[pshrynk]

In a lesser time than this, in a land that has had men and elves and dwarves and even hobbits traverse it and decide that there were obviously lands far away that had better prospects, there was born a dragon. As you may know, there are few dragons spawned in these days and even then, there were fewer and fewer being hatched. This dragon, who later came to be known as Smaug the Great, was born to a dragaon couple who had spent the centuries hoping for a quiet miracle, nothing so much as the hundreds of offspring brought forth by Troppa, nor the dragon child that was Grendle, rather, Harv and Vera were merely hoping for a single viable egg...