Lorica/Lore/Codex Repme
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[edit] Codex Repme
The Codex Repme or alternatively the Repme Codex was a small proto-book written by the Emperor Repme. In it, the author described the characteristics of dragons: their appearances, their personalities, their strengths, and most importantly, their weaknesses, as he learned from the deity Drake.
[edit] The Revelations of the Codex
Why the deity Drake would reveal the weaknesses of his own minions to a human was a subject of much debate shortly after the Fall of the Dragons. The standard historians considered that it was because Drake was stupid, or at least not as smart as the emperor while he was under the influence, or gift, of the demigod Zyr0. The revisionist historians believed that the emperor made a deal with Drake to discover the weaknesses of the dragons in exchange the emperor to order his people not retaliate during the invasion. Drake must have believed that he would thus lose nothing, but the emperor had something else in mind: he wrote the Codex Repme as the last thing he did in his life before the curse took hold and killed him.
[edit] Historiography
The Codex Repme was lost when the emperor died and the dragons attacked his loyal army. For over five decades it stayed hidden in the Crescent Mountains where it had been written, spoken of by many people in folklore and surrounded by myth. In time, a few hardy souls took up the challenge that it posed as well as its lure, and ventured, against the rule of the dragons, to the mountains in search for the codex. A Dragon Slayer found it in due course, and, armed with its information, prepared to bring about the end of the rule of the dragons.
[edit] The Dragons' Weaknesses
The Codex spoke of three weaknesses of the dragons. The first was that they were predictable: they would stay on their track and would not be stopped without a very significant reason, and they often did not place emphasis on using their large minds, thus letting them dull out. Hence, it would be easy to kill them if their weaknesses were discovered.
The second weakness was that their immense size would make them major targets for lightning strikes during thunderstorms. Being so large, they could only fly high above the ground, especially when preparing for an attack. Hence, if they could be lured to the air during a thunderstorm, an occasional lightning strike could kill them. Then the emperor added a note: in such an instance, throwing a metallic pike toward the dragon would help reduce the resistance of the air to lightning, and thus make the chance that such a lightning strike would occur to become far greater.
The final weakness was that they were clumsy due to their immense size: if they could be lured inside a cave or otherwise a structure, their wings and any collisions could weaken the supports of the structure and cause it to collapse on top of the dragon. If the force of the impact was strong enough, this could kill the dragons outright.
[edit] Excerpt from the Codex Repme
Codex Repme; The Revelations of Drake
Drake reveales three weaknesses of his kin, outlined ahead are the relaying of the cursed emperor, Repme. They are of a most predicatable kind, this can be used against them while also creates an organized enemy.
Note: This language is very antique so if you don't know how to read it, that's okay; you aren't supposed to. However, it is a REAL language, being spoken by many people in the world today but in a different form. Note however that the following text is pretty much the same as the text in the section above.
"Long you sange ruodian: diyi, tamen zuodeshi zhongshi neng rang bieren dongde, erxie tamen yaoshi kaishi zuozhenme, dou hui zuo dao di, er bu huitou zufei tamen you heng duo liyou. Tamen bu yong tamen de naodai, suoyi tebie ben. Suoyi, yaoshi wo men nen zao dao tamen the ruo dian, wo men jiu nen shenli.
"Dierge ruo dian shi tamen the tigi: tamen de cicuen ba tamen biancheng tebie dade biao. Yingwei tamen neme da, tamen zineng feide heng gao. Yaoshi yi shandian, nege shandian you keneng hui ba tamen shashi. Suoyi, wo men yao shi neng ba tamen lou dao baofeng li, ranghou xiang tamen de fangxiang reng yige tie gang, wo men jiu neng qudiao yixie shandian de quennan, rang shandian fasheng the keningxin biancheng geng da.
"Dishande ruo dian shi, yingwei tamen taida, suoyi tamen taiman, suoyi yaoshi wo men neng ba tamen ying dao yige shangou li huoze yige fangjian, tamen de cibang he tamen geng xiangbi zuang qilai jiaqilai jiu neng ba zhege dongxi--shangou huoze fangjian--dao ta xialai. Yaoshi zhegeliliang zugou da, neme wo men jiu neng yong zhe ge banfa ba tamen shashi."
