The Dawn prolog

prolog

Before the humans, there were elves. Elves and the race of almighty dragons. But as humans arrived, they pushed the elves back. Killed one dragon after another. Seeing it was a lost cause, the elven race took the last of the dragon eggs and hid themselves away from the humans. And they remained hidden for centuries. It was a prophecy that on the first day of the thousandth year a new hope would be bestowed upon the elves. So they remained in hiding. But for the humans, life went on. The stories of the elves here forgotten. Turned to legend, then into myth, then into fairy tale. Though the accessional claim of seeing an elf did pop up, it was always brushed off as a one night, in a far away land, far from ocean and lakes, far beyond mountain and rivers in a land never before seen by humans, a small elven girl, no more then nine years of age, would become the last hope of the entire elven race...