The Pyrrhian Horror Legends (LLH)

This page contains legends that include lots of mentions of death, gory injuries, and other mature content.
== Introduction ==
Over the centuries, Pyrrhia has piled up legends about spooky dragons and events told from dragon to dragon through the generations. Most all of the legends didn't have any scrolls written about them until modern times and there is little evidence of the dragons involved ever existing.
Each legend focuses on one main character or event and are often told to dragonets to scare them. Although the stories themselves are unknown to have happened, some details are provable; however, they still can't confirm whether the legend is true.
All legends are told as if they were a story, it will not be stated whether they are true or not. That is up to interpretation.
Written by Lucky_left_handed.
== Legends ==
=== Spooky Smog - A MudWing Legend ===
Centuries before a great war caused the downfall of the MudWing economy, the tribe was known for its mining products. They were the only miners of coal on the entire continent which they profited greatly off of. Dragons all over Pyrrhia would use coal to fuel their own industries which were still growing at this time. As more and more dragons burned coal, smoke would fill the air, causing minor problems for small areas, but it was never too big of an issue.
MudWing miners were often underappreciated and were never recognized for the dangers they put themselves into every day. Mining was dangerous in the Mud Kingdom. There were little to no safety precautions and cheap tools. Tunnels would often collapse and the air of the mines would cause disease for hundreds of miners, leading to their deaths. It was estimated that half of all MudWing sib groups would die due to the effects of coal mining. Although it was war that destroyed the industrial period of Pyrrhia, coal mining had been abadoned several centuries before.
One year, a horrifically large concentration of smog set itself over the Mud Kingdom. Although problems with smog had happened before, the size and density of the new one was overwhelming and it wouldn't let up. Along the outer skirts of the Mud Kingdom, dragons would try to escape to a neighboring kingdom. They would have been able to if it weren't for a creepy figure that they would find standing inside the thickness of the smog. The outline of a large MudWing would stand and watch MudWings as they tried to flee. It was this dragon that all MudWings became frightened of. The smog stuck around for the whole year, before finally letting up. All this time, the MudWing figure would stand inside it as if it were part of the pollution.
When the smog cleared, the bodies of MudWings started to be discovered. They would be lying around the outskirts of the kingdom in strange places, as if they were trying to escape but something didn't let them. The deaths in that one single year was over three times the amount of deaths that had ever been caused by coal mining. The year the smog cleared was when the MudWing government decided to ban coal mining in the Mud Kingdom, saying that it was bad for the environment, but many were really just afraid of the MudWing that was called Smog by the public.
Although no smog disasters every happened after that year, thick fog would still make MudWings anxious and afraid to leave their homes. Sometimes on the outskirts of the kingdom, MudWings would still report sightings of a dragon standing in a thick smog, watching them. Most dragons don't believes that Smog was real, but along the edges of the Mud Kingdom, those who often wander into the thick fog are found dead when it clears.
=== Dusted Dune - A SandWing Legend ===
The old SandWing court often found themselves bored in the vast desert kingdom. Criminals were either never caught or too feared for any dragon to wish to chase after them. In order to find some kind of entertainment, they started to try dragons who did minor crimes, ones that were usually excused. That’s how a dirty-looking, tan-scaled dragon ended up on trial for theft.
The SandWing had been caught stealing valuable jewels from a jewelry store in a small oasis city near the SandWing Stronghold. Although it appeared to be a one-time thing, upon looking into the dragon’s travel history and large robberies, the court was able to connect the dragon with over 74 different reports of theft. The SandWing theft never spoke a word to the court, only sat and watched as they demanded him to speak and finally sentence him to be put in the Sand Kingdom Prisons.
Below the dunes and open desert of the Kingdom of Sand. A grand prison had been created centuries ago, once filled to the brink with prisoners. Now, it was vacant and frightened most dragons who dared to try and explore them. Maps had been made of the winding corridors and thousands and rooms; however, these maps have long been lost or destroyed when the prison wasn’t in use.
The SandWing theft was taken down into the prison and chained up deep within the corridors where he would be lost if he ever escaped. The theft had no determination to escape and let himself relax within the dungeon. It was the guards who would soon realize how awful their decisions were.
As the guards were given the task to get food and water to the prisoner, it became harder and harder for them to remember how to get to where they chained up the prisoner. They would spend hours searching through the halls for any signs of where their only prisoner was kept. Sometimes, it took days to find him and days to find their way back out. Eventually, soldiers would get lost and not be able to find their way out ever. They would die within the dungeon.
After many soldiers were lost to the dungeons, the guards decided to stop sending them it. They didn’t care if the prisoner died of starvation or dehydration, they didn’t want any more soldiers to lose their lives in the labyrinth. The prison and its only prisoner were forgotten as everyone stopped mentioning his trial and sentence. 
Centuries later, the entrance to the dungeon was destroyed after two young dragonets wandered in and never came out. It was around that time when SandWings would see a strange dragon walking across the dunes of the kingdom. He looked like he was covered in dust and dried blood. Witnesses would say that he walked straight through cities without stopping and that he would never interact with anyone, even if they tried to interact with him.
Whenever he left cities, SandWings would find the bodies of soldiers and guards in the backrooms of large buildings. They looked as if the ground had absorbed them, covered in the thick layer of tan-brown dust. The rumors spread quickly that the dragon was the ghost of the ancient prisoner. Dragonets would say that he was taking revenge for his sentence.
It’s clear to all the dragons who have seen him that he is no ghost. His body is real as it walks through the desert. Yet the spirit within appeared to be absent. The deaths of soldiers and guards seem to be unrelated as the wandering dragon never stops to seek them out, and the way their bodies were found didn’t make sense for a random dragon to do. Some believe that the old prisoner was never real and that he was just the walking spirit of dust.
=== Shocked Condor - A SkyWing Legend ===
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=== Blooming Night - A SeaWing Legend ===
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=== Pineapple Raspberry - A RainWing Legend ===
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=== Glistening Glacier - An IceWing Legend ===
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=== New Moons: The Darkest Night - A NightWing Legend ===
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