Dragon Moon Curse

The Dragons and the Dreaming Giants have been at war for many ages. When the Dragons discovered their presence on Tellan, they attacked. The Weavers helped to defend the giants, directing their magic against the invading Dragons and thwarting them. Many died on both sides, but the people who inhabited Tellan suffered most of all.

The Dragon Moon Curse came about when Prince Aurick of Tellan (an ancestor of Varian) went to Cloudburst, the King of the Dragons and pleaded for mercy for his world. Cloudburst decided the Dragons would be best served by a Prince who was willing to keep the giants sleeping peacefully on Tellan, and away from the war the Dragons were fighting. So Cloudburst offered mercy in the form of a curse: The Prince of Tellan must present an heir, a child of a Dragonmarked princess chosen by the Dragons as the ruler of Tellan. By means of their prophetic vision, the Dragons were able to choose women whose children would act honorably, keeping the Giants quiet and maintaining a kind of truce between the Giants and Dragons.

The text of the curse runs as follows: Rulers of Tellan, now be cursed, Dragonslayers, for your death we thirst, Unless by your loins an heir is born, then from your flesh we'll take our fill and your house's blood will be our swill, Unless by the mother a Dragonmark is borne, we'll burn your people'ʹs very bones,grind the flesh and smash with stones fire and ashes, dark and pain, Until on Tellan the Dragons reign.

This entry is from the works of Nancy S. and Steven R. Brandt