Things are coming together. And I'm loving it.
Key words
Dreams (in a nutshell,
The Grove and probably other people and animals over the years)
Pleas (from one desperate little griffin)
Promised the equivocation of human and animalkind (Pete basically tried to fool people with a false promise)
One human mortal (Mr. Henry Milton, who was obsessed with
human-animal reconcilitation, took the bait)
Five thousand year headstart (now we have an idea of when this duel began)
Dragon's Sovereign Spiritist (aka Tarot)
Dream Sunderer (Peanut, Grape, and surprisingly Fido)
Needs enormous quantities of either purity or imagination (purity medal goes to Peanut and Fido, but imagination to Peanut and Grape)
Cannot be "in love" with anyone (explains why Pete couldn't pick anyone from his fantasy DS team)
Dragon interposed with her own
followers (Tarot was not the only one tasked with interfering in Pete's plans)
A mortal ineligible due to his species (Zack, who bravely and valiantly foiled the plans of the diabolical Mr. Pete by making him incapable of choosing any of his desired candidates)