Drakan is an action-adventure video game series developed by Surreal Software and set in a high fantasy world simply referred as Drakan by gamers. Two titles have been published:
The world of Drakan is a fictional planet on which the two Drakan games above are based. It is a world of varied lands similar to our world and harbors a variety of life ranging from mighty dragons to humans. It is one of two planets orbiting a single sun and has four moons with its planetary neighbor, Sessool, always visible in both the day and night skies.
Not much is known about the history of the world before the Order of the Flame was established around 1000 years before Rynn was born, but the gist of the back story to Drakan: Order of the Flame below gives some idea.
Long, long ago, the world of Drakan was tormented by an endless war between all tribes and races, but the bitterest fight was that between Dragons and Humans, the two superior races of the universe. But after centuries of fighting, the two races came to realization that only a mutual peace is a key to the future and slowly ceased the hostilities. As a trust between Humans and Dragons grew, a new symbol of peace and mutual support was created – The Bond. The Bond is a magic ritual that binds a human and a dragon being so that their spirits become intertwined forever.
The Bonded formed the Order of the Flame, a voluntary organization of peacekeepers and evil-fighters (much like Jedi Order of Star Wars) that soon spread its philosophy all over the world. Thus began the Golden Age for Drakan. But humans cannot be happy for so long and very soon a secret society, the Dark Union, whose members strived for personal power rather than the equality proclaimed by the Bonded, was formed to destroy the Order of the Flame once and for all. By the end of the Golden Age, the Order was betrayed by the man, of whom nobody even dared to suspect a betrayal. Navaros, a brilliant war mage and a prominent member of the Order, was also a secret member of the Union and its self-crowned leader. He was the one who started the Dark Wars.