Dragon Wars

The shorthand for the battle in the skies during the Great Cataclysm. When the world turned to disastrous ruin, the 10 dragons all came out of hiding, and battled openly in the sky. While written history was essentially lost to the Cataclysm itself, most stories and legends tell of all five Metallic dragons falling, having been conquered by the Chromatics. The Metallics have not been seen since, nor have their "children", the Metallic Dragonborn. It is not known how many Chromatic Dragons survived the Dragon Wars, but their Dragonborn still roam the Isles, and there are whispers of an enormous Chromatic Dragon in the North, at the appropriately named Serpent Mountain.