City of Father Dragon

[Havard]

Interesting about the connection to Snider, Greg!

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?

No such resource. Father Dragon is mentioned in the D20 Sourcebook as an other name for Insellageth.

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?

I think it was Aldarron who suggested that it might be located on the Isle of Dragons, which can be reached through a portal in the Blackmoor Dungeon.

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"?

Since Balrogs are involved, I think it is likely that the Egg of Coot is behind it. My theory is that the City of Father Dragon is essentially home to the Good Dragons. The Device kept the dragons sleeping, preventing them to come to Blackmoor's aid to counter the Egg's Evil Dragon allies.

That's my theory anyway. I consider the whole description of the actual combat as humouristically intended. Probably it would take more than a rock to destroy an artifact.

I did chuckle when I read it though

-Havard