Terrestria. The continent teems with magical creatures of an incredibly diverse variety. Fair Folk waver in between the branches of Drisil trees like ghosts with their own kingdoms on the far points of the land, the omnicats prowl in the wild with their mysterious smiles, their untouchable aura and tricky words and the loup-garous grin and bare the sharp teeth that clashes with their human features.

There are humans with magic, too. The Metallin Tribe closely guards the secrets of the gunslinger mage with honour and courage tempered to perfection like their Soul Steels. Mages and Healers draw on the powers of magic all around them to manipulate and use as they will. Dragontamers must find a way to tame and control the large, powerful beasts with limited intelligence without being killed by what they had hoped to control.

There are also the countless demons taking the imitated forms of creatures lacking magic, demons who just wish for harm and destruction, ruin and pain, who delight in being the cause of innocents suffering. There are the gods, sometimes as whimsical as the omnicats and sometimes as cold as the winters of the Crythalis Mountains.

Then, there are the ordinary humans who must find a way to survive amongst all this by either banding together for unity and combined strength or depending on heroes.

Terrestria. The continent is surrounded by the Sapharine Oceans to the South, the Aquaire Oceans to the Northeast and several seas with islands of diverse sizes and populations. It's home to Amerys the Eastern Kingdom, Adamas the Northern Kingdom, Emerlem the Western Kingdom, Roseuse the Southern Kingdom, Meredin the Center Kingdom and many other tribes, clans, packs and different hierarchies.

Terrestria. The continent about to face what would be a year that comes maybe once in the lifetime of a god.

As I write this, I can't help but wonder what person will next lay their eyes on this page. Will it be a curious scholar searching for anything to further add onto his or her thesis in hopes of impressing their professors? Or will it be a harassed governess, trying to find something interesting while also simultaneously worth educating children of nobility?

This is the last day of the year two Hundred ninety nine, AD (After Dragons). Nearly three hundred years ago, humanity tamed the first dragon and made them a valuable asset to our lives. It's hard to imagine a life where a scaled beast three times the size of a stallion with immense strength isn't following the wills of a human being, but that was how they had lived three centuries ago.

Tomorrow will be a special day. It will be the first day in a year scheduled with nothing but strange, special coincidences. The three hundredth anniversary since dragons were first tamed, yes, but also the year of a Wolf Moon, the only holiday celebrated by the half-wolf, half-human packs of the loup-garous once every ten years, as well as the year when the rare event most commonly called the Stardust Utopia will occur.

The Meredin University and Library will also celebrate its four hundredth birthday. The Heavenly Stars that represent the major gods – Leon, Lola and Miriam – will be aligned for the first time in roughly a millennium.

Tomorrow will definitely be the first day of a historical year, and yet I cannot help but wonder – what will happen? All the living creatures in Terrestria I listed above, as well as the ones that I haven't – will they still be here when the last sunset of the year three hundred After Dragons falls?

Here's to you, unknown reader, assuming that you know naught about what I have been talking about in hopes that you'll understand what one woman is thinking as she writes for the last time in a year under a dim, spluttering candle as a celebration goes on in the grand hallways.

Here's to you and to the year three hundred After Dragons.

Sincerely, Duchess Sonika Astrain, Royal Librarian, Historian and Astrologist of Meredin.

Written after I finally found out that Horntail died in the Maplestory Comic two years ago. Review to ask if you actually want to know why that makes me mad. If not . . . review anyways.

Nothing owned, really. In here, AD means, like Sonika was kind enough to tell you, After Dragon. What does BC stand for? Who says it'll be BC?

Next chapter will definitely have Yuma and Mizki. This is only the prologue, anyways . . .

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