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In the realm just beyond memory stands legends.
One of these legends, the Dragoneers were born.
In the Time beyond, Dragons roamed freely, admist the hatred from the minor races, as the Dragons called them. The Orcs, Tundarians, Elves of all sorts, Humans, Dwarves, and even some that have been forgotten.
Dragons in general were not an evil race, but a misunderstood one. All other races feared them, for their size and their powers they possessed. But in the midst of the Dragons there were some that believed they were to dominate all the other races. These were the ones that made life difficult for everyone.
One dragon, a blue one named Blu'krak'trol (or so it has been handed down as the name), decided something should be done to make peace between all races, for another evil was on the horizon.
Gathering one of each kind of dragon, at this time only numbering 15, she proposed a bonding with a member of the minor races. Each Dragon would search out the world and find a partner from the minor races, and form a bond with it, a spiritual bond.
After a year of searching, each dragon came back with one person they believed worthy of the spiritual bond, the races varied. There were elves, an orc, humans, dwarves ,and others. Blu'krak'trol began a mystical incantation that began to shake the ground with a great rumble. Eminating from the rider to the dragon a pale-silvery thread grew with each growing moment the thread grew and grew to the point it was as big as the rider and half the size of the dragon.
All of a sudden the threads vanished, but each rider could hear the inner thoughts of their dragon partner. Each of them decided from this day forward they needed a name for themselves, so that everyone else throughout the land would know who they were.
Roch'kardiam Mnten-rong, the only orc that was choosen stood up and said (according to legend), "We come together this day, to help the world at large, as a group, a family, as a clan....I suggest from this day forward, since we have a bond with these dragons, we call ourselves .... The Dragoneers...we are to be the first in the many generations to come, the Dragon Knights, the protectors of the people." Cheer rang out from all races in a triumph roar, there was not doubt, that everyone agreed on this.
Working together, Dragon and Dragoneer, began to fashion armour, weapons, and tools required for this task. Dragons removed several scales from their body, and with the help of the Dwarven blacksmiths, were able to forge a set of DragonScale armour, for their own rider, so that everyone would know who their bond was with. Roch'kardiam the orc, and rider of the Dark Dragon, was an excellent weapons forger, sought out rare metals to begin working on a Dragoneers symbol.
After a few grueling months, Roch'kardiam emerged from the forging hut, with a slender razor tipped lance, decorated near the handle with the parts of a dragon scale. Each one had a varied color on it, to match the owner it would soon have. Going around the group, Roch'kardiam handed each Dragoneer with what was called, in legend, the Dragon's Lance.
From that day forward, Dragons equipped with the gift of flight and the arcane along with the Dragoneers equipped with DragonScale Armour and the Dragon's Lance, fought side by side to rid the world of what evil they could and to help those beginning lives of adventure or helping those along.
This was the legend of how the Dragoneers came to be. There is more to the legend, as for how it fell during the dark times but that is for a different story.
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May the Dragon Spirits Guide You on Your Journies
Warlord Grat Rochord Dark Dragon of the Dragoneers
Keeper of the Dragon Faith
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