ok_here_is_a_simple_tale

Once long ago in the heights of the Verder.....

She held a name, it was a dame of good oman, Taranis it was, and it ment hope. The community of dragons in this area was simple and happy. A community of hunters, gathers and familes. Set on the peaks of the Thon'Taranigas mountians, it was a clan out of the way, and glad to be that way. The clan called itself Esagonith, which means 'a new best hope.' Taranis was a young dragon, not past her third molt, and her scales held the gell like sheen of the young. She was of simple hopes, and idle life. Enjoying the joys and experences of youth. She wanted for nothing, and dident let the fact go unthanked. She would sit, and watch the skies, feeling the sun on her scales, enjoying her life.

Then came the purge.

It dident affect the quiet and reclusave clan for a long while, and they liked that fact, but the Purge swept all the land, and come to them as well. Clan Esagonith's warriers prepared to battle, even kill those humans they were swarn to protect. Then the warriers stood, prepared for the horde, poor Taranis fell in love with one of them. He was called Carain, and was a kind soul. They met, and until the battle they spent every free moment with each other. And on the night that the campfires of the warring humans were seen, they lay together, and spend that night in love. The next day she cried as the screams of fallen loved ones filled the air... That night, she looked among the wounded, the returned, and the dead... She found her sweet love amone none of them... Even as the purge passed, and those who survived it fled, she stayed, alone... Weeping tears of bitter pain, waiting for her beloved Carain, with the egg growing inside of her... Her only last rememberence of his touch... It is said her tears formed the fabled salt river of Thon'Taranigas.... As for her and her egg... Eventually they vanished... perhaps she still sits on a loanly peak weeping... Or she has finally reunited with her lost love... And can enjoy peace again....

This is a retelling from memory of an old Verder tale... I have done my best, and there is alot more to it... Should you request a better and unabridged copy, I can grant you the boon. -- -Noma Esagonith GrandMaster of all things vague.

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