After the War of Wrath ended the First Age, many of Morgoth's servants escaped to roam free in the world. Of these creatures the most feared (besides Sauron himself and the Balrog) were the Dragons. The Dragons that escaped the wrath of the Valar journeyed along the Iron Mountains eastward to the Withered Heath where they took up residence, and there they ate, slept, terrorized Dwarves and carried out their bizarre mating rituals. From one of these matings came a special Dragon; one of the very few born after Morgoth's defeat. Turukulon was his name and he was stunted, being only half the size he should have been upon hatching and never growing to a respectable size. Dragons were never known for their charity and new Dragons always have to fight for a place among the others on the Heath. O