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For hundreds of years, the war has been raging on the magical planet of Xena. The riders and their loyal dragons have fought bravely over the millennium, driving back the enemy only to be invaded time and time again. No village, town, or city is safe; not even the capital, Korok. It all began when Julius Morand was king...
Julius Morand, a noble elf and dragon rider, was crowned king of Xena a hundred years before the Thousand Year War began. He brought a sense of order to the planet, marking dragon riders as the protectors of the peace and innocent. Although his rival, Khan Mallou, wasn't as happy about the coronation as other citizens. He was so jealous and angry that the Elder Council didn't choose him as king that he decided to tear Xena down and rebuild a new civilization. However, his followers on the planet were few, and he was no match against the dragon riders. So, he needed an army. A species from another planet that would be intent on conquering the planet for their own uses or studies, but one that was dumb enough for him to control with a sprinkle of his sorcery. And that is how it began.
With his skilled magic, Khan managed to open a portal, but it only provided one very confused human. Holding the young woman known as Silver Wellwood hostage, he cast a spell over her that made her aging process stop altogether, making her immortal. Frozen at the age of nineteen, Silver was amazed and scared of all the magical properties of Xena, and spent her time in that lonely cell reading book after book that Khan had provided. After much questioning about the human race over the next ten years, Khan finally struck gold. He had been perfecting his magic to keep a portal open long enough, and had learned so much. Apparently, humans were very vulnerable and only a select few were intelligent, like Silver. No super reflexes like the elves and sprites of Xena - they didn't even have a quarter of the magical animals here! Which meant they had no knowledge of dragons. But, Silver had said, there were myths and quite a few believed in fairy tales.
Five years after a conversation about human beliefs and nature, Khan finally showed Silver the world of Xena. They traveled quite far, all over the planet - but then things went terribly wrong. They encountered a patrol of dragon riders in the small, yet well-known town of Zuran - one of the few places that exported the high-demand kuka fruits. The leader of the patrol, a male elf named Tallik - almost a hundred years old; but a teen in elf standards - instantly recognized the villainous Khan as the man who had destroyed many cities in the past and was about to order an attack when his purple gaze fell on Silver. Startled by a creature so humanoid, yet foreign, his orders caught in his throat and the pair escaped before his squad could pursue. Ever since the encounter, young Silver had been in love with dragons.
These minor details are very significant in our story of the beginning of the Thousand Year War, as our test human had formed a crush on Tallik and grew an admiration for dragons. This wasn't apart of Khan's plan. After three more years of fruitless interrogation, he decided to travel to the planet Earth, which was a few galaxies away. No wonder it was such a strain to open a portal in the first place. Trusting the human girl to be good, the elf left. And he would never return.
By now, elfin King Julius read the report sent in by Tallik Firewalker - our adolescent dragon rider from the patrol - and called for immediate action. This unknown humanoid species seen with Khan must be captured and studied by Xena's top scientists to see if it was a threat to the planet. Silver's hiding place, along with Khan's labs and illegally caught dragons, were discovered, and the human girl taken into the custody of the authorities. It was also discovered that she was immortal, and all the other sorcerers/sorceresses couldn't lift the spell. In court, she was judged guilty of aiding an enemy and felon of Xena. Then an elf spoke up. Who other than Tallik? After one long year, she was proved innocent, not knowing that Khan was a villain. Still, the sorcerer didn't return. And they forgot all about the whole human army plot. They couldn't have been more stupid.
In years to come, it would be discovered that Khan was dead - killed by the humans themselves; but the sorcerer forgot to close the portal. Silver became the first human dragon rider on Xena when a dragoness chose her as its rider on one of the many walks the girl took with Tallik. Amenti, the dragoness was named, and the human taught how to ride and fight. Then, the disaster.
Tallik was almost a hundred and thirty years old - still a teen in elf terms - when he decided that he wanted Silver to be more than his best friend and fellow dragon rider. He would never get the chance to ask, because that very night every elf, dwarf, goblin, troll, dragon, and every other creature on Xena heard the same thing; a roar of a million voices braying for blood. The human invasion began. Julius Morand, the king, sent the thousands of dragon riders to meet the enemy, prepping the cities of Xena for battle. No one was safe. The next morning, Tallik was brought back to his house in the tiny village of Guapa, where Silver lived because she had no where else to go. The human rushed outside, only to find her friend dying from a fatal wound to his chest. Not even a master medical warlock could fix that. His dragon was slowly dying too, whimpering and stumbling as it carried its master and set him down on the ground. His purple eyes brightened when he saw Silver, and he whispered, "I love you." With one last shudder, his eyelids fluttered closed and his dragon toppled over, a noble elfin warrior gone.
Now, Silver is craving for revenge, not the innocent and stupid girl she was almost a hundred years ago when she was brought to Xena. She turned on her own race, enraged by what had happened. And she got on Amenti and flew far away to recruit more dragon riders. They would pay.
Will you join Silver Wellwood, the first human to ever ride a dragon, in her conquest to drive the humans back to Earth? Or are you apart of the human army that is determined to kill off the elfin race, along with the other minor species on Xena? Maybe you're a hostage, tortured for military information. Or, the worst of all, you're apart of the rebellion; a large organization of dragon riders that have turned on the Code of Peace and are fighting to purge Xena of the filthy humans, even Silver, led by the sinister Domovoi. Choose your path, and choose wisely.
















