The Midlock Dragons
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Author: Steve Hatherley
Homepage: http://www.flar.demon.co.uk/
System: Call of Cthulhu
Type: Hook
Category: Horror
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The Midlock Dragons
Steve Hatherley

	The following copies of 17th century manuscripts gathered from 
various sources (detailed in attached notes) in the University of 
Cambridge library detail an interesting legend concerning the village 
of Midlock in Derbyshire.
	The manuscripts detail the battle between a hero named George 
and a number of powerful dragons whose names include 'Gnatonea,' 
'LLorga' and 'Clerghh.'
	The dragons enslaved the population of the village and caused 
them to sacrifice sheep, cattle and even other humans. The villagers 
were forced into barbaric acts with disease, inbreeding and 
disfigurment commonplace.
	Then George arrived and in a great battle involving much 
sorcery vanquished the dragons and banished them to a hidden place, 
setting the village free. Unfortunately, human agents of the dragons 
plotted against and killed George.
	George was buried beneath an oak tree which still grows today.

	The above is the precis to a collection of papers which have 
come to the investigator, perhaps delivered by a colleague or student. 
Little more can be gleaned from the papers which require wading 
through pages of old english handwriting.
	It would be a considerable accolade to any scholar to prove 
that the Midlock Dragons were the original source of the St George and 
the Dragon legend.

Possibilities
1       The legend is mostly true, but the dragons were in fact a 
group of Lloigor. George was an investigator of an earlier century 
and, armed with considerable magics, vanquished the Lloigor. The 
Lloigor would like to return, but the stone circle from which they 
drew their power was disrupted.

2       George did not fight any true dragons, but instead freed 
Midlock from the tyrannical reign of a local landowner. The 
description of the battle hints that the 'dragons' used magic, and 
there is still some of this lying around in the old manor.

3       There was a battle of some sort, but no concrete evidence to 
say whether this is the true source of the legend or not.

Copyright (c) 1990 Steve Hatherley
steve@flar.demon.co.uk