Chapter 149 - Preamble to Volume III
The dragons were the original inhabitants of this planet.
Did they evolve here like humans evolved back on Earth? Or did they colonize this planet as an alien species? Or did they appear magically from the pure elements? I have no idea.
But what I learned from my research is that humans, elves, and dwarves came much later.
The dragons are strictly hierarchical, with very big body changes depending on where in the hierarchy one is.
The so-called Superior Dragons are the ones that have the appearance that comes to mind to an Earthling when we hear the word ’dragon.’ They are huge, with big wings and a reptilian body that kinda looks like a dinosaur.
At the top of the Superior Dragons are the Dragon Sovereigns. And below them are the dragonkin.
It’s still possible to find the ruins of old dragonkin cities out in the wild. And I bet that if I could organize an archaeology team, we would be able to learn a lot from them.
But one day came the humans and the fae folk. It seems that they came fleeing from a world on the brink of destruction, and the dragons reluctantly accepted them as refugees.
There are no official records about it, obviously. After all, the official narrative is that humans were made by the goddess and are the rightful owners of this land.
But there are some very old texts, which seem to date from before the goddess, in long-forgotten archives of the library of the palace, that mention it.