You and the other players are lords (Lord is the title regardless of gender) of small semi-feudal kingdoms, that are outside a medium-large empire. The Emperor of said empire informed you that dragons were gathering in the Blachrion Mountains, specifically near the Holden pass. The holden pass is the only way through the mountains to the more wild part of the continent, which is mostly un-populated (you think). You were going up to the nearby caves when you hear a song.

youtu.be/AvG2NMbA5z4?t=21 (it starts partway through the song intentionally)
and you decide to join the dragons cause. Now you must convince the dragons of your sincerity, and then prepare your land, for the coming war.
The empire and where you are is the southwestern part of the continent, and the mountain range seals off everything to the north and east. Beyond that is the dragons territory, not much is known about the land beyond, the official line is that it used to be a thriving kingdom a few thousand years ago before the dragons killed everyone and only a few made it out through the Holden pass. The Empire wants the land beyond the mountains.

Before the empire rose, before civilization took hold of the land, dragons were free and lived without a care.

But then humans being well, humans, they began enslaving/killing dragons, burning their nests, and eradicating their younglings (breaking eggs/infanticide)

That was during what the empire calls 'The Expansion Crusade'

That was 1000 years ago, now the empire is preparing to expand again.

And the dragons, fed up with the humans, are now ready to wage war against them, led by a powerful dragon warlord (think Alduin or Parthurnaax from Skyrim).

Naturally, the emperor--and the empire as a whole--fabricates lies that the dragons are the aggressors. Acting like they are just mindless beasts who will raid your farm and burn your town if given the chance.

You, the player characters, are vassal lords of the empire. Though you have been loyal since the expansion war, what you discover in the Blachorian Mountains, and hear from the dragon warlord himself, causes you to become sympathetic. Thus, you--and the small states you rule over--defect from the empire and join the dragons.

There is magic, there are also dwarves and beast-kin/demi-humans. Some say that Elves used to live in the forests before the Empire expanded.
As for the terrain, you have the Empire, a massive country with about 3 million miles of territory.
it has a roughly circular shape except where it encounters the western and southern coastline. there is several days travel between the edge of your territory and the edge of the empire. it was put there as a buffer zone in case anything came attacking you and the empire. There is a decently large forest between you and the mountains (2 weeks on horseback roughly). The forest is known as the Shadowtree Forest.
Your territory can be mostly wooded, near a lake, mostly open fields. Its honestly up to you

Also as I get good questions and answer them I will update this post to include those answers

@AftonsBlessing @Blue Wolf

Put your character sheet in the character tab @Blue Wolf Same with you Afton

@AftonsBlessing you can post your first IC post now

once @Blue Wolf puts her char in the tab and posts i will reply

@TruckKunsounds good! Structured.

Hey guys. I might be back in about 6 hours if i get any more ideas

@AftonsBlessing@Blue Wolf I wanted to start off where you had already heard the song and wanted to defect, and wanted to start off with you guys having to convince the dragons of your sincerity

@TruckKunI had this idea that what you said is true, yes we had heard the song and felt moved by it, however my character would still be looking for reasons that dragons are what he thought they were, actually intelligent beings. And he is looking for another reason to defect other than some song he heard, because he is trying to be rational and follow what his people have told him for years, but is finding it hard to even see how dragons are at fault, and therefore still deciding to defect as the "right thing to do"

@AftonsBlessing i just wanted to make sure you and @Blue Wolf knew before i posted my reply. So after Wolf confirms ill make my post

I ammmmm bacccckkkkk

@TruckKun@AftonsBlessing I just want to confirm something. Is it only two charcters so far. Are you not going to play as a charcter truckkun? or are you playing like narrator to steer the story

@Blue Wolf if we had a few more players or if it was one on one than i might've made a char. But i thought it might be best if i played the role of NPC and Game (or Dungeon) Master
@AftonsBlessing

I thought they were more the dm, direct the story and give us situations in the rp, like other people and the dragon. The npcs and everything

oh ok. I see.

I will try and edit my response again to make the firrst approach on the dragons I guess. But @TruckKun you will have to give the desccription of ht edragon and take over.

well thats some timing lmao
i see your editied message right after i hit send on my post. Now ill have to edit my post, less you wanna remove that last section of yours?

@TruckKun Nah its ok I will changae my post a bit and delete the lasat part and stick to the scent thing

also @lostandfoundme if you are interested i wouldn't be opposed to having more players

@TruckKun i literally JUST pm'd you asking if i could still join LOL what a coincidence but yea I'd love to join!!