>>5298782>>5298785>>5298787>>5298790>>5298798>>5298811>>5298825>>5298843>>5298904>>5298961>>5299025>>5299078You give only passing consideration to the images which spring up in your mind of a revived and revitalized dynasty of roaring flame, or an ideal and perfect kingship-over-creation helmed by your glorious and gold-wreathed glory. To become the old ideal of your people made real, or a new beacon of pride-worthy perfection… Well, there’s nothing WRONG with either of those imaginings. But neither of those carries the mysterious allure of the third, of the sensation which reached up from deep within and filled you with a warmth that said “this is who you were meant to be.”
You will be a Copper Dragon.
Almost as soon as you make the decision, you feel something shift and change. Something… Seismic. At first you think it is just within you, but then you hear the Bastard cry out, and you realize that the earth is really shaking around you! Your eyes snap open and you try to stand, but you stumble, nearly fall flat before you catch yourself. Where your claws gripped the stone for purchase, it has crumbles away, to small pebbles and to sand, and your gauntlets’ shape is yet imprinted upon what remains. You slowly rise, taking a step forward, and a fissure opens in the rocky ground beneath your feet before you.
“What is this?” you murmur.
You exchange a look with the Bastard, who seems to realize the connection between your actions and the tremors. You take another step, testing, and this time place more force into the stride—almost a stomp. The earth rattles violently around you, and the fissure explodes open, small spikes jutting upwards from the broken bedrock.
>Gained spell: Earth TremorThe rest of your retinue is shouting back and forth, clearly in a frenzy to secure an exit from this place, and so you calm your rising spirit and allow yourself to settle through meditative breathing, until the tremors cease. They have a point, after all: you do not wish to bring this cavern down on your heads and, while that might eb more power than you were technically evincing, right now you feel as if you COULD if you so desired.
“Come,” you say to the Bastard, who nods rapidly and rises to follow you, staring in fear and awe at what you are becoming. You wonder just what that might be… But know now that, whatever it is, it will be something to shake the very foundations of the world, and unlike anything that has come before or been dreamed of by Gods or their priests.
