Ghlent: The Autobiography of a Rainbow Dragon

This is the life story of the great dragon hero, ‎Ghlent, told in his own words. ‎

From being almost murdered, seriously injured, ‎and effectively orphaned before he’d even been ‎hatched two hours, Ghlent went on to not only ‎survive, but thrive despite being an oddly-coloured ‎freak that some thought shouldn’t have been allowed ‎to live. Although at times facing prejudice and ‎bullying, he became a prominent member of dragon ‎society, and he ended his life as one of the most ‎famous and revered dragons of his own or any other ‎generation.‎

Ghlent lived during one of the greatest periods of ‎turbulence and change in the history of Dragondom. ‎He hatched at the height of dragon glory and ‎civilisation and he ended his life in one of the darkest ‎periods of dragon history. ‎

In between, he witnessed, and in some cases ‎influenced, many changes and pivotal events. He saw ‎the relationship between dragons and humans go from ‎the interaction of a few dragons with a handful of ‎dragon-obsessed humans to a formal treaty with the ‎king of Noranda, and he saw Dracos grow from a ‎purely dragon enclave to a thriving, semi-independent ‎state within Noranda, where dragons and humans ‎ruled and lived together in harmony. ‎

He saw dragons and humans learning how to ‎work together to build a brave new world, and he saw ‎that world almost destroyed when the prejudices and ‎bigotry of others led the world into a bitter war. ‎Desperate times sometimes call for desperate ‎measures, and Ghlent was instrumental in instituting ‎some of those measures; measures aimed at the very ‎preservation and survival of Dragonkind.‎

Ghlent can tell you about the origins of Dracos, ‎about how dragons and humans came to befriend each ‎other, and about the causes of the first war. He can ‎tell you which was the first settlement in Dracos, how ‎the dragons’ treaty with the king of Noranda came to ‎be, and why the First Families considered themselves ‎pre-eminent in Dracos. He can certainly tell you how ‎much of the legend of Ghlent you ought to believe. ‎

He can tell you all these things because he was ‎there. From the vibrancy and hope of the golden days ‎of dragon civilisation to the depths of despair and ‎loss, from a poor, orphaned dragonet to the great hero ‎of Dragondom, Ghlent saw it all. He lived it all.‎

There are three ways this story can be approached. ‎As a stand-alone novel; as an introduction to the ‎world of the Rainbow Dragonesque novels; or, if ‎you’ve already read those books, as a prequel that fills ‎in some of the background history that you will have ‎read about in the books.‎