Dragon stories need a paradigm shift

What if knights kidnapped a dragon princess?

>The aging king wants eternal youth.
>Is told by by a wizard that he can achieve that if he eats a fresh liver from a dragon of a certain noble lineage under a full moon while bathing in virgin blood.
>The king sends out the knights of the land to bring him the last surviving member of said noble dragon lineage, a young (in terms of dragon years) dragoness. They trick and kidnap the girl while she is donning a humanoid form and use a spell provided by the wizard to prevent her from reverting to her dragon form.

Would your murderhobo party be ready to save her? She doesn't have anything to reward you with, besides a very small pile of gold in cave left by her grandfather.

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Out of curiosity, if the girl is kidnapped, who's offering us the mission?

The story only works if there's a king to put a call to arms out.

And making deals with dragons is a really bad idea, even by murderhobo standards. People would take it because whoah dragons not immediately killing them, but it should bite them in the ass somehow.

I thought that was just Shadowrun's dragons. Why would a dragon stab you in the back for willingly saving them from apparently certain death in a relatively selfless fashion?

A dragon is an unnatural authority imposed on the world. Where a dragon is present, it assumes rulership of the locality, accumulates wealth and takes on servants.

It is the least of such axioms. Dragons must have invaded this world long ago, and though the influence they exert on it is mighty (especially the great catastrophe dragons) they have reached a point of stability. They are of the world. They can be destroyed by it.

There are other things, where the dragons came from, that might yet discover us. The princesses will be far worse.

This is how it works in my setting, and I did upload a random generator for it at one point.

Bear witness to your new monarch. The Blue Princess appears to be a human child, with jagged icicle teeth. She wears multicoloured robes over a breastplate forged from meteoric iron. The purpose of her rule is to gather great strength and survive the coming apocalypse. The monarch can only be permanently killed if her heart is extracted and consumed. Her sovereignty is made evident with the wealth of a fallen empire which she wears as jewellery, and she travels sitting on her many-legged walking throne.

>very small pile of gold
Small by dragon or human standards?

The dragon's adoptive parents, of course.

They are kobolds.

Yeah they'd save her. Several of them would like to become immortal.

I dunno man, my character's family lives in the kingdom we're in. This seems like a quick way to make enemies that can easily retaliate by attacking what my character holds dear.

Ah, yes the plot to the Kamigawa block.

>who's offering us the mission?
Ehh..

1) The old crone who raised her from when she was a small hatchling. The girl has been socialized to humans and not dragons, which is also why she had her guard down.

2) An old dragon who lives in the mountains, but is too old and infirm to do anything about it.

Take your pick.

Like 10-20 kg worth of coins and trinkets.

I'll do it for say 3 half-dragon kids and a pledge that any of my descendants can ask one favor from her for as long as she's alive.

dragons are assholes

it is a universal constant

You shut your whore mouth.

That's pupper, not a dragon.

What else should I use for big and scary but friendly monsters, then?

He's a Luck dragon.

>Dragon stories need a paradigm shift

"no"

What's a pupper?

A doge.

Stop your dragon ficki ficki fantasies.
You wouldn't be asking this of a human princess.

Particularly large turtles.

I mean, they're assholes with personal morals and stuff though.

In D&D a bronze/copper (forget which) is an asshole, but they're a well intentioned and good kind of asshole who lives long enough that most "bad" things that happen aren't a problem (mortals solved that shit before, they'll do it again, might as well refurbish my lair), and will bury you up to your neck in sand so it can have tea with you, ask you where you're from, what your goals are, what you think of the colour scheme of it's lair before letting you go and telling you to come back if you get any interesting stories to tell.

It's not a ficki ficki fantasy. I don't want to marry the dragon. I don't care if it's artificial insemination.

I wouldn't ask it of a human princess, but a human princess does nothing for me but give a weak royal claim, that would almost certainly be overturned considering the circumstances and which I'd have to commit to marriage to for it to be even the tiniest bit secure. Making my kids half-dragons vastly increases their potential and what, triples? Quadruples? Increases their lifespan even more than that? The favor from the dragon is just an investment: she might be relatively young now, but 10 descendants down the line this favor will be worth more than gold can buy.

>Would you like to know more?

YES.

The gen is here, under "Strange Dragon Royalty":

lastgaspgrimoire.com/generators/the-seventh-order-of-the-random-generator/

There's only one established axiom in the setting at the moment and she is the ruler of and cause of the skeleton kingdom (formerly a country called Hezurdura).

You have the most edge lord way of trying to build a lineage.

How is that edgy in any way?

