FILM TREATMENT
Executive Summary
DRAGON LEGACY
"Nothing is Left but the Blood & the Vision"
"Dune" meets "Lord of the Rings" in the "Mists of Avalon"
(c)2011, Dragon Heritage, Ltd; All Rights Reserved
DRAGON LEGACY
"Nothing is Left but the Blood & the Vision"
"Dune" meets "Lord of the Rings" in the "Mists of Avalon"
(c)2011, Dragon Heritage, Ltd; All Rights Reserved
Executive Summary
Working Title: "DRAGON LEGACY"
Release Date: TBA (to be announced)
Status: Pre-production
Genre: BioPic, Docudrama, Action-Adventure
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Financial Summary: Outstanding funding required for completion: $XX Million. Almost all film markets are expanding, and because of new technologies and viewing options. Although a U.S. theatrical release is still the initial target, this now accounts for only about 11% of a film´s revenues. Home video, rentals, cable, pay-per-view, streaming, and ancillary domestic markets constitute another 38%. Foreign markets now comprise 51% or more of a film´s revenues and are steadily increasing.
Target Market: The theater-going public thrives on action films with romance and human interest. A PG-13 rating from the MPAA is suitable for teenagers as well as our primary target audience, males 18-65 years of age. Complex relationships appeal to the female market. Foreign markets should yield half the total profits.
Distribution: Upon securing first monies through private financing, the DRAGON LEGACY Company will seek out pre-sold distribution or negative pickup with a letter of agreement or letter of credit from interested distributors to assist in putting together the total budget for the picture. At present, all rights (including theatrical, cable, broadcast, pay-per-view, home-video, streaming, and international) are available. In a sellers’ market, every distributor wants to outmaneuver their competitors and acquire the few commercial independent films available at any given time. Given the scarcity of exceptional, excellent, or even quality ones, we anticipate a lot of competition for DRAGON LEGACY, which has the potential to ignite a fierce bidding war.
Objectives: Our goal is to make "movies that matter" -- quality, intelligent, commercial films -- on cost-efficient budgets with high ROI in all market areas. We know how to handle controversial subjects to unpack stories with emotional logic, allowing audiences their own point of view and conclusions. Corrosive secrets are issues that stay relevant. Rather than “fictionalizing,” we illustrate an informed point of view with our mythopoetic history. Action, suspense, and romance films remain perennial favorites with wide audiences. “Dramatic license” leaves interpretation open. The docudrama has become a culturally important form with political battles over the nature of "truth," "reality," and media manipulation of history and everyday life. This is not a movie-of-the-week biopic, but a film from an inside view of how history actually unfolded, with the potential for lasting global and artistic importance. Docudrama provides a Point of View (POV) interpretation of real historical events in a non-fictional drama. Docudrama argues that lost or elusive moral perspectives can be regained. Functional distortions include created dialogues among characters, expressions of internal thoughts, meetings of people that never happened, event and time compression, composite characters, and so forth. The struggle for balance between right and wrong attains coherence embodied in the dilemmas of actual people, incidents and events. Docudramas are popular and lucrative, generating an immersive emotional hyperreality. Such fact-based documentaries and docudramas are suitable for submission to Sundance Film Festival, Cannes, Toronto and several other major international film festivals that create a buzz. Such films are marketable to all major film markets, including North America, Europe, Asia, Cannes, Berlin, NATPE, and American Film Market in Los Angeles.
Story Treatment
World's Oldest Noble House
A panorama of history and legend, “The Dragon Legacy” can potentially be developed as a biopic, sweeping historical romance or action-adventure -- a blockbuster tale of epic proportions like "Avatar", loaded with myth and magic. Any or all portions of the story can be developed on their own, (as shown by “Lord of the Rings”, "Da Vinci Code", "Excalibur", "Game of Thrones", "The Tudors"), or via flashbacks, “ancestral memories”, dreams, shamanic flights, or nonlinear narrative.
DRAGON LEGACY is suitable for a franchise trilogy with a superstar such as Johnny Depp, an episodic mini-series, and/or documentaries. Historical Dragon ancestors can be portrayed by superstar cameos. A contemporary approach might follow one or a group of dragon descendants through the mindwarping discovery of their noble heritage, as perceptions deepen and transform through real relationships and deep emotion. The editorial and directorial challenge is to contextualize all eras of Dragon heritage (spanning from Pharaohs and Emperors to Vampires, Elves, Fairies, and Druids) without overloading the main storyline.
