Quotes
- When Entering Dragon's Roost
- Have you need of me?
- You are a curious one for standing before me as you do.
- I await you here.
- After Receiving a Gift
- I bid you take this as a token of my thanks.
- I am unused to giving gifts, but I hope this one pleases you.
- After Bond Level Increase
- I thought being alone was simply the way of things, but it is good to be part of a community.
- I will rend apart any who would stand in your way.
- Idle After Bond Level 1
- I had never considered how much better it could be to fight with someone at your side.
- I am glad I never gave up on life.
- I sometimes wonder what it would be like if all beings had hearts as wide as yours.
- Idle After Bond Level 10
- If she can be happy, that is enough for me.
- All I ask is for you to acknowledge my existence. That is enough.
- I had never considered that I might involve myself with other dragons.
- Idle After Bond Level 20
- It is good indeed to bask in the light of one such as you.
- My appearance matters not to you. How very strange this is.
- Mostlike my fate would have been different had I not been born looking as I do.
Dragon Story Episodes
The Mirage
Phantom: The name of an
exceptionally hideous dragon.
Phantom: A beast abhorred by
human and dragon alike.
His appearance is akin to a fiend:
razored claws, sharpened fangs,
and a body the hue and temper of
the deepest ebon night.
However, this hideousness was but
skin-deep, for the dragon's heart was
replete with the purest of loves.
And yet, none realized this truth,
so none paid him heed. Indeed, all
who looked upon him concluded his
vulgar exterior was matched with
an equally vulgar heart. O, cruelty!
Phantom once left upon a journey
long and longer still.
Along the way, he sought shelter
and rest in an unfamiliar country.
But instead, he chanced upon a land
overrun by fiends. There, his pure
heart could naught but pity the
humans who scrambled about in
a vain attempt to escape their fate.
Thus did Phantom go to war against
the fiends. The fact the lands were
ruined was no matter—he cared only
for the lives of the people.
At long last, the repulsive fiends
were defeated, and the people's
lives spared. But alas, the humans
did not recognize the actions of
their fearsome savior.
"Damnable, cursed fiend!" they cried
as they readied weapons against
him. "It is you who have ravaged our
lands and stolen our homes!"
"You are wrong, friends."
"The fiend lies with two tongues!"
"I am no fiend, but a dragon."
"More lies! Drive it hence!"
"Wait! You understand not!"
"Silence, fiend! You—and you alone—
are the cause of this catastrophe!"
Phantom: Once a dragon...
now his namesake for true.
If a day of rest would never come
for this repulsive creature, for what
purpose was his nearly endless life?
And so, Phantom would disappear.
He would abandon this world and
the hatred humans held for him.
Yet memory is a gossamer strand,
and none remain who can recall
the dragon who was sealed away.
Phantom: A creature that was once
a dragon proud.
A creature that is now naught
but a mirage.
Phantom: A dragon long ago
sealed away by humans in
the space between worlds.
This creature, once a proud dragon,
was now condemned as the cause
of catastrophe, reduced to naught
but a mirage. How much time had
passed since then?
A mirage has no hope.
A mirage does not dream.
And yet, an ember smoldered
faintly within this one.
He wished to be loved.
Ah, but it is greed and folly to wish
that someone could love a mirage!
One could barely expect it to be
noticed, after all.
As he pondered these thoughts,
he saw a white piece of clothing
flutter gently in the darkness.
Lightly, gently, a dancer swayed.
It was as though a shaft of moonlight
had pierced through the darkness
to create a beautiful radiance.
Her dancing paused for a moment.
She had seen him.
She had seen the mirage.
"You look...different," she said.
"Now she will go," thought Phantom.
And yet, the dancer did not go.
Clad in the light, she swept down
and alighted next to him.
"You do not fear me?" said Phantom.
"Do I have reason to fear you?"
replied the dancer. "For I do not
usually fear beings unless they
give cause to do so."
The dancer had not come to a
conclusion about his nature based
on his hideous appearance. Instead,
she saw the true contours of his soul.
Under this warmth, the dragon who
had become a mirage returned for
an instant to reality.
For even a mirage cannot exist
without dreams.
Phantom.
The name of a dragon...
who was once a mirage.