This is the first installment in a series of two novels and a short story that I wrote at the request of my late wife. She was an ardent fan of Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" series and asked that I write a story inserting four of my original characters into Anne's universe. Obviously, the resulting novels could not be published. Besides, that was never my intent.
Fans of the Pern series will note that I have taken a few liberties with the canonical scenario. First, I have turned Eastern Weyr into a volcanic rather than a forest weyr. Second, I have made the Pernese dragons slightly more aggressive than the originals, and considerably more capable in the areas of memory and reasoning. I have also given the dragon-riders slightly more conventional morals.
This will be a series of roughly 15 documents, including an introduction and a bibliography which may help the reader keep up with the characters. In roughly 500 total pages of text, there are a lot of dragons and riders to keep up with. Many of them are Ms McCaffrey's original characters, a substantial number of them are my characters.
I hope the reader will bear in mind that I was not trying to copy the original Pernese structure, but to integrate it into a somewhat different fantasy scenario. Hopefully, the reader will find this an enjoyable if rather lengthy experience.
One item of major importance: Much of the communication between these characters is telepathic in nature. To indicate thought communication, I will use the ' symbol rather than standard quotation marks. I apologize if this is inconvenient, as I haven't yet learned how to insert italicized text on Literotica.
Thank you for your interest. I'll be looking forward to the comments.
Rogue