The central order broke in a crisis each kingdom remembers differently: a dragon's betrayal, a succession disaster, a war of forged oaths. What is agreed is that the high crown failed. Archives burned; coronation records were stolen, altered or sealed. The regions that had served the centre hardened into crowns of their own, and the dragons were gone. The old court survived only by giving up sovereign ambition: the Heartlands remained, a legal centre rather than a throne.
World Chronicle
The Betrayal of Scale and Seal
The old high crown failed, the dragons were lost, and five crowns rose from its regions.
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When dragon presence shaped the land, and the first oaths were sworn in dragon-shadow.
Open chronicle →A central authority formed around what is now the Heartlands, through law, archive and oath.
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