cedar_grove | Entries tagged with venereth

"Strength and speed beyond your dreams, for the Llysanyins are the children of the west wind from the land of the star-kindred, the land beyond the sun. East they came to bear the Dragonlords in a time lost in the mists of the past... and that is what you nearly had covering your...'pure bred desert mare' " Bard Otter speaking of the stallion Shan from The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin.

It's a book that contains a few interesting concepts. Firstly the Dragonlords - they're described as weredragons. Human souls bonded with dragon souls, more than one and less than the other, who live for many centuries beyond the lives of Truehumans and whose dragon souls take over at the 'death' of the human part of them, to become Truedragons. (//I suppose the poor author had to invent /some/ way of there being new dragons, since it seems somewhat dangerous to suggest we came from eggs//).

These Dragonlords were created by wild magics that took the human and dragon souls, fused them into one and then split that one into two halves... creating the soul twin. Each dragonlord has a soul twin... his or her perfect partner and true love. The Dragonlords are able to change at will between human and dragon form, but even in dragon form the dragon part of the soul is somewhat quiescent to its human counterpart, like a presence, a voice... (//Rather like being impressed to yourself//). It is the Dragonlord's role to be the judges of disputes and keepers of peace between Truehuman nobles and lands.

So of course you know there are going to be those that resent that and wish to see the destruction of the Dragonlords, and that forms the premise of the story... an interesting read filled with court intrigue, dark magics and the search for true love, (//irritating, because how could anyone so bonded with a dragon be so foolish and so blind - stupid?//). Perhaps we misread somewhere along the line, but there seemed to us to be one glaring inaccuracy/plot device that jarred us from the story, (//No. Nowhere before did the dark mage make connections with the Queen Shaeldar, we did not misread.//), but otherwise it was well thought out, and kept us wanting to read right to the end.

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