When Balwen's last sits on the stolen throne,And kitling sleeps beside the babe ne'er born,When darkness stills the forest birds at noon,In blood and fire Gwlad shall rise anew.The Prophecies of Mad Goronwy

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The dragons of Gwlad are dying. A sad, shrunken echo of the once-proud creatures of their myths, now they shuffle through their last days, hidden by their subtle arts from the men who have persecuted and killed them for over two millennia. Yet in amongst this quiet decline, there is new life. Benfro, son of Morgwm the Green, the first male kitling in a thousand years. His hatching at the confluence, when great Rasalene the moon covers Arhelion the sun, must surely mark him for great things. For long ago dragons wrought a deep wrong on the land, and now is come the time to make amends.