Dragon Tamers

Let me go over this for you. Book one: Elves, Book two: Sessak, Book three: Dragon Tamers, Book Four: Assassination and Elves, Book Five: a spastic combination of the other four, excluding assassination and such, where everything happens and I finally reach the climax of the series (these things usually happen in the last book after all, don't they... I wonder why...)

Anyways. I've gone over Elves (sort'a) and I've gone over Sessak (more like over killed Sessak) So, hence, of course I'll now go over Dragon Tamers before posting more information about specific characters... why does it smell like oranges... this is bad... I'm fasting people!

Back to what I'm supposed to be talking about. Dragon Tamers, in a nut shell, are half Fallen, half what ever species their parents are. Dragon Tamers are also considered as the "Chosen of the Fallen." They come from every back-ground, every species and tend to have a reputation for being really cool. However, being the "Chosen of the Fallen" means they also happen to be the preachers of the True Religion. No exceptions.

Because everyone is a follower of the True Religion this often posses a problem for royalty. In fact... a normal Dragon Tamer in training is considered to be the equivalent of a king or president or emperor, or what ever high, big and important titles you can think of. Dragon Tamers have authority over ev-er-y-th-ing.

Dragon Tamers have the ability to shape-shift into one creature, a dragon. So... why have dragon tamers and dragons, if dragon tamers can just become dragons if they want to? Well, another True Religion belief is that dragons are the guardians over the mortal species which are the Fallen's descendants, that is, until the Fallen return at the end of the world. But, on top of that dragons are seers, and can prophesy the future, a gift given to them from the Fallen so they could warn the mortals of the end of all five worlds. That's why, Dragon Tamers don't have the gift of prophecy. In fact, there's only one mortal that's ever given the gift of prophecy in the entire series, and he doesn't realize it until the last book... ironic, isn't it.

Another thing about Dragon Tamers, they are discovered by the Dragons, who use their gift of prophecy to find all Dragon Tamers before their fourteenth birthday, which is when they're told by a member of the Dragon Council what they really are.

Well, what's the point of Dragon Tamers? Basically they're mediators between other mortal species and the dragons.

Because Dragon Tamers are so important and powerful they have their own titles. You have Horemlo for male Tamers, and Heramla for female Tamers. There's also another, Hetvio, only used for the president of the Dragon Council.

Fun Facts: Dragon Tamers can breath fire... granted, they keep this as secret as possible, but it's slipped out some times, and gave rise to the fire eaters. Female dragon tamers are betrothed to another Dragon Tamer the second day they arrive at a Dragon Sanctuary, sort of tradition, because males out number females practically ten to one in the Dragon Council.

Oh, also youth in this world turn of age on their seventeenth birthday. And another fun fact for the series in general, the sun and moons all rise in the west and set in the east.

I guess I should explain what a Dragon Sanctuary is. There are Five of them. I've only named three though, you have the Obsidian Sanctuary in the Eastern World, The Daragon Sanctuary in the Southern World and Aliatian Valdose.

Dragon Tamers are the only mortals which can speak Dragonese (language of the dragons) and I think that's all I really need to say at the moment. Hooray...

-Dancy M. Grant ©2010