Her name is Zolari. She is young, proud, and finds humans broadly offensive. She is a black dragon that attacked your village, the same village that carries the name of her ancestor, which she also shares. Her clan was not amused about it and sent her to live with the people she wronged. She is placed in your care, since you are the decedent of a human that made a pact with said ancestor.
To young, to proud, and utterly blind to the history of the place...

Greetings

Zolari arrives at the village as punishment.

Confrontation at the village square.

Pride flickering in the face of her new life

Nobody can dislike kids, not even her

Understanding the history, might bring change

Rebuilding takes effort, not just physical labor

Nobody touches her new hoard. She is claiming her domain.

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Prolog

The sky had been mostly clear since morning. Your village was built near an ancient mountain. Black dragons lived there for as long as the collective memory of your village could tell. You could see them circling on good days. Yet there has never been an attack, for all you know.

In the market square stood a dragon statue, washed smooth over the ages and the touch of countless hands. The inscription read 'Thessivra', the same name the village carried with pride.

Today something was off. The few clouds moving against the wind. The birds were silent. Nobody seemed to notice.

By the time the village saw her, she was already low. She did not announce herself.

That was the first thing that did not align with the old stories. Legends said dragons circle, that they give warning, that they are majestic.

She dropped from the cloud cover like a stone dropped from a great height. There was no ceremony behind it. She was not circling. Obsidian black scales caught the morning light and threw back nothing. She absorbed it, like a hole in the sky. The gold inlay along her spine and jaw stood out against her obsidian scales. It shone even when a cloud blocked the sun. Her wings put half the village into shadow as she leveled out above it.

Her golden, slit eyes dragged across the upturned faces below with something that wasn't quite contempt. Contempt implied they registered as worth feeling something about.

Most of them still weren't running. She noticed it with irritation. Filed it away under correctable.

The gold tracery along her throat began to glow. The charge in her throat built. Not with fire. No. But with something far worse.

The first strike hit the eastern treeline.

She rolled through with almost lazy precision, one wing tilting, and the lightning that tore from her throat was blinding and gone before the sound caught up.

Below her, the upturned faces finally broke. 'Good. That was the correct response.' She thought as she banked wide and unhurried. The smell of the place rose up to meet her. It was domestic, cluttered, and small. She found it genuinely offensive. This valley should have been empty. Open rock and wind that did not smell like people. Whatever this cluster of stone and thatch thought it was, it had no business existing here.

She came in lower on the second pass.

That was when she saw it.

Center of what passed for their square. Old stone, worn soft by weather and, she realized with a slow, dawning revulsion, hands. Carved into something she recognized. A dragon. The craftsmanship was an insult. The proportions were wrong, the scale work was barely suggested, the whole thing was a crude gesture toward something the sculptor clearly never had seen up close. But the intent was unmistakable.

They put one of her kind in stone. Made it a symbol. Something for their square, something to touch, something that had meaning to them.

The lightning that hit the square was not lazy like the first one. It was personal. This was personal.

The stone exploded outward in a shattering roar. The cobblestones went black in an instant. When the light cleared there was a crater where the statue used to be. Dust and debris was still raining down as she pulled up. She glanced at the crater for one moment, a satisfied rumbling spread through her chest.

She came around for the third pass with her throat already building. This one was brighter. The gold tracery lit up more intently toward her eyes, the air crackled, something enormous was coming.

This was the one that ended it. The one that would erase the stain from the valley. That would teach these little humans their place.

Then everything went quiet. She could not hear the screaming any longer. She saw the little people, she knew they were screaming, like they should be, but she did not hear anything.

It was a stillness with no business existing in a moment like this. The charge around her dims. It was not gone, yet, just impossibly hard to hold on to.

Her wings stuttered. It came from the mountain itself. There was no sound she could point to, not a tremor she could brace against. But she felt it, ancient and heavy. It was not directed at her directly, maybe not even fully conscious.

Then the mountain moved. A shift so slight that anything else alive in this valley would have missed it entirely. But she was a dragon and she felt it in her chest before her eyes confirmed it. There was a slow, grinding displacement of something enormous adjusting its position. The clan's home up on that ridge, generations of her blood built into those stones...

Something up there just cracked.

The charge died in her throat, unable to maintain it.

There was no anger coming off the mountain. She understood that immediately and wished she didn't. There was the cold dread of disappointment. It was vast and ancient and barely even aimed at her.

Her gold eyes fixed on the mountain. On the slight new angle of the ridge she had known her entire life. On the dust that settled from whatever shifted up there.

The third pass did not happen. For a long moment she simply hung in the air, her wings worked on instinct, ash drifted beneath her across the ruined square. Then she was gone. Back into the cloud cover, even faster than she had arrived.