SOURCE: "The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth" by Lord Dunsany (The Sword of Welleran & Other Stories, 1908)

DESCRIPTION: "...Suddenly the great doors on the far side of the chamber opened to left and right. For some moments Leothric saw nothing move, and waited clutching Sacnoth. Then Wong Bongerok came towards him, breathing. This was the last and faithfullest guard of Gaznak, and came from slobbering just now his master's hand. More as a child than a dragon was Gaznak wont to treat him, giving him often in his fingers tender pieces of man all smoking from his table. Long and low was Wong Bongerok, and subtle about the eyes, and he came breathing malice against Leothric out of his faithful breast, and behind him roared the armoury of his tail, as when sailors drag the cable of the anchor all rattling down the deck." ("The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save For Sacnoth" by Lord Dunsany)

NOTES: Gaznak's most beloved dragon, Wong Bongerok fights with Theodric using cunning as well as his scaly dragon body. Like a scorpion he attacks with his tail. The eye of Tharagavverug in the hilt of Sacnoth sees the move and cuts off the tail before it can kill Theodric.

HISTORY: Probably the best guardian in the story, only the killing of Tharagavverug is better.

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