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(Starting December) Royal Palace Thanasis The royal council chamber was unusually silent as the General unrolled a weathered map across the table. Dark red splotches scattered across it, representing outposts that had been attacked across the Borderlands. "Wyverns," he said, his voice tight...

Malakath - The City of Akah "KILL HIM!" "END IT NOW!" The chants resounded again and again, echoing from the stands above and thundering down into the pits of the arena. They called and cheered, they hounded and begged for blood. Each of them desperate for their own need. To win a bet placed...

Malakath - Three Miles Outside Volara - Thanasis Army Camp "There are too many Ballista." Prince Mehren spoke with the authority of command one would expect of his position. Everyone within the tent listened, and few would question. Oda stood towards the back of the tent. Lingering and...

Malakath - Wilds "Fuck." Lothar said as he kicked the corpse of the odd mammalian beast laying before him. Head shaking as a hand dragged over his face. "Fuck fuck fuck." The Dreadlord repeated, letting his hand drop away before he glanced around the clearing that had been made in the last...

Ōmeyōcān Early morning sunlight filtered in through the wide hole at the top of the cavernous training arena. Various practice weapons hung along the walls. A course lay in the middle. Those from the Rising stood alongside the students from noble families, gathered for the session. New...

Malakath - Near the City of Yurelia Orissa "Slow down!" Kaveh called through the din of the wind. His hand gently settling on Rayvath's massive neck as he sat cross-legged upon the length of her spine. The massive dragon being so large that his seat was more of a pavilion with straps than a...

Cortos - Unknown Location Five Thousand Three Hundred and Twenty Eight Days. Not more. Not less. He knew that number, and he knew that number to be true, because he had counted, and his count was right. There was no doubt in that number. There was no possibility that it was wrong. The very...

Thanasis - The Lilwen Estate "Ahhh, this shit is too easy with you." Azad said as he held up a brilliantly sparkling sapphire necklace. The gem practically glowing itself as he held it in front of a candle. Besides him a little dragon turned in quick circles, bounding happily up and down upon...

Outside Thanasis - On the Thanias Plateau This had to be simply the worst Orissa and his mother had ever had. Ever. Kaveh stood at the edge of the Plateau, staring off into the mountains where a dozen miles nestled within the valleys he could see their home city of Thanasis. Beside and...

Beyond the wall Talorgan reached up to pat Biersys just beneath beneath her maw. A ripple ran down the hide of the dreq-wyrm. He knew she was always on edge whilst waiting for a dragon to land. He was about as happy to have to talk to some high born child that would look down at him in...

Malakath - Tre'keth Mountains - 300 Miles South of Thanasis The slaying of a Dragon was a horrid thing. It brought pain like a spiders web. Slowly crawling outward in distant fractures. The agony began with the Dragons bondmate, then extended to his family and House, and then splintered...

Every breed of dragon has its unique challenges in reproducing. The red dragons are thought to be so violent that their mating is more likely to end in the death of one of the pair than any successful eggs; the Tsonye dragons need to give birth half buried in the earth; and the Ēarendel dragons...

Tuon wondered if the excitement of flying would ever fade. Oh, she was not as egotistical as some Riders to proclaim that she didn't find it terrifying at times too but the rush of adrenaline even in those moments was a feeling she had come to savour. It made her feel - as cliché as it sounded...

Alinar clutched tightly to the rapidly cooling body of his dragon as the last vestiges of life left the winged beast he'd spent the last thirty years serving alongside. Tears stung at his eyes as he felt the final breath of his longtime companion, a figure he'd worshipped for so long, who over...

"Now. Have you all read your report?" The wind threatened to rip the words from Vhagor's mouth as they flew in a standard formation towards The Borderlands. Twenty plus years of service in the Thunder of Thanasis made him well versed in communicating across the distances between dragons in...

A pair of Thanasian dragon eggs disappeared from their nests. That was enough to stir riders into a panicked, frenzied search for the culprits. The shattered shell of a dragon’s egg was found by a rider and dragon in the treacherous wilds near the Wall. The embryo was mangled, its fetid corpse...

Thanasis - Six months after the Rising The Forge barracks and training fields, near the Wall. As the sun began its ascent over the training fields of Thanasis, casting a golden hue upon the sprawling landscape, Cullen Morvane found himself in a lone corner of the grandeur of the barracks'...

They had spent days in the sky, flying from Malakath to Espressa. Melisandre Evreux was not used to this prolonged air travel, even with the assistance of magic to make the flight easier, her sinuses and her lower body were angry with her. She was angry with herself, knowing that this flight...

Morning of The Rising, The Heartlands A dragon's roar in the distance drowned out the clap of unnatural thunder. Several of this years hopeful contestants paled and others grimaced. Ten had already realised why riders suggested not eating breakfast and had emptied their stomachs behind rocks or...

Ōmeyōcān, Training Arena Time erased all memories eventually. It had most certainly removed the memory of Ōmeyōcān from the minds of ordinary people in Thanasis. The looming mountain range was nothing more than a great shield that was the cities last defence should the worst happen. For the...