"Then why, dear master, would you summon a wretch like me? For another wish perhaps?" He adjusts his pose. You grimace.
"Stop that. It's discomforting."
"What is, master~?"
Makram definitely not flexing: "I bet you just can't wait to make use of me eh Master~?"
Eldingar: "why are you like this, what is this power dynamic"
Makram slowly slipping his skirt down one hip: "Mm? Like? Do you see something you like eh Master~?"
Eldingar: "do you just need attention, is that it"
Makram as he pours oil down his nearly naked body: "Pfft as if I cared what you thought."
"You were lis-? Of course you were don't even answer that," you grumble, again. "Those were our style names. You pick one when you leave home and make it longer and longer as you get older and do more shit. Mother's is a couple sentences and Nana Illvithri's is more or less a novel by this point. S'been so long since I've needed to use it it just felt weird to hear it out loud." You pause awkwardly. "So what I'm saying is just 'Eldingar' is fine, no need to be a shit about it."
God it's just like that one tumblr post of "he was an elf lord so powerful and impressive that his first name alone had twenty three apostrophes".
I do like the element of family that's being played up, usually dragons are pretty solitary in fiction but here they're consciously omnipresent and involved, their expectations, their opinions, their plans and all that good stuff. And I kinda love how the stakes are something so mundane as "show up at the family reunion looking like at functional person" but it still feels like a crisis y'know? But yeah something that occurs to me is that Eldingar almost definitely...hrm. I can't recall if it was mentioned but I'd be surprised if he was an only child, or nah his narration probably would've mentioned it. I do imagine he has a lot of cousins that fill a similar role and him being an only child might explain part of why his mother is so uh...herself.
Point I'm getting at is that Eldingar probably has really complicated and unhappy relationships with his generational peers and it hasn't been highlighted but the bones of it are there and I'm both interested and apprehensive to see what gets built on it 'cause this poor blue dumbass doesn't deserve to get kicked down any
more. Just, like, bullied a bit.
Plenty of the illustrations you saw gave incubi leather wings. Among... other things.
oh my god
eldingar's got a porn stash of demon hentai some-
oh god we left the demon alone in our cave, he's gonna find our porn stash
The constructs respond in unison once more. "I kill in droves, I raze whole cities. I devour mountains and scour the land clean. And yet I am praised, even worshipped. I absolve your sins but carry them with me, and so persist in the dark, festering, unforgotten. What am I?"
I thiiiiiiink the people suggesting water/rain/floods/rivers are on the right
track, especially given the capped well outside and the design etched into the floor. And I think there's something ominous here that Eldingar's not picking up 'cause he's an apex predator shut in so hasn't had his danger sense developed at all. The whole reference to "dark, festering, unforgotten" and the capped well outside lean towards the idea of something tainted, corrupted and toxic being stored out of sight. The water so dark it looks more like oil than anything. The sealed shit near an isolated wizard's watchtower a million miles from anything that could open it. It really evokes the idea of Bad Shit.
Hrm.
[X] Try to trick Makram into solving it by playing on his ego. It's clear the only thing he loves more than putting people down is puffing himself up, and you're such an easy target he might just take the bare hook, let alone bait.
Makram's straight up more worldly than us and I think we are missing some crucial cultural context, 'cause we know jack and shit about and have even less interest in the Sultanate. Plus after all his bullying earlier he deserves to get baited a little.
-that we'll never use because this is a board made up of gamers and we will never give up anything valuable.
Yeah but you want to save the wishes for thematically appropriate moments since the second they're gone, if we don't have a good enough relationship with the ifrit, he's just gonna fuck off. So we need to think about meaningful times to use them, not blow them at the first opportunity.