Maikana

Chapter 8 – Lacking Sense

Kori spends the next several hours after cleaning up the sparring area following a more senior mage around as he trekked about Emberscale caverns, on the plus side she got to explore places she had never seen before, on the downside it was done while lugging about a load of tools and supplies that her meager strength is not particularly suited for.

It was worth it though, she got to watch...

Chapter 7 – Medi-what?

Over the course of her first few hours of being an apprentice Kori has come to an exceedingly difficult conclusion, she does not like meditating. Sitting still? No talking or asking questions? None of these are things that come naturally to Kori, hell, her Trait even says ‘The mind of a dragon never rests’ and she’s becoming more certain of that single phrase’s validity the more she sit...

Chapter 6 – Idle Tails

As Kori stands outside the door to the Elder’s Chambers, letting her nerves settle after being presented to the council like a newly caught fish, she begins to shuffle and twitch not from her nervousness but as the excited energy builds. She’s going to learn magic. Real magic. She can’t help but imagine the possibilities and with each new idea her excitement builds.

She’s not real...

Chapter 5 – pulling on threads

After being guided back to the hatchery and her brood chamber, Kori found that she was no longer in the mood to be celebratory, today did not go at all as she had expected it to. Laying on the leather pad within her den in the brood chamber, Kori stares at her status and its unexpected entry and remains that way, lost in her own thoughts and worries until she finally falls asleep.

The mor...

Chapter 4 - Oooh, it tingles!

"Now, young one, I cannot force you to keep this secret, but I believe it best if you do, both for you and for our Clan. That you have told the two of us is already too many and as the Elder Matron and the guardian of Clan Emberscale's spirituality," Matron Kles looking between Korse and Kori, her visage one of utmost seriousness, "I ask you both, here and now, to make a vow upon the sacred Sca...

Chapter 3 - My status says I'm 'unique'

"So, uhmm... I do have another question, well 2 really, but one leads into another..." Kori begins, though with significantly more insecurity than typical for her, her feet kicking on the stone beneath her and hands tensing and scraping her claws at the table

"Hmm? You've never been shy of a question before, why is this one any different?"

"Well... There's something missing from the...

Chapter 2 - The why of things

"So, there are a few, should I start from the top of things?" Kori begins pondering the ordering of questions, if she asked the big ones first then maybe they'd forget about the little ones or run out of time, but she really wanted to ask the big glaring question, what in the Scale was that title...

"Well, why don't we do the easy part first, open your status and then think hard about sho...

Chapter 1 - The truth of it

The day had finally come, no longer a hatchling, now a youngling, and for her first day of her new life, Kori, was going to celebrate, which was good since there happened to be a festival today too. Hatchlings were not permitted to leave the Hatchery, so it would not only be her first time exploring Emberscale caverns, but also her first time being allowed to partake in the Festival of Embersca...

Prologue 7 - Finally over

After the excitement of the display of magic, the days seemed to drag on, knowing that just weeks remained until the clutch joined the ranks of the younglings and would both unveil their status and receive their names, an exciting milestone for all young Kobolds. As the days pass, the first of the hatchlings reaches the end of his third year, the oldest and largest of them receiving the name Lo...

Prologue 6 - Just a little more

In the wake of the story of the Kobolds past and the loss of their once purpose, the hatchlings took little time to return to their usual chaotic selves, as is the way of children and especially of Kobold hatchlings, and often Kobolds in general, time passes and the end of their third year approaches, the hatchlings will soon take their first steps into life in Clan Emberscale, they will soon b...

Prologue 5 - not quite yet

The next year proceeded quickly, with a certain hatchling finally understanding the trick of the doors latch and making her departure, several designs followed before someone eventually started barring the door whenever the hatchlings were by themselves, even that proved insufficient as she just used the bone tools she's fashioned for the door to lift the bar through a crack. Korse found himsel...

Prologue 4 - Almost done

As the months pass and the questions continue unabated, they near the end of their first year, the nursery is needed for the next clutch of eggs. It's time to move the hatchlings to one of the brood chambers, a larger set of caves with a central chamber and many smaller openings leading to alcoves about a cubic meter each dotted around its walls, some needing to be climbed to while others are c...

Prologue 3 - Still goin

Nearly half a year after the runt's hatching, the clutch has diminished by a further 9 down to 48. This is still considered a good year as the Culling slows as they get older and sturdier. Around this time is when the hatchlings begin to actually listen to speech as words, rather than just noises made by the adults.

Communication is typically limited to hisses and growls for another few m...

Prologue 2 - It Continues

The Elders spend the next few hours going over the happenings of the festival, Ortik shares that his tail suddenly stopped aching in the middle of his ritual to commune just before the feast was to begin, so hopefully whatever ill omen has passed them by. This of course was met with several jibes about his age however he was quick to point out his much higher Racial level than the others, meani...

Prologue 1 - It Begins

Our tale begins deep in the South-East of the Kingdom of Glas, near the human town of Whatzakt, but has little to do with either of those entities, what we're interested in is the mountain beyond the town, the Lone Peak, a towering mountain separated from the mountain chain known as Vor's Spine. There, deep in the labyrinthine caves and tunnels below lies our focus, Emberscale Caverns, the wide...

Welcome to Emberscale Caverns

Welcome all to Emberscale Caverns, home of the Kobolds and our stories about a certain little Alchemist. Happy to have you here with me and looking forward to our future together.