Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

a state brought a great deal of different
cultures to the pot, with violence in toe. The
accompanying lawlessness made this
mixture dangerously explosive. Dragons
and mortals alike fought over claims,
businesses, and matters of dignity in a
bloody tornado of soot, gold, and bullets.
Recent Recent History
History
The earth shook San Francisco on
the eighth of April 1906, the city shuddering
into rubble. The city is said to have suffered
over four hundred million dollar damages
(an enormous fortune at the time), and the
collapse and subsequent fires killed
thousands of residents. The quake’s
epicenter was off the cost of San Francisco,
near a greenstone assemblage called Mussel
Rock. This location was directly adjacent to
the San Andreas Fault, which led local
Oroboroi to believe it was sabotage.
The controversy lead to a full-out
brawl between the San Francisco Dens,
often referenced as the “War of the
Conspirators”. Accusations fell like rain,
and old enemies from the gold rush took the
opportunity to settle scores. Hearts changed
hands again and again, justified with claims
that “he was the saboteur”. Only a dozen or
so gold-rush Dragons living in the region are
believed to have survived this period, the
rest replaced with new Oroboroi.
The city was quickly rebuilt, mostly
out of earnest to be prepared for the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a
1915 World’s Fair to celebrate the
completion of the Panama Canal. This feat
was achieved at the cost of safety codes,
which were discarded after the first year of
reconstruction to meet this deadline. Even
today the city suffers for that haste, and a
quake of equal or lesser magnitude to the
one in 1906 would topple several sectors of
the city, ending hundreds of lives.
Life went on in the bay, the city
becoming a financial symbol as the goldfounded
banks secured themselves as
national powerhouses. Not a single San
Franciscan bank closed at the stock market
crash of 1929. Oroboroi from the period
like to flaunt this as a grand achievement to
the “whipper-snappers”, a sign that their
leadership weathers all disasters and keeps
the land alive. Some actually did contribute
to the “Great Depression Buffer”, and have
records to prove it. Others are full of shit.
Despite the survival of the city’s
value as a whole, many independently
wealthy Oroboroi were ruined by the crash.
Province-snatching became commonplace,
and the Dragon underground seemed ready
A picture of the ruins of San Francisco, taken by George R. Lawrence on May 28 th of 1906