Dragon Hunter's Guide: Dragonbound

By Rebecca Shelley

Hunt Smart or Be Hunted!

Everything a young dragon hunter needs to know to stay alive, make money, and have fun while hunting dragons.

This companion book to the Dragonbound series gives voice to the Great Dragon Hunter, Kumar Raza, as he shares his knowledge and experience hunting dragons in Kundiland and other parts of the world. A must have for Dragonbound fans, the Dragon Hunter's Guide has dozens of illustrations, including pictures of some of the most dangerous and the most endearing dragons of the Dragonbound world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebecca Shelley
• Release date: Aug 19, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223830801

Rebecca Shelley

Rebecca Shelley writes a wide variety of books—everything from picture books to spy thrillers.She especially likes to write about fantasy creatures such as dragons and fairies.Her children’s books are written under the Rebecca Shelley name.Her thrillers and other books for adults are written under the R. L. Tyler pen name.She also has two books out under the R. D. Henham pen name—Red Dragon Codex and Brass Dragon Codex.

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Dragon Hunter’s Guide

Rebecca Shelley

Dragonbound

All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any print or electronic form without permission. All characters, places, and events in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual places or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 Rebecca Shelley

Interior art: © Emily Shelley and Rebecca Shelley with the exception of the following:

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ISBN-13: 978-0692743775

ISBN-10: 0692743774

Published by Wonder Realms Books

Listen up, lads and lasses. I'm not a scholar or an artist. As a dragon hunter, I'm more comfortable with a sword or crossbow in my hand than this annoying quill pen. Here, dragon, let me stab you in the eye with a pen. That ought to fix ya. But truth is, I've seen too many young dragon hunters go off and get themselves killed, because no one gave them the gritty details of the business. So I've decided to write this book to pass on some of the knowledge I've gained from experience. I'm going to tell it like it is. If you don't like what I have to say, go ahead and leave this world in a blaze of flaming glory, because that's what you're going to get if you race off to hunt dragons untrained and unprepared. So read carefully, practice hard, and hunt smart.

Kumar Raza

Understanding Dragons

Many books about dragons have been written by scholars over the ages. Most are heavy tomes that subdivide dragons into thousands of different species, give exotic names to every bone, muscle and scale, and discuss the principles of dragon physiology and flight. If you are of a bookish nature, I suggest you travel to the Chronicler Jati Repository in Daro and ask the head matron there for books on dragons. You can read about dragons until your hair turns gray and your teeth fall out and never know all there is to know about them.

Or

You can read this overview of dragons and then devote your life to hunting them rather than studying and classifying them. Like the old saying goes, You will never understand a dragon until you look it in the eyes.

Dragon Classes

All scaled creatures with legs are considered dragons, including those that also have feathers or fur. Dragon is a generic word used for all classes, types, and species of dragons. For instance, if my pet kitrat peed in my boot (again), I might holler at it, "You stupid dragon. I'm going to skin you and eat you for dinner," although the kitrat is technically a tame lesser serpent.

Dragons are divided into two main classes, majestic dragons and serpents, which are characterized by the formation of the hip joint.