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Yeah, me too… I think I joined in March or April of 2018 back before they started doing the Guilds.  I was in <span class=”x_gmail-il”>Parimi</span> <span class=”x_gmail-il”>Alca until they stopped</span>.  Life was so busy and I worked so many hours and traveled so far, I just had no time other than just to write in the dark seclusion.  I tend to like solitude, but after what just happened in 2020, I realized what it was like to feel that disconnection from everybody and stopped taking it for granted that they would wait for me to be “sociable again”. I determined to be one who doesn’t wait for everyone to wonder where I disappeared to. Human connection is important. That’s why God put us in families and gathers in His Chosen into His personal family by ransoming us and adopting us away from the “Father of Lies”.  So welcome back, my dear sister! Don’t be a stranger.

So to your questions…
Dragons

It is kinda hard to say, because these are demonic princes embodied in those forms when they crawl, slither or swim into “The Mid-World”.  The Red Dragon is in a kind of “aware sleep” through the first two books, and is a personification of Lucifer himself, so I can never say he is a favorite, but he is a sinister, pride filled, thief, and massive in size, but curled and wedged into a stone crevasse high in the Walls of Stone mountain chain.  It, unlike the other two has seven heads and each complete the other’s sentences, so that is an odd quirk.  And each of the seven heads can come out of any one of the porous rock to seize a victim even while it is talking to it with another of its heads.  Misdirection seems to be its specialty.  Each head has a nest of bony spires and crowns of melted gold fused to its heads. Its attitude matches that of his account in Ezekiel 28:13-15 & Isaiah 14:12-14. This creature is a “Prince of the Power of The Air” and all “wicked elemental wind spirits” are loyal to it, even above their seeming service to the other dragon princes. (See also Ephesians 2:2)

The second dragon is a Leviathan, taking its description closely from that water dragon described in Job 41 and Isaiah 27:1. In fact, Psalms 74:14 includes a passage describing the breaking of the head of leviathan and giving its carcass as meat for a people inhabiting the wilderness. In the story, the leviathan dragon is killed in a pitched sea battle and its head is severed and crushed between the collision of two ships. Its body is hauled ashore by fishermen, and from its rotting maw a golem emerges from a forming chamber in its jaw gills, inhabited by a wind spirit called Torlah, who shapes shifts the golem into the image of the human woman who was taken under and devoured by the leviathan and whose blood was used by the dragon/leviathan to form it.  I am still formulating this one for Book 3, so I may favor it more, once it is fully fleshed out in the story.

So far, my favorite has to be The Dust Dragon, because that one is already written, and I, in a sense, now know it best.

I take some creative license with it, in that I make it serve God’s judgement during its time in the Surface World. It is the agent of destruction that causes the ground to open during Korah’s rebellion against Moses’s leadership in the account of Numbers 16:32. Here is the verse quote:

32 And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that [appertained] unto Korah, and all [their] goods. [Numbers 16:32 KJV]

Since this “Dust Dragon” shuns the daylight, it would make sense that it attacks from underground, literally opening up the earth and swallowing its hapless victims.  I do love the hidden tie in to Scripture.

To you other question…

No these are more the thematic types and shadows, rather than any one-to-one allegory, though there are elements that are directly correlated to a one to one.  I resist allegory as much as Tolkien did.  I gravitate more to themes, that are woven into the historical background of what we know to be infallible truth as the Scriptural account delivers it.