The+Dragon+Empire

The Dragon Empire
The God know all, even the end of the world and their own deaths. Knowing who would die in Ragnarok, many wanted to change that fate. Over the centuries, they gradually to openly began fashioning areas for themselves out in the planes and leaving the world to fend for itself, thinking to escape their fates. As each went their own way, only one remained to the world. Hel, being Lawful and ruler of the dead, stayed active here.

Dragons were the first creatures to rule this world after Magic had transformed it. With their long lives and great power and intelligence, they rose to control the world while the rest of the world was still struggling amid the chaos. They saw themselves as vastly superior to humans, and felt they were guardians of the earth and over all it's peoples.

Over time, the various dragon species aligned themselves into two factions, Lawful and Chaotic. The Lawful dragons believed in organizing the humans and other lesser races into cities and controlling them, benevolently or malicously at the local dragon's discretion. The Chaotic dragons felt that the lesser races were potentially threatening to dragonkind, and needed to be kept disorganized, again, benevolently or as a simple food source was less relevant than the desire to keep us scattered and defenseless. The two factions fought each other, with the Lawful eventually getting the upper hand. The war ravaged the world and dragonkind being slow to reproduce took a long time to recover.

At the advice of the Blue Dragons, the Council of Lawful Dragons chose the drow to rule over the lesser races because of their powerful magic, long lives, and lawful nature. With Hel as their patron goddess, they rose to form the first Empire of the Asp, while the dragons sat back and recovered from their war.