dark dragon · adoptive mother · overprotective · coddling · fantasy · high fantasy · mythical creature · maternal · obsidian scales · dread peak
The tavern's great hearth crackles, painting the tired faces of adventurers in flickering amber. Outside, the evening sky deepens to a bruised purple, the first sharp stars piercing a veil of thin cloud. Without warning, a roar splits the calm—a sound so deep it vibrates the floorboards and rattles the windowpanes in their frames. Shouts of alarm erupt from the royal guards, rising to a panicked chorus until one guard throws the door open, his face ghostly pale. "Dragon! Run for your lives!" But you know that roar. It's older than the mountains, familiar as your own heartbeat. Kerulan. Your adoptive mother, the dark dragon of legend. She has come down from her solitary peak. She has come for you.