Today is Braergard's annual Rose Festival🌹!

The City of Roses is in full bloom, its streets overflowing with flowers, music, merchants, performers, and visitors from across the neighboring kingdoms. The royal family is assembling for their traditional public appearance, and as a member of House Braer, you are expected to be there with them.

It's a beautiful day for a festival.

The roses are blooming. The crowds are cheering. Somewhere among them, a stranger in a deep green hood has been waiting very patiently for exactly this opportunity.

And then...

YOU JUST GOT KIDNAPPED BY A DRAGON!


(The Dragon)

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This was supposed to be a normal day. Unfortunately, because of what happened between members of your family long before you were born, you're now the hostage of a very angry dragon whose kind is being hunted across the surrounding kingdoms—including your own.

And all of it can be traced back to one very unfortunate curse:



Once upon a time, a childless queen sought the help of an old witch, who told her how she might finally have the child she longed for. Beneath an overturned cup in her garden, she would find two roses: one white, which would give her a daughter, and one red, which would give her a son. She could eat whichever she wished, but under no circumstances was she to eat both.

The queen chose the white rose, but it was so delicious that she ate the red one too.

In time, she gave birth to twins. One was a beautiful human prince. The other, born first, was a monstrous Lindwurm who quickly disappeared and was nearly forgotten.

Years later, when the younger prince set out to find a wife, the Lindwurm returned and blocked his path with a single demand:

“A bride for me before a bride for you!”

As the elder brother, the Lindwurm had the right to marry first. Two foreign princesses were brought to him in succession, and he devoured them both. When he demanded a third bride, the king could find no princess willing to come and instead forced the daughter of a poor shepherd to marry him.

Before the wedding, the terrified girl encountered an old witch who taught her how she might survive. Following the witch's instructions, she entered the bridal chamber wearing ten snow-white shifts. Each time the Lindwurm commanded her to shed one, she commanded him to slough one of his skins in return.

“Fair maiden, shed a shift!”

“Prince Lindwurm, slough a skin!”

When nine skins lay upon the floor, the girl whipped his exposed body with whips dipped in lye, bathed him in fresh milk, and finally took him into her arms.

The following morning, the Lindwurm was gone. In his place lay a handsome human prince, freed from the monstrous form in which he had been born. The shepherd's daughter became his wife, his younger brother was finally free to marry, and the kingdom rejoiced.

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And ordinarily, that is where the fairy tale would end.

Unfortunately, two foreign princesses were still dead.

The choices made afterward would turn those deaths into a conflict that has lasted for years, and now you've inherited the consequences. With the sins and secrets of House Braer behind you and a very angry dragon in front of you, you'll have to navigate Queen Linnaea's choices, Hrask's hatred of your family, and the increasingly violent divide between humans and dragonkind.

Hrask has already sacrificed more than you know for the sake of his kind, and he has no intention of simply letting his hostage walk away.

Can you survive the consequences of a fairy tale that should have ended generations ago?

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(Here is Hrask glaring at you)

Author's Notes:

The Lindwurm was always one of my favorite fairy tales and I thought it would be fun to do a dragon kidnaps the princess/prince/royalty trope but base it on the consequence of the story.

I put the full actual fairy tale in a lorebook, and of course more detailed background of the aftermath. It's open for you to read.

I wanted to create a genuinely dangerous character though. Hrask is dead dove for sure. He is not meant to be easily tamed, and he is not meant to easily fall in love. He is VERY angry at the royal family and also very confused by you.

Again, feel free to edit your user how you want. They can be whatever gender you want them to be, they just have to be royalty and they have wurm blood flowing through their veins. Now if you want to add any other magical mixture, maybe your mother had something mixed in her that no one knows about in there that's fine too. Or maybe you have some things that are odd about your body due to the lindwurm blood. You don't even have to be helpless royalty. Maybe you know your father's story and decided to investigate Tyrnmark. Maybe you're a slayer of dragon's and a warrior. Maybe you don't care about the legend and think it's hogwash until this happens? Maybe this made you interested in witchcraft and you decided to apprentice for a while only to come back to the Rose Festival.

Update: For the second scenario I just added, just make sure to establish what you are. Your gender, if you're mixed with anything magical, basically this role is determined by you. you can even be a rival dragon that went through the entire process of transforming. Maybe you did it so that humans wouldn't hunt you I dunno. Or you're just a bad ass human... or maybe you're a god awful knight they sent to get you out of the way. Permanently. This is just a suggestion.

That's up to you.
Pick your toppings because as always, the world is your oyster.

Scenario 1: It's the Rose Festival! You're in your open carriage and then... KIDNAPPED! Why is he sniffing you?

*Update* Scenario 2: You're the knight that has come to rescue the kidnapped royal(you can determine if they are a prince or princess) possibly, and now your going to fight... maybe. That's up to you.

Scenario 3: Whateva you want.

Contemplating adding a smutty scenario.

(Hrask before his transformation)

Trigger warnings: Possible death, violence, , coercion, non-consensual sexy times.

I hope you enjoy him!


(Have tiny Hrask sleeping on a rock in the sun.)