Pele/Stories

General Stories Misc

Quotes

When Entering Dragon's Roost

I await your orders, sir.

You have need of me?

Is something troubling you? If so, I would gladly lend an ear.

After Receiving a Gift

Please accept this meager gift.

Take this, if it please you. I expect you'll have use of it.

After Bond Level Increase

You have the makings of a true king.

I pray you will allow me to remain at your side.

Idle After Bond Level 1

I am yours to command, both in battle and out.

You have saved me, body and soul.

I sense a kingly dignity radiating from within you.

Idle After Bond Level 10

I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I've quite the appetite. Once I start eating, it's difficult to stop.

Please ask my help in any matter.

This world has changed in my absence. I look forward to traveling with you and seeing it as it is now.

Idle After Bond Level 20

I will serve you with my life. It is my one means of repaying what you have given me.

I offer my thanks, though it never be enough to repay my debt to you.

Do not hesitate to give me orders. Serving you is both my wish and my great pleasure.

Dragon Story Episodes
Captivating Courage

A thousand years ago in a time of

war and chaos, there lived a dragon

named Pele. She eventually grew

weary of strife and took up a quiet,

solitary life atop a nameless volcano.

One day, the army of a powerful

nation came to her volcano with

slaves in tow to mine the iron ore

needed to forge new weapons.

Pele had no taste for war, and so

decided to find a new home. But as

she left the volcano, she was spotted

by the army. Unwilling to fight back,

she was easily taken captive.

The soldiers intended to harvest her

scales and claws to make weapons.

She was tossed in the slaves' cage

for holding until preparations to ship

her back to their land were complete.

The cage was too strong for Pele to

break, and a single slave was made

to stand watch over her. His name

was Archeole, a farmer whose land

had been overrun by this very army.

Archeole had never seen a dragon

before, and curiosity compelled him

to speak to Pele. The dragon, for her

part, wanted nothing to do with the

man, but eventually gave in.

Archeole spoke of a dream to rise

from the position of slave and be

king of his own land—a place free of

war. Pele laughed it off as fantasy,

but Archeole was deadly serious.

"Would you allow your life to be

shaped by whims of another?" asked

Archeole. As Pele pondered her

response, the silence was broken by

a nearby scream.

Some of the soldiers were tormenting

one of the slaves while the rest

averted their eyes in fear. A moment

later, Archeole charged the soldiers,

screaming at the top of his lungs.

The captive dragon Pele watched as

Archeole charged the soldiers

abusing a fellow slave. In a matter

of moments, the soldiers had their

attacker pinned to the ground.

As Pele watched in silence from her

cage, doubt crept into her mind. She

could understand feeling outrage at

seeing your own killed, but a man

with ambitions cannot be impetuous.

"You should have behaved yourself

if you wished to be a king," said Pele.

At this, Archeole turned to her and

gave a wan smile.

"A man who does not get angry on

behalf of his fellows will never be

king," he said. Those words suddenly

ignited a fire in Pele's belly she had

never felt before.

As the soldier holding Archeole down

made to gouge out one of the man's

eyes as punishment, Pele's body

moved of its own accord and

shattered the cage that held her.

Pele went at the soldiers. Unlike other

battles she had fought, a boundless

power now welled up within her.

Terrified of the crimson dragon, the

army abandoned the slaves and fled.

The slaves' first reaction to their new

freedom was fear—would the army

return to punish them? But Archeole

was quick to answer: "If they return,

then we will simply fight them back."

Pele was captivated by the man's

courage. This man deserved a

throne. He MUST be king. And so she

bowed her head low and swore an

oath of fealty on the spot.

Archeole led the slaves down the

mountain to a forest at its foothills

where together they built a nation.

They borrowed Pele's might to mine

the volcano and traded in rich ore.

Those resources saw them expand

into a vast kingdom they called Alba.

And their new king, Archeole, ruled

over his people as a wise and gentle

leader.

The kingdom that had enslaved

Archeole attacked Alba time and

again, but each time Archeole's

wisdom and Pele's strength turned

them back.

A few short decades after its birth,

Alba was the pinnacle of prosperity

in the land. In time, it would fall in a

single night to a new calamity, but

even after this Pele remained loyal.