Key Characters:
PRINCE DE VERE: The main character provides the narrative drive for the story, spanning eons of human history with his well-spun tale. Though quirky and reclusive, our goal-oriented protagonist re-institutes the Dragon Court, and begins setting the historical record straight, reclaiming the royal Dragon Legacy with his genetically and metaphysically related Dragon Dynasties in today's overheated political climate. Love, betrayal, greed, murder, right and wrong, power struggles. Conflict for power between the Red and Green Dragon houses.
COUNCIL OF PRINCES: Nautioneers (Navigators) of Royal Houses; guiding council of sages and seers.
DYNASTIC HOUSES battle, marry and betray each other for thousands of years. They jockey and vie for crowns with different codes and interests.
House Vere, House Bathory, House Draculescu, House Plantagenet, House Anjou
ACT 1 one to three paragraphs. Set the scene, dramatize the main conflicts.
’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex. Every symbol, every myth, and all civilization originates in the world's oldest noble house whose origins are in proto-history. This bloodline spread through all ancient and modern royal courts. DRAGON LEGACY shows how the contemporary world was usurped by greedy globalists bent on hegemony, devoid of the bloodline legacy of the divine stewards and seers of antiquity. Conflict for power between the Red and Green Dragon houses. Love, betrayal, loyalty, family, greed, murder, right and wrong, power struggles.
For many centuries, the dragon clan has remained hidden, but once again it is reborn. The dragon of alchemy "devours, fertilizes, begets, slays, and brings itself to life again." Now a Grand Convocation has called the dragon descendants from near and far to reclaim their destiny. There is magic but it's not a fantasy. Challenges are met in four worlds: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
The Dragon is the universal energetic field, slumbering at the center of the Universe. A hidden Dragon sleeps within our deep nature and guides our collective destiny. The vortex in the DNA (Starfire), implodes at light speed, enabling supraluminal 'samadhi' states, lucid dreaming, memory through death. All the virtual and electromagnetic waves bathe all things in this radiation, in their motion. Through miniscule perturbations, waves can change to forms and images that can speak, becoming voices that can be heard by our sensitive energy bodies, feeding on biophotonic light. Transformed to vision and dreams they produce presentiments in us. We learn to see through our Dragon Eyes.
If we are not only interconnected, but are actually one Self seeing through many eyes, then it should be clear that, like it or not, in the way we conduct our inner and outer lives, each of us is in fact always having an effect on the whole. What would you do if you realized that the entire human endeavor, the evolution of consciousness itself, depended on your willingness to transform your own consciousness?
Act 2 - two to six paragraphs. Should dramatize how the conflicts introduced in Act 1 lead to a crisis
Dragon Lineage: Descent from Antiquity .
Typical machinations of courtly and dynastic life ensue, including demonization and mass slaughter by competing factions. Through mutual aid, the Dragon clan struggles against the opposition of the Illuminati, the Vatican, Fundamentalists, New Age promoters, contemporary "royals", poseurs, the global elite, transnational spies and double agents, maybe even extraterrestrial forces. We are now at the Inflection Point, a critical event that changes the way we think and act.
All is relative. We Dragon is the firstborn ultraterrestrial race. Normal humans have been sharing the planet with a flesh-and-blood offshoot, a hybrid of the human species and Great Unknown. Recorded Dragon lineage starts with the Anunnaki and descends through the proto-Scythians, the Sumerians in one branch and the early Egyptians in another; the Phoenicians, the Mittani, back to the Scythians (Saka) again through marital alliance, along to the "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg; down through their Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely families, to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the high kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada; through to the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today.
This is the same Merovingian line depicted in "The DaVinci Code" and the Grail Quest, as well as the Sumerian lineage of Enki/Satan that paradoxically gave rise to the House of David, Jesus and the Knights Templar. This time the radical tale is told by its Dragon family of origin, rather than outsiders or usurpers. Current genetic and historical evidence confirms the line. Middle Earth is Central Asia. Accounts of Dragons or Elves going back to proto-history describe their distinct physical attributes, inherited from a species that scientists claim preceded the human genetic bottleneck by about thirty thousand years. Whether this ancient race was hybridized with another before history is unknown, but later hybridization produced the Elven God-Kings and Ring Lords (the King Tribe) as clearly recorded in Sumerian cylinder rolls.
