Adventurers Fall, and We Begin Again

I have taken my place in the hall of D&D history... I commited the double TPK. I always thought that such a feat was reserved for the likes of Bill Byrnes et al.
With the fall of a second party, the fate of the game stands on a razors edge. It would be easy to give up, and quit the campaign. Instead, we're gonna start over again. This time we're gonna remove the new party a little from the old story line. The game will begin nearly a year after the deaths of Henry, Everett, and Simon in Drake Wood. We will begin the game on the 20th day of the month of the Dove, in the year 1289. It is the Vernal equinox, a day of new beginnings in the Elven calendar...
Two Elven adventurers are prepairing to resume their quest to liberate their once verdant land from the mad tyranny of Malenthraxisis, The Queen of Ash. The Queen is a ravenous red dragon, who seems intent on turning her captured country into ash covered wasteland...