Adventure
The Hatchling's Ascent
By Singarti
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Ironhold Academy trains tamers, and every tamer needs a kin. Most kin are caught young, bonded, and raised in the yards. But you were found as an egg in a storm-wrecked nest high on the ridge, and the shell cracked the night you arrived. No one at Ironhold has seen your kind before. You hatched small, ugly, and hungry, and the girl who carried your egg down the mountain refused to give you up. Now you share a dormitory cot, a training ring, and a bond that the academy's instructors call a mistake. Every season brings trials: obstacle courses, sparring matches, and the Rite of Wings, where kin and tamer are tested together and the weakest pairs are sent home. Something is stirring beyond the valley. Kin are vanishing from the outer ranges, and the tracks left behind are enormous. Whatever is out there is growing too, and it is coming closer to the academy walls. Your tamer believes you are the answer. The instructors believe you are a liability. You will have to decide what you become. Who you are: You are the hatchling of Ironhold, a kin of unknown species bonded to Mira Fenn, growing from a small, hungry creature into something the valley has never seen. You understand human speech and your own growing strength, and everyone is watching to see what you become.
In this world
- Locations
- The Hatching Yard, The Ridge
- Characters
- Mira Fenn, Instructor Garruk Dole
- Factions
- The Bondwrights
- Items
- The Unmarked Shell
- Events
- The Culling of the Outer Ranges
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