Ainunceon would appreciate that! She takes off a bracelet and tosses it in.

The Song of Annunciation is a crooning thing that is in fact nicely musical, and Allspeak handles fairly gracefully.

"Oh great one who has claimed this place, I am a visitor at the edge of your territory. I respectfully announce myself to the dragon who claims this land-" (-You can replace 'dragon' with their name if you know it-) "I am here openly, without stealth or trickery. I do not mean to intrude or insult; I shall not hunt your prey nor steal your things. Under the gaze of Father Sun and the by the Two Great Laws, I ask for parley and peaceful discussion so that our musics may both be heard-" Several verses that are just rephrasings of the previous parts, and then, "I shall wait here for a time, and if you choose to approach we will speak."

And also the much shorter Song of Peaceful Departure, "While I have announced myself, you have not come to speak to me. I respect your territory no less, and now I am leaving."

Thank you! Can you tell me what the Two Great Laws are?

Oh fine, that's sort of covered by the first Shiny Thing anyway.

First; You must create. One day you will die, and your music will become silence. Explore, learn, and seek Treasure, and when you are ready, seek out others who are great, and create children to carry forth your song forever.

Second; You must destroy. You must kill and consume to survive, but take care to destroy in balance, never taking too many or too much. Destroy that which should be destroyed. Preserve that which should be preserved.

Creation and Destruction are both part of the Onesong, one leading to the other. To live without these truths is unnatural and wrong.

This is the fundamental truth of the dragons.

Thank you, says Ainunceon, I appreciate you speaking with me. And then she bows politely and disappears.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH randomly appearing and disappearing nothumans!

(Later, she eats all her shiny things, storing them in her throat pouch and sneaking off in the night.)

Elsewhere, other dragons are receiving visits from other Flat Elves.

Even with the Song of Annunciation in most places the dragons demand that they leave, or ignore them.

In one particular area, at the edge of a region that looks and feels magically... Odd... A red fox that looks slightly unreal, like a Maia who doesn't quite have their body down, addresses the visitor.

Who Is It Who Comes Forth? What new chorus enters the song, so familiar and yet so alien? Why has your arrival changed the music yet to come? Why do we-I-the forest-the mother wish to speak to you?

Hello, replies the visiting Elf, my name is Sorturon, and I am from another star, hoping to learn more about dragons.

What is a star but a brother sun? What is the purpose of learning? Did you know that great strength of magic and spirit and dreaming blurs our connection to Reality?

Stars are pretty much other suns. I want to learn so I can tell my people what I find out, hoping to end the violence on this planet and bring great wealth and prosperity to every thinking creature on it. I did not know that, can you tell me more?

Why is destruction so necessary? Why has my mother rejected it? Why is it difficult for this humble envoy so changed in spirit to hold a conversation? Would you be able to withstand her presence should she come forth in body?

I believe so, and if harm comes to me, I will not take offense and can be repaired.

Would you not weep for a visitor to come to harm, even if they can be healed?

The fox vanishes in a puff of flame.

A minute later, a - very very large dragon, taller than some trees, strides through the forest, their branches smoothly moving out of the way for her to pass. She has an aura, a psychic power that washes over everything around her and infuses it. It feels - careful and delicate, as if she is keeping it as light as possible. Flowers bloom and plants perk up and sprout new growth all around her.

I am the one known as Allmother, o visitor. I am all but unique among my kind to tread so deeply the path of Compassion - so much so that my very nature has changed. I welcome you to this world.

Thank you, Allmother, says Sorturon, bowing. I am called Sorturon, and I represent a group of many peoples called Vanda Nossëo, who explore the worlds and the stars within them and have now come to this planet.

Oh, to see new stars and meet new people, to know the Onesong is yet greater than before... You will avert the Grey Future, the path I thought inevitable that has been laid out before me for so many years. I do not clearly see what form the future will take, but a bright star shines, a ray of hope and the knowledge that my fears will not come to pass. Our symphony will not end. They are lost in a way, the tailless ones. They are lonely and suffering, like so many of my kin. Crowing with strength and pride, yet empty inside. You are not the cold ones, who could not comprehend. Who are your people, to explore new worlds? What drives them forth?

We want to spread prosperity and opportunity to every thinking person in every world we can reach. Having it ourselves, it is clear to us that the next meaningful work is to extend it to those who don't have it yet, and learn ever more about the multiverse in which we find ourselves.

Prosperity. Opportunity. Fulfillment. Kindness. Reaching higher and onward. To the humans, prosperity means great cities of stone and metal, edifices of order where everything is just as they wish it. Their hopes and dreams burn brightly, full of joy and compassion and love. They do not realize the value of that which they are destroying, the great spirits of nature and the balance of the world being eroded into nothingness under the stones of road and city.

To the true children of above and below, shiny things are valuable, great treasures and fascinating secrets a thing of joy and contentment, and yet to the greatest among us, once we know our place in the world and learn of the vastness of Nature, the pursuit of adulthood is spiritual. To feel, to know on a level deeper than mere knowledge, to reach a greater understanding of the Onesong and become ever more, for stagnation is death. That is what drives the eldest of us.

Different worlds have different spiritual practices and beliefs, some rooted in truth, some mutually exclusive at best. The humans of your world most likely have their own values they want to pursue.

They do; They seek togetherness and progress. They wish to build and grow, and not unjustifiably see the dragons as a great enemy, hostile forever and anathema to their aspirations. It pains me whenever anything must come into conflict. I desire to see suffering's end, though it is impossible. Perhaps I am a coward and a hypocrite for having ended it in myself. I could not stand my own nature, and changed it. All life has become one in my domain. I am the trees and the ants, I am the rabbits and the foxes, I am the soil and the air, they are all me. I regret this in some ways, but what has been done cannot be undone.

There are some gods in my world who do something like that, they put themselves deeper and deeper into a grove or a river or a flock of geese until they're effectively one and the same.

We too want to end suffering. I think you could help us, especially if you were willing to speak to other dragons on our behalf. Many of them ignored our visitors and we aren't sure what else to try when the Song of Annunciation and offering shiny things didn't work.

That bears some resemblance to what I have done, though I could not take the final step.

I think some will speak to you on their own time. Dragons move slowly by the pace of humans, those of us who are not children. The other elders will call a Grand Moot in time, a meeting of all adult dragons to discuss the future. Even if you had not arrived, humanity is becoming more alarming to them.

I will be willing to send myself forth as envoys if there is something productive for me/us to discuss. My kin will not accept to allow the humans to continue conquering and expanding. They may not even be willing to accept their current extent, as in the mere last clawful-of-clawful-of-clawful of years so much territory has been lost and so many dragons killed.

I hope we can satisfy you or the humans or both with new places to settle on other planets, but I understand that's not always an easy trade.

The spirit of the Great Green and echoes of the Onesong have settled deeply into this planet. The weight of history and the spirits of so many creatures infuse it deeply. Anywhere else would not be the same, and our pride, that claw turned upon ourselves, will not allow us to retreat without a challenge.