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A Story of Dragons Preface

This blog begins the creation of a fantasy novel of a highly political world consisting of various factions of dragons - different species, confederations, countries - and the same for men.  To begin with, I will be typing up the backstories, regions, plots, and characters I have written so far.  It may contain magic at some point, but has been developed far enough without any, that I am leaning toward keeping it that way.  I am OK with using magic in fantasy, but sparingly, like in LOTR, not as in Harry Potter.  Having fantastical elements in a world grounded in real world physics is what makes my concept unique.  Another unique element is the political complexity - this is not a tale of good and evil such as in LOTR - it is more like Game of Thrones - but what distinguishes it from that is that the dragons in my story are intelligent agents alongside the humans.  My aim in writing this was not to be as original as possible, but to tell the sort of story I wanted to tell, but I feel p