Ian Johnson

Dragon Lore

There weren't always dragons in the Valley. At least not according to the ancient texts. They've been around longer than I, longer than anyone alive today, for that matter. For a time we only knew what happened from the stories that were handed down from one generation to the next. The Legends of the Old World they called them. We didn't believe them at first, they sounded too fantastical to be true, too unrealistic, like someone with an overactive imagination and starved of attention had too much time on their hands. But then we started finding the shrines. Then we started finding the truth. They didn't just appear, we didn't just find them, didn't stumble upon them hidden in the caves or the mountains, deep in slumber. No. We were greedy. We were evil. We were hungry for power and control, and in our desperation we did something truly horrible. We created them.