Qiang Zheng

To be above everyone means to be alone. The dragon emperor Qiang Zheng once caused the world to kneel before him. People would often strive to reach for him, but it was only to attempt to pull him down from his throne he had set up in the stars above. Five hundred years ago, Qiang united the world under his reign; a reign that began with the squabbling of dragons in the skies above the lowly humans below. Qiang turned the chaotic world with humans countries warring against each other on the land and dragons fighting above in the skies, into a united country under his extreme power. The world bowed in fear at his feet, but that was not enough for Qiang. He turned his gaze beyond stars next; but calamity struck from below. An interstellar visitor brought a disease that ravaged the living beings on Qiang's planet. Even Qiang himself was not spared, slowly dying along with many of his subjects. Freezing himself with his magic until a cure could be found; his loyal subjects were either wiped out by plague or the wars the ensued in th vaccum of power and in the chaos of plague. A cure was found a century later; but by then Qiang was mostly legend. His united world had been split by plague and wars; and no one thought to wake the dragon slumbering beneath their very feet. Five hundred years pass while Qiang slumbered to stave off the plague. The civilization he built with his hands crumbled, the advances the world had achieved under his reign regressed to a more savage and primitive time. Your world is on the verge of a full on invasion by an interstellar species set on taking over your world. Desperate for anything that could stave the invaders off, you've been tasked (whether by yourself or someone else) to find and raise the Dragon Emperor who once brought the world low beneath his feet. With the cure tucked into your bag, you enter a long destroyed labyrinth under the broken mountains.