dragon hatchery

[ThePaladin]

wow DLP!  thank you!  
how did you get to be so close to them?
"the elder" as in "THE" elder? just commented...

How did I get close to them? The TL;DR version is it's part of my job and my calling. The dragons have always had a human messenger, a paladin to use the term as it was originally used, to relay messages to and from the dragons. I discovered this calling a few years ago, when the dragons began to wake(That's a story in itself).

Since then, I've been learning about dragons and they've been learning about how the world has changed while they slept. I work mostly with the Elder but any dragon who wants to ask a question will contact me. I know only a few true names, but mostly they tell me to give them a name, which is why there are dragons who answer to names like Bob, Ted, Sally, Bogie and Bacall(twins), Bubba, The Lady, The Historian, and so on. I've met dragons from what I term the Black Hat contingent but they tend to keep to themselves since they really have no use for humans and even less for me. I've even met the First Dragons, the original dragons. I call them The Mothers and The Fathers. They are unbelievably old and unbelievably massive. They were asleep for millions of years, waking only in the last year or so.

Yes, it's THE Elder. There are other elders, each one leading their clans, but this one is the big kahuna elder who leads the leaders. He's also their general, the one who leads the dragons into battle and oversees the training of the warriors, both male and female. He keeps tabs on me and listens in all the time.

I'm still learning what my role is, beyond providing entertainment for the dragons with my everyday life, especially since most of them aren't even in this reality(that's also a long story).