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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 1674283" data-attributes="member: 630">PROPYROGENOS, THE FAIRFLAMEThe city of Brael can, in the defense of liberty--a thing it is practically unheard of in the Aguire--call upon the aid of its many wizards and sorcerers--its devoted citizens--and in a true crisis, its resident dragon, the Red Wyrm* Propyrogenos, more commonly known as Fairflame.The dragon Fairflame is famously eccentric even for that eccentric race.  The Lineages Pythonis, Chancellor Wheldrake's definitive tome of draconic ancestry declairs that he is the son of Pyrogenes, the famed dragon Scarjowl, and the Heliostes, more commonly known as Fancyflame.  He seems to have inherited his father's physical ability, and his mother's oddly dainty behavior.The residents of Brael first became aware of Propyrogenos in 867 BRE when facing an attack by the Banded Horde**, the city's elders were startled when a young Red Dragon flew overhead, and destroyed the invaders, declaring loudly that he viewed Brael as his territory, under his protection.  The Braelites while thankful for the defeat of the invading goblins, were less than thrilled to have a dragon nesting in their city.  This soon changed as Fairflame did not follow the usual patterns of such beasts--he did not demand tribute (as have many dragons of a noble--even heroic bent)--he did not bespoil their local forests with his hunts--he did not even demand they build something for him.  In fact, Propyrogenos simply disappeared.  While divinations, and a later attack by the black dragon Viscious demonstrated he was still in the area, he was, until called upon to defend the city, exceedingly unobtrusive.Over the years, Fairflame rose to the defense of his city on many occasions--from the dragons Bittertongue, Poisonclaw, Flamefury, Stormsong, and Wavedance--from the invasions of Grael, Hirae, the Black Ship Norveni, and the hordes of Hage the Halfdead, exiled Black Knight of Urek Mersa.  During the conquest of the Aguire, wariness of the dragon, as well as Brael's numerous magicians convinced Ider the Great to settle matters by treaty.  During the Azerai invasion, Brael was under a near constant siege--Propyrogenos's efforts during those years were exemplery, proving quite possibly the only thing that saved the city.It remains a great mystery how it is Propyrogenos manages to keep himself so unobtrusive.  Most suspect he is hiding in plain sight, taking the form of a human living in Brael.  Still, the dragon has at least some of his race's inherrant paranoia--his exact location has been carefully hidden from all divinations, and while a few people are rumored to know his identity, all of them deny it utterly.During the end of the Azerai's reign, Fairflame was heavily wounded by the tyrannous invaders and their beasts in an epic battle that demolished Brael's harbors.  He has not been seen since, not even when Blackcastle Tower invaded.  Some fear that he is dead, or has abandoned the city.  Still, the Nibelung wizard Bors put it best, perhaps; "He's a DRAGON, ya mincing idiots, not a watchdog!  Fairflame will come to us when he knows he's needed, and not a second sooner.  In fact, how do you know he hasn't already done that?"-----* It has been brought to my understanding that the Dragon situation in most worlds is slightly different than ours, so allow me to clarify--in Tur An Tiel we have six (seven if you count dragonels) breeds of true, or high dragon--gold, red, blue, green, white, and silver--that can be good, evil, or self-centered as their hearts take them, and three breeds of dark dragons--black (more properly called skull), venom, and shadow--that are thoroughly vicious and evil.**The Banded Horde was a Hill and Mountain Goblin army under the leadership of one Serus Squinteye, a Mountain Goblin of terrifying strength and intelligence.  They were called the Banded Horde because all dressed in Banded Mail, a fact that has some seeing the influence of some Hirae or Seilen merchant prince--a claim that any living descendents of such folk deny with great vehemence and length.</blockquote>

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