The biblical Nephilim and the “Watchers” are of the Dragon race, as were the gods of ancient Greece, India, and Mesopotamia. These pantheons are derived from one another. Plato’s Atlantis theory is preceded by a much older tradition relating to the "Ogdoad", eight great Gods who raked the Sacred Mountain - "Atlantis" - after the original Flood.
After the Black Sea Flood, they failed to bring fertility back to the Holy Place so abandoned it for a nomadic life, spreading their deluge story to most cultures, including Chinese, Egyptian and Viking. From the Ogdoad, the first Dragon god-kings of ancient proto-Scythia, come the Mesopotamian gods of the Anunnaki, and later derivative pantheons. The god-king children of the Anunnaki established incredible civilizations.
The cultures of the Sumerians ("proto-Sumerian" originated in Transylvania), the Egyptians and even post-glacial settlers in northern Europe stemmed from this antediluvian prototype – the "Golden Age" presided over by ancient Dragon god-kings and goddess-queens. Scientists have suggested the Atlantean myth and Biblical Flood are linked to Ice Age glacial melt and encounters by Earth with cometary debris. Titanic and Olympian sagas unfold in the Dawn of the Gods in the Black Sea region.
Dragon blood, the blood of the 'gods', is the true source of "divine right" kingship. To say that Dragons are the rightful rulers of the world's governments today might raise contention. Their own view is that the descendants may well be the rightful rulers of the world's governments in the future. Having no desire to rule, they are happy to lend their vision of stewardship to the global community.
People of Truth
"The Dragon" means the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragon ancestors. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", implying "to see clearly". "The Dragon", the inherited Dragon archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which this knowledge flows. Clear sight principally refers to transcendent consciousness. ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
The Dragon Court also derives from the Court of the Pendragon Kings and Merlins, a lineage inherited through numerous marital alliances with our close cousins, the Dukes of Hamilton, whose estates bordered our own in Lanarkshire.
The Hamiltons were the heirs presumptive to the throne of Scotland. Lateral inheritance from the extinct cadet cousin branch of the Vere earls of Oxford brings to the contemporary Court, via the 11th earl, Richard de Vere, the degree of Societas Draconis - latterly misnamed "Sarkany Rend" - a membership bestowed upon him, it is believed academically, during his investiture into the Prince's Degree of the Order of the Garter, along with the Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The heraldry of the family prior to Richard's investiture into Societas Draconis already included the ancient Dragon motifs on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family, denoting pure Dragon blood in both descents, and reflecting the continuing presence of the Dragon Court in the family since the time of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians.
ACT 3 one to three paragraphs. Dramatize the final conflict and resolution.
Today’s Dragon Court is a combination of several major magical "currents", including the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, who trace their origins back to the Knights Templars. This honor recognized the Vere/Weir family's hereditary involvement in Royal Witchcraft and the historical Dragon tradition.
Other external currents derive from the Knighthood of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid, Dragon cousins to the House of Vere, and laterally from Dr. John Dee's "School of Night". Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, was a prominent member. Edward also performed the rites of Dragon kingship in the family, specifically the rite of the kingship of the Calle Daouine.
The Royal Dragon Court is carried continuously through the centuries in the Vere Dragon Blood. Prince Nicholas inherited the Dragon Court by virtue of being a senior blood descendant of the House of Vere, recognized as a Dragon sovereign by the other senior members of the family.
A panorama of history and legend, “The Dragon Legacy” can potentially be developed as a biopic, sweeping historical romance or action-adventure -- a blockbuster tale of epic proportions like "Avatar", loaded with myth and magic. Any or all portions of the story can be developed on their own, (as shown by “Lord of the Rings”, "Da Vinci Code", "Excalibur", "Game of Thrones", "The Tudors"), or via flashbacks, “ancestral memories”, dreams, shamanic flights, or nonlinear narrative.
DRAGON LEGACY is suitable for a franchise trilogy with a superstar such as Johnny Depp, an episodic mini-series, and/or documentaries. Historical Dragon ancestors can be portrayed by superstar cameos. A contemporary approach might follow one or a group of dragon descendants through the mindwarping discovery of their noble heritage, as perceptions deepen and transform through real relationships and deep emotion. The editorial and directorial challenge is to contextualize all eras of Dragon heritage (spanning from Pharaohs and Emperors to Vampires, Elves, Fairies, and Druids) without overloading the main storyline.
