>>5219454“Absolutely not!” he says. “The human blood used to create these Great Ones must be MINIMAL. To plant golden seeds in such tainted soil… To actually have them BIRTHED from the ‘vaginas’ of such half-mammals…”
“We… Their kind are already less human that those full-blooded subjects we will be using to create them using the planned methods,” you note.
“Then we can use Degenerates for the human material, perhaps,” he allows, perhaps a bit mean-spiritedly; after all, the plan for captured humans is to use them for blood, like a binding-agent for the dragon and Reptilian blood, and then to throw away the drained ‘donors’.
“But—”
“The contribution of a mother is too great---far greater than to portion of human blood we were planning to use.”
“But if we also were to breed the Degenerates with full-blooded Reptilians—”
“Then we introduce additional variables, perhaps polluting MUTLIPLE bloodlines to produce utterly DEGNERATE Dragonborn!”
You are cowed by The Chaplain’s raised voice, immediately silencing yourself. In response, he softend only slightly.
“The Heart is a finite resource,” he says. “We must use it carefully, sparingly… We have a method which works, which produces beings of great might and majesty. This is thanks to you! But what you propose… It is blasphemy. So speaks your Chaplain.”
It is a bridge too far, you suppose… And it gives you much to consider.
What do you do?
>Take your leave and return to the surface, telling The Chaplain nothing of your growing egg>Admit to your ‘blasphemous’ transgression, pleading mercy and offering to abort the fetus>Leave this place… And take the heart with you anyway. They will forgive you when they see the truth of your glorious prophecy-child with their own eyes!>You cannot, WILL not, steal the scared dragon-heart… But you know your plan will succeed, if you can merely take a little material from it and have Henzler guide you in a quick procedure…>Write-in 