Sylvia/Stories

General Stories Misc

Quotes

When Entering Dragon's Roost

I have awaited you, Euden.

Welcome, Euden. What is it you seek?

Such splendid weather today. Will you stay awhile and bask with me?

After Receiving a Gift

You are welcome to this. It may prove useful to you.

Please take this as a token of my thanks.

After Bond Level Increase

I will do all I can to help usher in a more peaceful era.

I believe in you, for I know you will create a world without war.

Idle After Bond Level 1

Friend or foe, seeing the injured always tears at my heart.

The sunlight here is so gentle. It's lovely.

You retain your kindness even in the heat of battle. This earns you my trust.

Idle After Bond Level 10

A gentle breeze and a nice, warm patch of sunshine to doze in? This is true happiness.

Shall I teach you how to read the weather patterns?

Everyone gathered at the Halidom is so kind. This is a reflection of your own personality, I'm sure.

Idle After Bond Level 20

Your kindness will surely lead the world to peace.

This new life has its own unique appeal. This makes me grateful to have met you.

The world outside the village is vast and imposing—but with you nearby, I'm not afraid.

Dragon Story Episodes
A Guardian's Promise

Deep within a vast forest, secluded

from the outside world, there lived

a single dragon.

She was the forest's guardian, and

her name was Sylvia. Kind of heart,

she loved both nature and solitude,

and drove away any human who

sought to enter her home.

As a dragon, she had witnessed

humanity's history unfold for

centuries, and had seen their

foolishness, selfishness, and desire

for conflict first-hand.

"If fighting really is human nature,"

she often thought, "then I will do all I

can to keep them from this place,

so that it may continue to be one of

peace and tranquility."

But one day, a group came to the

forest who were very different from

all those she had seen before.

The gentle woman leading the group

lowered her head deeply to Sylvia.

"Guardian of this forest," she said,

"pray grant we sylvans leave to live

here, for we have heard much of it."

Grastaea was then a land of strife,

with large nations fighting for control

of the continent. Their homes razed,

the sylvans had no choice but to

seek refuge in the woods.

Sylvia was a kind-hearted dragon,

and seeing pitiable sylvans free of

malice and ill intent, she could not

simply turn them away.

"Very well," said Sylvia. "You may

live here. But I have two conditions.

You must promise to avoid conflict—

no matter how trivial—and you may

not bear arms of any kind."

Without hesitation, the sylvans threw

away their weapons. In truth, they

bore them only for self-defense, and

knew they were useless against foes

of even the slightest strength.

Thus, the sylvans built their

settlement deep within the forest and

began to live side-by-side with Sylvia.

The sylvans were filled with kindness

and love at the dragon's gift,

and went on to live in harmony

with one another.

They also respected Sylvia and all

the forest's creatures—as well as

nature as a whole. And seeing

their way of life, the dragon was

forced to rethink her views.

Clearly, not everyone was worthy

of contempt; some loved peace and

nature just as she did. Realizing this,

Sylvia swore to be the guardian of

the sylvans as well as the forest.

Just then, however, tragedy struck,

for the flames of war finally reached

the forest in which she lived.

A group of sylvans came to Sylvia's

forest fleeing war, and she permitted

them to settle there provided they

lived free of conflict and did not

bear arms of any sort.

Seeing their way of life, she had been

forced to accept that not all people

were despicable, and so swore to

serve as their guardian.

However, the war they had fled

showed no signs of ending, and

finally reached their new home.

At this, Sylvia immediately rose

up to defend them.

"You have nothing to fear, sylvans,"

she assured them. "For no matter

what may come, I will keep you

safe from harm."

But Sylvia had underestimated the

evil a human heart is capable of.

For it was not an army of men that

arrived in the forest, but legions

of fiends under their command.

The battle between nations had

become so fierce that they had

begun to fight using fiends—and

Sylvia's forest had tragically become

the site for their latest battle.

The fiends trampled the forest like a

great storm, and much as Sylvia

tried, many sylvans lost their lives.

She was filled with regret, for the

sylvans had no means to defend

themselves. If she had permitted

them weapons, however weak,

perhaps some might have lived.

"If I hadn't forced them to give up

their arms..."

"If I hadn't taken away their only

means of defending themselves..."

Sylvia went to the sylvans' leader—

who had barely survived the battle—

and asked them to take up arms in

self-defense once more.

"You may one day be faced again

with a disaster I cannot save you

from," she said. "And if you do not

have the means or the will to fight,

you will perish."

"I believe in you. I know you will

not use those weapons for your

own self-interest like savages.

Instead, you will use them only to

protect that which you hold dear."

Thus the sylvans once more took up

arms—but only to protect others from

conflict, as opposed to causing it.

Within their kindness, they also

possessed great strength and

courage—and that courage still

persists in the sylvans who live

in that settlement today.