Key Characters:
PRINCE DE VERE: The main character provides the narrative drive for the story, spanning eons of human history with his well-spun tale. Though quirky and reclusive, our goal-oriented protagonist re-institutes the Dragon Court, and begins setting the historical record straight, reclaiming the royal Dragon Legacy with his genetically and metaphysically related Dragon Dynasties in today's overheated political climate. Love, betrayal, greed, murder, right and wrong, power struggles. Conflict for power between the Red and Green Dragon houses.
COUNCIL OF PRINCES: Nautioneers (Navigators) of Royal Houses; guiding council of sages and seers.
DYNASTIC HOUSES battle, marry and betray each other for thousands of years. They jockey and vie for crowns with different codes and interests.
House Vere, House Bathory, House Draculescu, House Plantagenet, House Anjou
ACT 1 one to three paragraphs. Set the scene, dramatize the main conflicts.
’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex. Every symbol, every myth, and all civilization originates in the world's oldest noble house whose origins are in proto-history. This bloodline spread through all ancient and modern royal courts. DRAGON LEGACY shows how the contemporary world was usurped by greedy globalists bent on hegemony, devoid of the bloodline legacy of the divine stewards and seers of antiquity. Conflict for power between the Red and Green Dragon houses. Love, betrayal, loyalty, family, greed, murder, right and wrong, power struggles.
For many centuries, the dragon clan has remained hidden, but once again it is reborn. The dragon of alchemy "devours, fertilizes, begets, slays, and brings itself to life again." Now a Grand Convocation has called the dragon descendants from near and far to reclaim their destiny. There is magic but it's not a fantasy. Challenges are met in four worlds: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
The Dragon is the universal energetic field, slumbering at the center of the Universe. A hidden Dragon sleeps within our deep nature and guides our collective destiny. The vortex in the DNA (Starfire), implodes at light speed, enabling supraluminal 'samadhi' states, lucid dreaming, memory through death. All the virtual and electromagnetic waves bathe all things in this radiation, in their motion. Through miniscule perturbations, waves can change to forms and images that can speak, becoming voices that can be heard by our sensitive energy bodies, feeding on biophotonic light. Transformed to vision and dreams they produce presentiments in us. We learn to see through our Dragon Eyes.
If we are not only interconnected, but are actually one Self seeing through many eyes, then it should be clear that, like it or not, in the way we conduct our inner and outer lives, each of us is in fact always having an effect on the whole. What would you do if you realized that the entire human endeavor, the evolution of consciousness itself, depended on your willingness to transform your own consciousness?
Act 2 - two to six paragraphs. Should dramatize how the conflicts introduced in Act 1 lead to a crisis
Dragon Lineage: Descent from Antiquity .
Typical machinations of courtly and dynastic life ensue, including demonization and mass slaughter by competing factions. Through mutual aid, the Dragon clan struggles against the opposition of the Illuminati, the Vatican, Fundamentalists, New Age promoters, contemporary "royals", poseurs, the global elite, transnational spies and double agents, maybe even extraterrestrial forces. We are now at the Inflection Point, a critical event that changes the way we think and act.
All is relative. We Dragon is the firstborn ultraterrestrial race. Normal humans have been sharing the planet with a flesh-and-blood offshoot, a hybrid of the human species and Great Unknown. Recorded Dragon lineage starts with the Anunnaki and descends through the proto-Scythians, the Sumerians in one branch and the early Egyptians in another; the Phoenicians, the Mittani, back to the Scythians (Saka) again through marital alliance, along to the "Tuatha de Danaan" and the Fir Bolg; down through their Arch-Druidic, Priest-Princely families, to the Royal Picts of Scotland and the high kings of the Horse Lords of Dal Riada; through to the Elven dynasty of Pendragon and Avallon del Acqs, and down to a few pure bred families today.
This is the same Merovingian line depicted in "The DaVinci Code" and the Grail Quest, as well as the Sumerian lineage of Enki/Satan that paradoxically gave rise to the House of David, Jesus and the Knights Templar. This time the radical tale is told by its Dragon family of origin, rather than outsiders or usurpers. Current genetic and historical evidence confirms the line. Middle Earth is Central Asia. Accounts of Dragons or Elves going back to proto-history describe their distinct physical attributes, inherited from a species that scientists claim preceded the human genetic bottleneck by about thirty thousand years. Whether this ancient race was hybridized with another before history is unknown, but later hybridization produced the Elven God-Kings and Ring Lords (the King Tribe) as clearly recorded in Sumerian cylinder rolls.
