Dragonia Glossary

[Ochiverde]

【First Dragon Knight Dell Row】
A great Hero who is believed to be one of the dragon founders of Dragonia. He is supposedly the one who laid the foundations of the current Order of Dragon Knights. Though now respected as a hero, he was not a heroic or handsome figure during the Revolution: he was too short, had a flat nose, and had a face full of freckles. Nevertheless, his kindness and sincere, brave heart, worthy of a dragon, as well as his naive personality attracted many dragons, many dragons wished to marry him after the mamono lord changed. But eventually one wild dragon turned him into an incubus after a long time of sex somewhere in Dragonian territory. Sometimes he comes to see the state of the Dragon Knights, and is said to give encouraging advice to the young knights. Of course, the Dragon Knights who know him personally are amazing.
【King of the Dragei Empire】
His real name is Julius Rigride Dragei. This human king, who ruled the Dragei Empire during the era of the former Mamono Lords, ascended the throne at the age of 22. He became famous for his arrogance because, as a human, he called himself the king of dragons. King Julius was a foolish ruler that tormented the people of the Dragei Empire with his overly cruel policies and caused the destruction of the country, for he abused the dragons. On the other hand, he drove the forces of the Order out of the state and abolished the Senate, where conservative old people had a majority, and displacing any people’s authority from the country. The king proceeded to strengthen the Order of the Dragon Riders under the pretext of strengthening important international diplomacy with a military force. By building up his military might, he expanded in the blink of an eye the territory of the Empire, which had previously been the size of a small kingdom. He himself was never an incompetent politician. Above all, the reason Julius pursued a policy of strengthening the crown's forces, even despite the protests of others, was a sense of crisis in the country due to the addiction of a totally corrupt aristocracy to exorbitant spending. He sensed a danger to himself from the Senate and the Order, because although they cared about the citizens, they were under the influence of neighboring countries. However, Julius's policy of strengthening the power of the kingdom was too hasty and oppressed the people of Dragei and many dragons. The King of Dragei feared the possibility of being banished from the state, so even when people from his entourage fled the country and called Julius with them, they would leave him alone and flee away when they looked into his face. It should be noted that the only aristocrat who was at odds with Julius to the very end was his childhood friend, Dragrinde; she was his only opponent and had not bowed her head before him since his early years.
【The Red Dragon Queen of Deonora】
The dragon queen that rules Dragonia. In the days of the old Mamono Lords, dragons with red colored scales were classified as "Red Dragons". The Red Dragons were especially temperamental even among other dragons and possessed incomparable power, with which they were capable of destroying several countries in passing. Among the people of those days they were called "Dragons among Dragons," "Incarnations of Hell," and "Dragon Kings" and were regarded as a threat comparable to the Mamono Lords. Deonora is also one of the Red Dragons. She possesses tremendous physical strength and the same magical reserves, which is enough to call her our queen. She is also dressed in a royal way, which appeals to many dragons. She has a strong sense of responsibility for things, both good and bad, that happen in Dragonia during her reign. This is atypical of godlike Mamono, as it is for a race of Dragons who tend to have an exaggerated pride. For such a girl, a confrontation with the current Mamono Lord in the past was a wonderful opportunity to look at her actions from the outside and learn about her own weakness. She seems to be running away from her feelings with her work - that is, ruling the country, lest she become like the man who proclaimed himself "King of Dragons." Despite realizing her own weakness as well as her own selfishness and the splendor of love during the battle with the Mamono Lord, she nevertheless cannot open her heart so easily even to a good man. This is probably why she often goes to town to "burn" any mention of mamono that cannot indulge in love. Moreover, the name Deonora is the best gift she has received from the adored Mamono lord. It was an honor for Deonora to receive her name directly from her, she is proud to be a "Daughter of the Mamono Lord" like other Lilim.
【Sylvia Big Wings】
The Wyvern, who is the current owner of the Love Ride restaurant for demonic couples, which has many branches in the Dragon Empire, and formerly led the Order of Dragon Knights. She has luxurious flowing silver hair, which her daughter "Shirtiya" has inherited beautifully. She is known as a beautiful woman who has a specific sex appeal with an ephemeral flavor of immorality. Her current misfortune is that her daughter Shirtiya is not accustomed to being honest with men, as she is not accustomed to interacting with other people. Although her mother does not rush her into marriage, she does help her in any way she can to meet her future grandson as soon as possible. Sylvia is also still one of the most powerful dragonesses in the country. She possesses the largest wings among the wyverns of Dragonia and her ability to fly is such that no dragon among the senior cast of the Dragon Knights can keep up with her. While acting as a Dragon Knight, using her flight capabilities to their fullest, she traveled to many demonic lands and became a renowned diplomat in Dragonia. In her spare time, Shirtiya's mother prefers to walk three steps ahead of her husband, assuming seductive poses, and when it comes to sex, she likes to pounce on him verbally, accusing him from above. Using her large wings, she wraps them around him during the embrace, while continuing to ride on top of him, holding on to his waist.
