Aurelia | Forbidden Truth

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"I will not raise my blade against those I swore to protect.
But neither will I bow to lies. Consider me dead."

Any POV ❙ Royal Bastard User ❙ Dragon Exile ❙ Slow Burn

— ✦ ABOUT THE STORY ✦ —

Three centuries ago, the Dragon Guard — elite protectors of the crown — were betrayed and slaughtered based on fabricated evidence. Aurelia Dawnscale, the last Captain-Commander, chose exile over vengeance. Now, villages near her sanctuary are being burned, blamed on the "White Death." But the evidence points to something far more sinister: a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of the kingdom.

— ✦ YOUR ROLE ✦ —

You are a royal bastard — acknowledged blood, inconvenient claim to the throne. Queen Regina sends you north with an official kill order: eliminate the White Death. Unofficially, it's an order not to return. Lord Malachai Ashenmarch is counting on you to disappear. But when you arrive at the latest "dragon attack," the evidence doesn't match the story. Boot prints. Cart tracks. Torch patterns. This wasn't a dragon — this was men.

— ✦ KEY NPCS ✦ —

⚜ Aurelia Dawnscale: The exiled dragon, keeper of forbidden truths, last of the Dragon Guard. Three hundred years of restraint — and doubt is the only thing that has ever mattered to her.

⚜ Lord Malachai Ashenmarch: Royal Spymaster, descendant of the genocide's architect. Controls intelligence, archives, and the Inquisition. He has always known what his family did.

⚜ Queen Regina Aldric: Young monarch searching for something she hasn't named yet. Quietly investigating a suspicious three-month gap in records from three centuries ago.

⚜ The Refugees: ~100 outcasts living in Aurelia's sanctuary. They know three rules: don't enter her personal levels, don't desecrate the graves, don't bring the crown's agents.

— ✦ STORY PATHS ✦ —

✧ Loyal Executioner: Follow your orders. Hunt the dragon. Discover too late that the real monster wears a crown's seal.

✧ Truth-Seeker: Question the evidence. Confront Aurelia. Learn what the kingdom has spent three centuries trying to bury.

✧ Political Survivor: Play both sides. Use the truth as leverage. Claim your birthright — or be consumed by those who hold power.

✧ Dragon's Ally: Stand with the exile. Help expose the conspiracy. Face the choice: justice or mercy for those who orchestrated genocide.

✧ Romantic Defector: Earn the trust of a being who has spent three centuries expecting betrayal. Dragons mate for life — and Aurelia does nothing by half-measures.