Drakontos

Drakontos Dawnscale was a red Dragonborn that lived between 13 B.C. to 8 C.E. He served as the general leader of the Heroes of Faerûn, and was a central figure to the events that unfolded in the beginnings of the Current Era, and would go on to influence a generation of great warriors. He was a brutal combatant, but had a soft spot for his family, which included his closest friends and allies.

Drakontos began his life as a paladin, training under his father to become one of the great Crimson Guardians. After the end of the First Sundering of Faerûn, when the Shaeradim had collapsed, Drakontos lost his memory, and found himself in Baldur's Gate. Unaware of his past, he then became a Dragon Knight, raising the young red dragon Cinder as his companion.

A Broken Childhood (13 B.C. - 2 B.C.)
Drakontos was the son of the red dragonborn Rej'lan Dawnscale and the copper dragonborn Oma, born into a clan that was strict about its heritage. The dragonborn village had existed near the Nether Mountains in the Sword Coast for many years, and consisted of an abnormally passive red dragonborn lineage that was almost primarily one single clan, that being the Dawnscale clan.

There were various other red dragonborn clans that had joined the village over the years, but it wasn't until Rej'lan Dawnscale, an elite member of the Crimson Guardians, brought his soon-to-be wife back home; a copper dragonborn by the name of Oma. The two dragonborn were met with harsh scrutiny, and Rej'lan was initially exiled from the Crimson Guardians, but when his wife had birthed Drakontos, a red dragonborn of mixed blood, Rej'lan was partially accepted back into the Crimson Guardians.

Drakontos grew up in a rather terrible environment, where his education was stunted in favor of pureblood red dragonborn, and he was oftentimes left out of clan events and gatherings. To ensure that he wasn't alone during these times, his parents often excluded themselves from these clan activities to spend time with Drakontos.