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Hellan
Okay, I think this could be okay for an intro lore... Let me know if this is still too long .__."
A long long time ago in Dragonhome lived a young dragon couple who had three hatchlings. One day, a war between rivaling dragon clan's broke out and the young male had to take part to protect their clan. Weeks turned into months as the war waged, and their clan grew hungrier and weaker. Hatchlings started dying of starvation and diseases, including two of the young female's chlidren. As there seemed to be no ending to this war, Earthshaker himself came to stop them, so finally their struggle ended. As the males of the clan started coming back, injured and beaten, the young female waited her beloved to come back, but he never came... Instead, his lifeless body was brought back with several others for their loved ones to say their final goodbyes before taking them to their final resting place to the ancient burial grounds of Cairnstone Rest.
The young female was devastated and with sorrow and darkness in her heart, she decided to find a way to bring her loved ones back again. She travelled across Sornieth with her only living child and after a year she finally found answers. She ventured back to Cairnstone Rest to seek out her dead husband and children, but while there she didn't realize how much she disturbed all the ancient souls resting. She also didn't realize that the ritual she was about to unleash wasn't ment to bring back only one soul: it was powerful enough to bring a whole graveyard full of souls back! And as she sealed the ritual the souls started crying while they got attached back to their bodies, and as the young female was no necromancer, she didn't know that they wouldn't be brought back in the condition they were before dying... And the ancient dragons started to rise from their graves with their bones dimly visible from their fossilized and decaying bodies, all seeming lost and confused for why they were brought back to the land of the living.
As the female finally realized what she had done, she looked up to her once dead husband looked at her with disappointment in his eyes. "Look around you. There's no place for the dead in the land of the living. These ancient souls can't be let to wonder in this world freely... And as this was your doing, I feel that I'm also responsible for this, and there's no other option for me than to be their shepherd. You clearly aren't strong enough to get these souls back to an eternal rest..."
And as the sun started to rise, this undead horde of ancient souls started their journey with the lead of the once young male and his two children by his side, as the female was left to mourn into the shadows of Cairnstone Rest.
Strangely enough, many of the awekened dragons decided to take this as a second chance, and wanted to enjoy their new lifes to the fullest, adventuring, going places they didn't have the chance or courage to journey in their past life, or find a loved one to warm their cold hearts once more. As the young female's ritual had gone wrong, it had left the awakened dragons with a curse, and to everybody's surprise, some of them even managed to have hatchlings as they find themselves a new love! Their hatchlings shared their undead parent's curse with their appearance, but they were otherwise just like any other living dragon. The young female's ritual might have gone horribly wrong and unintentionally ripped souls from their eternal rest, but to some of them this "curse" of of life as an undead wasn't a curse at all: it was just a beginning of a new and better life.
