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{Read Ye here the Tale of the Dragon Queen, Witch Empress of the North, handmaid to the Last Wyrm and Progenitor of the Dragon Lords! Here is Her tale from the beginning, extracted and translated from Her own journals and the diaries of the Great Wyrm. We give thanks to the Imperial Library for the unrestricted access to the Words of the Dragon Queen. When She wakes from Her slumber may She be pleased with our words. We count our years of the Dragon Empire from the date of the Last Sacrifice, five hundred and sixty-two years ago, when a young maid, chosen by lot, was taken to the end of the valley, chained to a post and left to be devoured by the dragon as so many maidens had been before. Her tale we now tell.} Artemous of Khazai, Imperial College, 562 D.E.
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For two hundred years the dragon, Omegagon, has been expanding his territory. From his lair atop Drake Mountain, he has painstakingly extended his hunting grounds. First the trolls, orcs and ogres of the mountains needed to be pacified. Then the barbarian hordes to the west cowed, bringing in tribute and choice slaves. For one hundred years the valleys of the foothills to the east have known the terror of the dragon. Isolated farms and rural hamlets were easy targets for the ravages of the dragon. With no great armies, heroes or sorcerers the simple folk fell back on the only way they knew to appease a dragon. Yearly one maiden from each of the five valleys was chosen by lot, taken to the end of her valley, chained to a post and left to be devoured.
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The night of the Autumnal Equinox is the Night of Sacrifice. When the valley folk of the foothills offer up a daughter to the dragon, in the hope he will allow them to take in their harvests and slaughter their herds for the winter and not burn and devour them for himself. Why would people offer up their fair ones? Because it works. A dragons taste for young maids has been known since the dawn of history. Offer up a maid to the beast, not only will you be allowed to live otherwise peaceably but orcs and terrible beasts will avoid the region, knowing it to be the dragon's hunting grounds.
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For the third time this night the dragon circles high over a valley. The light of the moon casts his shadow over the farms and hamlets. From his claws dangle two chained girls, both barely conscious in the cold rarified air of the altitude he soars at. Such was the dragon's hunger that the first maid was torched and devoured on the spot. For those who did not witness his eclipse of the moon, Omegagon roars his arrival. The thundering sound echoes off the heights of the valley walls. Before the echoes have subsided the dragon breathes his fire that outshines the moon and lights the entire length of the valley in a flickering yellow light.
http://pre05.deviantart.net/a0eb/th/pre/i/2012/161/a/b/wizard__s_tower_by_fictionchick-d5311qw.jpg
For two hundred years the dragon, Omegagon, has been expanding his territory. From his lair atop Drake Mountain, he has painstakingly extended his hunting grounds. First the trolls, orcs and ogres of the mountains needed to be pacified. Then the barbarian hordes to the west cowed, bringing in tribute and choice slaves. For one hundred years the valleys of the foothills to the east have known the terror of the dragon. Isolated farms and rural hamlets were easy targets for the ravages of the dragon. With no great armies, heroes or sorcerers the simple folk fell back on the only way they knew to appease a dragon. Yearly one maiden from each of the five valleys was chosen by lot, taken to the end of her valley, chained to a post and left to be devoured.
http://www.dragnix.net/Digital_and_Analog_Dragons/Dragonslayer/Dragonslayer_11.jpg
The night of the Autumnal Equinox is the Night of Sacrifice. When the valley folk of the foothills offer up a daughter to the dragon, in the hope he will allow them to take in their harvests and slaughter their herds for the winter and not burn and devour them for himself. Why would people offer up their fair ones? Because it works. A dragons taste for young maids has been known since the dawn of history. Offer up a maid to the beast, not only will you be allowed to live otherwise peaceably but orcs and terrible beasts will avoid the region, knowing it to be the dragon's hunting grounds.
https://38.media.tumblr.com/7a875c902281533e35c03dbc1edd86fc/tumblr_nj1kicHITo1sgv8dco1_250.gif
For the third time this night the dragon circles high over a valley. The light of the moon casts his shadow over the farms and hamlets. From his claws dangle two chained girls, both barely conscious in the cold rarified air of the altitude he soars at. Such was the dragon's hunger that the first maid was torched and devoured on the spot. For those who did not witness his eclipse of the moon, Omegagon roars his arrival. The thundering sound echoes off the heights of the valley walls. Before the echoes have subsided the dragon breathes his fire that outshines the moon and lights the entire length of the valley in a flickering yellow light.
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