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As Told By The Marid Thomas the Rhymer

posted by Ginger at 06:30 PM, July 17, 2004 | Filed under : Ambertales | Comments and Followups

A tale of the Sons of the Dragon, as told to Conner and Thalia of Gateway.

The Sons of the Dragon are near-mythological. They are a crafty race, they are capable of great piety, great violence, and great guile. Some say that the great kelp-forests from which they appear is fey, a wood between worlds where the unwary can become lost for a day or nap for twenty years and miss a war and a generation in a single afternoon. One may run across an unnatural pod of hunting sharks or a sunken city from ages long before Man or Marid walked the sea bottom. Stray into the deeps of the forest and you may never find your way out. It is rumored that they seek those who are of an artistic bent, and they fall naturally in thrall to the sons…

But the one encounter dreaded by all who must pass the forest is that with a Son of the Dragon! Some call them legends, but I am all too aware of their existence, for I have encountered one and survived! For all that our people complain of the burdens we undertake for knowledge, we do take those burdens willingly.I dealt with a Son of the Dragon, and traded with him for something of their story. At the time I felt that I had done well, but I have since decided that the dragonson sought me out and used me as he would.

His Tale, for which I paid dearly, is short and intriguing. For uncounted time the sons of the dragon lived with their mother (all dragons are female, it seems) and were lords of the forest, fighting amongst themselves and with their neighbors. A blight came, an irritant to their mother, in the form of a city on the outskirts of their forest. It grew for some time, a canker untreated, until the sons banded together and decided to war upon the interlopers.

The war was epic, and eventually the city found allies and turned the tide. The battle was taken to the great forest and the interloper and her foreign cousins won. The sons of the dragon sued for peace. The arrangement was tricky, with some of the sons given in bondage in perpetuity to the city, with the understanding that the city would not expand further towards the forest.

He seemed to think it was a good arrangement for the protection of their mother, the Dragon, but wondered how his long-estranged brethren were living up to the obligations incurred on them by their ancestors.

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