She said carefully, daintily hopping over a bandit corpses as if they were fallen logs.
Long in the days before man roamed the Earth, it was said Dragons once cavorted and mingled under the cold stars in great numbers-being immortal and curious, they beget many forms of life in a experimental fashion-these precursors to humanity, these flawed and broken toys, were usually cast into the wilds and therein they perished to natural means, never to be seen by our eyes...
The Oni's were beings created with great strength and endurance, but little passion or curiosity. They were said to be twice as tall and wide as a man, with pebbled grey skin as hard as stone, two three-fingered hands, and a large black horn jutting from their foreheads. The Dragons saw they held little reverent-where these beings went, they merely consumed-flesh, warmth, riches, power. They were lazy and while not exactly cruel, indifference ruled their every action. They typically left nothing behind of what they took, but dung and bones. They were also tremendously ugly, so much so that a young Dragon princess gifted them with the ability to walk unseen in broad daylight so she would no longer have to look upon them-in retrospect, not nearly so wise. The Oni, usually cowardly, were emboldened-and laid siege to the Dragon's Great Nests themselves.
The Dragons, of course, could not see them-but, their smell was detectable enough. Unable to stomach the Oni, and unwilling to massacre their creations so haphazardly, they gave the Oni a small and secluded island in the middle of the burgeoning sea where they could do no more harm, but to each other. One can only conclude the race, so secluded, would eventually eat itself into oblivion...
Modern religious texts have references to these creatures existing in the 'before time', but no physical evidence of these quasi-invisible horned giants had ever been found. Many priests assume the 'island' where they were effectively imprisoned could stand for a great many things, and they are today only more or less the fairy tale monsters lazy mothers used to frighten their children to sleep. Otherwise, they are anecdotal-standing as negative moral figures, with certain traits to be surely avoided by all pious men and women.
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