Book 4 · Air - Cloud Mountain
The Dragon of Cloud Mountain
A high-mountain society that can calculate everything and is therefore certain that dragons do not exist. There is one.
The Land
A vast mountain range of gorges, rope bridges, cable hoists, wind installations, observatories and strictly geometric architecture.
The Society
Rational and technically impressive, proud of logic, mathematics and proof. They see themselves as heirs of the ancient high culture - and look down on the other countries, literally and otherwise.
The Guardian
Old texts speak of a dragon. Society filed him away as myth because he did not fit the model. The dragon is not a monster and not evil - he is the real guardian of the crossing.
The Trial
The dangerous crossing works only with both: the dragon's experience and the mountain dwellers' engineering. Neither side holds the truth alone.
In focus
For the first time the children notice that parts of the mountain look unusually regular. Almost as if somebody built them. Beyond lies a dark world.