Shadowbane History @ IGN PC

IGN PC has posted an article that chronicles the history that has shaped the world of Shadowbane. The events are divided into four areas - Age of Twilight, Age of Days, Age of Kings and Age of Strife. Here's something to get you started:

    The Terror of Terrors

    No one, not even the Gods themselves, knows from whence the Dragon came, or how long it had slept in the darkest cavern deep below Aerynth. It has been forgotten how the Terror was found, or what caused it to wake. What is remembered in the laments of the Elves is that the Dragon, Terror of Terrors who spawned all the Drakes, awakened from its slumber deep underground and writhed about in anger, shaking the surface of Aerynth. Earthquakes, floods, storms, and all manner of calamities swept through the lands of the Elves and Centaurs, and the great Elvish cities were all laid waste. But even these disasters were trivial compared with the rising of the Terror itself.