Freyja/Stories

General Stories Misc

Quotes

When Entering Dragon's Roost

How do you do?

Have you need of some warm conversation?

The plant life informed me of your coming.

After Receiving a Gift

Please take this small token from me.

It's harvest season! Tee hee!

After Bond Level Increase

You are a person of boundless spirit.

I am truly blessed to have met you.

Idle After Bond Level 1

Death follows in the wake of battle. We must produce an even greater bounty to restore what was lost.

Have you seen my kitties? They're free spirits—just like their owner!

You are beloved by life of all kinds...like me!

Idle After Bond Level 10

What kinds of animals do you like? I love cats, of course. ...Oh, and humans!

Would you care for a ride in my cat-drawn cart?

This castle is blessed with bountiful smiles.

Idle After Bond Level 20

With you, any place is a paradise. Perhaps I don't even need my magic of prosperity.

To think a day would come when I, the bringer of bounty, would have my own heart filled by another...

I think you well understand true abundance.

Dragon Story Episodes
Where It Began

The day it began, I stood alone.
And yet, I was not lonely.
For upon this hill, I would bear
the fruit of a life writ large!

Ages passed, and life blossomed
on the hill. Among them were two
charming felines who loved to nap
beneath my weighty boughs.

Then came the most auspicious
event of all—my daughter's birth.

She was my darling. My beloved.
I could gaze eternally upon her
slumbering face; my love for
her is as endless as the sea.

With the gift of my love, my daughter
grew quickly, and soon formed an
interest in the world beyond the hill.

"I want to be like you, Mother!"
she cried. "I want to create
the world beyond the hill!"

It was hard to believe such a large
dream existed in one so small.
Yet soon she decided to leave
the hill, and because I loved
her so, I did not stop her.

Many came to see her off, yet I
paid them no mind. I could only
watch her go and wonder if my own
heart would collapse with sadness.

Would that I could have embraced
her before she departed—but alas,
I have only branches and leaves
with which to encircle others.

And so, I sent my two feline friends
to follow her. I bade them to make
sure she was well, and to inform
me if anything ever went amiss.

I heard nothing as the months and
years went on, and constantly told
myself such silence meant only that
my daughter was alive and happy.

But then, a change came to
the hill that I never expected...

With thoughts of my daughter ever
in my mind, I stood an endless vigil
over the hill where it all began.

But then, the menace appeared.

It was a threat to my hill, yet was not
calamity or fiend. Rather, it was the
workings of the very life I had so
carefully tended all those years.

The life I created had prospered
into a civilization that stole mana
from the very air and caused the
earth to boil from heat.

Droughts became legion, and once-
fertile fields went fallow. What irony,
that the very life I had so carefully
shepherded now threatened me!

Finally, I could go on no longer.
My tough bark peeled and shattered.
My boughs withered and broke.
I knew I could no longer maintain my
watch from my customary place.

I was sad, yet resigned—for I also
knew an end eventually came for all.

But as I finally began to let go,
a most unexpected thing occurred...

I heard a sound—a sound of life.
Yet not a single blade of grass
still stood upon my hill. So what,
then, had made the noise?

I lifted my heavy lids and saw my
beloved daughter standing before
me as a woman grown, my two
cats at her side as familiars.

"I'm home, Mother," she said
with a wave of her staff, as if
imploring me to look around.

My weary eyes suddenly burst open,
for my once-empty hill was now
fully alive with the power of creation.

My roots suddenly found new water.
My leaves burst forth with green life.
Renewed, I lowered a single branch
down to my daughter's angelic
face and said:

"Welcome home, Freyja."

Thus was all the nature of Alberia
born from one great tree, and thus
will a beloved daughter continue
to preserve the land with a power
that exceeds even her mother's!