The demon lord is defeated and the mind-flayers are returned to power in the monster city. The characters are regarded as heroes. A grand parade is held in their honor with monsters of every kind celebrating in the streets. The dragons put on a fantastic pyrotechnic display in the skies overhead. Statues are erected in the central square of the city to honor the Yang Xiao Long, the golden dragon and Kiome, the kitsune.
The Yang Xiao and Kiome become regarded as guardians of the city and the city itself becomes known as Aurum Dracopolis or City of the Golden Dragon.
After a trial many of the lizard folk leaders are executed for their offences, but Kigate pleads the case of the other lizard folk and they are allowed to leave the city to form a druidic enclave in a swampy region outside of the city.
The mysterious cat believed by some to have been responsible for the Fey Queen's demise seems to have vanished from history along with Naomi the water elemental.
Glubleep-gloop, the kuo-toan, disappears into the deepest sewers of the under-city is not seen again for a long time. On the lowest levels of the under-city, in the darkest shadows of the sewers, insane babbling can be heard on occasion "Gloop gleep, gloop gleep". Years later legends begin to spread of a group of dark kuo-toans who worship an evil demon lord. Worse yet the kuo-toans are equipped with mechanical weapons of devious cunning, questionable craftsmanship, and uncertain safety standards.
