Ah the possibilities with a intra(?) species marriage.
Thoren the huge dragoness had been so in love with Prince Damon that she had used her magicks to shapeshift into the form
of a lovely young human woman so she and Damon could be Man and Wife.
Alas she hadn't told Damon that the expenditure of such dragon magicks needs a heat sink to work off
against
and I this case the heat sink was the warping of time and space.
So when the hocus pocus was done
Thoren and Damon
as well as the in-laws such as
Blackfire and Skyshining
and the rest of the dragon clan
had been hurled forward in time about
a thousand years and a few thousand miles.
Roughly the Great Lakes Lumbering Camps in the late 1860s
after the end of the
War Between the States.
Booze is booze however
so whilst Damon and his new wife Thoren Oaks Shield were chopping down trees to build their
little log cabin in the wilderness
the other dragons decided to go to the local tavern.
Skyshining and gang felt no interest in mucking about with too much magic so instead they
visited the nearest medicine woman shaman who gave them some shrinking branches to chew on
to shrink themselves to a more human sized dragon shape.
Then the four noisy dragons barged into the human tavern and
demanded a drink