LEGENDS

It is strange that alchemisits, sorcerers and other magicologists have not carried out more research into dragons ( perhaps because of the difficulty of obtaining undamaged specimens).The bodies of these creatures provide potent supernatural resources. Anyone who eats a dragon's heart will be able to understand the language of the birds; a meal of dragon's tounge enables the consumer to win any argument and dragon's blood is certain prophylactic against stab wounds. The blood of the dragon Fafnir gave the German hero Siegried immunity from such wounds, but when he bathed in the dragon's blood he did not realise that a leaf had stuck to his back.This unprotected spot allowed his enemy Hagen to stab him to death.

The day of the dragon ended during the first few centuries of Christianity, when wandering prophets and missionaries chose to represent these comparatively hamless and useful creatures as emissaries of the devil.