What information can be said about this Dragonmaster is sketchy and uncorroborated at its best.

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Prior to the 2000 Soltan Invasion of Earth, a small Asian Pacific criminal organization based out of Hong Kong called the Golden Dragons attempted to enter the dangerous criminal empire that was the Triad. They were not only squashed, they were humiliated. the Golden Dragons wore elaborate costumes, with their leader, prior to Dragonmaster, believed to be a mentally unstable small time crime boss who had a flair for the dramatic. As such, the Golden Dragons were only a nuisance to the Triad; a nuisance that would soon become a far greater threat.

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The Triad was a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China and has outposts in various countries with significant overseas Chinese populations. The Hong Kong Triad is distinct from mainland Chinese criminal organizations. In ancient China, the Triad was one of three major secret societies. It established branches in Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese communities overseas. Thanks to the Soltan Invasion, most of these branches were decimated (Soltans simply obliterated the Triads for tactical reasons of the potential for them to rise up, obtain unavailable weapons and actually create a rebel situation, to which the Soltans foresaw and thus took out the primary Triad targets).

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Several months after the Soltan Invasion ended, the remnants of the Triad attempted to reform, only to be taken over site by site, region by region, by the once-small time Golden Dragons. It's leader at that time was Dragonmaster (I). Dragonmaster, using the planet's newly ramped-up magical energies, tapped into them and used them to 'enhance' and 'empower' dozens of his gang members and leaders. Although the enhancements always proved to be short-lived, the effect of the Golden Dragons move to take over the Triad, wasn't.

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By 2003, the Golden Dragons were the dominant criminal organization in the Asia Pacific theater.  Before all this, Dragonmaster (I) usually only dealt with theft, money laundering and piracy, however, with new resources and thugs at his disposal, he added the entire litany of crime to his organization, to include white collar crimes, controlling politicians, human trafficking, drugs, prostitution, gun running, assassinations and a new market in magical relics, scrolls, books and items.

From 2003 to 2018, Dragonmaster kept to the shadows to operate his empire. During this same time, superhero intervention grew to intolerable levels against the Golden Dragon crime empire, requiring Dragonmaster to use more proxies to fight the heroes.  He sent in several Dragonmaster-clad decoys over time, all of which proved to not be the actual Dragonmaster.  Dozens of new super-powered Golden Dragon combatants came out and fought as best they could, however, in 2018, it became clear that the Golden Dragon empire was being dismantled by international policing authorities such as GUARD, the Challengers, the Protectors, the Commonwealth, the Pacific League and even China's own Champions of China heroes.  As such, the original Dragonmaster (I) was said to have 'retired' and disappeared, leaving a new Dragonmaster (II) to take over the waning criminal empire.

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Today, no one knows who Dragonmaster (I) actually was or where he is today. Some say he retired to some ancient family property in the mountains of Mongolia; others say he died of old age or was assassinated and usurped by the current Dragonmaster (II), but most believe that he is still alive and somehow pulling the strings of not only the Golden Dragons, but something far greater and larger.

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