked the cabal and broke their will to fight the elves. Silvernial's defeat of Dranic is used as the prime historical example of elven magical superiority based on quality and sheer power. The duel is still studied in the Blue Crystal Palace millennia later.

Silvernial was content to leave the cabal broken, but Infestial was not. He is said to have ordered his broken fey and Shadeborn servants to kill as many of the cabal as possible and any who sympathised with them before they are able to get clear of elven territory. Importantly this included the killing of three elven 'traitors' about which the poem 'Darkest Dreaming' was written.

The destruction of the Dragon's Eye showed the members of the cabals that attempting to turn other city states into new Armakanias would failing. The destruction of their cabals and loss of irreplaceable wizards drove the remnant of the Dragon's Eye to turn back home. Other cabals had suffered simiolar setbacks.

The remnant of the guild were at the meeting at the Golden Lake where six major cabals met to discuss how to bring down Volkanis and his Eye of the Tower. At this convocation it's agreed that Volkalis needed to be defeated and that a wizard nation ruled by a single dictator was a bad idea.

365-364BE: - The united cabals including the remnant of the Dragon's Eye turned on the Eye of the Tower and defeated Volkanis by disrupting his control of his followers. However the Dragon's Eye never returned as a named cabal.