“The serenity of the spring morning surrounding Ebony Castle and village suddenly became chaotic, when out of a clear blue sky came a fire breathing creature of destruction. The creature none other than a fabled dragon, a myth made up through the years by the old ones to awe and thrill the children. Yet here was the dragon belching tongues of flame that shattered the hard stones of the castles walls like they were made of sand. Minutes later the Castle Ebony and the surrounding village lay in smoldering ruins.  Even among the melee the wizard Mordrid was seen on his tower, bolts of white fire leaping up from his staff to strike the dragon with no effect, but soon the tower fell wizard and all, leaving the surviving inhabitants to fight the dragon with only lances and bows and arrows.