Pele/Stories
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.