The biblical Nephilim and the “Watchers” are of the Dragon race, as were the gods of ancient Greece, India, and Mesopotamia. These pantheons are derived from one another. Plato’s Atlantis theory is preceded by a much older tradition relating to the "Ogdoad", eight great Gods who raked the Sacred Mountain - "Atlantis" - after the original Flood.
After the Black Sea Flood, they failed to bring fertility back to the Holy Place so abandoned it for a nomadic life, spreading their deluge story to most cultures, including Chinese, Egyptian and Viking. From the Ogdoad, the first Dragon god-kings of ancient proto-Scythia, come the Mesopotamian gods of the Anunnaki, and later derivative pantheons. The god-king children of the Anunnaki established incredible civilizations.
The cultures of the Sumerians ("proto-Sumerian" originated in Transylvania), the Egyptians and even post-glacial settlers in northern Europe stemmed from this antediluvian prototype – the "Golden Age" presided over by ancient Dragon god-kings and goddess-queens. Scientists have suggested the Atlantean myth and Biblical Flood are linked to Ice Age glacial melt and encounters by Earth with cometary debris. Titanic and Olympian sagas unfold in the Dawn of the Gods in the Black Sea region.
Dragon blood, the blood of the 'gods', is the true source of "divine right" kingship. To say that Dragons are the rightful rulers of the world's governments today might raise contention. Their own view is that the descendants may well be the rightful rulers of the world's governments in the future. Having no desire to rule, they are happy to lend their vision of stewardship to the global community.
People of Truth
"The Dragon" means the dragon archetype resting within the Dragon blood and passed on through the genes. It is the conduit through which flow the memories of the wisdom and experience of the Dragon ancestors. The word "dragon" is derived from the Greek "edrakon", implying "to see clearly". "The Dragon", the inherited Dragon archetype is the conduit of clear sight through which this knowledge flows. Clear sight principally refers to transcendent consciousness. ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
The Dragon Court also derives from the Court of the Pendragon Kings and Merlins, a lineage inherited through numerous marital alliances with our close cousins, the Dukes of Hamilton, whose estates bordered our own in Lanarkshire.
The Hamiltons were the heirs presumptive to the throne of Scotland. Lateral inheritance from the extinct cadet cousin branch of the Vere earls of Oxford brings to the contemporary Court, via the 11th earl, Richard de Vere, the degree of Societas Draconis - latterly misnamed "Sarkany Rend" - a membership bestowed upon him, it is believed academically, during his investiture into the Prince's Degree of the Order of the Garter, along with the Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. The heraldry of the family prior to Richard's investiture into Societas Draconis already included the ancient Dragon motifs on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family, denoting pure Dragon blood in both descents, and reflecting the continuing presence of the Dragon Court in the family since the time of Princess Milouziana of the Scythians.
ACT 3 one to three paragraphs. Dramatize the final conflict and resolution.
Today’s Dragon Court is a combination of several major magical "currents", including the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, who trace their origins back to the Knights Templars. This honor recognized the Vere/Weir family's hereditary involvement in Royal Witchcraft and the historical Dragon tradition.
Other external currents derive from the Knighthood of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid, Dragon cousins to the House of Vere, and laterally from Dr. John Dee's "School of Night". Edward de Vere, the seventeenth earl of Oxford, was a prominent member. Edward also performed the rites of Dragon kingship in the family, specifically the rite of the kingship of the Calle Daouine.
The Royal Dragon Court is carried continuously through the centuries in the Vere Dragon Blood. Prince Nicholas inherited the Dragon Court by virtue of being a senior blood descendant of the House of Vere, recognized as a Dragon sovereign by the other senior members of the family.
Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg
Nicholas de Vere spent his early years in the Hertfordshire countryside. At age seven, his family moved to the remote outskirts of the Kentish village of Kemsing, and later to isolated rural settings in Devon and Sussex. His father and mother had contempt for human beings and human society. They sought to protect Nicholas from their mediocrity and banality in the sanctuary of the country. Nicholas learned practical country knowledge from his father, including deep respect for the natural world and ecology.
Nicholas learned about the family’s royal Scottish origins and involvement with royal witchcraft within the dragon tradition, as passed down to Nicholas’ father by his own parents. Nicholas’ father was gifted with the “king’s touch.” His paternal grandmother - a Scottish Gael - was a skilled seer, and his maternal grandmother had spent years as a student of mediumship.
Both of Nicholas’ parents were deeply committed to his broader education, fostering a love of Homer, the Sagas, Omar Khayyam, classical history and mythology. Nicholas grew and developed in isolation, detached from the vacuity of human culture, enveloped in a world of intellectualism, magic, mysticism and imagination. Nicholas was raised by his father to honor the female highly, discovering the greatest spiritual expression of human relationship as seraphic union of the divinity within male and female.
