by J.S. Elias Methustos esq.
author, traveler, raconteur, historian, geographer, sage, and
individual of many personal heroic virtues and handsome aspect.
compiled and edited by ET Daniels from the original manuscripts
Throughout these tomes, I intend to use the word Dracone in place of the word Dragon, as I have found that it has a more melodious sound in the ear and carries none of the bitter and unfortunate connotations that the former word does.
I will mention at the start that in writing this work I have tried to be as fair and honest as possible with all due respect to the subject matter. The Dracones are a people that have suffered from an abominable level of discrimination throughout history. There are bad seeds among every people group but for some unfathomable reason the Dracones seem to be defined by theirs. Would that we all were civilized enough to treat those bad seeds as the aberrant exceptions they were and to find the common decency to render respect to those who have earned it.
For example, I have heard on good authority about a certain Dracone with the most excellent of visages and greatest luster of purplish scales whose appearance harkens not to the ferocity of oft told tavern tales, but rather to the noblest and most regal of that people from throughout history. I am told that he is so wondrous to behold that by mere men, of our sort, he is often taken for a prince. Though, truth be told, he has no direct claim, that he knows of, to that title -- though he would not object to its use were it thrust upon him.
[Editor Note: The orig. mss was irretrievably burned and tattered throughout much of the rest of this introductory volume, which makes up the largest single portion of the twenty volume set and curiously seems full of nothing more than the scholar's strange laudatory fascination with a particular dragon he has apparently met. His rambling ends nearly 300 pages later but adds nothing useful to the collection and has been omitted as redundant.]
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