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Part I

“Cohts in the five-and-thirty winter of our Fenris not yet An eneive final harm to Olafr’s human And will they the future of our fenrir and his queen take”

?Sorceress Bera, Her Viking Wolves

Prologue

They caed shadows converging froed particles cast off froaseous atmosphere would cohts

The future etyht primates mattered little to Damianos back then But for the rest of his life he would recall how appropriate this plasround it was for the wrong they would right that morn

He and the other drakkon set down in the agreed upon asse space, a wide expanse of land on the south side of a e his horde planned to attack, gargantuan and intiht have been enough to turn back their weaker enemies

The south face of theice and inclined so steeply, the path up could almost be described as vertical And there weren’t e of rock and earth An angry sea crashed formidable waves into one side the natures of allas far as even a drakkon eye could see

Indeed, the North Wolves had positioned their seat of poell They’d surrounded themselves with a natural fortress of mountain, forest, and sea The mountains and forest were nearly insure’s wolffleet of enemy ships, well before they had the chance to storm their shores

A lesser arht

Fortunately their horde had wings What was impossible for the second most advanced species on this planet was but a bit of work for them

Damianos was the first to arrive but the last to land He circled above, waiting until there were nodown himself

All the world’s drakkon had been called forth to wage this battle, but Damianos picked his father from the others in the horde easily Only three dark blue drakkon were left in their species after their nuically reduced by the Terrible Destroyer Those re drakkon were his father, the Royal Overlord; his cousin, who everyone continued to refer to as the new king several millennia after his unexpected assumption of power, and himself The Royal Overlord always arrived early and the new king, Daathered forces, had not yet shown up

He was late Again

It had been the new king’s idea to use one of the Royal Geneticist’s fating portals to take them to a time before the destruction of their planet The plan had reee attacks on several North Wolves villages in order to find one of these fating portals, the new king of the drakkon had barely been in contact

Da had failed to show up this h unexpected inheritance Before that, he was the prince his brother had ordered Damianos and his father to assassinate, so as to erase any competition for the throne

After their planet’s destruction by the Royal Geneticist, the reer brother assume the mantle That choice, the Royal Overlord pointed out to his son had been lazy and based purely in tradition It certainly had nothing to do with any performance metrics If those had been taken into account, the other drakkon would certainly have chosen Da For none better exemplified the superiority of their race than his son, a drakkon who’d been named to the most venerable position of Royal Huntmaster when he was little more than a millennia old

Before his undeserved ascension, the new king had held two titles: Second Prince and, for the purposes of their mission, Royal Fate Maker The second title onlyportal specialist, so And that was before he disappeared for ain until shortly after their planet was destroyed

The Royal Fate Maker was no great hunter Nor was he strong or particularly intelligent outside of his chosen field And as far as Da had no talent for execution