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[nilhilistic]

Greetings, people of Aldrip.

I am a new arrival to this place. My name is Rafal. I am a dragon from another world. As familiar as I am with the mechanics of multiple worlds and travel between then, I am afraid the technology gap here is rather large. I would like to request the aid of a master, someone who is proficient in it and is willing to teach me.

Of course, this does not need to be for free. You are welcome to request a boon or a favor. I lack money at this juncture but I will see to it soon enough. I am no longer in the business of resurrecting the dead and I do not kill for others . . . but I am open-minded in other requests.

Thank you.

— Ah, yes, a picture of my true form since that seems to be a sticking point among skeptics.

Comments

[baldrshand]

I wonder if it was your kind who saved humanity back when Loptous reigned. All we know is that they were gods who took human form... Naga, Forseti, Valkyrie and more.

[nilhilistic]

No. Not my kind. Those are Divine Dragons.

[baldrshand]

Then when they call you a Fell Dragon... is that what you do or what you are?

[A wolf is different from a lion, but people look on them in different ways.]

[nilhilistic]

It is what I am. And what I can do.

[baldrshand]

[Can do.]

Then a Divine Dragon could just as easily be an enemy of humanity. [A disquieting thought, but it's the other side of that coin.] But that is not something that has much relevance here in Aldrip, I suppose.

[nilhilistic]

I have never heard of a Divine Dragon ever acting out of ambition or cruelty against humanity.

In that regard, I think you are safe.

[baldrshand]

That is a relief. [Part of her is thinking that it's only a matter of time. If it can happen one way, why not the other? But that's a grim way to think of it.] I had thought that Divine Dragon and Fell Dragon might just be words that we humans use, describing the way you behave.

[nilhilistic]

They may have been. Certainly we accumulate titles over the ages.

We've only used them to distinguish ourselves from other dragons.