Re: Draconised (sic) myths

From: David Cake <dave_at_ADIVMGcJ1F164X9JuhP_f32S2PUX5m7nHxHiWwwifFnvGDVqiqGqPD44yBYkiZJWtcUZbBH>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 01:25:18 +0900

At 1:49 PM +0000 28/2/07, simon_hibbs2 wrote:
>
>> On another tangent on all those draconised myths - surely the
>> EWF would have found useful myths for fighting the God Learners?
>> Unfortunately, dragon vs knight myths tend to result in the dragon
>> losing. What form would the EWF magical counterattacks to the God
>> Learners take?
>
>History (and myth?) is written by the winners, and dragons don't write
>much, hence we only have stories about knights killing dragons. Also
>stories about knights being gobbled up aren't very heartwarming and so
>will not be so popular.

        The problem is that while we know that Gloranthan dragons are terrifying, and the punchline to the whole EWF saga is the Dragonkill, in most of the myths that we know of that would have been known to the EWF the dragons tend to be on the losing end - Vadrus kills a dragon, Orlanth kills Aroka, Orlanth kills Burburstus, Orlanth kill sea dragons on the LBQ. The EWF seem amply provided with myths in which dragons lose badly, but they don't seem to have many in which dragons engage in combat and win. Yet win they generally did, at least enough to build an empire.

	Cheers
		David