#12 - Dragon’s Egg

Dragons are a rarity now. It is said that during the time of Magic they proliferated everywhere, the sky was littered with them and the shadows of their wings were numerous as the clouds. They were both used as noble steeds as well as couriers and haulers of goods for the mighty and the rich. Some were free, roaming the skies in search for a glorious battle or a treasure to relocate to their hoard. Ownership never was a strong suit of the dragons, unless we are talking about things they own. But the time passed – technology moved onward, magic was tamed and then ruined in some cataclysmic way, spent. Without it, they perished, vanished into the strange realm of scale and claw where they rest or they simply died off as some bones in the dunes can tell. They are rare now… But not gone. From time to time you will hear hushed stories amongst nomads about the dread in the heavens, a winged god-beast. Sometimes you’ll return to a village only to see it gone, a smouldering remnants standing in the village place. And so, as their mythical status grows, so does the merchandise of amulets, trinkets, weapons and gizmos made for and against dragons. A business for bold (and stupid) wanna be dragon slayers as well as for those, who are afraid of the dragon attack. And of course the rarest of them all, the ultimate item to trade, a fortune in relatively small form – a dragon’s egg – for the dream of having a dragon risen by yourself, to ride and to tame and to master, never ceased to twitch in minds of the dreamers.