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Dragon Souls (Primer)

Earth; mid-late 21st century; Humanity occupies the surface completely unaware of an underground civilization of dragons known as the Subterrains of Drekiheim, due to its protection by dragon magic. Within the bowels of this grand subterranean ecumonopolis lies cultures and clans with lives of their own, complete with an internet-like collection of knowledge known as Grand Archive Access, powered by an ancient artifact known as the Grand Archive.   Recently, dragons reincarnated from human stock have been regaining their human memories due to use of G.A.A., and as such may bring to bare the catastrophe that dragons hide from the surface to avoid: the extinction of dragonkind by human hands.   The story follows a man from pacific-cost America after dying in his sleep from complications due to old age and being reincarnated as a dragon. Upon hatching, his is immediately aware that all of his human memories intact; an oddity given that most who regain any memories at all don't until much later in life. Fortunately for the rest of dragonkind, he also wishes to avoid the extinction of a what he believes to be such magnificent creatures and cultures worthy of survival.

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Aug 26, 2018 04:58

Short, but intriguing, with plenty of links to other articles for later reading. I look forward to learning more. Spotted a typo:   "an oddity given that most how regain any memories at all don't until much later in life."   Did you mean "who"?

Aug 26, 2018 06:35

Interesting premise. I like how you’ve set up the links so that if a reader wishes to learn more, they can go straight to another article and become more immersed. Also I like how you went straight to the point in the opening, allowing the reader to become hooked on said premise. There is a grammar error which Fmmm1000 has already pointed out, but that is about all I have to say.

Aug 26, 2018 09:40 by Vertixico

There is a ot of information compacted densely in very few paragraphs. This is both a good and not so good thing in my opinion - without knowing your world so far, the reader immediately gets overwhelmed with information. Information that no doubt is necessary for the story to come and definitely intriguing.
I know there is a word limit on the contest, but try to break up this block of information, maybe with some flavor or even some illustration. A quote maybe?

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Aug 26, 2018 16:24

I don't think I'll be able to add illustrations, but I do have a couple ideas for quotes; I'm just not sure where to break up the text. I'm guessing at the paragraph breaks.