TWO HEARTS AND A DRAGON

The cold winter has descended on the island of Inis na Bhfiodhbhadh and an horde of barbarian orcs, used to fighting in the bitterly cold climate of the northern lands, have found access to the realm of the Little People, where elves, dwarves and fairies guard treasures of all kinds, arcane artefacts and ancient wisdom. After glorious resistance and heavy losses, the survivors of the Little People are forced to abandon their world and the treasures themselves to the barbarians: Grimnur will have to fly out of the millennial forest where he has always lived to ask for help from the Hyperboreans, an ancient and mysterious people living in the far north of the world - beyond the lands of the barbarians themselves. His inseparable and lovely Ayla did not want to abandon her lands, she fought to the last but could not survive the ferocity of the orcs. But like all the creatures of the Little People, Ayla also has her own magic: with no physical body, her etheric body as a magical creature survives in the middle realm, the one that unites the world of the living with that of the dead. With this, she can maintain slight contact with the world of the livings (she sees, observes, enchants with her magic and whispers in the ear of the islanders but cannot be seen, or grasped), but only on the island: outside it, her magic has no effect, and if she tried to leave, his tenuous etheric body would dissolve like a ghost. She has become a guardian spirit of the island. So, as Grimnur prepares to leave for his long journey on his faithful Wyrmax - one of the wyverns that has cohabited with the little people since the mists of time -, Ayla gives him one last embrace... he cannot feel her beloved's touch, he cannot even see her, but he feels a presence, a distant voice, a warmth that warms his heart... «Could it be Ayla's spirit?» he wonders. Perhaps, he thinks. Yes, the gnome says, I must undertake this journey: for me, for the Little People, for Ayla!