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Long ago, legends claimed that dragons once walked our land and flew in our skies. These dragons lived in peace with the humans, and together, they overcame great obstacles. The dragons were able to freely converse with one type of human; the Dragon Tongue.
The Dragon Tongue was a gifted piece of humankind; these people were able to speak with and understand the words of dragons. With the aid of special crystals and magical gauntlets, they were also able to gain the elemental abilities of the dragons. When one was gifted with this wondrous ability, the next one of the same gender in the bloodline would also gain this ability. For many centuries, Dragon Tongues and dragons brought peace to the land.
However…
There was once a powerful sorcerer. He despised dragons and their abilities, and he had a deep-rooted hatred of the humans who shared the abilities of the dragons. He feared his kind being destroyed by the dragons and the Dragon Tongues.
So with magic that was powerful and deadly, he wiped out all of the Dragon Tongues. One by one, the families that were gifted were slaughtered, their crystals and gauntlets destroyed. Blood spilled upon the land as the wicked sorcerer destroyed the only beings capable of understanding dragons.
Once the dragons realized that there were none left that they could communicate with, they fled. They saw no purpose in staying where so many had been slaughtered.
Slowly, but surely, all traces of dragons began to disappear from the land. They became merely a myth; a legend to be told by elders to console their children and encourage imaginations.
The sorcerer made an error on his part.
While he thought he had destroyed all of the families that had the ability he so feared, one family managed to escape with their lives intact. A woman clutched her son to her breast as she fled the land, only returning many many years later, when the son was now a man.
The man had married, and during the Year of the Dragon, a daughter was born into the family. The moment she left her mother's womb, another kindred spirit was born elsewhere to a family that was not his own.
Without knowing it, they were destined to meet eighteen years later.
This is the Legend…
Of the last Dragon Tongue.