Less than a day away from the city as the dragon flies, a single sandstone spire on a dusty windblown plateau reaches high into an ever-raging tempest. This is the den of Xarkon, also called the Stormheart, a mighty blue dragon who glares toward the city of Stormreach with fierce hate festering in his soul.
Xarkon’s father Xakolondar was a member of a draconic sect that demanded the destruction of humanity as a solution to the uncertain threat of the dragonmarks. When the other dragons disagreed, Xakolondar abandoned Argonnessen and made a new home in Xen’drik. Shortly after human pirates made their beachhead at the giant ruins, Xakolondar took it upon himself to scour them from the face of his home. Captain Delera Omaren, pirate queen and soon to be Storm Lord of the city, felled the blue dragon; Lady Paulo Omaren has long sought to learn how her ancestor accomplished such an epic task.
Xarkon was younger then and untested, but he has grown older and more powerful with each passing century. Now the dragon is in his prime, and his rage smolders toward the teeming city built by his father’s murderer. Xarkon has yet to mount a full attack on Stormreach, but more than a few raids by giants and wyverns are attributed to his influence. The dragon is a grave threat, but his force of desert giants, wyverns, and manticores makes Stormheart an even more dire menace to the city.