Now the future Sky King
called Prince Ida
in his youth,had come into the
Skylan University with a
Cloud humans POV
on the various sentient talking creatures
that populated the Sky Kingdom.
There were cloud humans such as himself and Jeremy Dashwood
there were the Gifted Beasts
such as the dancing winged unicorn girl and his roomie
Exalt the Latex Bat
and there were the Monsters
such as giant air dragons,hydras and other man eating nasties
And as we all know the general view of cloud people is that
they aught to give Monsters what they need
and what all Monsters need is to be slain
Which is great if you're a crowd of human peasants breeding like idiot rabbits and occupying all the land
in sight
but not so great if you're the Dragon those peasants are encroaching apon.
Alas Prince Ida must have been sleeping when
Professor Ball
who taught part of Field Studies at Skylan University
gave his lecture on Origin of the Species and his guest lecturer of the hour
was a scholarly researcher named
Charles Darwin.
As Professor Ball had stepped away from the lecturn
Mr Darwin had begun talking about a voyage he had undertaken on the Royal Sky Scientific Research Ship Beagle
a decade earlier
when he had gone to a remote part of the Cloud Plane where he'd studied two
isolated groups of Gifted Beasts
and Monsters
dragons on one island and winged unicorns on another.
Being a remote part of the world the Monsters were still relatively friendly
and so Charles Darwin had recorded
their language
and then recorded the language of the
winged unicorns.
What the researcher had discovered was that both groups shared a roughly similar language
that Darwin called Ormish.
So from a language POV
winged unicorns on one island were relatives of
the dragons on the other island.
After the RSSRS Beagle returned to the Sky Kingdom Darwin had
proceeded to study
other groups of Monsters and Gifted Beasts
in the Sky Kingdom
and found they ALL had a language related to Ormish.
Which meant the commonly held view that Gifted Beasts were somehow
transformed humans,or vise versa
was wrong.
Cloud humans were actually the odd man out.
However as Prince Ida lay there moaning and groaning on the grass with a pistol ball in his arm
he spoke to the winged unicorn lass in Cloud Human English,which meant
nothing to her.
Exalt the Latex Bat,who was hastily tying up a strip
of cloth around the wounded
future Sky King
turned and translated what Prince Ida had just
uttered in Ormish
"What is your name sweet nymph?"
To which the winged unicorn girl replied in Ormish
"Tabithagar"
Prince Ida
then asked his friend Exalt what language they were
conversing it and Exalt said
"Ormish,common root language of Monsters and Gifted Beasts.Didn't you listen when Professor Balls guest Charles Darwin gave his talk?"
Which is when the seed first got planted in the future
Sky King that his subjects were not just
humans and Gifted Beasts,but also included
Monsters.
This was a more demographically complicated Kingdom he would rule someday then he
realized.
And Monsters needed protecting too!