
At the time, Lady Allura wasn't a part of the Council of Tal'Dorei she was a member of an adventuring party, much like Vox Machina. Reports of a dragon-more massive than any on record-hit Tal'Dorei. He began razing the Mornset Countryside, south of the Verdant Expanse and the Stormcrest Mountains. After generations of secretly ruling the Island of Viscan, the dragon (now self-crowned as "the Cinder King") grew greedier than the island's limited resources could satisfy. Thordak became interested in Opash's notes and began to make his own additions to them, growing interested in the research into Guuthal the Ever-Fed, an ancient black dragon who evaded death by becoming a dracolich. These experiments made Thordak more powerful and eventually he destroyed the necromancer. Thordak had survived but was near dead from his fight with Devo'ssa when he was captured by the necromancer Opash who experimented on him in his laboratory on the Island of Viscan in the south of the Lucidian Ocean. Rumors of a powerful drake storming the beaches and seas had been whispered for a long time while ships would be lost at sea. Thordak was not seen again for centuries, until about 794 or 795 PD. He was presumed to have died shortly thereafter from his wounds. Thordak, with his feral armies of kobolds and other serpentine followers, attacked the city of Ank'Harel when it was perhaps 100 or 150 years old, but after a two-week battle, his armies were defeated and Thordak was wounded, and as he fled north over the ocean he was struck down and fell into the sea. Long ago, before maturing into an ancient dragon, Thordak tyrannically lorded over half of the desert continent of Marquet from this base in the Scanldwind Sands.

On closer inspection, Gilmore could see, instead of the uniform scales of a dragon, the heart crystal in his chest, smooth and jagged and pulsing with power.

At that time, Thordak had the standard appearance of a red dragon, albeit an incredibly large and ancient one.

Vox Machina first saw Thordak in the Elemental Plane of Fire.
