Where every good story begins...

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​​When the Baron and the Dowager returned to the Parlor with Hungry, and with Fiddlefaddle off somewhere putting his feet up after brewing a fresh pot of tea for them, it was time to start the tale.

​Placing her cup on the saucer and then setting it down on the table, Griselda began.  “Now that we are seated and I have had some tea, I will tell you how you are a Dragon my son.”  As she starts, Hungry pulls up a cushy pillow and squirms around on it.  “Hmmm,” he thinks... “this is more comfortable than my rock.”

​“Before I tell you about the Wish Dragons," Griselda continues, "I have to go even further back to when the Realm was young and just starting to be.  Everything has a beginning and so too does the Realm of Wymsy.  Would it surprise you son, that your ancestors were both of the Fae and Human world?”

​​“Mother, today nothing would surprise me after finding out that I am also a Dragon,” smiled the Baron.  Griselda smiled back at him and continued her story.

​​​“Once this land was filled with only Fae and Dragons.  Both living in harmony as they were so used to each other that neither really noticed the other.” 

“How can you not notice each other? That doesn’t make sense,” interrupted Hungry looking slightly confused.

​​“It is like when you live a place that is so beautiful and has so many special things to see and do, you don’t notice them anymore as being anything special,” answered the Dowager.  “It was because of this that the Dragons started to travel the surrounding lands to discover new things.  A Dragon’s curiosity and thirst for knowledge is legendary.  They must have new experiences so their magic can grow and adapt.  Without change, their magic starts to grow stagnant and they become idle.  When a Dragon is idle too long, it reverts back to the stones from which it came from.”

​​Startled, Hungry jumped from his seat and looked down as if he could see through the floors of the Mansion to his rock in the cave.  “I could be sitting on another Dragon in my cave?” 

​​“It is not quite like that Hungry.  No, I don’t think you are sitting on another Dragon.  So sit back down so I can continue the story.”  Hungry snuggled back into the feather pillow.  “Purrr - I really do need to see if I can take this down to the cave later,” he thought.

​​“It was during a Dragon’s travels, looking for a new adventure, when it discovered humans. Originally, we did not know what to call them, so they became ‘Outies’ since they lived outside of our realm.  We did not call this land the Realm of Wymsy then, as both the Fae and the Dragons just knew it to be where they lived.  It wasn’t until the Outies came to the realm that it was named, but, I get ahead of myself.  Now, where was I?”

​​“You were starting to tell us about the Dragon who found humans, sorry, Outies,” quickly replied the Baron wanting to hear more. 

​“This Dragon heard a wish in the making from a young Outie who was asking for magic.  Dragons, being extremely literal, thought, why not?  So it gave a small child named Myrddin the power of magic.”

​​“Mother, you don’t mean Merlin as in THE Merlin in the King Arthur tales that the humans speak of in the Outer Lands?” exclaimed the Baron.  “But, now that I think further on it, the Dragon was symbolic in the tales of Merlin and Arthur.  Please, Mother, go on.  This is getting more exciting!!!  I wish I would have known this before my travels in their lands.” 

​​“The Dragon returned to his land telling the other dragons about what he had found.  Soon, many of the Dragons were visiting the Outies. They were returning with new experiences and adventures that they shared with the each other.  It was about this time the Fae realized that trouble was beginning to brew.  As I said earlier, Dragons are literal. To the point of complete misunderstanding!  The Outies could ask for something like ‘food’ and get charcoal.  Now, to a Dragon, charcoal is food, so it could not understand why the Outie was not happy with having their wish answered.”  Griselda paused to take a small sip of tea as Hungry and the Baron sat quietly, waiting for her to continue the story. 

​​“One day a Dragon brought an entire village of Outies back to it's realm because a mountain that the Dragon had landed on had crumbled and was about to bury the village.  The Dragon felt so bad about it that it magically removed the entire village from their land to ours.  This village became The Village on the Wall that we live in. Yes that is that same village the dragon brought back.”