THE WYRMSBANE COVENANT
Militant human-supremacist order. White cloaks, dragon-bone masks.
What they say: "We purge draconic influence to keep humanity pure and safe."
What they are: Order founded 200 years ago after a half-dragon mayor took power in a river town. Doctrine: dragon blood is pollution. Dragonborn are mistakes, Tieflings are fiend-tainted, Kobolds are vermin. Burn libraries with Old Draconic texts, murder families for gold fleck in eye.
Connection to Aurum: Draxos Vane did not create them but funds them. He needs them to stop people from digging and finding Aurix under Aurum. They need his gold to buy Ferrum-forged anti-dragon weapons.
Leader: High Purger Castus Vane, cousin of King Draxos. True believer, thinks he is saving world.
If they win: Smash all three eggs on steps of Aureum Solium to prove dragons can bleed, then collapse every vault and salt leylines so dragons can never return. No more Rot, but no more warm wind, rivers, magic. Grey, pure, dead safety.
Methods: Public purges, inquisitions, anti-dragon weapons from Ferrum, propaganda, book burning. Will kill.