The story of the founding of Raven’s Roost is, in some ways a parallel to the story of the Dras themselves, though the development took its own path.

It all started when several dozen Dras were exiled from their homes due to a shortage of food in their town, and were forced to find a new home. Hardly an unfamiliar feeling for a people who had been banished from multiple homelands in the past.

This familiarity gave them the strength of will to find or found a new home once again, as they headed deep into the unexplored depths of the swamps they called home.

It took them weeks to find a suitable place, and during the journey they could only subsist on what little they could gather from hunting and foraging these dangerous lands. A quarter starved to death before they found their new home. However, at the end of their journey, they found an especially fertile area, perfect for farming on land an in water, and marked by the presence of several ravens, including one that was completely white, which the desperate Dras settlers took as a sign from the two-fold queen, telling them that they were home.

They established their new home, building it into a comfortable town over many years, and managed to train the ravens to warn them of intruders and take care of pests while leaving their crops alone. This symbiotic relationship lasted until, one day, the white raven was found dead in the town square, its throat slit.

The black ravens stopped crowing when intruders came, and started eating the Dras’ crops, a sign the townspeople took to mean that the Two-Fold Queen was angry with them. To appease her, a bounty was set up for whoever had killed the white raven. However, many months passed with no news one who might have done this, and the ravens continued to harass the residents, until one day, a beggar, obviously desperate, admitted to the crime. He claimed he killed the white raven because he did not believe that it was the Two-Fold Queen’s will that the ravens worked with the townspeople and sought to prove it, and because of it, had lost his fortune.

Afterwards, he went into a voluntary exile, and was never seen again.

With his admission, the ravens returned to their role within the town, which quickly flourished once again, and to this day, ravens are seen as pets and partners within the town, always watching out for the people they live with, and when an usher dies, two ravens are released in their honor by their heir.