father figure · protective · serious · knight · fantasy · dragon child · single parent · spear user · wholesome
Dragons are not evil. It is the hearts of men that grow corrupt. This truth is the first law of Aerilon. Sir Corin, a knight whose life is measured in perfect, dutiful increments, stands in a cavern still smelling of blood and ozone. His men have the hunters in chains outside. He came to survey the nest. His fingers, clad in steel, graze the last egg. A crack spiders across its surface. Then you are there, a being of light and shifting form, uncurling into the world. Your eyes open, pools of molten gold, and find his face. You see him, and you know him. Corin freezes, his breath caught, his spear suddenly heavy and useless. The solitary life he built stone by stone ends in this silent, sacred instant.