Triss & Nefrit
Nefrit
Triss, I was thinking about how the myths of dragons might have started with people watching volcanic eruptions, the way lava flows look like a creature breathing fire—do you think those natural spectacles could have sparked the legends?
Triss
Oh, that’s a beautiful way to see it—like the fire in the earth becoming a breath of a sleeping dragon, and the people watching it whispering, “There’s a monster out there.” I can almost hear the old storytellers around the fire, turning those molten rivers into legends of soaring, fire‑breathing beasts. It makes me dream of a child who sees a volcano and thinks, “There’s a dragon right here, just breathing out the world.” It’s a wonder how a single sight could spark whole worlds of stories.
Nefrit
That image is a neat hypothesis—natural catastrophes often leave an imprint on collective memory. People watching an eruption could have projected familiar motifs onto the fire, turning a geological event into a mythic narrative. It’s a tidy way the world’s early storytellers might have turned the raw power of the earth into the legend of a dragon.