【The Grand Wurm Grywe】
Also known as "Big Mom". It is a wurm similar in size to Deonora, who rules an underground fortress, the "Grand Wurm's Nest", located under Dragonia and filled with an unusual "intoxicating magical energy". Wurms, whose homeland is Dragonia, have a strong tolerance for alcohol and often work in taverns. It is said that her powers have this effect on them, which makes them unmatched in their drinking. Given that Big Mom has no dragon pride and does not look down on people arrogantly, she is the possessor of a very erotic and hedonistic mindset. Her castle in the middle of the underground city is always open to an obscenely large party where music is played, wine is poured and coitus is also adorned.
【LongQuan Medicine Water Goddess】
The Ryu, who owns the big old-fashioned LongQuan Garden Inn, which is located in the center of Ryu Town. She is also the foremother of all Ryu living in LongQuan Township. From the point of view of most innkeepers and girls in town, she seems to be a strict dragon woman to other tourists, but in fact, like the other Ryu, she is a gentle dragon woman who combines tranquility and refinement. During quiet times, she leaves her inn for her daughters to go on a dizzying tour of LongQuan's inns and springs with her husband or just to eat buns carelessly at the top of the house. Mamonos often, in a sense, give too much freedom to their daughters; we often forgive our dragon daughters for their petty antics. We are generally against the special training of good housewives from our dragon daughters. But the same cannot be said of the daughters of the Goddess of Medicinal Water, who is marked by a particularly strict character. Even very pampered girls will always be unconditionally punished in her bed. Our Ryu dragons can always provide a room even for wild and radical monsters and show such interaction with humans that they cannot even imagine, and afterwards they teach how to please people. The reason why the Ryu of LongQuan Town are always ready to "entertain" tourists and travelers at any moment lies in the education that their foremother gives them, using their bodies to the fullest.
【Swordswoman Dolandina】
This lizardman is a renowned master fencer who rebuilt the Stadium of Dragonia from the ground up. An unusual lizardman who traveled the world in search of her husband, leading a hired squad of lizardman soldiers. She visited Dragonia as an honored guest of the Dragon Knights and borrowed the Stadium of Dragonia, which was then only a ruin, as her place of residence. By holding duels between Dragonian warriors and lizardmen belonging to her squad, she showed the importance of real combat experience, thus laying the cornerstone of the current Great Tournament of Dragonia. Dolandina said that a mighty dragon should not avoid fighting a man, but should face him in the same arena. She taught that by fighting each other to the fullest, one can learn to feel one's partner. Her teaching that love deepens in a battle that exposes all mutual feelings is the basic philosophy of those who perform in the stadium of Dragonia. Every year in the coliseum at the opening ceremony of the Great Tournament, lizardmen dressed to demonstrate their infatuation with their husbands perform brilliant performances where they demonstrate fierce passion and lust, embodying the "love born of battle" spread by Dolandina.
【Bells of Happiness】
Two pairs of bells atop the Pillar of Heaven. They are said to be able to grant the wishes of the person who rings them. But this is just a rumor common among adventurers. In Dragonia, it is believed that these "bells" sound differently for each couple that rings them, from a bell ringing for those who swear eternal love for each other, to a powerful chime resembling the victorious roar of a dragon. The wyverns who inhabit the Pillar of Heaven are eager to ring the Bells of Happiness with their most beloved person. An adventurer who has reached the top of the Heavenly Pillar and rings the bell sounds like an invisible husband ringing the bells to a dreamy Wyvern, and with a sharp wedding roar she will rush off to fulfill her dreams on that day. Such is the peculiarity of the bells of happiness: the clear ringing of the bell sounds to fulfill the desire of the lonely Wyvern.
【The Mamono Lord's Guard】
A guard unit of the Mamono Lord's army that is directly under her control. They serve the Mamono Lord and are directly responsible for the preservation of her body, and are considered the elite of the elites in her Army. The Guard consists of several "demon pairs" chosen by the Mamono Lord herself. The composition of the Guard shares the ideals of the Mamono Lord and happily spreads them in the mamono realms along with her philosophy. At times the Mamono Lord herself takes part in this. The same is true of the other two, who are totally loyal to the Mamono Lord to the point that they would even lay down their lives for her. Their main duties: to accompany the Mamono Lord on expeditions and diplomatic trips, to perform "escort missions" in order to protect her, to be her messengers, to visit other Mamono nations and to perform "spy missions" in order to observe the Kingdoms of Men. The first of the aforementioned "missions" requires you to quickly identify a possible threat to the Mamono Lord and use powerful magic to turn her into a mamono. In the last of the "missions," however, in addition to being polite, Mamono Lord envoys certainly require adaptability so that they do not feel uncomfortable pretending to be a human couple. For this reason, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Mamono Lord's Guard is an "elite group of monster society," with some of the finest monsters with the most outstanding abilities, themselves an object of admiration among the Mamono. It should be noted, however, that there is nevertheless a vast difference, like heaven and earth, between the strongest among these defenders and the Mamono Lord they protect.

