dragonslayers
Will and I are gonna write a book and make a little film based on it. We are still commingup with ideas, here I write what we've talked about so far. This whole thing kinda came up the day before yesterday.
Two young men, one the pride of the town and the other a humble son of a widow, leave their small rustic city to challenge a dragon, and each other. Ghirdio has the strength, coordination and speed of one who is afforded the luxury endless training, while Etham’s work as a blacksmith and his mysterious genetic heritage make him a comprapble opponent. Both men have adventures on their way to the island where the loosed dragon has embedded himself amongst the columns and temples that he himself broke and twisted four hundred years before. On the way to the island, Ghirdio bought the allegiance of 3 mercenaries, and chartered a fast ship to take him to the island, where Etham could not. He eventually found a way to pay a creaky old bargeman to take him to the island, and when he got there he first marveled at the size and scope of the city. Ruined though it was, it was the most impressive thing he had ever seen; and there was no sign of the dragon, or Ghirdio. With his bow he shot a fat bird that was perching on the head of a grand sculpture, and he cooked and ate it in what must have been a great hall for the feasting of lords…only the roof was gone and he could see the sea from huge holes in the west-facing wall. Ghirdio, in the mean time, was safe on a near by island. A small village of the decedents of this land still remained, and this is where Ghirdio had fled shortly after his first encounter with the dragon. He jumped on a log, and spent two days bobbing in the water before he was up upon the shore of a proximal island. Having found him wounded and terrified, a family of fishermen took him in and tended to him. It was then that he learned from the bargeman that was making his weekly stop on the island that another man was just dropped of on the Dragon’s island. Ghirdio didn’t need to ask who that man was. He couldn’t bear thinking that Etham might be earning fame and fortune while he ate fish soup and listened to old stories (which he considered quite boring). He goes back and tries to find the dragon before Etham does. For one thing, while listening to the myths told by the old farmer, he learned some things about the dragon that might be of use to him. The anger competing men come to blows, and while fighting, the both encounter the dragon.
(Note, the Dragon was initially unleashed upon the homeland of the Sidonians by three barbarian warlocks. The warlocks and their people were provoked by the empire hungry Sidonians, but now the dragon (out of any human control for hundreds of years) outlived the battle and proved to be an obstacle for everyone. It wouldn’t leave Sidonia, and now the barbarian peoples desired their own empire. The very creature they used to destroy the Sidonians was now standing in their way. Gold and notoriety was promised to anyone who could remove it.
Two young men, one the pride of the town and the other a humble son of a widow, leave their small rustic city to challenge a dragon, and each other. Ghirdio has the strength, coordination and speed of one who is afforded the luxury endless training, while Etham’s work as a blacksmith and his mysterious genetic heritage make him a comprapble opponent. Both men have adventures on their way to the island where the loosed dragon has embedded himself amongst the columns and temples that he himself broke and twisted four hundred years before. On the way to the island, Ghirdio bought the allegiance of 3 mercenaries, and chartered a fast ship to take him to the island, where Etham could not. He eventually found a way to pay a creaky old bargeman to take him to the island, and when he got there he first marveled at the size and scope of the city. Ruined though it was, it was the most impressive thing he had ever seen; and there was no sign of the dragon, or Ghirdio. With his bow he shot a fat bird that was perching on the head of a grand sculpture, and he cooked and ate it in what must have been a great hall for the feasting of lords…only the roof was gone and he could see the sea from huge holes in the west-facing wall. Ghirdio, in the mean time, was safe on a near by island. A small village of the decedents of this land still remained, and this is where Ghirdio had fled shortly after his first encounter with the dragon. He jumped on a log, and spent two days bobbing in the water before he was up upon the shore of a proximal island. Having found him wounded and terrified, a family of fishermen took him in and tended to him. It was then that he learned from the bargeman that was making his weekly stop on the island that another man was just dropped of on the Dragon’s island. Ghirdio didn’t need to ask who that man was. He couldn’t bear thinking that Etham might be earning fame and fortune while he ate fish soup and listened to old stories (which he considered quite boring). He goes back and tries to find the dragon before Etham does. For one thing, while listening to the myths told by the old farmer, he learned some things about the dragon that might be of use to him. The anger competing men come to blows, and while fighting, the both encounter the dragon.
(Note, the Dragon was initially unleashed upon the homeland of the Sidonians by three barbarian warlocks. The warlocks and their people were provoked by the empire hungry Sidonians, but now the dragon (out of any human control for hundreds of years) outlived the battle and proved to be an obstacle for everyone. It wouldn’t leave Sidonia, and now the barbarian peoples desired their own empire. The very creature they used to destroy the Sidonians was now standing in their way. Gold and notoriety was promised to anyone who could remove it.