A Plethora of Prologues

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

There might have been, once, but we never fought them.

We were Heroes, once, and there is no-one else to answer the call...

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

If there had been, and witnesses to their presence, people would have gossiped

Darkness rises, and a child rises to meet it...

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

The Stakes are high enough, without that kind of ill omen.

Peace has a price, but is it too high to pay?

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

Dragons generally don't frequent coffee shops, even magical ones.

I do, and I swear it's not just because of the cute Fae Barista...

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

But they haunt battlefields, because hordes have to be gathered from somewhere.

Lights dance across the northern sky, and Valkyries decend to greet their chosen.

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

A shame, because it would have done wonders for the Aesthetics.

And to deter the Heroes who still won't grasp the concept of leaving Introverts alone!

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

They didn't get along with most of the other supernatural creatures who lived there

The Werewolf communities didn't mind dragons, but they were about to have bigger problems.

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

Adventurers who liked living avoided the blazing death-bringers when there were.

On a forest path, a retired Adventurer encounters the hand of Fate

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

There might have been, or it might have been a mirage or hallucination.

The Desert holds many secrets, and it was about to hold one more...

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

It's an optical illusion, stop telling people you're a dragon, you idiots.

Going from Marcenary to Petty King is not an easy transition, and these antics arent helping.

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

The Questing Children are probably a big reason why.

"Slain" might be something of a misnomer, too...

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

They mostly congregated around the Enclaves, where the Mages dwelled.

Tiera doesn't want to leave, but Destiny awaits her.

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

There were now. That happens when dragons follow Beastmasters around like scaly, fire-breathing puppies.

The castle has been fireproofed, and the Tyrant is coming for them...

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

Not outside of bedtime stories, anyway. There were Demigods, though.

Alexandra was once called the Queen of the World, and will be again.

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

They were a new development, isolated to the Alphabet Islands. The unicorns were new, too.

Honestly, what were the Straight Straits expecting to happen, anyway?

There weren't always dragons in the valley...

Even when there were, the inhabitants of the small fishing village was more concerned with the things that were said to lurk beneath the waves.

One fisherman was about to find out.

There weren't always dragons in the valley....

They came and settled in the peaks once a year, to nest. This year would be different.

How, was yet to be determined...

You can blame Call Me Les for suggesting that I create a Masterpost of the sheer number of prologues I entered into the Fantasy Challenge.

Fiction, and especially Fantasy, are kind of my thing, and I already had several fantasy teasers posted, then added several more over the course of the challenge. Please check them out and leave a heart, a reaction, or a comment!

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