[Hinami]

I checked the original text, and noticed that Ami mistranslated several names.

Castle Dragolinde

More likely to be Draglinde.

【First Dragon Knight Dell Walker】

His last name is Lowe. And while I can't read kanji, the image translate say he has big nose.

【King of the Dragai Empire】

The original text just call him "King Drake". For some reason, Ami translated the word differently between the empire's name and the dynasty's name despite they using the same katakana.

【The Great Wurm Queen】
Also known as "Big Mama".

The original text call her "Grand Wurm Gryue" (or something along that name, but Ami left her name out altogether) and her nickname is "Grandma" (I guess he deliberately choose "Big Mama" because her nickname is likely a reference to her size instead of her age, but even then it should be "Big Mom" instead). The "Wurm Queen's Nest" should be "Grand Wurm's Nest" as well.

【LongQuan Medicine Water Goddess】

As noted in the other thread, her name is more likely to be Ryusen.

[AmiRutberg]

I checked the original text, and noticed that Ami mistranslated several names.

Um. To be honest, too much time has passed since the translation of Dragonia for me to remember exactly all my decisions. And the tools I used back then were not entirely optimal for translation.

More likely to be Draglinde.

It's not really important. The first half is from the word Dragon, the second is Linde. The connection via a vowel simply makes the resulting name more sweet-sounding.

His last name is Lowe.

Yes, it looks like you're right. Only it reads like "Rou". Dell Rou.
PS It seems that my translator initially read the surname as Road.

The original text just call him "King Drake".

No, it definitely isn’t Drake, but the name of the empire is indicated. I added "Empire" to the translation to more accurately indicate the status.

For some reason, Ami translated the word differently between the empire's name and the dynasty's name despite they using the same katakana.

I used the same words. The surname of the ruler/royal dynasty and the name of the country are the same or consonant, also in Kourt-Alf (Al-Mar Prince Caspar Le-mar) and Lescatie (King Castor Lescatia)

【King of the Dragai Empire】
His real name is Julius Rigride Drake.

But here there really is my a mistake. It should be like this:
His real name is Julius Rigride Dragai.

and her nickname is "Grandma" (I guess he deliberately choose "Big Mama" because her nickname is likely a reference to her size instead of her age, but even then it should be "Big Mom" instead)

Yeah. Its "Big Mom". Simply in Russian "Big Mom" and "Big Mama" - It is the same. I don't seem to feel much difference between these options.

The original text call her "Grand Wurm Gryue" (or something along that name, but Ami left her name out altogether)

As noted in the other thread, her name is more likely to be Ryusen.

