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Prologue: Mutterings of the Past

This being the 25th Day of the 3rd Month in the 16th year during the 35th Dragonsong
Or
March 25, 3075
(From the Journal of the Dragonsong Legend Expert)

Myths are stories and legends are dreams or so many children are raised to believe, but what if you were raised in a world where myths and legends were reality. Welcome, to the world of Malovanda a place of lore and fable.

Part of the balance is held in check by the Great Dragon's; the only recorded offspring of the Great Dragon's of Life. There are three stories that tell of a time when one of the Great Dragons awoke and chaos spread through their territory. When the Sky Dragon awoke his parents calmed him as he was the closest to them, then the Land Dragon awoke…his calm came from the Wyvern’s that resided on his Island. Finally, the Sea Dragon awoke…his wrath was the most terrible, once he unleashed his chaos it took two children to sing in order for him to sleep. The widely known legend says that the Dragon Song can calm the three Great Dragons. Sadly the Song itself has been lost to common knowledge and is only known by the family descant from The Child.

My name is Taulin Storyteller, commonly known as Tau. I am a Sorcerer and keeper of the Legend of the Great Dragons. I live in a modest fishing village where The Child and The Only Son settled in. The truth of the Legend is a hard truth to swallow for some, for those who are The Child’s Descendants it is something they learn to get over. If one wants to learn the truth, then one must ask the Dragon’s themselves for the truth is not mine to tell, it is theirs.

Now, The Child or as her family knew her: Laylani Dragonsong. Her family name was once Lifesinger as it was befitting of their father, but once her sisters faded from existence and they settled here in the village of: Siren’s Port she decided to change it to Dragonsong. It wasn’t like her brother could refuse her, she married the first Void Marked and thus started the Dragonsong Bloodline. Her younger brother, known to family and friends as: Jaydence, was a musical genius. I spent many nights listening to his music, hearing all the different emotions held within a few simple notes. About three weeks before he left I heard heartache and loss within his music. I looked at Jaydence and saw tears. He looked up at me and we both knew what he had realized. So, three weeks later he bid farewell to his sister, brother and his three nieces.

I always knew, that he would suffer. When the news reached us of his death, Siren’s Port gained its name. A male siren with its Kraken Companion had come to me by magical means through the village’s lake. The lake itself was barren of fish life, but was the best place for magic to take root in. The Siren would be forever known as Sai to all children within the village. The Kraken was either Grouch or Kray to the children. They told me of Jaydence’s death, also of where his body now was. Turns out that the Sea took him to the Dragon’s Pool where deep within the Pool itself resting in claw of the Sea Dragon is Jaydence.

I suppose I should explain the Marked Ones. In reality the Great Dragons aren’t the only Dragon’s in existence. There are another race called the Void Dragons, they are Chaos’ children and spend their lives sowing the seeds of discord and sorrow. Many fear these Dragons, but they fear their Rulers the most. I suppose the Sun Dragon was smart in ensnaring the three Void Rulers and tying their lives to that of his sons. Should a Great Dragon awake, then the Void Dragon bound to him will wake as well. Whither to cause suffering or find the Marked One to calm him is entirely up to the Void Dragon.

If I was them, I’d look for the Marked One to calm the Great Dragon than knowingly suffer Sun’s wrath…but I digress, the Marked Ones start at Laylani’s three daughters. One daughter had the mark of the Sky Dragon upon the back of her shoulders. Another had the mark of the Land Dragon across the middle of her back, while the last daughter had the mark of the Sea Dragon upon her lower back. Their Father was a supernatural, but oddly enough none of his daughters even showed an ounce of their Father’s blood. Upon his front along his collar bone was the mark of a Void Dragon Ruler.

He ironically still lives to this day, but his view of the Dragonsong bloodline is a bad one due to the treatment the females had of the Void Marked. Every single being to bare the Void Dragon Mark has been a supernatural, also every being has also become something of a bed partner to the Great Dragon Marked One that they protect. Sadly, only one of the three females to bare the mark is capable of baring children. Usually only three are born each with a Mark upon their back. I have watched and worried, fretted and stressed, loved and hated all those to have bore the Marks. Recently, for the past five generations of Marked Ones the Voids have not come. I grew worried until the Siren told me that the Voids have simply grown tired of being playthings to the Marked Ones, I didn’t blame them and continued my watch over the girls.

The most recent one to be able to bear children was a fragile creature named: Gloria. She watched as the marks faded on her two elder sisters when she was pregnant with her first born; a set of twins. I was there at their birth, my shock was not lost as all the girls were shocked as well. The twins were male…and both had a Mark upon their back. I had to sit down because I was overwhelmed. The Siren said that the appearance of boys means that the bloodline is failing, the Dragons of Life have grown tired of the Dragonsong females.

I fear for the boys, as soon as they were born Gloria’s sisters were found dead in their homes…murdered by an unknown assailant. Soon after the twins were born, when they were four years of age; Gloria gave birth again. Her husband died while out on his boat two weeks prior to the child’s birth. Gloria was sure that she would have a girl and all would be well. She was cursed with her third and final boy. When the child was only two years of age Gloria drowned herself and the child. The Siren brought the toddler to me, angered and vindictive. The child was unharmed and his mother was dead.

Gloria never named her sons, so the task of naming them fell upon the village and myself. The twins were named by an elderly couple who had sons of the same name: Lysander for the eldest and barer of the Sky Dragon Mark, Syrus for the younger and barer of the Land Dragon Mark. The toddler and barer of the Sea Dragon Mark’s name came from the village leader himself, a young man who had no family; Rowen. All three names the children took as their own, I kept their surname as Dragonsong to do justice to their ancestors…I suppose I wanted to prove that Jaydence had some worth to his family’s blood.

I mentioned Wyverns in one of the past passages, well due to their influence upon Dragons, Wyvern’s have been viewed as “Lesser Dragons”. When the Voids first abandoned the Dragonsong Bloodline, three wyverns stepped up to be their protectors. Though these three have always been hiding in the mountain above the lake of the village since Laylani and Jaydence first came here and they only revealed themselves whenever Jaydence played. I was touched to see them come out to help. I trained the young ones and so they are now three humans, only a year older in appearance than the twins.

The eldest of the three is Star Wyvern a rare and beautiful race of Wyvern that usually can be found watching over the Sky Dragon. His name is Teagan and he is the apprentice to the local net maker. The middle of the three is a Mountain Wyvern one of the very same race that calmed the Land Dragon years ago. He was given the name of Aaron and is the adopted son of the Village Leader. The youngest and most hotheaded of the three is a Coral Wyvern, named Chance. Coral Wyverns are rare, but unfortunately territorial. He was adopted by the recluse and well, we call him the Village Clown.

I do not know what awaits the 35th Generation of the Dragonsong. The twins are now 17 years and Rowen is 13 years, I feel stirrings that put me at ill ease. I suppose they started 12 years ago when my younger brother came to me…

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