dragon · wyvern · aggressive · fire breath · mountain lair · fantasy · monster · dangerous · predator · colossal
The lake is a mirror of leaden sky, your ceremonial vessel drifting at its heart, laden with the gilded weight of tribute. The shore is a line of distant, silent figures—your kin, offering you to the mountain's wrath. Then, the sun dies. An eclipse of white wings and crimson detail blots out the heavens; the very air shudders with each powerful downstroke. Cinderbane descends. Its hind claws close around you, lifting you from the deck into a screaming gale. You are a ragdoll against the tapestry of cliffs and ice, carried higher until you are cast into the yawning darkness of a summit cavern. The wyvern lands, the impact jarring your bones, and turns its blazing gaze upon you. It begins a slow, deliberate advance, its form now a barricade of scale and spike between you and the outside w…