>>FROM:@AEGONNER

[northerndragon]

Tell me about your gods.

If you don't have that kind of faith, then tell me what else you believe in. There must be something.

And if not that, tell me what you think of when you know a battle is coming.

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[northerndragon]

I'd agree about success in battle. It might be out of admiration, or it might be out of a desire to appease a conqueror, so that the conqueror might be merciful. But dragons aren't evil where I come from, nor are they necessarily good, and I only know of two in the world now. @STORMBORN can tell you more of them — she's their mother.

The old races were the Children of the Forest and maybe the Giants, in the Dawn Age. The Children were small and had magic, and the Old Gods were their gods, and while the Old Gods didn't have names or faces of their own, they were thought to be in every tree and rock and river. The Children carved faces in the weirwood trees so that their gods could watch them. The First Men were men who came up through the south from another part of the world, and it's said that they fought the Children for territory, until there was something else they had to fight and defeat together.

I can't speak to whether or not the Children were real. I've never seen them. But I've found cave drawings they must have made, and I've seen a giant. He spoke the Old Tongue, and he died fighting by my side to help me retake my home.

Lately, nearly everything I've always been told was only a legend has turned out to be all too real.

[excelsus]

I wouldn't say all dragons are inherently good or evil where I come from, but an Archdemon? Absolutely. It's not a dragon per se, but that is the form it takes and it's purpose is to lead an army of darkspawn to corrupt and destroy the world.

Granted Dragons in general are...very dangerous, they may not be good or evil, but once a High Dragon has reached it's clutching period it's two consecutive weeks of what-better-way-to-ruin-your-day mayhem. When they are locked in their own territories it is fine, when they decide to leave their territory forests and entire villages are shaken to their foundations leaving hundreds dead or displaced.

Though I would be interested in knowing how a person becomes a mother of dragons.

Your old gods sound just as ambigious as our old gods.

I wish our giants were as helpful as the ones in your world seem to be, the only giants I've ever known were malconnnnnen creatures happy to throw bouldes at me or jump on me. Yours seem to possess intelligence.

I'm sorry he died, by the way.

Ah, legends are steeped in truth for better or worse, there are some things I believed legend as well that are not quite so legend. Funny how that works.