Now Nidgel Horgarth,or Nidhogrr for short,was one
envy dragon who
was having problems.
A millenium earlier,when he'd last made a splash in both the
human and dragon world,he'd got himself into
the Norse myths by accident.
Humans had a habit of fighting amongst themselves by
having battles,which had left corpses lying around on the battlefield.
Nidhoggr had no insterest in eating corpses,mind you,but
he had discovered that after a few years of 'seasoning' away
the resultant human bones and skeletons sitting exposed
to the spray and seasalt that a old battlefield sitting
beside the Atlantic or Baltic Sea tended to yield crunchy salty 'snacks'
from all those bones.
So he'd been gathering up the latest bag of 'snacks' when a
norse bard named Talinsson had come by with goose quill and
ink to seek a few days solitude and inspiration and observed with
big winged lizard hauling of the skeletal heroic-warriors of old.
That got Talinsson's inspiration box ticking again,and by the
time Talinsson had finished with his grand saga
"The Saga of Leif Ericcson and Nidhoggr"
and the real Nidhoggr was a bit surprised to learn that he supposedly
spent his time collecting the bones of the dead to construct
his good knarr vessel ,and then brought the shades of dead heroic-warriors aboard
to sail them to the mead,women and wrestling partying
of Wotan's Heaven of brave Norse,Valhalla.
That had been more then a thousand years earlier and Nidhoggr
was looking for another bard to give him
another 1000 years of fame.
Like any other actor ( he'd literally played the part of Fafnir
in the 1927 German film <Siegried> complete with
fake blood for the death scene) Nidhoggr had contacted his human ( but immortal)agent Nicolas Philby to see about any scripts around
that the Envy Dragon could parlay into fame and fortune.
What Nicolas Philby found was a decades old script typed up
by a seriously twisted hippie named Saul Steele.
The scripts title was...