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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheLoneRanger1979" data-source="post: 6878829" data-attributes="member: 6804148">Ah i see. Well..... there are three "literary" characters that might play well with the concept. 1. The first one i see is Merlin, as portrayed in 1981 Excalibur. Here we get a caster that seams to exert himself every time he "bares" the Dragon's Breath, or the charm of creation and his ability to withstand it, seams to drop as he gets older.2. The second example would be the Dunedain rangers as presented in the LoTR books. This would work well for explorer type characters, but also maybe limited healers ("The houses of Healing" chapter)3. And finally, there is this old Slavic fairy tale from a book my late father found when i was a still in elementary. The book was torn out and missing pages, but there was enough of it to salvage good portions of it and most of the stories. One in particular drew my attention and to this day is one my favorite tales overall and definitely my favorite slavic tale that i know of. I don't know the title (as the first several pages are missing), but the protagonist is a young man or boy, called the "Green Branch". In short, there is this elderly king, with 3 beautiful daughters (duh) and an old hermit friend. The king wants sons, but he and his wife are too old to have children. One night as all of the daughters are of age and attend a party, they get kidnapped by mysterious forces. The kings is in despair, but the old hermit helps him, by giving a magical grape vine. The queen plants it, waters it for 3 days before sunrise and on the third the vine gives a beautiful grape fruit that the queen eats, and immediately becomes pregnant with a boy. The child matures and grows fast (like a green branch) and is very strong. The make the long story short, he becomes a dragon hunter and tracks his sisters to 3 dragons with multiple heads. His strategy in fighting the dragons is an attrition based hand to hand duel (these are slavic dragons, anthropomorphic and without wings) from morning to high noon, thus exhausting them so much until they are all winded and sweaty. He would then lure them to the entrance of the forest where he would chant something along the lines of "Sister branches, give to me refreshment, to the dragon darkness", at which point a wind would animate the forest, the branches would start hitting the dragon in the eyes, but the protagonist being human and shorter, would actually recover and dry his sweat. After he has taking his breath he would gather all his force and hit the dragon so hard, that the creature would get berried knee/waist/neck deep in the ground and then proceed to cut of the dragon's heads.</blockquote>

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