My
Dearest Nephew,
I
hear that you have made up your mind as to what occupation you are to follow
and are planning to go out on a rampage. I must express my disappointment in
your choice of occupation and urge you to reconsider. A life of pillaging and
dragon treasure repossessing is not for you. However, as you seem set in this
idea, I see it as my duty to give you some advice as to how the best way to go
about this is. Though I have never gone out on a rampage in my life, I do know
the best forms of defensive fighting.
First,
never attack or attempt to repossess the treasure of a dragon too much larger
than yourself. It would be folly to do such a thing as you have no experience
with fighting and are not a dragon of great size yourself. Therefore, it would
be wisest to take on dragons of your size or smaller if you were to have a
chance of besting them in battle. If you do choose to attack a dragon of
greater size, or if one seeks you out and challenges you, find a place where
you have the advantage in the fight. This may sound like cheating, but it is
your only chance of survival in such a foolhardy fight.
I
have no doubt that both of your other uncles are advising you on such
bloodthirsty topics as the killing of warriors, burning of towns and crops and
the repossessing of large parts of another dragon’s hoard. Although you made
the choice to become such a dragon, the blame cannot be entirely laid at your
feet. Some of it must go to your other uncles, Scaligar and Gargazath. Those
two have been acting with irresponsible lack of thought for others from the
time of their youth.
I
remember meeting them when the two sides of the family came together. I never
really liked them. Scaligar was always crafty and scheming, never content with
what he has. Although he may have been filling your head with delusions of his
grandeur, he was in fact, never a great dragon, either of the Western or
Eastern type and although he may have made a name for himself at one point, he
lacked the ability to keep himself in the history books and has faded from the
memories of the people he once terrorized, and rightly so!
Gargazath
on the other claw has all of Scaligar’s bad qualities with none of his wit or
intelligence. He sees only the carnage that can be wreaked and the blood that
might be shed. His idiocy is known far and wide and his arrogance also. He has
had a history of any sort although he boasts of a long life in which he has
become one of the greatest western dragons ever known and feared throughout the
land by man and beast.
As
you can see, your uncles have no experience in the real maters of life and as
such I am shocked that you have taken their advice and gone rampaging off to
terrorize the humans of the land.
Your
disappointed uncle,
Semithino
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