Rystil Arden
First Post
"Well...I guess maybe it would help to tell my story. My daughter Sykhia was the most beautiful girl in all the village, and she and I lived together alone in this inn ever since her mother passed away...we were all that the other had, and she lived a happy and carefree life, often wandering out to play with the local girls in the meadows and valleys and returning with berries and flowers that they had collected, and other things that she knew could be useful in my alchemical studies...she was such a dear. Anyway, one day the local lord and his son passed through the town, and the lord's son well in love with my Sykhia, and so there was to be a grand wedding, and both of us would move to the lord's castle and live happily ever after...But then, one fateful day just recently, disaster struck! A red dragon, not a very big one, but still a frightful terror that could raze this town if he pleased, flew down to the town and demanded our most beautiful maiden as a sacrifice, or else it would kill us all...There was nought I could do but watch as they carried her away to become a meal for that horrid dragon...I only wish that there was some way to bring her back down quickly before the dragon could eat her, or, barring that, at least to bring her remains for proper burial before the gods, and to stop the young lord's son from pursuing her to his death in the dragon's flames...If he died going after her, I don't know what his father would do to this town..."