#flamestrike

[simplegeneral]

So I was reading into Dragonlance, one setting of dnd and I encountered a very remarkable red dragon in my opinion

Flamestrike, or aka Matafleur is an ancient red dragoness who fought in the Third Dragon War, after witnessing her entire offspring being killed by dragonlances, she retreated and disappeared from sights for centuries, until resurfacing to help the dragonarmies during the War of the Dragon Lance.

She was tasked to protect the fortress in Pax Tharkas, the new HQ of the dragonarmy. However, due to her aging and becoming senile, blind of one eye and lacking some self-care, she started to take care of the children under her watch as refugees came by and were used as slave labour by her lords.

Matafleur took care of them, referring to them as hers and actually tried to not cause any harm to them.

Later, as the adventurers come to free the slaves, she didn't attack them, as much as she wanted to, to do so would harm the children under her care, so she relutanctly let them go. Later Ember, a red dragon, mount of a dragon highlord come to take revenge upon the loss of the fortress, battling the adventurers.

In a outburst of rage upon hearing the dragon highlord would execute everyone, the children included, she attacked them, throwing the lord away and battling the stronger and mot fit Ember. She later threw him and herself at a mountain, causing the rocks to slide and kill them both.

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You know, I love evil characters trying to be sweet, I think its my favorite trope, its the reason why I created Launairk, a big scary monster trying to be harmless to the defenseless beings around it, and so I immediately loved Matafleur, no matter how small her character was to the whole plot.

Aside being an opposite red dragon in many standards, as they are infamous for eating the young from other races.

A 100ft long (30 meters, for my based non imperials), she was freaking massive and I can only imagine her interactions with literally small children. I believe she would be a stern motherly figure, harsh and angry, but never dared to hurt them.

Probably also roasted some meat for them, near carbonized, its... Not the best thing to eat, but hey, would they refuse mommy's food? They wouldn't, yeah. 💀

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The great head that lay on the cold stone floor was lined and wrinkled with age, the brilliant red skin grayish and mottled.

"DragonLance Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight" - Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[sharry-arry-odd]

But the dragon's deadly dive was stopped. Sweeping up into the sky from the pile of rubble made when she crashed out of the fortress, Matafleur flew straight at Pyros. The ancient dragon had sunk deeper into her madness. Once more she relived the nightmare of losing her children. She could see the knights upon the silver and golden dragons, the wicked dragonlances gleaming in the sunshine. In vain she pleaded with her children not to join the hopeless fight, in vain she sought to convince them the war was at an end. They were young and would not listen. They flew off, leaving her weeping in her lair. As she watched her mind's eye the bloody, final battle, as she saw her children die upon the dragonlances, she heard Verminaard's voice. "I will destroy the children!" And, as she had done so many centuries before, Matafleur flew out ot defend them.

Dragons of Autumn Twilight, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

[ceridawn]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“Strange noises sometimes come from the mountain. Krynn, however, has larger problems in need of solving. That does not mean the noises are nothing. In a world like Krynn, things are happening everywhere.

Written for the prompt “Dragons” for @dragonlance-week .

[metalby]

Flamestrike [Dark Clouds on the Obsidian Tower (EP)]. 2021. Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, Youtube. Twitter(metalone).

[patrizio-ag]

https://davventura.altervista.org/dof-matafleur/ L’ultimo elemento è quello dei #draghi, ma più #Flamestrike/#Matafleur (sul #Modulo il suo nome è riportato con un errore di stampa) che #Ember/#Pyros – perché quest’ultimo troppo intelligente e sicuro di sé per potersi comportare diversamente dal “#tiranno” con dei semplici esseri umani. Come ho sritto in precedenza, i miei studi sulla storia di #DungeonsandDragons sono ancora molto lacunosi per posizionare queste due bestie con precisione nella #storiografia editoriale della #TSR, quindi non so dire con esattezza se questa è la prima occasione in cui i draghi vengono impiegati nelle avventure ufficiali come personaggi — non — giocanti e antagonisti “completi”: mostri di irraggiungibile potenza ma anche eminenze capaci di intervenite con la loro intelligenza e personalità sugli avvenimenti. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHt4v-sKXd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kidslovesneakersnl]

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[beantown-boy]

A true mage mood, before a board clear.