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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EnglishScribe" data-source="post: 2708221" data-attributes="member: 4375">The Dragons DawnDeep in the mountains where still no one goes,There stands a fair valley that time has forgotten,Once filled with laughter and with young Elven folk,Now full of horrors, and of evil begotten.For now in the valley the dragon kin thrive,Breathing their flames down the valley of dread,And where once stood a green Elven palace,There now stands a blackened ruin instead.Below these foul ruins is the hall of rebirth,Where once went all the elves who have died,And where lies the secret of their magical power,Which from humans the elves tried to hide.Settle now kinsmen, for the telling is not through,As the tale goes back to when the trouble first brewed,I tell of the humans who heard of the magic,Who wanted it all, violent cravings renewed.They gathered great armies, all armed to the teeth,And marched on the valley, minds full of war,The fields soon flowed red, elves fled in fear,The palace a' blazing, the elves singing no more.They caught an elf maid and tortured her bad,Keeping her screaming until she told them all,Then they force marched her to her ruined home,To lead them unhindered to the great Elven hall.Deep down they found it, the fabled great stone,Source of dark magic since before Eldar days,Discarding the maid they rushed to the stone,And where caught in a bright crimson blaze.In the bright blaze their arms start to grow,Spread into wings, bodies huge with scales,Fingered curled and clawed, eyes big and green,A reptilian snout and long flicking tails.In that brief flash thus came to be,Quite accidentally the new dragon kind,In haste they fled the cursed Elven grave,Forgetting the maid, leaving her behind.Claiming the valley as their new home,They gorged on the flesh of all who lived there,Then evil things came to the once joyous place,Darkness gathering, but no one could care.Antony(Elements of Magic - Mythic Earth is on my wish list)</blockquote>

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