Dragon Keys

We return to the edgelands of the forest that is the domain of Jillian Love to an unexpected surprise …

The Dragon Keys Encounter

The house of Jillian Love sits at the edge of the La Honda forest in San Mateo County — a place on the dragonlines of the Santa Cruz Mountains, where the old-growth redwoods hold 1,800 years of the land's memory and the deep canyon runs with the subtle fire of the earth's dragon current.

It is here that Peter Fae and Adam Apollo re-encounter each other.

The meeting carries weight beyond the personal. Adam Apollo is the Galactic Architect, physicist, co-founder of UNIFY, builder of sacred academies — but in this moment the register is different. This is not the playa of Blackrock, the festival ground, the planetary-scale transmission. This is the forest. The dragonlines. The keeper's house. And Adam Apollo reaches into his bag and produces a copy of his book:

Dragon Keys.

The book is gifted. The title names the moment: dragon (the sovereign fire, the pendragon lineage, the Good Dragon of the oath) and keys (access, initiation, the unlocking of what has been held dormant in the land and in the self).

What follows is the recognition — the discovery that both Peter Fae and Adam Apollo had, independently, played Paladins of Bahamut in their personal mythological lore. Bahamut is the Platinum Dragon of D&D cosmology, the God of Good Dragons, patron of the rarest paladin oath: the warrior-sovereign who has sworn their life not to power, not to conquest, but to the protection of the innocent and the right use of the dragon's fire.

A Paladin of Bahamut is not a common archetype. It is a mythological declaration. And to find another who has made that same declaration — in the house of a keeper of sacred space, on the dragonlines of a redwood forest, at the moment when the Dragon Keys book arrives — is realmsign.

Meeting with Adam Apollo carries the resonance of the Grail and that of the modern djedi. This is the older note made explicit: the Grail Knight is the Paladin of the Dragon. The modern djedi is the one who has passed the oath. And the Dragon Keys are what unlock the next threshold.

The Arthurian Layer

The Dragon of the Arthurian tradition is the pendragon — the sovereign fire that flows through the true king's line. Uther Pendragon. Arthur Pendragon. The dragon does not belong to the villain. It belongs to the one who has earned right relationship with the land and its sovereign power.

La Honda forest — and the dragonlines beneath it — is one of the places where that fire is still running in the earth. The redwoods have been here long enough to remember when the land was whole. Methuselah, the 1,800-year-old redwood just west of Woodside, was alive during the late Roman Empire — before Arthur was even a legend. The dragon current in this land predates every story we tell about it.

To re-encounter another Paladin of Bahamut here, in this place, at this moment — is to have the land itself confirm what both beings already knew about themselves.

Mythos Connections

• Mythos Braid: Paladins of the Dragon
• Mythos Braid: The Galactic Transmission
• Mythos Braid: Braid — The Grail Quest
• Character: Adam Apollo — Galactic Architect, Guardian Alliance, Paladin of Bahamut
• Place: La Honda Forest (dragonlines of the Santa Cruz Mountains)
• Place: Jillian Love's house — keeper of sacred space, edge of the forest
• Object: Dragon Keys (book by Adam Apollo — the transmission object of the encounter)
• Archetype: Paladin of Bahamut, Pendragon lineage, Grail Kings & Queens

 

Meeting with Adam Apollo carries the resonance of the Grail and that of the modern djedi