Post by Zactura on Sept 20, 2009 10:47:44 GMT -5
It's been about one hundred Turns since Thread stopped falling, and the dragonriders have retreated to their own parts of Pern. They've taken up the roles of enforcers and messengers, though some have become mercenaries and other more combat-oriented professions. Things are mostly peaceful, but it's really only a farce, as tensions are strung high under the surface. It finally snaps when Bronze Uulacanth of Weyrleader G'tal of Igen seems to go beserk....killing his rider. But no, he does not go Between. Instead, the insane Bronze stays, though his rider is most assuredly dead, launching off into the skies above the weyr and leaving a shocked silence behind. What could have happened to make Uulacanth do that? And most importantly, how did he stay? At first, these were only isolated incidents, the dragons--now called Shattered, as they had completely destroyed their bonds with their riders--had become a fearsome offensive force, having their own Clutches and slowly seducing others to do what they had done.
Two new weyrs were founded in an attempt to keep the Shattered population in check by finding their lairs and culling them--the new weyrs being Falmas and Oulus. They've both held up pretty well so far, but things are not looking good for the fledgling weyrs.
The Shattered have started to attack humans, breaking whatever rules that Pern thought were established about dragons. Now every dragonrider is suspect, for who knows who will snap next? Could it be the wingleader that you've grown to trust? Or maybe that weyrling, so newly bonded and still fresh-faced and grinning from the ecstasy of Impression? Or maybe even the Weyrleader, as what happened with G'tal and Uulacanth?
The dragons of Pern are like a minefield now....the slightest errant twitch, and who knows what could happen.
Two new weyrs were founded in an attempt to keep the Shattered population in check by finding their lairs and culling them--the new weyrs being Falmas and Oulus. They've both held up pretty well so far, but things are not looking good for the fledgling weyrs.
The Shattered have started to attack humans, breaking whatever rules that Pern thought were established about dragons. Now every dragonrider is suspect, for who knows who will snap next? Could it be the wingleader that you've grown to trust? Or maybe that weyrling, so newly bonded and still fresh-faced and grinning from the ecstasy of Impression? Or maybe even the Weyrleader, as what happened with G'tal and Uulacanth?
The dragons of Pern are like a minefield now....the slightest errant twitch, and who knows what could happen.