The Life Of Dragons, Ánslo Academic Publications, 1563 Wrote:It was during the Bronze and Iron Ages, however, that the draconic species truly began to lose ground to the burgeoning human population. Advances in weaponry and armor meant that human hunting parties could truly go toe-to-claw with dragons, and their increasing population numbers and density put them into direct and increasing resource conflict with many dragon nests as time went on. While it is believed that the Mycenaean Greeks were the first culture to engage in region-wide organized hunts of dragons, pooling resources across multiple Mycenaean kingdoms in order to do so, later European and West Asian societies continued this practice. And their reasons for doing so are stated clearly in primary sources and folklore from the period, including defense against raiding of human food stocks, the acquisition of rare resources in the form of draconic body parts, and, arguably most importantly for some, the prestige associated with dragon-slaying, which would have those successful hunters preserved in story and song.
The author of Una Nueva Espada Para Una Nueva Era is back, with something to ease the pain of the A Thing of Vikings hiatus. Once again, ATOV the author provided the epigraph to this authorized side-story.
Mr_Crocodile Wrote:"Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!" "First to ride one, though."
History runs deep with blood and death, and there are reasons why it took someone like Hiccup to make peace.
As you might guess from that epigraph, this has a happier ending for its walker characters than for its flyers, but Sic Transit Mundus (thus passes the world).
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