[I have been a dressage person for years and years but lately...something hasn't quite been jiving for me, so I'm actually trying to go back to western a bit and see how it goes--I did loads of it in my youth, but it's been a long time. I have a horse, but life complications lately mean I've not seen her very much, alas.]
The darkness in Scarlet was a topic on which Aurus, for the time being, had only half the story. He did not, however, know that. Virtually no one did. He didn't know how these things were connected yet. He had no way to anticipate how partial his answer to Charles' question about dragons was about to be.
At any rate, he considered how he ought to explain it all as he gave a slight nod of his head to indicate that perhaps they might continue on their way as they talked.
"The Elder Dragons are like forces of nature, though saying it like that is also a bit misleading. They do have will. In fact, they almost seem to be pure will at times. They are, so well as anyone knows, as old as the world itself, and they are fundamentally linked to its magic. When they awake, they consume, corrupt, destroy everything--all life. And in so doing they absorb the world's magic, every last bit of it. It is taken into their bodies, and then they slumber, and as they do, the magic seeps back out of them and into the world. It's simply a cycle, like the rising and falling of tides.
"To my knowledge, the people of Tyria have never united to oppose them before now. Certainly they've never been killed. Now one has been killed though, and two others are awake.
"Each of the Elder Dragons, however, has its lieutenants--its champions. That's what Glint was before the ritual gave her her free will. These champions may be active even when their masters are not.
"I suppose it is not a matter of whether or not they are evil, precisely. They are each their appetites, and the corruption they spread has only one purpose: to extend and consume everything until it is gone. For the people of the world, the effect is equally malicious whether or not it makes sense to describe the dragons themselves as evil."
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The darkness in Scarlet was a topic on which Aurus, for the time being, had only half the story. He did not, however, know that. Virtually no one did. He didn't know how these things were connected yet. He had no way to anticipate how partial his answer to Charles' question about dragons was about to be.
At any rate, he considered how he ought to explain it all as he gave a slight nod of his head to indicate that perhaps they might continue on their way as they talked.
"The Elder Dragons are like forces of nature, though saying it like that is also a bit misleading. They do have will. In fact, they almost seem to be pure will at times. They are, so well as anyone knows, as old as the world itself, and they are fundamentally linked to its magic. When they awake, they consume, corrupt, destroy everything--all life. And in so doing they absorb the world's magic, every last bit of it. It is taken into their bodies, and then they slumber, and as they do, the magic seeps back out of them and into the world. It's simply a cycle, like the rising and falling of tides.
"To my knowledge, the people of Tyria have never united to oppose them before now. Certainly they've never been killed. Now one has been killed though, and two others are awake.
"Each of the Elder Dragons, however, has its lieutenants--its champions. That's what Glint was before the ritual gave her her free will. These champions may be active even when their masters are not.
"I suppose it is not a matter of whether or not they are evil, precisely. They are each their appetites, and the corruption they spread has only one purpose: to extend and consume everything until it is gone. For the people of the world, the effect is equally malicious whether or not it makes sense to describe the dragons themselves as evil."