The problem is that Ryusen is also the name for the Dragon Water Spring, Ryu (on-)sen. Even now I cannot say whether this is a name or an indication of a place. This [龍泉] is "Ryusen", and [龍泉苑] - is the name of the inn she owns.
And these “names” are not mentioned anywhere else in the book.
Same with Wurm. Is Grue a name, or maybe a place, name for the Dungeon of Dragonia where the Wurm Queen rules? Although here I admit that this is still her name.

[Hinami]

More likely to be Draglinde.

It's not really important. The first half is from the word Dragon, the second is Linde. The connection via a vowel simply makes the resulting name more sweet-sounding.

It's a specific name, you don't change the sound solely because you like it more. The katakana say ドラグリンデ (do-ra-gu-ri-n-de). If it's Dragolinde it should be ドラゴリンデ. And elsewhere, you distorted it even more to Dracolinde.

No, it definitely isn’t Drake, but the name of the empire is indicated.

The word is ドラゲイ (do-ra-ge-i). The second syllable can't be read as gai.

The problem is that Ryusen is also the name for the Dragon Water Spring, Ryu (on-)sen. Even now I cannot say whether this is a name or an indication of a place. This [龍泉] is "Ryusen", and [龍泉苑] - is the name of the inn she owns.

The problem here is that you actually translated the name already, but for some reason use Chinese name (LongQuan) for a character from Zipangu which is based on Japanese culture. Even if you believe the text is talking about the spring (which is weird because everything in that paragraph indicate that the text is about a character who own the place), there's no reason to do that.

Same with Wurm. Is Grue a name, or maybe a place, name for the Dungeon of Dragonia where the Wurm Queen rules? Although here I admit that this is still her name.

Same as above, the text itself does talk about the place, but it's clearly talking about a character. Aside from her name (グリューエ I currently think Grywe should be the closest, but it might be something like Gluhe as well), her title is Grand Wurm グランドワーム, not Great Wurm (that would be グレートワーム).

I see that you wave many of inaccuracy as "it isn't important", but there is no reason to change it just because you like it more either.

[AmiRutberg]

I see that you wave many of inaccuracy as "it isn't important", but there is no reason to change it just because you like it more either.

I do not. I said specifically about the case of Dragolinde that I don’t feel much difference between Dragolinde and Draglinde. And explained why I chose Drago wrote.

It's a specific name, you don't change the sound solely because you like it more. The katakana say ドラグリンデ (do-ra-gu-ri-n-de). If it's Dragolinde it should be ドラゴリンデ. And elsewhere, you distorted it even more to Dracolinde.

No, I can. Because the first half of the name is written as the beginning of the word "Dragon". Moreover, I should not read it as a Japanese englicism. I see an English word, I use the original word. She's definitely not "Doragulinde".
Also even in this case the connection occurs through a vowel like DoragUlinde.

And elsewhere, you distorted it even more to Dracolinde.

In Russian/Ukrainian the word Dragon is written as "DraKon". Accordingly, dragon names like "Dragai" and "Dragolinde" are written with "K/С" instead of "g". Since I periodically fail the attention check, the English translation was full of places where I did not correct the spelling. Later they were caught during the editing by Ochiverde.
But apparently the text was applied to the image (I didn’t do this) until that moment. That’s why this spelling has been preserved here.

The word is ドラゲイ (do-ra-ge-i). The second syllable can't be read as gai.

And for me the word "ドラゲイ" sounds like "Dragay" or "Дракэй" on russian. And that's how I originally translated it into English. Later, when Ochi did the quality control of my translation, we discussed how it should be written in English. And we came to the option "Dragai".

[Hinami]

And that explain much of error I found, you translated text to Russian first then translated it again to English, causing double chance of distortion. Imagine you picked Драгеи instead of Дракэй, I don't known if it's a word or not (I just ask Google, but this is a fictional name after all), but the result in English would be Dragei instead of gai.

Moreover, I should not read it as a Japanese englicism. I see an English word, I use the original word. She's definitely not "Doragulinde".

I said it should be Draglinde (not Doragulinde), which is also combination of dragon and linde, but without dramatically alter the sound. It's kind of like alter Putin to Potin.

