The Dragon Healer

The storytellers weaved their tales of dwarfs, elves and nymphs the three races that controlled this realm and during a great battle humanity was driven across the coastal mountains to the valleys beyond. The legends told of the Solans of Tycarr who were women of magic that managed to stop man's enemies from destroying them completely by blocking the great mountain passes during the escape from death. The Solans caused huge avalanches that created walls of stones. Many died during this leaving and only four were left to help the remaining humans survive their new existence. The legends said little of the ways of the Solans of Tycarr, other than they were a group of women that were born with magic and had one or two of the nine powers. What these powers were and how they were used was not known. Tycarr was said to be a castle of great towers that the Solans used for training. Once each year they would go forth from Tycarr and recruit the young women of the villages that showed magical abilities. It was known to have been a great honor to be chosen, but sadly, the Solans no longer existed and all their knowledge of magic was now gone.

The legends continued with the four remaining Solans defending and providing what help they could to humanity. Fifty full set of seasons later it was said that the black Solan "Obecka" was born, a sunrising that would prove to be the beginning of many dark times for the valley peoples. The birth of Obecka was at first greeted with celebration, for another great Solan now existed to help. As she grew so did her magical powers, which she used to get whatever she wanted, not seeming to care that she hurt others in the process. The four remaining Solans of Tycarr would usually stop her from harming the people who had already suffered the devastation of their world. Over the seasons however she ever so slowly became more and more enraged at being controlled by the others, this eventually drove her to a deadly act. Her magic grew with her overbearing manner until she was the most powerful of all the five Solans. She attracted the four to a cave in the valley of Herston by asking the other Solans for a meeting to discuss her future as their queen. The other four were enraged by her assumption that she would rule them and came to deal with her insolence. As the four angrily waited in the cave for her to join them, Obecka trapped them by diverting a stream over the cave's mouth and freezing it. This created a solid magical icy door that the other Solans could not penetrate. She then caused an avalanche that she thought would only trap the others until she could come up with a way of controlling them. Unfortunately, the mountain was very unstable and the cave started to collapse. The four tried to support it with their power, but the enormous weight of the rock above them finally overwhelmed their combined magic and the cave collapsed killing them all.

Obecka, realizing what she had done went deep into the mountains and found a dark cave to hide in. For the first time in her life she felt guilt for the act she had committed and over the next several moon risings her guilt grew, finally driving her mad. In her madness she decided to forever punish the people who had treated her with disdain. As a young girl she felt that her special powers made her greater than the ordinary men and women of the valleys and they owed her what ever she demanded, but instead they avoided and distrusted her. Her madness drove her to punish them by taking twenty small black flyers and changed them into monstrous black feathered creatures with twenty foot wing spans that were capable of killing anything moving on land. She called them Averons and trained them to prey upon humans and beasts alike from their nests in the mountains that both protected and now ravished humanity.