In the FFC there is an ink drawing of the City of Father Dragon. Is there any canon resource which describes the very curious and fascinating picture there?

My very first, visceral impression was that it might have been an impact crater with strange, perhaps alien, domed buildings in the centre. Do any of the resident BM experts have any input?

Furthermore, who summoned/controlled/employed the Balrogs?
Whose throne room was it?
What was the Evil Device? What did it do, or threaten to do? Why was it so fragile that it could be destroyed by a mere rock dropped upon it? (shoddy workmanship indeed!) :)
Why were the dragons in a "deep and unnatural slumber"?

I think that Richard Snider came up with the Father Dragon idea, but I don't remember much more than that.

Eggs are fragile....

<shrug>

There's a lot of gueses we could make, but no facts yet. I did suggest the idea of the city being on the Isle mentioned in BM dungeons. That's kind of how I picture it im my campaign, but the "Isle of Dragons" also might simply refer to the lower level where a dragon/dragons live on an island surrounded by lava. Dunno.

Balrogs were listed as a kind of dragon in the early days so they would be a normal sort of creature for such a city.

Yepp, my take as well.

This will feature at some point in, oh, how tiring the teaser, the PL campaign. :)

The orbs of dragon kind are the same as in Dragonlance, at least the way I see it.

Yet note that the Soul Magic as we interpret in our game, leaves entirely new options on how that can end up -
what was that?! - The longer you bond with a soul gem, the more you become like the soul in it?

In light of 4e, you can possibly guess where that is going to end, but let's not spell it out, or I will have to censor again... :wink:

That illustration of the City has really gotten under my skin (in a good way :)) and I've been thinking about making a series of nice computer-rendered maps to start building up ideas for an adventure location. It would be nice if I knew more about the original site from the Blackmoor campaign before I started, but I'm afraid all I can glean comes solely from the FFC.

I plan on having the site described as a strange impact crater, inside of which are boletoform structures (essentially a mass of geodesic domes of glass or plexiglass on broad columns or pillars, with a globe-surmounted tower in the very centre of the conglomeration). We know that dragons were kept asleep there and guarded by many Balrogs, and that there was some artefact which, among other possible functions, kept the dragons in artificial hibernation. The caption states there was a "throne room", but for whom (or what!) isn't given.

Any ideas?

:D