At age twelve, Nicholas was magically dedicated to the dragon tradition formally. At thirteen he first enacted the rite known as “Starfire.” His mother provided him works by Aleister Crowley, and he studied the principals of the Black Arts in earnest, gaining a considerable degree of competence in ritual magic. At fifteen, he underwent the ancient rite of kingship in accordance with archaic Gaelic tradition, bestowing the mantle of sovereignty arising from the very Earth itself.
By the 1980’s, Nicholas had become intimately conversant with a broad spectrum of magical traditions, and political perspectives. During this period he met and rejected numerous proponents of the Wiccan and New age Movements, considering them to be uninformed, self-deluding and magically incompetent.
On Midsummer’s night, 1985 Nicholas’ hereditary skill in and knowledge of royal witchcraft and magic was recognized by the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, which awarded him the highest accolade of the covenant -- Magister Templi. The Order traces its origins back to the Knights Templars and Nicholas used his investiture as an invocational key in the pursuit of deeper, unwritten knowledge. In 1991 Nicholas was invested as a gartered and anointed knight of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid by Lord Lir of Orkney, the head of a cousin branch of the House of Vere.
During the 1990’s, Nicholas developed a series of associations with university lecturers and post-graduate scholars. Following the academic exchanges, Nicholas was encouraged to construct the basis of The Dragon Legacy, influenced by his experience of seraphism and hierogamy and by years of commitment to the elven, Within Dragon tradition, Nicholas is recognized as a royal Dragon prince by the House of Vere, and acknowledged as such by the British Government, Int’l Council of Princes, United Nations and European Commission.
Today, Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg is the sovereign of the Dragon Court of the Royal House of Vere. Unrivalled as a proponent and scholar of magic, he is the original magical prince; the rightful king of witches by familial inheritance whose ancient, royal elven blood lineage is unquestionable.
Currently Nicholas lives reclusively as a bachelor in a quiet village in the Welsh countryside, pursuing the business of The Imperial & Royal Dragon Court, esoterics, and a broad range of secular interests including music. He is a renaissance man, a polymath.
Nicholas is deeply involved with environmental issues and animal welfare, concerns shared by his immediate family and by the House of Vere, whose number include ecologists, journalists and scientists. Nicholas has contempt for the blind pursuit of money and power, and values above all things simplicity and transcendence, which he believes essential to the continued existence of life on Earth in the future.
Nicholas learned about the family’s royal Scottish origins and involvement with royal witchcraft within the dragon tradition, as passed down to Nicholas’ father by his own parents. Nicholas’ father was gifted with the “king’s touch.” His paternal grandmother - a Scottish Gael - was a skilled seer, and his maternal grandmother had spent years as a student of mediumship.
Both of Nicholas’ parents were deeply committed to his broader education, fostering a love of Homer, the Sagas, Omar Khayyam, classical history and mythology. Nicholas grew and developed in isolation, detached from the vacuity of human culture, enveloped in a world of intellectualism, magic, mysticism and imagination. Nicholas was raised by his father to honor the female highly, discovering the greatest spiritual expression of human relationship as seraphic union of the divinity within male and female.
At age twelve, Nicholas was magically dedicated to the dragon tradition formally. At thirteen he first enacted the rite known as “Starfire.” His mother provided him works by Aleister Crowley, and he studied the principals of the Black Arts in earnest, gaining a considerable degree of competence in ritual magic. At fifteen, he underwent the ancient rite of kingship in accordance with archaic Gaelic tradition, bestowing the mantle of sovereignty arising from the very Earth itself.
By the 1980’s, Nicholas had become intimately conversant with a broad spectrum of magical traditions, and political perspectives. During this period he met and rejected numerous proponents of the Wiccan and New age Movements, considering them to be uninformed, self-deluding and magically incompetent.
On Midsummer’s night, 1985 Nicholas’ hereditary skill in and knowledge of royal witchcraft and magic was recognized by the Black Country Covenant of the Baphometic Order of the Cubic Stone, which awarded him the highest accolade of the covenant -- Magister Templi. The Order traces its origins back to the Knights Templars and Nicholas used his investiture as an invocational key in the pursuit of deeper, unwritten knowledge. In 1991 Nicholas was invested as a gartered and anointed knight of the Plantagenet Clan Donnachaid by Lord Lir of Orkney, the head of a cousin branch of the House of Vere.