A babby doggo

That's hot.

Stop right there.
Dragons are not for sexualizing, pervert scum.

Why are they so slutty then? There's half-dragon monsters of every kind all over the place.

I once saw a goddamn half-dragon stone golem, that shit ain't normal!

>dragon getting dommed by a stone golem
>implying that isn't hot af

Sounds like a fucken fun adventure if it's a chromatic dragon.

Gold dragons are bros and deserve our loyalty.

Yes, they would, though she would be in danger of getting molested by the monastic elan psion f the group. She likes exotic girls.

Ill save her and take the pile of gold

then ill take her under my wing and we will run the biggest insurance scam in the history of the kingdom

She could play the evil dragon and i could sell useless trinkets as Dragon repellent and horrendously bad insurances

We could even scam the Knights coming after her eventually

>Oyy i happens to be the best Dragon tracker in the realm, hire me and ill track the foul beast

Depends on who's paying and how much we're getting paid. I hope it's not the wood elves. I really hope it's not the fucking wood elves.

>playing with Xiombarg's Storyteller

stop with this autistic shit

It's not boring.

Ho shit, that was a JOKE. Are you really? Is this elan Pillory?

You know, assuming dragon livers work like human ones, you could actually set up an immortality farm with some curative magic here.

We get her from the king, then proceed to eat her liver ourself.

I think I remember the thread you first mentioned this in. Great stuff, really like it.

Yes, a toned down, non-epic level one. If the party is ever at a loss for a plan., XS can usually come up with a tactically sound one on the spot using whatever resources we have handy, which usually invites disaster about half the time.

Plays the least stupid CN characters I have ever dealt with. Her LE ones are terrifying in how Hannibal Lecter/Dexter/Criminal Minds smart evil they are.

She really isn't pretty. But she is nice usually.

Only if she would let me fuck her in her dragon form

I'm pretty envious. I really like Xiombarg Storyteller's uh, stories. I mean I think I first read a compilation when I was about 15 or 16 or something and although we by no means share every kink it's like, sexualdevelopment.txt right there. For better or worse.

But even in a non-lewd context I imagine XS woud be fun to play in a game with, just from her writing. She's good at construction - of characters, settings, plots, etc. She ought to try and get published (perhaps she has, I have no idea).

Lets get real, when was the last time anyone told a dragon vs knight story? you don't need to subvert what hasn't been used in decades

It's changed quite a bit since then but I have no update anywhere. Things ended up in a weird Neoplatonic place.

I'll let her know, she'll appreciate it.

We'd find a way to let her turn back to her dragon form and stand ground fighting with/for her.

My murderhobo party would do it just for fun. It seems like the sort of challenge we would be up for. We have plenty of gold and properties. We need ADVENTURE.

I'll get these guys to be elan if it kills them.

Thanks for the compliments. I have a hard time writign anythign more than short stories.

Your short stories are great. Intricate, superbly hot, I always come back to them. You're like the Gene Wolfe of (queer) fantasy porn.

I could be coarse in describing my appreciation, but I won't be. Simply, you do have an appreciative audience. I've only read what you've made available here; I would pay for your writing.

First tell human males to stop trying to fuck everything that moves.

Post Priscilla

Why does Veeky Forums love her so much?

Forget the money, but I'd do it if she wouldn't mind letting us use her cave or home or whatever as a base of operations.

>mfw the absolute madwoman player of our group did something like this once

She's cute. CUTE.

Poor Priscilla.

>A cute. CUTE!
>Fluffy tail.
>Prime waifu / daughteru material
>Did nothing wrong
>Deepest lore should have been Firekeeper and have her own Covenant

>Deepest lore should have been Firekeeper and have her own Covenant

So what does Veeky Forums think of Yorshka?

I swear there was a series of worldbuilding threads on Veeky Forums a couple of years ago about just this kind of thing.

There were evil princesses, who were categorized like D&D dragons (red/blue/black/white) that manipulated their environments to fit a fairytale narrative. They had this power where they would enter a place and brainwash everybody to think she was their princess, manipulating the society to be feudal if it wasn't before, and designate a hero to fall in love with her and do her dirty work.

I think there was also some talk about dragons having special immunity to the brainwashing and the ability to help other people break her spell over them. Hence it fitting with the random line of greentext that had started the discussion.
>A dragon saves a knight from a princess.
Or something like that.

Those threads are where the idea came from, yeah.

Well, that and Fable, actually. The Queen, Knight and Jack of Blades.

Do you have a link?

Very cool. Do you know where I could find the threads, or caps of them please?