Dreams - 5th May 2021
A note scribbled on a scrap of old parchment was discovered in the town of Pamplaxia, with the trademark scrawl of a thief. Those who found it claim it belongs to the Golden Bird of the Cerulean bay, though this is unverified. The spelling does hint at a sailor's hand but there were some anachronistic tells that hint it could be a fraud.
[A young golden-haired girl lies in a simple wooden bed, holding a small stuffed puppy made from a sack. She is clearly refusing to sleep. The room is lit by candlelight, and a beautiful iridescent-skinned woman is telling stories to lure her to sleep. While she speaks, she is stitching a dress, attending to her finest red gown with embroidery. She speaks of when she was responsible for the Bay of Mytros.]
“When I was a young girl, only 50 years old, Mytros was full of golden beaches and beautiful sparkling sand. The storms that came to the bay were wild and washed all away. Sydon was a savage god and took no mercy.
One day, the dragonlords came, along with Xander Huorath, the bravest of them all. Xander and his compatriots refused to let their lives be controlled by the cruelness of the seas. You are named for him, brave one.
They built great cities, one being Telemokia, which would be named Mytros after many years.
Xander often swam in Mytros Bay. He met a woman, Pandora. She quizzed him.
“What will you do when the TItans come to claim the cities?”
“I will fight.”
“What will you do when the waves come? “
“I can swim”
“What will you do when the storms come? “
“My feet shall not be on the ground. I shall astride my dragon, Barmitria.”
He was brave. But Xander was a man with a mortal lifespan and he would not live for a deserving time. The woman says to her young daughter “What will you do when the waves of sleep come?”
“I will sleep”
The note ends: XO