Fifth Mercy - Video (backdated to May 20)

[ofgoldenfoil]

[ Aurican doesn't look any different, even though he has undergo a thousand years of change. He is still larger now (he might have some difficulty in fitting inside doors now), his horns seem a little longer, scales still shining, but his wings have undergo the greatest growth.

His wings are now large enough for him to fly. ]

Does anyone learn how to fly? Is there anyone I can learn from?

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[draconic_historian]

You've certainly grown a bit. And now you want flying lessons?

I think that can be managed.

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[ofgoldenfoil]

I was told I can fly now, and I was heading toward my lesson before I was taken here. A shame, I was ready to explore the world.

[ Aurican is not very pleased at being taken way before that vital lesson. He was finally leaving the grotto, to learn the world outside.

Just thinking of home makes Aurican remember the tales of his mother and her sisters, and he digs his claws into the floor, scratching it nervously. He remembers the tales of Furyion, the dragon of the red scales, and of his downfall . . . and the resulting death of his mother. ]

Speaking of which, what was the world you came from? If you pardon the sudden question?

[draconic_historian]

It was just "the World" to us. We rarely put much effort into considering other worlds.

But it was a world where our kind ruled. Humanoids of all kinds bowed to dragonkind as their masters, and to our credit, most of us made an effort to let them flourish.

[ofgoldenfoil]

[ Not Krynn. That's the important part, Aurican believes. If the metallic dragons were taught that the world was named Krynn, then chromatic dragons would be as well.

If Patersmith was right, then no humanoid race ever seen a dragon since the death of the Sons of Takhisis and the Daughters of Paladine, which marks this dragon as not from Aurican's world, despite his red scales.

Until he said the last sentence, of course. Aurican frowns. ]

'Most of us?' You mean not all of dragonkind did?

[draconic_historian]

[Ricasthix shrugged.]

We are like any sentient being. Some of us our noble, some wicked, most a mix of both. We have vastly more power than the humanoids do, and some choose to use that power to oppress and enslave. If it goes too far, a dragon's neighbors will eventually intervene, but each is free to rule his land as he sees fit.

[ofgoldenfoil]

[ That sounds a lot like chromatic dragons, even though he doesn't recall his mothers or his aunts really interacting with other races with that level of dedication, if at all. It is not something Patersmith really expounded upon. ]

I do not believe my world hasn't seen dragons since my mothers and aunts, according to my tutor in the grotto. They all died before my nestmates and I hatched. So I was wondering if you were from my world or not.

[draconic_historian]

It's hard to say for sure, since you've never been able to describe much of your world, but I don't think I am.

[ofgoldenfoil]

That is true. If I was taken to here after my flying lesson, I might have seen it.

[ He's not happy with the Initiative's way of timing. ]