The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

The Hero cares not for a wild winter's storm. For it carries him swift on the back of the storm. All may be lost and our hearts may be worn, but a Hero fights forever.

Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.