Dragon Wake

Dragon Wakes are periods when all the dragons of an area are simultaneously awoken from their slumbers.  Dragons are like cats in that tend to sleep a lot. 

In the earlier D&D editions, they had tables with a percent chance of a party wandering into a 
dragon's lair, finding a sleeping dragon and either threatening it with death or dispatching it outright.   TSR drifted away from that idea with later editions.

Time to score some loot!

There have been three Dragon Wakes on Bal-Kriav.  I put up a piece on the Third Dragon Wake.  The two things all Dragon Wakes have in common is that dragons are awoken from their sleeps abruptly and they are frenzied.  The outcome of dozens or even hundreds of enraged dragons flying around a continent are always devastating to life and property.  During this time, even good dragons are erratic and unpredictable.  

The Third Dragon Wake was started by the kobold sorcerers of Tinvaakin Kurtulmak.  This mage guild, along with Ashmerthoon, hastened the downfall of Arkhosia and Bael-Turath with their Dragon Wake.