Leviathan Crescents

Dragon/Exodus Legend
The Leviathan Crescents are two islands where an ancient city sits in the middle of a pristine sea. The city once stood in the bay of one island, but was moved across to the other island's bay. The true reason for this was lost to legend, and that legend is what has driven legions of treasure hunters and adventurers to this port city over the years.

An inscription supposedly shows the entrance to a treasure vault, as seen from the ruins of the old city across the water. The vault is said to have been the remains of the city's coffers, filled with coin, jewels and artifacts that had survived destruction.

As the story goes there were many heroes that came from the mainland to fight a dragon that had made its lair on the island, but each time they would fail and the great drake would punish the city by raining fire down at random, killing the city's residents as a warning to those who would assist the would be dragon-slayers that landed there each month.

Eventually the city's elders gathered and decided that they would have to leave this place, for the dragon made it unbearable to live, everyone being in constant fear of an attack. They revealed their plans to the people of the city and prepared to leave.

It isn't for certain how the dragon found out about the plan, or even if at all. Soon after the elder council made their decision the city was attacked with a ferocity never before seen. It seemed the dragon was bent on the total destruction of the city, laying waste to every building and killing all who tried to escape.

The morning brought only sadness and despair to those few were left. Unable to properly bury their deceased, the people gathered what few belongings they still had and pieced together their broken ships into crude rafts. They left the island, some making for the sea while many simply drifted until they came to the shore of the other island.

The elders, either out of greed or caution, had moved the city's wealth and hidden it aboard a boat in a secret water-filled cavern at the island that became their refuge. With this they were able to trade with the first merchants to visit after the destruction.

While many bought boarding and left with the trade ships, some of the sturdy folk decided to stay behind and rebuild their lives and city on this island, thinking that the dragon's rage had been quelled, and that it now slumbered. They did not know of a life elsewhere, and would take their chances there.

Thus did they build this new city with the wealth of the old. No longer fearing the dragon, and having become a prosperous trading port once more, the last elder took the reserves of the old city, which is said to have been vast and beautiful, and locked them away in case the dragon ever woke again. It is said that the vault would keep the people safe from harm as well as allow them to rebuild their city elsewhere.

The elder passed away without telling any of the location of the treasure, and the dragon has never awoken from its slumber...