Dean Kruger

Kaldera:

Chapter One: Strength in Numbers A- Badlands There weren’t always dragons in the valley. There was a time when life was so much simpler back in the days of King Jovana Grace, a man focused on his own royal family and less on a focused rule over his rightfully given lands. The forests were lush and green, the lakes pure and clean, teaming with life. Animals scurried throughout the forest as not only a source of food for the many who inhabited the lands but controlled the populations of invasive plants and rodents brought into the kingdoms via ships at the port. Kudzu from the far eastern lands destroyed many trees, but the hares and boars ate the Kudzu and other grasses and weeds, while the sabre cats ate the boars, and man hunted sabre cats as a source of tradable furs and hides. There were also large deer and wild bovine that roamed the grasslands near the swamps, and the lakes were plentiful with many species of fish. There were the coast lands where the Sulphur Sea provided cuttlefish, shellfish, and shark meat for the lands, but all of that was different now.