Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Brass dragon

Every race with multiple variants comes with a "chaotic good trickster" archetype, and for the dragons, its the brass.

Gentle Genevieve is an an ancient brass dragon known for her skill at gardening. Such were here skill and indeed age, that the tree between worlds, Yggdrassil, was actually one of the very first plants she sowed. As she had multiple majestic plants, gardens, saplings and forests to tend to across the world, many of her favourites had guardians. For Ygdrassil, indeed, she had formed an entire order of knights, sworn to protect it. Alas, when the giants from beyond the stars invaded, Yggrdassil was felled. Genevieve grew violent and bitter, and went on a mad, bloodthirsty hunt to eradicate the Order of The Tree along with their entire bloodlines.

Whimsical Watcher of the Worlds is the title an outgoing, cosmopolitan young brass dragon claims. He trades in secrets with those he deems worthy, gathering info about any potential clients, before inviting them for a try at one of the many games he has collected over the years. In the last century, he most often faced opponents in three-dimensional chess, or tarot bridge. However, his latest fascination is a new game created by a mad minotaur wizard called J'ason. In the game, players create fake personas, and re-enact adventures from the epics, throwing weird, crystalline dice to determine whether they fail or triumph.

An oppressive order of knights known as the Brvtalmarines have conquered what were once halfling lands. As a cruel joke, the knights offer trial by combat as an option instead of judge and jury deciding the fate of the local populace. When the leader of a localized uprising is arrested, it is no surprise that he chooses to try and fight his way to freedom - what is a surprise, though, is him revealing his form as a mighty brass dragon. Opposing him, as a champion of the marines, is an ill-fated double agent who was only there to sabotage the trial in the first place, but convincing the dragon of that will be no easy task.

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