Tiamat’s colossal form fills the opened breach, her five heads framed by storm-red radiance. Bottu stands wounded at the broken seal’s center as the Maw trembles around them.
Through the Crown, Bottu sees distant flashes across the world: Histol’s wards dim, ancient roads lose their protective runes, and dragon-signs awaken like burning scars in the sky.
Tiamat
Look upon it, bearer. The old protections fail, and the world remembers the shape of my dominion.
The vision widens through the Crown. Far-off towers darken, buried altars stir, and distant mountains answer with colored fire beneath their peaks.
Tiamat
My power is spreading beyond the Maw, faster than even I can gather it. Before it escapes every purpose, help me shape the first decree of this returned age.
Tiamat
What shall the world hear first from its restored mother: obedience, protection, or the promise that dragonkind will rise again?
Her question rolls through the cavern and across the Crown’s bond. The broken seal gives no answer, leaving the first law of the new age before Bottu.
✓ Quest Accepted
Issue Tiamat’s first decree
““The return of Dragonkind… for so long the other races pushed out of the way towards extinction. While there are good in them many have hunted us, the same way the hunted you into imprisonment. Please. Let our people rise once more.” *I rest a hand on her front leg, expressing my full commitment and desire for the new age with her.*”
SUCCESS (Legendary Willpower, rolled +1)
Bottu
The return of dragonkind. Other races drove our people toward extinction, as they hunted you into imprisonment. Please, let our people rise once more.
Bottu crosses the broken seal and rests one hand against Tiamat’s colossal front leg. His commitment passes through the Crown, not as surrender, but as a chosen bond with the age he has called into being.
Tiamat
Rise, then, my children. Your plea carries the memory of hunted blood, and I will not answer it with another extinction.
Across the world, the awakened dragon-signs flare beneath mountain peaks and within forgotten lairs. Scattered dragonkind feels the call, and ancient blood answers from hiding.
Tiamat
My first decree is this: dragonkind shall have refuge, voice, and sovereign ground. Let every surviving clutch gather beneath my protection, and let no hunter mistake our patience for weakness.
The decree travels through Bottu’s Crown and beyond the Maw. Far-off cries answer it, while new fires kindle in the darkness, and the returned age takes its first breath.
Quest Complete
Issue Tiamat’s first decree