“Know, oh princess, that between the years when the oceans drank Paradise Estate and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of G5, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like precious gems beneath the stars… Hither came Ember the Dragon Lord, blue-scaled, fire-eyed, Bloodstone Scepter in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under her armored feet.”
Which was in turn inspired by Conan the Barbarian.