What the?? A Bio? Why would anyone care About the webmaster? I mean really, It's suppose to be a site about dragons, why's this even here?!   Meh...  Just kidding,  Below you will find information about who I really am.

About Me:

Nick name: Jafira Dragon.
Likes: Hiking, Metaphysics, Science, Art, Literature, and Dragons.
Preferred Music: Foreign, or alternative
Favorite Game: Secret of Mana
Current Age: 25

More About Me:

Just who is this "Jafira person"? Well, of course I may obviously be known as the administrator of this site, I would however like to give a brief biography so that others may know me a bit better.

I must admit that I am seldom ever good with introductions. So be forewarned that you can expect this to be a bit sloppy,

A Brief history of Jafira:

I became interested in dragons at a young age, always believing myself to have been different I grew up believing myself to have been a dragon. However under societal pressure I attempted to suppress that particular aspect of myself for most of my youth. However in my late teen years under much frustration, I ceased suppressing such beliefs and instead embraced them. Through dreams, meditations, and feelings I started to peace together information on a perceived alternate life as a western styled dragon known as Korageth. This was not related to Dungeons and Dragons, in anyway, I was never a role player, rather, it was based on recurring dreams, unexplainable "flashbacks" or visions, as well as irrational feelings and sensations leaning towards the subject.

At the age of sixteen or seventeen for reasons unknown to me, two additional "dragon" aspects or persona's known as Jafira and Veltra appeared to me. I feared that I may have been going insane as having three sentient persona's within my minds eye was obviously not natural. I begun to search for an explanation. I started first with psychology, I read up on multiple personality disorder, or more appropriately multiple dissociative disorder, and even went so far as to take a class in psychology to learn more, much of the psychological explanation made sense, but it didn't fully explain my irrational connections or feelings towards the mythological dragon.

Considering myself to be both rational, but equally a New Age Hippy, I felt that there had to be an alternate spiritual aspect with higher meaning then a mere disorder, I chose in the end, a spiritual explanation based on my perceptions, you the reader based on your perceptions are welcome to accept the mental disorder or spiritual rational, as the truth can never truly be known. I am open to both the spiritual and rational explanations. In any case, having found in the past, the psychological reason and wishing to find a more spiritual reasoning to my connection, I researched over the internet until the point that I had discovered a site called Alt-Fan-Dragons, which explained a lot. Ironically, weeks after I had first discovered AFD, the site vanished.

Having lost access to the resources and community of AltFanDra, but still trying to discover what was wrong with me on a spiritual level, I begun to search for more clues, finding Baxils Draconity Faq, and finding it to be closely matching to my perceived dragon beliefs, I begun to associate myself as dragonkin, however I was still perplexed by the fact that I seemed to have three separate draconic aspects rather then one. I later came to the conclusion that the two extra aspects, Jafira and Veltra were simply representations of my personality superimposed on the memory of what I had perceived to be other dragons in Korageth's lifetime, with that conclusion obtained, they soon vanished from my minds eye, and I felt a bit more whole, and sane, or at least as sane as someone as loopy as myself could be declared. In all seriousness, I must mention I chose to speak with a psychologist to confirm that I was not nuts, and it did go well.

Shortly afterwards, I begun writing fictional stories based loosely around the past images and scenes that had come to me through meditations and dreams and eventually begin to falsely believe the stories I wrote to be true, this was early in my period of awakening and inevitably caused me to make many foolish and unsubstantiated assumptions about my draconity. In time I met a friend named Mojo-LaHojo who aided greatly in helping me to understand myself better. With his assistance I was reassured that I was not insane, we had a lot in common and he taught me a lot, although he was younger then me I respected him as a mentor. Some time after discovering Tysha's Dragon Forum and all the great discussions within it, I learned a lot more and dedicated myself to doing all that I could for dragonkin society on the web. I built a primitive site from html, which grew over the years. However it was cluttered and the contents were sporadic, I wanted to build a dragon specific site, one that could help people like myself.

Meanwhile I would often jump into communities to try to talk and partake of the interesting discussions, unfortunately shyness would often overcome me, and for this I felt great guilt. I spent those past years silently lurking on the great dragon communities of the web, always wanting to join, but to nervous. I was once moderator of the forums on Dragons Empire, but had to relinquish my title due to personal priorities. Nargus was very understanding of this and for that I thank him.

In years past I had tried to create a community or forum based site, but could never understand the coding, I did however have a poorly publicized forum but it was vacant with the exception of bots. Only recently did I discover the means to improve this site and compliment it with the Dragons Valley community. Dragons Valley, my secondary site first appeared online in the spring of 2007, but it had security flaws and was outdated, It was quickly hacked after a brief time online, I was emotionally drained from work and college and placed that portion of my site on hiatus while I repaired it. After a year, I was ready to try again.

