Prologue
Note contains Season six and Mystical Realms Tales spoilers
It is said that when our universe was formed, it was one of the first
membrane universes to do so, and became the world we know to this day
Much later as humanity developed, in the spaces between the undulating membrane universes another one came into being.. Time in that other universe was accelerated and ran at a different rate to ours. Humanity in our universe by this time had a collective unconscious and as these membrane universes can be as close to each other as a few centimetres somehow our collective unconscious influenced what beings would be formed in this other universe. Creatures in that universe were formed from our nightmares our fantasy and our folk law, and they were aware of our existence.
Of course when the first creatures crossed over to our universe, the flow of time in both was synchronised
Back in our universe, many years ago, so we are told, people came across the fossils of dinosaurs, creatures who had ruled the Earth for sixty five million years, before being wiped out by an asteroid impact.
On seeing the fossils of these long dead creatures these people developed legends of large reptilian monsters. Some said that our legends of such creatures came from a time before some global flood when dinosaurs and men co-existed.
How ever it happened, these creatures became the dragons we know to this day, and many a myth arose from them here on Earth.
In the Mystical Realms, this parallel universe formed somehow by our collective unconsciousness, dragons became real, but were not the dangerous predatory beasts of the nightmares of humans. These real dragons confined themselves to mountains and lived off of herbivorous beasts and the occasional adventurer that was foolish enough to stray to far into the mountains un protected.
Here on Earth people lived in fear of a beast that did not have an existence in this universe, and all sorts of powers were ascribed to them. In some cultures, it was believed that they were the cause of total solar eclipses when the dragon would eat the sun.
Indeed in the nineteenth century during one such solar eclipse, Chinese gunboats fired their cannons to scare the dragon away that was eating the sun.
A creature that could swallow an astronomical body?
In this age of rationalism and enlightenment, nobody in their right mind would believe such things, as there is no way that could possibly happen, could it…