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== World of Drakan ==

The world of Drakan is a fictional planet on which the two ''Drakan'' games above are based. It is a world of varied lands similar to our world and harbors a variety of life ranging from mighty [[dragons]] to [[humans]]. It is one of two planets orbiting a single sun and has four moons with its planetary neighbor, Sessool, always visible in both the day and night skies.

Not much is known about the history of the world before the Order of the Flame was established around 1000 years before [[Rynn]] was born but the gist of the back story to ''[[Drakan: Order of the Flame]]'' below, gives some idea.

Long, long ago, the world of Drakan was tormented by an endless war between all tribes and races, but the bitterest fight was that between [[Dragons]] and [[Humans]], the two superior races of the universe. But after centuries of fighting, the two races came to realization that only a mutual peace is a key to the future and slowly ceased the hostilities. As a trust between Humans and Dragons grew, a new symbol of peace and mutual support was created - ''The Bond''. The Bond is a magic [[ritual]] that binds a human and a dragon being so that their spirits become intertwined forever.

The Bonded formed the ''Order of the Flame'', a voluntary organization of peacekeepers and evil-fighters (much like [[Jedi Order]] of [[Star Wars]]) that soon spread its philosophy all over the world. Thus began the [[Golden Age]] for Drakan. But humans cannot be happy for so long and very soon a secret society, the ''Dark Union'', whose members strived for personal power rather than the equality proclaimed by the Bonded, was formed to destroy the Order of the Flame once and for all. By the end of the Golden Age, the Order was betrayed by the man, of whom nobody even dared to suspect a betrayal. ''Navaros'', a brilliant war mage and a prominent member of the Order, was also a secret member of the Union and its self-crowned leader. He was the one who started the Dark Wars.

The Dark Wars have devastated the world of Drakan. The foul and evil creatures created by the Union have replaced animals and minor races. Whole continents were scorched but neither side was able to win. It was then that Navaros had used his last resort—by twisting and perverting the ancient Bond ritual he devoured the soul of his dragon companion, ''Keiross'', and became a beast of dragon power and human cunning. The new Navaros was nearly invincible, but a mighty hero named ''Heron'' and his dragon companion [[Arokh]] were able to face him, armed with the ''Runeblade'' forged for the purpose with all the magic power that the Order had left.

In the last fight between the Order and the Dark Union, Heron thrusts the Runeblade into Navaros' heart while he was performing his final act of evil magic; after this, when the smoke cleared, both armies lay decimated, and where Navaros had stood, Heron lay dead in a smoldering crater with the Runeblade broken in two at his side. Arokh retired to a small cave deep in the mountains for eternal sleep. The remaining dragons soon followed his example. The Dark Wars were over and both Order of the Flame and the Dark Union were no more. At least, so it seemed back then.

After the war was over and the Dragons had retreated from the world, life on Drakan once returned to its pre-order state of lawlessness and chaos. The human despising alien race known as the Desert Lords banished from their homeworld of Sessool, one of the so-called "Demon Worlds" and Drakan's neighboring planet saw this as an ideal time to invade and soon took a strong foothold on the world quickly enslaving or killing most of the remaining human population. Unfortunately, some of Navaros's shock troops, the Wartoks and Grull became allies with the Desert Lords thus ensuring their triumph.

600 years later however, there were now two main groups of armies in the world; those supporting the Desert Lords and the other being the remnants of Navaros' Dark Union. A race of winged human like creatures called the [[Succubi]] had decided they had had enough of the Desert Lords and amassed a great plan to rid the world of them. They needed help however and this involved the bringing back of Navaros from the rift through which he was cast when struck with the Runeblade bourne by the warrior Heron. Navaros however, had only a spirit form and hence he needed a new body to inhabit, which through a long turn of events happened to be Rynn's brother, Delon. [[Succubi]], like the Desert Lords also despised humans and Dragons (of the Order) and were supporters of the Dark Union.

This story formed the basis of ''[[Drakan: Order of the Flame]]'' where [[Rynn]], after learning the whereabouts of Arokh's cave eventually awakened him and they subsequently bonded. Together they defeated Navaros but at the cost of Delon's life. The sequel, ''[[Drakan: The Ancients' Gates]]'' follows on the story and tells us more about the Desert Lords with the ultimate goal of the game being to defeat them and re-establish the Order.