During the 1990’s, Nicholas developed a series of associations with university lecturers and post-graduate scholars. Following the academic exchanges, Nicholas was encouraged to construct the basis of The Dragon Legacy, influenced by his experience of seraphism and hierogamy and by years of commitment to the elven, Within Dragon tradition, Nicholas is recognized as a royal Dragon prince by the House of Vere, and acknowledged as such by the British Government, Int’l Council of Princes, United Nations and European Commission.
Today, Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg is the sovereign of the Dragon Court of the Royal House of Vere. Unrivalled as a proponent and scholar of magic, he is the original magical prince; the rightful king of witches by familial inheritance whose ancient, royal elven blood lineage is unquestionable.
Currently Nicholas lives reclusively as a bachelor in a quiet village in the Welsh countryside, pursuing the business of The Imperial & Royal Dragon Court, esoterics, and a broad range of secular interests including music. He is a renaissance man, a polymath.
Nicholas is deeply involved with environmental issues and animal welfare, concerns shared by his immediate family and by the House of Vere, whose number include ecologists, journalists and scientists. Nicholas has contempt for the blind pursuit of money and power, and values above all things simplicity and transcendence, which he believes essential to the continued existence of life on Earth in the future.
The Dragon Field: The Dragon, the Vampire & the Vortex
The Dragon is the universal energetic field, slumbering at the center of the Universe. A hidden Dragon sleeps within our deep nature and guides our collective destiny. All the virtual and electromagnetic waves bathe all things in this radiation, in their motion. Through miniscule perturbations, waves can change to forms and images that can speak, becoming voices that can be heard by our sensitive energy bodies, feeding on biophotonic light. Transformed to vision and dreams they produce presentiments in us. We learn to see thorough our Dragon Eyes.
The prime paradigm of each era is that of its Age. Our story can only be understood against the vast backdrop of the archetype of Eternal Return: the Great Cycle of Precession which changes world Ages, but not without catastrophic growing pains. The Dragon remains unchanging at the heart of this process. Earth wants an answer to Chaos, and it may be We Dragon. The axiom "As Above, So Below" means Earth's sacred dragon clan mystically connects with the Dragon, the "Infinite Nothing" at the center of the Universe. Society is recalibrated from this cosmic zero-point -- an Archaic Renaissance begins the Great Cycle anew, and Earth once again knows the Dragon's footprint.
The Dragon symbolizes the universal ether as the fundamental light frequency or form of ‘pure energy’. All other forms of energy are a modification of this primal energy, creating the impression of a concrete physical world, along with the astral impressions of the imagination, and the various sensations and perceptions that accompany human existence. It appears that reality has two aspects: the underlying field continuum, and the nature of the form perceived in it. A Gaelic word for ’vampire’ is Sumaire, which is pronounced shimarie, with the accent on the middle syllable - shim AR ri. Sumaire is translated as ’vortex’, meaning a whirlpool or spiral, a labyrinth: a sucker, a reptile (serpent or Dragon).
The Asian Dragon represents chi, or universal prana, feeding on dragon energy. The Dragon is also connected with the serpent of wisdom, the dynamic energy connecting the paths of the tree of life, and sometimes depicted in myth as swallowing the sun or moon during eclipses. It is also related to the kundalini within another context. In one sense, Draco is the personification of Nuit, and infinite space itself. Ananta, the great serpent which surrounds the Universe, devours its own tail, thereby reducing it to Zero.
Drakenberg is a transformative imperative. The Akashic records are an energetic pattern, a frequency like a tuning fork vibration. Holographic images are pictures captured in light and hold the feeling of events and emotions so they may be viewed again as a learning tool. We can "consult" with our ancestors. In recent decades modern science has verified what the ancient traditions intuited long ago. In both tangible and mysterious ways, we are all interconnected, and any one of us can have a profound effect on the whole. And, if you accept the perennial mystical teaching that, at the level of consciousness, we are not only interconnected, but are actually one Self seeing through many eyes, then it should be clear that, like it or not, in the way we conduct our inner and outer lives, each of us is in fact always having an effect on the whole. What would you do if you realized that the entire human endeavor, the evolution of consciousness itself, depended on your willingness to transform your own consciousness?