Later, when Ochi did the quality control of my translation, we discussed how it should be written in English

No mean to offense, but consider he lets you translate ブレス as completely irrelevant "oven" in doran-pan/dragon spike article, he's pretty careless.

[Hinami]

Oh, I'm sorry. I just remember how anime 機甲戦記ドラグナー is translated as Metal Armor Dragonar, so I realized that Ami isn't the first to translate it like that and would like to retract the statement.

[Ochiverde]

I presented the above discussions to Will and KC.

Dragai -> Dragei
Dragolinde -> Dragrinde
Dell Name -> Dell Row

This should be the final ones.

[Spore]

The last real section of the book! It's done! Hooray! You know the drill vis-a-vis notes by now. Overall voice note: these are all written by the apprentice, as marked by the usage of plain form.

【The First Dragoon, Dell Row】

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A legendary man considered one of the founding figures of Dragonia, as well as the architect for the Dragonia Dragoon Corps as it stands today. Although now revered as a hero, during the days of the Dragei Revolution, Row had a puggish nose and a face full of freckles, not to mention a rather squat figure— he would not have been considered terribly handsome by anyone’s metrics. Even so, his honest heart, compassion for dragons, and simple yet sincere nature swayed the hearts and minds of many dragons. Indeed, since the succession of the current Mamono Lord, many dragons had attempted to court him. After finally settling down with a dragon and becoming an incubus, he still lives to this day somewhere out in the Dragonian Territories, and on occasion comes to check in on the Dragoon Corps, offering words of encouragement to the young dragoons. Of course, the dragoons who learn who he actually is are always completely dumbstruck.

Translation Notes:
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【King Dragei】

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Born Julius Legreid1 Dragei. A human king who ruled the Dragei Empire during the age of the former Mamono Lords. Ascended the throne at the age of twenty-two. Known as an arrogant figure who dubbed himself the “Dragon King” despite being a human, Dragei is often spoken of as a mad king2 who drove the empire to ruin through the suffering of its citizens brought upon by his many draconian policies, and the vicious exploitation of the dragons. But at the same time, after his coronation at a young age, he completely abolished Dragei’s self-serving senate dominated by conservative opinions and drove any form of the Order’s influence from its borders. By setting to work on building up the Dragoon Corps and advocating for the importance of diplomacy with a backbone of military force, he rapidly transformed the tiny frontier nation of Dragei into a military superpower. The political acuity he demonstrated was not that of an incompetent man.

From the very start, Julius pushed his aggressive policies regarding bolstering national power despite dissent from those around him because he sensed an impending crisis for his country from the decadent, wasteful habits of its aristocracy and the self-serving attitude of the senate even facing pressure from neighboring nations. However, the policies that he had hastily decreed instead resulted in the suffering of Dragei’s citizens and countless dragons. The behavior of those in his circles who, fearing the threat of banishment, constantly monitored his expressions for changes in mood further drove the king down a path of solitude and impulsive behavior. Moreover, Lady Dragrinde, the sole member of the aristocracy who opposed Julius to the bitter end, was also his childhood friend— the only person he could never hope to outdo.

Translation Notes:
1: I confess to still having no confidence in this romanization of レグライド, but the most obvious, "Legride", just looks like "leg ride", which I just didn't like. Because it only appears the one time though, I'm not gonna stress too much about it, and you guys shouldn't either.
2: 暗愚 means something closest to "foolish", but it has a particular nuance that it particularly affects your understanding of right and wrong, leading one to make decisions one could call evil. Googling the full term used, 暗愚王, for some more potential context, revealed a suitably crazy-looking villain from Fire Emblem whose title was localized as "Mad King", which was my original take, so I went with that.

【Crimson Dragon Queen, Deonora】

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The dragon queen who rules Dragonia. During the age of the former Mamono Lords, dragons with red scales were classified as “crimson dragons”1. Crimson dragons, due to their ferocity that outranked even the many dragons that exist, and their truly staggering power that drove scores of countries to ruin, were referred to by the people of the time as “dragons among dragons”, “avatars of hell”, and “rulers of dragons”, and feared as a threat comparable to the Mamono Lord. Deonora is one such dragon: even now, she possesses terrible power and vast stores of mana worthy of being called a monarch, and exudes a regal bearing that naturally pulls many dragons under its sway.

