The Legend of the Silver Dragon: Chapters 10, 11, 12
Book Details
Author(s)Laurel Ross
PublisherOur Imagined Life
ISBN / ASINB003UV8MHY
ISBN-13978B003UV8MH5
Sales Rank1,437,776
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
According to dragon legend, in every dragon generation, one dragon emerges from within the clutch of the other dragons and steps forth as their new leader. As evidence of this powerful and important shift, that dragon’s color changes from the elemental color they were born with to silver. The task of this new Silver Dragon is to lead the dragon clutch into the coming era with gifts of insight and one skill unique to that new Silver Dragon.
Down through the centuries of dragons it has always been so. Mighty Faxomel, the first Silver Dragon, brought the early dragons the gift of fire, and he showed them how to breathe it onto the world in a time when their survival depended on it. Lofty Parleel brought the gift of flight, and set the dragons of her day on their wings. Lumia, the great dragon of Healing, led the dragons out of the senseless chaos of their croaking and into organized speech; but it was Isban, the Dragon Magician, who shifted that speech of the tongue to the speech of the mind, giving the dragons the ability to speak telepathically to each other across great distances.
The average lifespan of a dragon in the clutch is four hundred years, but a Silver Dragon can live up to five hundred years. This allows the young dragons born into that era the chance to learn the new ways from the silver source of their leader. Faxomel and Parleel’s lifetime overlapped by fifty years, using fire and flight to bring an end to the divisive and bloody war that the humans were waging against the dragons, and though this war ended with the dragons pushed deeply into the mountains, it did establish important boundaries for each. Everyone learned that humans and dragons don’t mix, and the humans rarely venture into the mountains, “dragon country,†to test the limits established in that war. Isban’s gift to his clutch made it possible for the dragons to stay in the mountains without losing their connection to each other, and their telepathic gifts grew strong with that practice.
But now over four hundred years have passed since a Silver Dragon has emerged from the clutch. Isban was the last. Even Vorag, the gray dragon, who is well into his third Century, can barely remember the stories his mother told him from her earliest days. The dragons are beginning to wonder: will another Silver Dragon ever emerge from their clutch? Was Isban the last? Was his gift of telepathy the last gift the dragons will ever receive? Have the dragons who have already passed away, back into their element turned away from the living dragons forever?
Down through the centuries of dragons it has always been so. Mighty Faxomel, the first Silver Dragon, brought the early dragons the gift of fire, and he showed them how to breathe it onto the world in a time when their survival depended on it. Lofty Parleel brought the gift of flight, and set the dragons of her day on their wings. Lumia, the great dragon of Healing, led the dragons out of the senseless chaos of their croaking and into organized speech; but it was Isban, the Dragon Magician, who shifted that speech of the tongue to the speech of the mind, giving the dragons the ability to speak telepathically to each other across great distances.
The average lifespan of a dragon in the clutch is four hundred years, but a Silver Dragon can live up to five hundred years. This allows the young dragons born into that era the chance to learn the new ways from the silver source of their leader. Faxomel and Parleel’s lifetime overlapped by fifty years, using fire and flight to bring an end to the divisive and bloody war that the humans were waging against the dragons, and though this war ended with the dragons pushed deeply into the mountains, it did establish important boundaries for each. Everyone learned that humans and dragons don’t mix, and the humans rarely venture into the mountains, “dragon country,†to test the limits established in that war. Isban’s gift to his clutch made it possible for the dragons to stay in the mountains without losing their connection to each other, and their telepathic gifts grew strong with that practice.
But now over four hundred years have passed since a Silver Dragon has emerged from the clutch. Isban was the last. Even Vorag, the gray dragon, who is well into his third Century, can barely remember the stories his mother told him from her earliest days. The dragons are beginning to wonder: will another Silver Dragon ever emerge from their clutch? Was Isban the last? Was his gift of telepathy the last gift the dragons will ever receive? Have the dragons who have already passed away, back into their element turned away from the living dragons forever?
