Now Wizard Darduct's face had grown grave when you'd first mentioned
the name Crossungs so you settled into your quarters and then
used your feminine charms to ask the guards a few questions about
Wizard Dardact's past.
What you pieced together was that Wizard Dardact had once
had a wife who couldn't concieve.
So Dardact had gone off to some distant dragon cave in another
kingdom,collected the bones from some dragon .
Apparently this dragon had practiced the dark arts,burnt down villages
gobbled up villagers and generally wholly deserving of the dwarvish
windlance bolt she'd got in the chest during one night burning a village.
It had been a mortal wound and she'd died shortly after returning to her
cave in the mountains.
So Wizard Dardact had collected her bones,powdered them up and fed
the potion to his wife,who had gotten pregnant and
died after giving birth to their baby human daughter
Ungalina.
On her 16th birthday ,Wizard Dardact,who couldn't see a curse if
it walked up and shook his staff,had concocted a
beautifying potion to please his deperate daughter Ungalina.
For you see Ungalina had been the ugliest 16 year old girl in the
kingdom.
So Wizard Dardact had convinced kind King Rufus to give Ungalina
the beautifying potion.
So whilst the Courtiers had kept straight faces the King had given Ungalina
the potion.
She drank it down all at once and was thrilled when the King and all those in the Courtroom
gazed apon her face and told her she was the fairest maiden in the Northe Countrye.
They were still keeping a straight face.
The romantic dream for Ungalina lasted for three days,when the village idiot,who wasn't in on the joke,told Ungalina matter of factly that
her face was as ugly as it ever was,if not more.
So a shrieking mad with grief and rage Ungalina
had locked herself up in her dads laboratory in the West Tower.
There she found the dragon bones,and her fathers journal
of how he'd used them to concieve her.
Well if it were a choice between people fearing and hating her or
laughing at her,she much preferred the former.
Knowing full well what she was about to turn herself into,the furious
maiden had ground up the dragon bones and tossed them into the big iron
cauldron that sat in the center of the laboratory,stoked up the fire
,tossed in a few newts eyes for good measure and danced
around the bubbling cauldron chanting various evil spells
and then drank down a good deal of the mixture
and just hung around waiting for something to happen.
Her dad spent the next few hours pounding at the locked
door,but there was no answer from within.
Then as midnight approached Wizard Dardact ,sensing the gathering of powerful magics
within his laboratory,managed
to get everyone away from the West Tower just before a still
human and still ugly as ever
Ungalina,but with a serious case of stomach burn,,had
a sense of what was about to happen to her
and rolled over on her hands and knees,and exploded into her new dragon body,soul and mind.
The west tower blew apart as the huge new black scaled flamebreathing dragoness
was born,and Crossung the Laidley Orm began her new existence.
Which meant of course Crossung Farm had a serious side to it...