Thinking about my everluxes, and how i wanna do my initial hatches lore. Ilrith and Matelizi are a couple, and we're settling down to start a new chapter of their lives (starting a family) when the Luminax Situation happened. They gathered their stuff the best they could to get out of there, and fled in the nearest direction, into Shadow territory (and into the safety of my lair, as a result)
However, I was wondering to myself on Ilrith and his Earth eyes. I wondered why he would gave those if he was raised in Light, like I was imagining. Eventually, this is what I settled on:
Somehow, Ilrith's egg got caught on the clothing of some dragon who was passing through. They don't notice at all until they get back to Earth territory, when the egg hatches. They seem annoyed by this and hand this literal newly hatched baby over to Jerome.
Jerome, who is around 25 meters long and a mercenary, looking down at this baby who's about the length of a pencil.
He's told to dispose of "whatever this thing is" when he heads out to do his job, but he looks down at the little hatchling in his hands. This absolutely miniscule baby. Sure, he's taken lives before, but this... this is an innocent child. How can he hurt this thing, when they might have family of their own? It reminds him of his own family, who he lost. His wife and child, the ones he's doing all this for.
He decides to spare Ilrith, and takes the hatchling with him to his next job. Jerome's not planning to keep the kid, he doesn't believe he can take care of anyone, let alone a child.
Conveniently, this was in Light territory, and he was able to find someone who could identify the kid as an everlux. And thus, he takes the kid to someone who can make sure the kid gets to a good home, and goes about his own life while Ilrith gets raised by his adoptive parents.
And now they're back in the same place again, and Jerome doesn't know how to feel about the fact that the kid is all grown up now (and still so small).
All this to say I'm amused about the idea of an imperial bringing an everlux across the flights in the dragon equivalent of one of those bug carriers for kids, and feeding them leaves and berries
Because how else will he transport a child that's absolutely tiny compared to him without squishing them?
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