The Dragon is the universal energetic field, slumbering at the center of the Universe. A hidden Dragon sleeps within our deep nature and guides our collective destiny. All the virtual and electromagnetic waves bathe all things in this radiation, in their motion. Through miniscule perturbations, waves can change to forms and images that can speak, becoming voices that can be heard by our sensitive energy bodies, feeding on biophotonic light. Transformed to vision and dreams they produce presentiments in us. We learn to see thorough our Dragon Eyes.
The prime paradigm of each era is that of its Age. Our story can only be understood against the vast backdrop of the archetype of Eternal Return: the Great Cycle of Precession which changes world Ages, but not without catastrophic growing pains. The Dragon remains unchanging at the heart of this process. Earth wants an answer to Chaos, and it may be We Dragon. The axiom "As Above, So Below" means Earth's sacred dragon clan mystically connects with the Dragon, the "Infinite Nothing" at the center of the Universe. Society is recalibrated from this cosmic zero-point -- an Archaic Renaissance begins the Great Cycle anew, and Earth once again knows the Dragon's footprint.
The Dragon symbolizes the universal ether as the fundamental light frequency or form of ‘pure energy’. All other forms of energy are a modification of this primal energy, creating the impression of a concrete physical world, along with the astral impressions of the imagination, and the various sensations and perceptions that accompany human existence. It appears that reality has two aspects: the underlying field continuum, and the nature of the form perceived in it. A Gaelic word for ’vampire’ is Sumaire, which is pronounced shimarie, with the accent on the middle syllable - shim AR ri. Sumaire is translated as ’vortex’, meaning a whirlpool or spiral, a labyrinth: a sucker, a reptile (serpent or Dragon).
The Asian Dragon represents chi, or universal prana, feeding on dragon energy. The Dragon is also connected with the serpent of wisdom, the dynamic energy connecting the paths of the tree of life, and sometimes depicted in myth as swallowing the sun or moon during eclipses. It is also related to the kundalini within another context. In one sense, Draco is the personification of Nuit, and infinite space itself. Ananta, the great serpent which surrounds the Universe, devours its own tail, thereby reducing it to Zero.
Drakenberg is a transformative imperative. The Akashic records are an energetic pattern, a frequency like a tuning fork vibration. Holographic images are pictures captured in light and hold the feeling of events and emotions so they may be viewed again as a learning tool. We can "consult" with our ancestors. In recent decades modern science has verified what the ancient traditions intuited long ago. In both tangible and mysterious ways, we are all interconnected, and any one of us can have a profound effect on the whole. And, if you accept the perennial mystical teaching that, at the level of consciousness, we are not only interconnected, but are actually one Self seeing through many eyes, then it should be clear that, like it or not, in the way we conduct our inner and outer lives, each of us is in fact always having an effect on the whole. What would you do if you realized that the entire human endeavor, the evolution of consciousness itself, depended on your willingness to transform your own consciousness?
’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.: The vortex in the DNA (Starfire), implosive through light speed, enables supraluminal 'samadhi' states, lucid dreaming, memory through death.
The second Gaelic word for ’vampire’ is Sumaire, which is pronounced shimarie, with the accent on the middle syllable - shim AR ri. Sumaire is translated as ’vortex’, meaning a whirlpool or spiral, a labyrinth: a sucker, a reptile (serpent or Dragon).
Ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme. The Orobourus, the reptilian symbol of completeness is the Sumaire, the serpent that encircles and spirals to create an inhaling vortex, a black hole that draws all energy and life into it.
Sumaire is pronounced shimmarie. Reminiscent of the word shimmer it suggests a relationship with that word which means to glow radiantly as with a light that had the power to fascinate perhaps. It is a pertinent meditation when one remembers that from the dawn of time the Elven Gods were called the Shining Ones. Here there is also a relationship with the words Shaman and Shamanism, a practice rooted in Northern Asia, the homeland of the speakers of ’Ar Sidhe Cantu’, being the Sundered Elven Tribe who went east.
The word ’Viking’ has been explained in various ways. Originally spelt ’Wicking’ it was thought to derive from the word ’wic’ meaning the inlet or mouth of a Fjord, whilst the earlier meaning of the word from the Old Friesian and Old English had ’wic’ as an encampment. In Russia however the ’Vikhr’ was a whirlwind, a manifestation of the Zmei or Dragon king which is dealt with later.
The Vikhr is a character which is common to both the Russians and the Irish and it will be remembered that Russia was actually founded by the Viking Ruotsi Clan, intimating that the actual definition of the word ’Viking’ is the same as the Irish word ’Sumaire’, a Dragon and a Vortex.
