Parceltongue Institute

The Parseltongue Institute is a research university dedicated to the study of dragons. It is located in the city of Warsong on Kladeth. Curiously, it is not connected to the Warsong Dragon flight.

History

Originally named "The Institute for Applied Dragonology", it was founded in A.Y. 3991, just five years after the city was renamed and peace established between the dragons and the humans. The new institute gathered one of the most extensive libraries of then-available research in the known world, and published four new books in it's first year of operation. Their most significant discovery, made in the last year of the [{Ages#The Third Age|Third Age]], was of Parceltongue, the spoken language of dragons. The institute was also the first research organization to do serious work on Scoriography, which had been documented but was not known to be a writing system before then. The institute was renamed to its current form in A.Y. 41, both to mark the start of the Age and to celebrate the discovery.

Despite these earlier achievements, the institute did little more than collect and collate information for some time. Surprisingly, few dragons were interested in cooperating, and did not view themselves as objects of study. This changed in the early The Fourth Age|4th age, and it was thought major advancements were quickly forthcoming. However, the institute's hopes were quickly dashed, the 'dragons' who had been in contact with them and had agreed to conduct interviews and allow for concerted scientific efforts, were in fact Wyverns