It was a brilliant strategy. The dragon—Dunkelzahn was his name, the kind of name a friendly dragon from a fairy tale might have—became the darling of the media and had a reputation as "the friendliest dragon in the world." He was the only one of his kind to actually deign to talk to the small, fragile creatures living around him, and he earned the trust of the people who saw him, or at least something very like it. The kind of trust people give to characters they see on their favorite tridshows.