The Lord of Dragons Ceremony

After the first Lord of Dragons died, having had just the time to see her successor before going to the Other Lands, the second Lord of Dragons decided a better care of the next generation had to be had.

Gurt, Lord of Dragons

He found the all handover quite dull and too intimate and decided he had all his life to change things for the next one and his own succession. He spent his life theorising about how to do that handover, how to find his successor, basing his observations on how himself was found and had understood just in time who he was. He soon realised it was not an easy task to do since he himself had gotten no sign of his own destiny. Or so he thought. Because generations later we find there are some signs, but that is not the point of this chronic. He decided the only thing he could do was to wait for his old age, well prepared to receive anyone who could talk to dragons the way he did.

The Ceremony

Finally, the day came when a man presented himself saying fate had send him and he probably should talk to the Lord of Dragons. At once, Gurt used his last forces to set up the ceremony. Nothing had been spared. Music, public, declarations and of course, the Lord of Dragons sword, which was only the first Lord’s sword, transmitted to the second one.
The ceremony that perdured
Since this day, the transmission ceremony stayed and perdured at each generation. It has become more intimate since then but still exists and is still the affair of a generation. Attendance is not mandatory but a lot of people wait for it an entire life.
And each ceremony is longer than the previous because each one