Once upon a time, there live a family and its dragon. The dragon was big, beautiful, and very valuable
making the family rich beyond measure. From the tip of its own, to the clip of its claw, the dragon had
value.
But to the family, the dragon wasn't a walking talking pile of gold, no he was a valued member. But not
everyone saw it that way. The value of the dragon was constant, and always in demand. Thus soon
enough, as everyone with eyes and economic acumen could tell you, the inevitable came to pass. The
family network, even paying all the tax the noble and the king demanded, surpassed them. The king and
his advisors, jealous, angry, and just plain terrified, started to move against the family.
First, they demanded the requisition of the animal to them. When that inevitably failed, they tried to
take the dragon by force. The result, was a short one sided battle, in favor of the family.
When the new king came to parley, the family asked for autonomy, with open trade to prevent such
thing happening again. The new king, after such crushing defect accepted.
Thus the family lived happily ever after, for many generations…
Until many centuries later!
The family had prospered, they offered their dragon in the breading program, and always kept one egg,
for continued prosperity. That egg became the new family dragon when the old one passed. And the link
from the dragon to the family, stayed as strong as ever because of that practice. The family was strong,
prosperous, and a force to be reckoned with. Until one day it wasn't enough!
The family had progressed in number. Until what the baby of the family received was but a pittance
compared to the other's. Jealous, and not content with what he had, (which was a great deal more then
many) he gambled his part on the promises of a big return. But his luck at the game was as non-existent
as his thankfulness for his family, meaning none. He lost, and with the lander shark after him, and
knowing his family won't lift a finger to help (he had alienated everyone by this point) he made a
desperate, cruel, cowardly move, he sneaks up on the dragon and killed him. Then he sold every part,
from the tip of his own, the clip of his claw, he sold it all to cover his dept.
Drunk on his victory, and flat broke again, he teams up with likeminded sons and daughters, in the same
position as he was, to kill their family dragon, and share the profit. As the year passed the group
continuing their despicable practice, acquired a hefty blood price on their heads. But that didn't seem to
stop them.
As the tally of dragon blood rose up, the dragon became mistrustful. They didn't when or if
they would receive a dagger to the heart, for their part. Worried about a revolt, the rest of the families
with dragons, team up with the families of the betrayed, along with the kings, to hunts down that
despicable group of killer.
When found, the battle was epic, with heavy loss on both side. But finally, after losing more than half
of his troop, the leader of the poacher surrendered. And the victors celebrated their victory!
The kings, along with a new society formed during the dark time of the poacher, made new law to
prevent such tragedy to ever happen again. The first item, was that it was illegal for private individual to
own a dragon. All dragon, for their own protection had to live in a dragon preserve. All text on successful
dragon rearing was now illegal, to prevent new generation to try again.
It was with heavy heart that the remaining family surrendered their dragon to the wild. Along with the
Other family who lost their, were the one who open the first dragon preserve, enabling them to stay
Close to their dragon.
This is why dragon are considered dumb, as the descendants were raised in the wild, and were taught
by older dragons, that humans were distraught full, and traitorous, and to not trust them, even the one
that feed and take care of you. Dragons after all, had long memory. Even longer than the fabled muggle
elephant!
And that children, is why the dragon of Atlantis are special, as they were raised the old way, and trust us
As we trust them.
Let this also be a warning to you, to not let greed, make you put your need ahead of family. As the
Dragons are family, just you and I, and to hurt them is to hurt family, and would ultimately destroy our
beautiful islands!