As a dragon, a race that, rare among typically much more uninhibited monsters, possesses a particularly high degree of pride, Deonora has– for better or for worse– a strong sense of responsibility regarding her duties as the ruler of Dragonia. For her, her previous conflict with the Mamono Lord that she now thinks so highly of is simultaneously her greatest regret, and a wonderful opportunity to realize her own weakness. In letting her love for her country run rampant in the wrong direction, she has something in common with the human king who once professed himself to be the Dragon King. Ever since her epiphany regarding her shortcomings and the wonders of love following her battle with the Mamono Lord, she has become more and more meddlesome about the affairs of monsters who she sees too much of her old self in, who struggle with opening their hearts to humans and conveying their love, coming down to the city much more actively.

The name “Deonora” itself is the greatest treasure she has ever received from her esteemed Mamono Lord. The honor of being bestowed a name directly from such a figure instills in Deonora the same sense of pride as a “daughter of the Mamono Lord” as any other lilim.

Translation Notes:
1: Alas, another frustrating instance of the flexibility of the Japanese language and its use of loanwords making my job harder. This is originally レッドドラゴン, literally in English "red dragon". But it sounds dumb as hell to say in English "dragons with red scales are classified as red dragons" when in Japanese it's clear that there's at least the nuance of an Exotic (English) Title. So, I used "crimson dragon", the term I'd been using for the translation of the novel compound 赤竜 that had previously been used abundantly in reference to Deonora.

【The Great Wing, Sylvia】

Spoiler

A wyvern who currently owns “Loveride”, a popular chain restaurant for monster couples in the Dragonia Empire, and a former captain of the Dragoon Corps. She’s famous as a gorgeous woman with the same beautifully flowing silver hair as her daughter Syltia, and the fleeting yet ever-so-tempting allure of a widow. Her current concern is that Syltia still struggles with being honest regarding her feelings towards men. While she doesn’t rush her daughter into marriage, deep down, she restlessly awaits the day where she gets to meet her future son-in-law. Sylvia has remarkably massive wings, and in terms of her flight ability alone, she’s said to have no equal even among the captains of the Dragoon Corps who have led before her, all great talents in their own right. While enlisted in the Corps, she leveraged her innate faculty for flight to visit many different mamono realm nations, making great strides in expanding the scope of Dragonian diplomacy.

In regards to her husband, during day-to-day life she assumes a wifely humility1; in the bedroom, however, she prefers riding him relentlessly, tormenting him with verbal abuse. She uses her broad wings to wrap him up in an all-encompassing embrace, and then single-mindedly, even selfishly, crashes her hips down on him without pause.

Translation Notes:
1: The term used is translated literally as "walking three steps behind", but 三歩下がって歩く is actually an idiomatic expression generally meaning comporting oneself with humility, and often refers specifically to women regarding their partners.

【The Grandwurm Grywe】

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Also known as “Grandmother”. A massive wurm comparable in size to Queen Deonora who rules over the underground citadel of the Lair of the Grandwurm with her highly unusual “intoxication mana”. She is the first wurm known to have settled in Dragonia, and it is said that the strong tolerance for alcohol that Dragonia’s wurms all share, as well as a propensity for operating taverns, is due to the influence of her mana as a drinker truly without peer. While Grywe has neither a dragon’s pride nor an arrogance that leads her to look down on humans, she has a terribly lustful and hedonistic mindset. Her castle in the heart of the underground city is constantly hosting some variety of bawdy banquet, alive with wine, song, and sex.

Translation Notes:
No actual notes, only concurring that I think "Grywe" is actually a pretty rad romanization.

【The Healing Goddess of Water, Tatsuizumi】

Spoiler

A ryuu who acts as the head hostess of the sprawling and storied ryokan “Tatsuizumibana” in Ryuusen Village, and the mother of all of the ryuu who call it home. As the head hostess– that is, the overseer of all other ryuu who run resorts– she is sometimes imagined to be a strict and demanding dragon queen by other tourists, but in reality, she possesses the same tranquility and grace as any other ryuu, and is herself especially gentle. On most days, she entrusts every aspect of even her own ryokan to her daughters and, claiming it to be “on-site inspection”, wanders about Ryuusen Village with her husband, eating manjuu without a care in the world. Her own daughters even scold her for her excessively free-spirited demeanor, somewhat befitting as it may be for a monster mother.

