(Welcome to the Enchanted Land, a land of brave knights, beautiful princesses, and where dragons roam.)

Stories and legends about dragons and dragon slayers have been passed from one generation to the other till this very day. Dragons were depicted as fiery monsters that were bent on destruction in the protection of their domain or in conquest; some of the stories told of the kidnap of a lovely princess by the fiery beast and in all tales a gallant knight came to her rescue.

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The truth is that nobles and lords did not defeat dragons in myths and legends as a whole, even though St. George and few other royalty and saints did a proper job in ridding an area from dragons. The chivalrous knights and noble royalty had no desire to leave their comfortable castles and chase after fiery beasts. Nor was the royal peerage inclined to relieve the peasants of these destructive creatures. Wandering wayfarers or wise men that had some magical powers had the honor; now and again a young strapping lad would challenge and slay a dragon, off course using a bit of subterfuge.. (1)

Only in fairy tales did dragons kidnap or devour lovely virgins or royal maidens, as they only desired a meal of a cow or a sheep. Dragons were usually vegetarians or enjoyed crushed rock as a whole; but now and again they would devour whole armies in a fierce battle.

Dragons are depicted as mythological reptiles, being fiery and usually massive in height with scale-like body, a crested head with enormous teeth and sharp-clawed feet. Their massive bat-like wings enabled them to fly; their large spiny tail could sweep adversaries to an untimely demise. The creatures are quite famous for their ability to breathe hellish gouts of fire. But some dragons have also been know to breath a freezing chill winds, as well as acid clouds of corrosive green fumes, oily black smoke and even lightning.

There are several species of dragons from the slithering Wyrms, (2) the bounding Drakes (3), to the mighty winged dragon. White Dragons inhabited frosty cold and snow in the far north; Red Dragons are typically fire breathers and inhabited volcanic lands; the Blue Dragon inhabited the sea at one time; the Black Dragons were oily smoke breathers and inhabited areas cursed by lava flows when volcanoes were extinct, and their diet was limited cold volcanic rock and ash. (4)

The dragons roamed the forests and made their lair in the high mountains. From time to time they made forays onto the nearby

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