Dyn`leth the Dragonborn  

 

Dyn`leth the Dragonborn

When Dyn`leth reached maturity he changed suddenly and dramatically. It started in the evening. He was awakened by an itch. He scratched and tried to go back to sleep, but the itch persisted. It spread over his entire body and was agonizingly relentless.

Dyn`leth dove into the clear waters of the shrine and scrubbed himself with ever increasing force. When his mother came to him, she was stoped by the sight of him.

In the pool floated patches of skin. Where they had come off of Dyn`leth's body were patches of dark, cold scales. Her son's hair was falling out in clumps and underneath were more black, serpentine scales. When the itching stopped and Dyn`leth stepped from the water, half of his body was slick and black and covered with gleaming scales. his head was sleek with them and above his ears were small ivory horns. The back of his hands were covered with fine glimmering black scales. When he looked at his reflection in the water, he felt that he was the most beautiful creature he had ever seen.

Veldyn screamed, she could not do otherwise. Dyn`leth turned from gazing at his own reflection to see Lethar enter the chamber. For the first time since his son was born, Lethar smiled. His plan had worked, only differently than he had expected.

When Dyn`leth was born, Lethar was tempted to eat the mother and child, for he had hoped for a child that was more like him and not so like his mother. He stayed his wrath, turning it upon Vergailid a fellow dragon protector of the broken shrine of Veeshan's Scale who remained trapped for some time in the depths of the shrine. For years, Lethar kept his family away from the trapped dragon and made no mention of Selay, his tru love, and he kept them away from Veeshan's Scale lest his true identity be revealed -- that he was born a black dragon and was charged with the protection of Veeshan's greatest gift to her children -- a scale from her chest. With the other draon protectors injured or killed during Solusek Ro's vengeance against Tunare, eh intended to call the scale his own.

When he saw his son's transformation he was very pleased. he strode over to the mother and son and stood over them in his assumed elven form and smiled. He then stood back and showed them his true form. His skin contorting and wings sprouting from his back, a great hulking black form unfirled before them.

When he stood above them as a Lethar the Scale Guardian he roared a mighty roar and sent his acidic breath skyward in triumph. The breath fell into the shrine, causing no harm to the stones nore to Dyn`leth. Drops of acid fell upon Veldyn and burned her, but her screams of pain only heightened the delight that Lethar felt in the birth of Dyn`leth as his dragon born elf-child.

Yther Ore.