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[Mamorien]

Antediluvian (distant sequel to Soul Eater) Chapter 9: Catafalque.

The old woman told herself that she had no inkling of what the child could be if not a witch; but that was a lie. Old as she was, she remembered tales from her youth. Of monsters, demons that haunted the hearths of homes, born of ash and soot and flame, inheritors of a dreadful sin from the deadened abyss of history. Hunted out of existence for the sake of those around them. Even in her time they were thought to be legends, myths, horror stories. Those tales, those warnings, they couldn’t possibly be true. It wasn’t right. It wasn’t fair.

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“Are you close with your father?” She dragged herself from her own thoughts.

Her roommate’s lips tensed, his thumb tapping the lip of his mug before he decided to answer. “Yes,” he said with finality. “To this day, I am accused of being his clone,” something almost like a sardonic smile threatened the edges of his mouth. “I suppose I was close enough to learn his nature, and to mimic, while he was alive.”

https://archiveofourown.org/works/449614.../150752497

A Thing of Vikings (HTTYD/Brave/11th century) Chapter 164: Voices of Authority (cw: "Explicit Suicide Ideation Thoughts").

…as one of the most prolific alchemists of the era, Basir Abu-Fadl al-’iyira was instrumental in pioneering dragon-derived medicines and other chemical materials produced by dragons, not only discovering their uses, but often refining and chemically adapting these elements to make them more medically or industrially useful. Indeed, his reputation as the first dragon biologist is so significant that his initial specialization in botany often comes as a surprise to those studying his biographies.

In the course of Abu-Fadl’s long and storied career, he initially uncovered the use of Nadder quills as an abortificant from collating various records and medical journals written by his predecessors over the centuries. Then, after obtaining a sufficient supply for experimentation from Berk, he proceeded to find a way with the chemical resources available to him to make the Nadder venom safer to administer. This particular topic was of great importance to him due to personal family tragedies earlier in his life, a fact which he emphasized continuously in his writings. The irony there is that his discovery drew the attention of Berk, and his introduction into dragon biology as a full-time concern. While the events of his emigration to Berk’s territory are also storied due to the surrounding chaos, once he arrived there, he settled in as a tenured professor at the University of Vedrarfjord, a position he held for the rest of his life.

In that position, he proceeded to spend the next thirty-seven years publishing monograph after monograph, totaling over one hundred, on the various uses of dragon venoms, tears, spittles, and other excretions, as applicable to medical, commercial, and industrial purposes…

https://archiveofourown.org/works/104089.../150765265