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Dragonheir: Silent Gods is a gacha game from Chinese developer SGRA Studio and published by Nuverse, a subsidiary of ByteDance, released in 2023. While it is set on its own world called Adenthia, it unusually had official collaborations with Dungeons & Dragons itself, resulting in limited-time crossover storylines and Forgotten Realms characters like Drizzt Do'Urden and Elminster Aumar becoming playable heroes.
This wiki will only cover these storylines and Forgotten Realms–related lore, and presumes its three-headed-dragon Tiamat to be unrelated to the D&D version.
Description[]
It takes the form of a high-fantasy role-playing game, with elements highly derivative of both Dungeons & Dragons (the depiction of goblins, mimics, and tressym "plumecats", among others, as well as a heavy focus on d20 dice) and Warcraft (the depiction of orcs). It has different modes of play: a semi-open-world point-and-click isometric view for wandering the game world, fixed panels for visiting settlements, menus for talking to NPCs, and real-time isometric combat with limited control of characters on a grid. The language is translated from Chinese, leaving many errors in wording and phrasing. There are numerous quests and regular challenges, shops for purchases, and gacha game mechanics, with many bonuses and the chances of summoning a hero unit depending on a lucky die roll, requiring lengthy grinding and in-game purchases of summoning chances, making it a pay-to-win gambling game.
Summary[]
Echoes of the Sleepless[]
Mystra has sent Elminster to the world of Adenthia to investigate the dracoliches terrorizing its southern lands; Elminster suspects that world's chaos power is infecting her own magic. He destroyed a few and learned they were connected to a local cult called Penultima, but could not find their leader and had no clue where to go. Wearied by the journey,[1] he travels via a portal into the camp of a local adventurer, the halfling mechanic Gerana, and her companions,[2][3] from whom he seeks aid and, above all, food.[1][note 2] Informing Gerana of a great evil arriving on their world, he enlists her aid.[4][3] They go to a local tavern at Wolf Keep for a meal and information, and run into a Penultima fanatic, who boasts of the dracoliches' power and tells them of a fresh dracolich attack at a camp near Sinner Swamp. Elminster and Gerana decide to go there.[1][5]
There, they discover weakened, imitation dracoliches raised using chaos power (an Adenthian form of magic) from the bones of dragons slain in that world's own Dragon Rage in ancient times. They track one to a nearby cave, but find it is mentally unstable before it collapses in front of them. It appears the new dracoliches are prone to madness, rage, and spontaneous disintegration.[1]
Fortunately, Gerana resonates with the chaos power in the bones and leads Elminster to a wizard's tower guarded by a Penultima cultist. Inside, they find a copy of the Tome of the Dragon, a long way from Toril—it appears Penultima are using chaos power and Cult of the Dragon rituals to create their own dracoliches out of some connection with Adenthia's Child of Chaos, whom they worship. They also find the location of the cult lair, before the tower is surrounded by Penultima cultists summoning them to meet their new leader: none other than Elminster's old foe Sammaster.[1][6]
In the cult fortress near Shrieking Defile, they confront Sammaster. He reveals that, after his destruction at the hands of the god Lathander in the Year of the Sinhala, 916 DR, he'd somehow resurrected himself on Adenthia, where he hoped to use necromancy and chaos power to achieve a chaotic state between life and death without the need for a phylactery for himself and his newly created dracoliches. After seeing his early experiments, Penultima found Sammaster and proclaimed him to be their long-dead Child of Chaos, who'd also raised undead dragons, and Sammaster came to believe it himself. They venerated him and shared with him the Child of Chaos's magical techniques and he turned them into a kind of Cult of the Dragon cell. They continued creating dracoliches whilst they tried to stabilize the process and sought to conquer Adenthia. In the end, they fight and Elminster and Gerana once again destroy Sammaster in a lengthy battle. They save the world and bring peace, etc.[1][3][7][8][9][10]
Afterward, Elminster declines the offer of a massage from Gerana and they return to the Wolf Keep tavern to celebrate, where Elminster names a local wine Elminster's Choice. Elminster pays the bill and departs whilst Gerana sleeps it off, presumably returning to his own world.[1]
At some point, they find a giant magical handprint knocked through a barn door, and wonder who or what it could be...[11]
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Characters[]
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Miscellaneous[]
Referenced only
Blood of Lathander • Chosen of Mystra • necromancy • phylactery • the Weave
Appendix[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Sammaster's appearance is expressly after his defeat by Lathander, implying this to be set after 916 DR and before his next reappearance in 1282 DR. However, this is rather earlier than most Realms fiction and Elminster and Drizzt are likely from much later. Presumably, there is a time difference between the worlds.
- ↑ While the quest in game has Elminster meet the player-character, promotional materials present these events as diary entries by one of the game's summoned heroes, Gerana. Artwork depicts other characters, but these are not consistent and harder to identify. For convenience, this wiki takes Gerana to be the canonical adventurer met by Elminster.
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External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 SGRA Studio (2023). Dragonheir: Silent Gods. Nuverse.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-14). Gerana's Diary - Part I. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-29. Retrieved on 2024-03-29.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-29). The Battle Against Great Evil. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-30. Retrieved on 2024-03-30.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-17). Gerana's Diary - Part II. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-29. Retrieved on 2024-03-29.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-19). Gerana's Diary - Part III. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-29. Retrieved on 2024-03-29.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-21). Gerana's Diary - Part IV. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-29. Retrieved on 2024-03-29.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-23). Gerana's Diary - Part V. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-31. Retrieved on 2024-03-29.
- ↑ Error on call to Template:cite web: Parameters archiveurl and archivedate must be both specified or both omitted. Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-02-28). Gerana's Diary - Part VI. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-30. Retrieved on 2024-03-30.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-03-03). Gerana's Diary - Part VII. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-30. Retrieved on 2024-03-30.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-03-10). Gerana's Diary - Part VIII. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-31. Retrieved on 2024-03-30.
- ↑ Dragonheir: Silent Gods (2024-03-15). Gerana's Diary - Part IX. Twitter. Archived from the original on 2024-03-30. Retrieved on 2024-03-30.
Connections[]
Other settings
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse • Planescape: Torment (Enhanced Edition) • Ravenloft: Stone Prophet • Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession • Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace
Collaborations
Dragonheir: Silent Gods • Stumble Guys