That being said, despite her somewhat childish behavior, it cannot be said that she never bothered to give her daughters a proper education. Indeed, once one of the village’s ryuus come of age, they are always summoned to Tatsuizumi’s bedchambers. There, they witness their head hostess display acts of marital bliss so extreme and obscene that they can scarcely imagine such a woman doing them, and learn how to please a man. The ryuu of Ryuusen Village is always perfectly ready and able to “entertain” tourists and travellers at a moment’s notice thanks to their mother’s vigorous, and consummately educational, demonstrations.

Translation Notes:
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【Swordsmaster Drandina】

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A lizardman known as the greatest swordswoman to ever grace the Dragonia Arena. Unusually for a lizardman, she led a pack until she finally ended up in Dragonia, acting as the leader for a squad of lizardman mercenaries who travelled every corner of the world in search of a strong man worthy of being called a husband. Coming to Dragonia originally as a guest of honor for the Dragoon Corps, she rented out the Dragonia Arena, at that time no more than one of many abandoned structures, as her temporary home, and by having Dragonia’s warriors duel her squad’s lizardmen, she spread awareness of the importance of practical combat experience, laying the foundation for the Grand Tournament of today. Drandina advocated that powerful dragons shouldn’t avoid doing battle with humans, but instead deliberately seek to face off with them on equal terms, and that only by clashing might against might can one learn true compassion for their partner. Her teachings of how love deepens only in a battle where all of a warrior’s self is laid bare remains the guiding principle for all who stand in the Dragonia Arena to this very day.

At the annual Grand Tournament of Dragonia’s opening ceremony, it’s become tradition that a lizardman playing the role of Drandina presents a magnificent mock-battle with her husband, followed by an intense and passionate bout of love-making, thus embodying the “love born from battle” that the swordsmaster championed.

Translation Notes:
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【Bells of Happiness】

Spoiler

Two pairs of bells that sit atop the Pillar of Heaven. Legend has it that they’ll grant the wish of those who ring them… or at least, that’s the gossip prevalent among adventurers. In Dragonia proper, they’re instead called the Bonding Bells, and when a couple rings them together, a vow of eternal love is formed. The mighty thundering of the bell represents the roar of a pair-bonded dragon. For the wyverns who inhabit the Pillar, ringing the Bells of Happiness together with their beloved husband is their most deeply held aspiration. An adventurer who had finally reached the top of the Pillar and rang the bells by himself is, at least for the wyverns dreaming of the day that they will ring them with their future husbands and become a bonded pair, the best (and perhaps loudest) marriage proposal they could ask for. That is the truth behind the legend of the Bells of Happiness: the peal of a bell diligently maintained in order to grant the wishes of unwed wyverns.

Translation Notes:
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【The Mamono Lord’s Royal Guard】

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The Mamono Lord’s personal guard, and the pride of the Mamono Lord’s Army. Serving the Mamono Lord and acting as her bodyguards is the highest honor imaginable, and the group itself comprises a very small number of monster couples carefully hand-picked by the Mamono Lord herself, from an army already made up of nothing but the best. Every member of the Guard takes supreme pleasure in spreading mamono realms in the name of the Mamono Lord’s ideals and ideology, and there are many among them who have such absolute loyalty to the cause that they would not hesitate to give their lives if it were for the sake of the Mamono Lord or her philosophy.

Their primary duties are divided into “escort duties”, accompanying and protecting the Mamono Lord on diplomatic missions and military campaigns, and “agent duties”, visiting other mamono realm nations as envoys of the Mamono Lord or performing reconnaissance in human nations. The former role requires the high levels of mana necessary to quickly ascertain potential threats to the Mamono Lord and promptly incapacitate them via monsterization, while the latter demands not just maintaining proper decorum as an envoy, but being able to seamlessly blend into human nations while masquerading as a human couple. It’s for these reasons that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the Royal Guard is the “elite of the monster world”, the cream of the crop among countless monsters, and the aspiration of many. And yet, even though the Royal Guard represents monstrosity’s best, it’s a matter of course that the gulf between their ability and that of the woman they are sworn to protect is like that between the heavens and earth.

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