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=== Draconic Divinations === | === Draconic Divinations === | ||
Durian leaves home for the first time and is given an alarming vision of the future before meeting a [[Silver Dragon]] with a peculiar ideology, causing him to have a crisis of faith… | Durian leaves home for the first time and is given an alarming vision of the future before meeting a [[Silver dragon|Silver Dragon]] with a peculiar ideology, causing him to have a crisis of faith… | ||
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Durian did not ask for explicit permission to leave [[Jadenhill]], but after the [[Dragon]] attack and theft of the [[Selune Splinter]], he felt an obligation to protect his home and find a new way of defending his clan from annihilation. He wore his [[Elf|Wood Elf]] disguise everywhere early in his journey due to fears of hostility towards [[Dragonborn]], but dropped this precaution soon before arriving in the city of [[Synàra]] to gage how people would respond. Sensing no immediate animosity, he ceased the pretense of a disguise while still remaining guarded about the hometown of [[Dragonborn]] he heralded from. | Durian did not ask for explicit permission to leave [[Jadenhill]], but after the [[Dragon]] attack and theft of the [[Selune Splinter]], he felt an obligation to protect his home and find a new way of defending his clan from annihilation. He wore his [[Elf|Wood Elf]] disguise everywhere early in his journey due to fears of hostility towards [[Dragonborn]], but dropped this precaution soon before arriving in the city of [[Synàra]] to gage how people would respond. Sensing no immediate animosity, he ceased the pretense of a disguise while still remaining guarded about the hometown of [[Dragonborn]] he heralded from. | ||
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He entered a fortune teller's tent, expecting an entertaining swindle for one gold piece…what he got instead was a cryptic prophecy. The teller gazed into his scrying sphere as the lights dimmed and he described a flood of smoke which would precede the return of powerful [[Dragon|Dragons]]. The teller peered to Durian, staring him down with a bewildered expression and asked "who are you?" Durian could only stutter out, "I'm a [[Dragonborn]]," unsure of how to respond. The fortune teller warned, "you should leave [[Synàra]]," before light returned to the tent and the prophecy faded from view. | He entered a fortune teller's tent, expecting an entertaining swindle for one gold piece…what he got instead was a cryptic prophecy. The teller gazed into his scrying sphere as the lights dimmed and he described a flood of smoke which would precede the return of powerful [[Dragon|Dragons]]. The teller peered to Durian, staring him down with a bewildered expression and asked "who are you?" Durian could only stutter out, "I'm a [[Dragonborn]]," unsure of how to respond. The fortune teller warned, "you should leave [[Synàra]]," before light returned to the tent and the prophecy faded from view. | ||
Durian exited the tent shaken, but barely a minute passed before he would experience his first crisis of faith in the teachings of [[Bahamut]] as he witnessed [[Sro|Sro the Silver Dragon]], seemingly allied with a [[Red Dragon]] and a [[Black Dragon]], descending upon the festivities and [[Three Dragons on Synàra|attacking the city]]. Durian joined a group of adventurers who were dashing towards city hall to confront the [[Silver Dragon]]. Once they caught up, however, they quickly discovered the [[Dragon|Greatwyrm]] was simply too powerful to take down as it laid waste to the building's stone walls as if they were parchment. Durian avoided a breath weapon which took down most of the city guard and followed the massive creature inside the building. He tried to get closer to its head by climbing onto a balcony, but one whip from the [[Dragon|Dragon's]] tail sent Durian tumbling back to the ground floor. As Durian struggled to stand back up, he tried sending [[Sro]] a telepathic message: "child of [[Bahamut]], what is it that you want? Let us help you and cease this destruction!" The [[Silver Dragon]] turned his head towards Durian and bellowed out "bring me the mayor!" What they didn't know was that some of the other adventurers were smuggling the mayor out of the building as Durian helped distract [[Sro]]. The mayor was rescued, but the [[Dragon]] grabbed one of the mayor's assistants in its claws before flying away with a thunderous boom. | Durian exited the tent shaken, but barely a minute passed before he would experience his first crisis of faith in the teachings of [[Bahamut]] as he witnessed [[Sro|Sro the Silver Dragon]], seemingly allied with a [[Red Dragon]] and a [[Black Dragon]], descending upon the festivities and [[Three Dragons on Synàra|attacking the city]]. Durian joined a group of adventurers who were dashing towards city hall to confront the [[Silver dragon|Silver Dragon]]. Once they caught up, however, they quickly discovered the [[Dragon|Greatwyrm]] was simply too powerful to take down as it laid waste to the building's stone walls as if they were parchment. Durian avoided a breath weapon which took down most of the city guard and followed the massive creature inside the building. He tried to get closer to its head by climbing onto a balcony, but one whip from the [[Dragon|Dragon's]] tail sent Durian tumbling back to the ground floor. As Durian struggled to stand back up, he tried sending [[Sro]] a telepathic message: "child of [[Bahamut]], what is it that you want? Let us help you and cease this destruction!" The [[Silver dragon|Silver Dragon]] turned his head towards Durian and bellowed out "bring me the mayor!" What they didn't know was that some of the other adventurers were smuggling the mayor out of the building as Durian helped distract [[Sro]]. The mayor was rescued, but the [[Dragon]] grabbed one of the mayor's assistants in its claws before flying away with a thunderous boom. | ||
Durian was left confused and with so many questions…why would a child of [[Bahamut]] conspire with spawns of [[Tiamat]] to commit such a seemingly evil act? To find out why, Durian responded to some local calls for aid and joined a rescue party that was on its way to confront [[Sro]] at his lair. The journey took several days to navigate [[Isonhound|Isonhound's]] thick forests, but after scaling a mountain and finally arriving at the lair's cavernous entrance, the [[Silver Dragon]] was surprisingly receptive to them. [[Sro]] clarified that he was not allied with the [[Dragon#Chromatic Dragons|Chromatic Dragons]], but rather, he had been abducting mayors in order to better prepare humankind to battle [[Dragon|Dragons]] again. Durian was not impressed with this answer but held his tongue, knowing better than to fight or argue with one of the children of his deity. Still, he could not shake his worries…was it really wise to be raising armies of [[Dragon]] killers only a few decades after the heedless genocide of the [[The Second Draconic Crusades|Second Draconic Crusades]]? How long would it be before a new generation of crusaders rose up to finish off the remaining [[Dragonborn]]? He returned to [[Synàra]] in search of another job, one that he hoped would reveal a better path forward. | Durian was left confused and with so many questions…why would a child of [[Bahamut]] conspire with spawns of [[Tiamat]] to commit such a seemingly evil act? To find out why, Durian responded to some local calls for aid and joined a rescue party that was on its way to confront [[Sro]] at his lair. The journey took several days to navigate [[Isonhound|Isonhound's]] thick forests, but after scaling a mountain and finally arriving at the lair's cavernous entrance, the [[Silver dragon|Silver Dragon]] was surprisingly receptive to them. [[Sro]] clarified that he was not allied with the [[Dragon#Chromatic Dragons|Chromatic Dragons]], but rather, he had been abducting mayors in order to better prepare humankind to battle [[Dragon|Dragons]] again. Durian was not impressed with this answer but held his tongue, knowing better than to fight or argue with one of the children of his deity. Still, he could not shake his worries…was it really wise to be raising armies of [[Dragon]] killers only a few decades after the heedless genocide of the [[The Second Draconic Crusades|Second Draconic Crusades]]? How long would it be before a new generation of crusaders rose up to finish off the remaining [[Dragonborn]]? He returned to [[Synàra]] in search of another job, one that he hoped would reveal a better path forward. | ||
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=== Surprise Sapphire === | === Surprise Sapphire === |