That about brings us to this time period, and provides a summary of my draconity as well as the origin of this site and Dragons Valley.

Jafira's Interests:

For anyone who would like to know my interests, my beliefs are fairly new age with Christian leanings, I am a writer, I have studied and consider myself knowledgeable in metaphysics, I have studied alternative history such as Atlantis and similar subjects, and have had an active interest in the paranormal, having participated in ghost hunts with mediocre results. I LOVE ART!! But I myself can not draw well, in the past I had tried to commission artists, but with little luck, I have also made art requests but they were never fulfilled. I seem to be a bit unlucky in that regard.

Off line I am an open lover of dragons and tend to obsess over them, for example I have studied dragons for many years and have an extensive library of literature concerning them. I have also collected numerous statues, posters, media, T-shirts, jewelry and anything else even remotely resembling a dragon. At the same time however, I understand that there is more to life then a mythical reptile, I therefore strive to pull off a more or less average social life, working to keep my dragon interests to myself unless the subject comes up. Aside from dragon studies, I have an extensive work history and recently completed three years of college course work with a fourth in the works, so yeah, surprisingly I do have a life outside of dragons.

In regards to pets, I can mention that in addition to my love of dragons, I equally admire snakes, however I often have bad luck keeping them as pets so instead I own cats as they are easier to care for. Currently, I have three house cats, some tropical birds, a lap dog, and my prized friend, a nine foot Columbian Boa Constrictor.

For those interested in role playing, I must warn that I do not Role play, mostly under the grounds that I am inexperienced in such manners, secondly my dragons are as real to me as you the reader. I dislike Role playing them as it makes them out to be mere characters when they are much more then that.

Lastly I must mention that I work an Evening shift so I am not always available online, however when I am online I am often available for discussion. During my leisure time I tend to explore the Superstition Mountain wilderness. I live on the outskirts of the city of Phoenix in the barren wasteland that is Arizona, as a result there is often plenty to explore in my area of the world.

The Finality of Who Jafira is:

So yeah, your still asking, who am I really?

I am someone who loves fantasy, mystery, life and the paranormal, someone who explores the great wilderness and strives to be different from everyone else, defies society as it is, flaunts his uniqueness in public, believes in energy and magic, while traveling everywhere to the sound of amazing new music. One who helps good friends and strangers to the detriment of himself, cares not for the perceptions of others, and lives each day as if it were his last.

Someone from another world and another life, an alien mind, a dragon lost in a world of man, desperately trying to fit in while not losing himself, someone who connects with other dragons of his past for guidance, Jafira for his youth and playfulness, Veltra for his wisdom, and intellect, as well as his past perception Korageth for his strength pride and will! I am someone who isn't afraid to play with the forces of the unknown, or seek his own path in life.

Someone who will climb the highest peak and gaze down in awe at Gods great creations, one who seeks to enjoy the peace of nature, and explore unknown areas in search of new adventures that others believe cannot possibly exist, one who spends his free times studying lost knowledge in the tops of forest trees in a hidden oasis in the desert, far from civilization, free to be with creation and the beauty around him.

Someone who has lived his life with much pain and suffering and has learned to always persevere for the greater reward, someone who has seen his past demolished and heartbroken can still look to the future bright eyed with the knowledge that his past was good, someone who has been hurt and alone and though weary to give his heart, can truly appreciate the warmth and undeserved love that a relationship can give.

A writer who writes tales of the world he believed to be his home, the creatures he wishes he could meet again, his characters sacrificing their lives always for the benefit of the greater good, an artist at heart who though lacking of his own skill can see the deep heart, individual skill and effort in the artwork of others, cherishing the work placed in each stroke. A poet in the darker depths of his mind, and one given to long speeches to no one but the spirits and nature around him.

Someone who had cloaked himself in darkness because no one showed him the light, a simple man, who wants nothing more then a simple life, a peaceful life to follow his dreams, to fulfill his ambitions, to rest, to sleep, to love, to be loved, and to sit upon the mountains with his friends and love ones, watching the blazing sunset in the distance, and learning to rest happily with those he can love and trust. Nothing more.

That is who I am...

Conclusion:

That about covers my bio, it was long, but thorough, I am gladly open to discussions or questions, and happy to meet new people, preferably the friendly kind.

Thank you for reading, I feel that it is important that, if I am to go through the trouble to create these resources and community, that my visitors should know at least a little about the person in charge. I will do my best to serve my guests in any way that I can and work hard to provide the best for dragon lovers across the globe.

~May the spirit of the dragon live on in all who believe.

Dragons Rule!

Dragon Code

This is my dragon code, generated at Dragon Realms, it shows information concerning my dragon aspects.

DC2.D Gm L W T Pf Sks Cbk Bfl A Fr--- Nm M O H++ $ F~c/j R++ Ac+ J+ S+ U+ I- V Q+ Tc+ E? Df
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