[X] Tell him that you aren't a priest; Far from it. The spirits you work with are... Kinda the inverse of the ones priests deal with. Those ones are singular and large and have much personality and will of their own. The ones you work with don't have any of that. At all. They're small and unfeelingly and unerringly follow whatever ruleset is imbued into them at creation with near-perfect accuracy and extreme speed. And they don't exist naturally; They're made, and unmade, easily within a spirit machine, but could never survive outside it. They can do amazing things, especially acts involving anything quantifiable with mathematics and analyzing vast quantities of data, but only if you can write meticulously deep and precise instructions for them to follow exactly. And that was what you were studying and learning in depth to do.
[X] Ask Edaine how far off the danger of Heivolur's invasion is. We talking months? Weeks? Days? 'Cause you want to know just how much time you're gonna have to actually train and study and all that to even possibly help... Er... What even is the name of the nation we're in?
[X] Tell him that you'd be far more helpful to this nation staying well back from the front lines than being a big, fat target to get focus fire'd on. One possibility is you could learn how to perform summons, and do them better or more often then a non-dragon could. Could you have a look at the summoning books Edaine has? Along with any and all other books to learn more about applied magic?
-[X] Learning to summon would also give you the opportunity to try and summon the other lost dragons without having to get Edaine or anyone else involved, sidestepping the binding issue. And also work on developing a way to locate them in the Tantara.
[X] Tell Edaine that you think it'd be a good idea to keep your presence as secret as possible, lest Heivolur and their allies catch wind your nation summoned a dragon and look to send agents to try to kill me before I can possibly help... Or kill Edaine so they can cast their own binding on you.
[X] Ask him how experienced and capable he is in the magickal arts. How much knowledge does he have of the workings of summonings and other magicks? How many summons has he performed and what kinds? What method did that spider demon summoning ritual use to try and target a spider demon? You'd like to figure out why it targeted you rather than a spider demon. (Might give insight into targeting the other lost dragons.)
[X] Also ask if he knows if the summoning spell is designed to strip the target of everything they're wearing or carrying and sever any link they have to extra-dimensional storage spaces. As explanation for why you're asking, tell him that before you got chucked into the Tantara, you were clothed and had a voidspace inventory attached to you, all of which is missing now. You want to figure out if it was the summoning that did that or not.
[X] Look up at the summoning building and at the clearing around it and ask who had it built, who owns it now and how remote this location is. Because you didn't see a single other building around when you came outside, so it'd fit that it's way out of the way in case a summon goes bad.
[X] Ask under what circumstances is he here, attempting to summon a spider demon. Was he hired to do so by the one who owns this place? Is there somebody expecting results and he needs to deliver and it'll have to be you if it's not a spider demon?
[X] Ask if "Cayshic West (Imperial)" brings anything to his mind, like a location. If Edaine asks what that name is or how you know it, tell him it's the label on the language codex your translator determined is the closest match for his language and you're trying to figure out when and how your people recorded it. Also examine this language's spirit script's metadata for a date or location of recording.
[X] Yawn hugely (and toothily) and tell Edaine that you're exhausted, so you hope he doesn't expect you to stay awake a whole lot longer. Your mental faculties are flagging and the idea of just passing out here and now is slowly growing more appealing. You do hope there is some kind of safe shelter nearby you can fit in to sleep in; One outside the mana-stifling zone of the summoning building.
It's fortunate this update's pic is the first with what I assume is Zalan's official fur coloration (shades of grey, which reminded me of tozols' fur color (or lack thereof) scheme) since it allowed me to slap the binding color options over it to see how they look against his fur. And as much as I'd like to go gold 'cause shiny and dragon stereotype, the blue looks better against Zalan's fur. So, my vote:
[X] Yes
[X] Blue (default)
[X] Ask Edaine how far off the danger of Heivolur's invasion is. We talking months? Weeks? Days? 'Cause you want to know just how much time you're gonna have to actually train and study and all that to even possibly help... Er... What even is the name of the nation we're in?
[X] Tell him that you'd be far more helpful to this nation staying well back from the front lines than being a big, fat target to get focus fire'd on. One possibility is you could learn how to perform summons, and do them better or more often then a non-dragon could. Could you have a look at the summoning books Edaine has? Along with any and all other books to learn more about applied magic?
-[X] Learning to summon would also give you the opportunity to try and summon the other lost dragons without having to get Edaine or anyone else involved, sidestepping the binding issue. And also work on developing a way to locate them in the Tantara.
[X] Tell Edaine that you think it'd be a good idea to keep your presence as secret as possible, lest Heivolur and their allies catch wind your nation summoned a dragon and look to send agents to try to kill me before I can possibly help... Or kill Edaine so they can cast their own binding on you.
[X] Ask him how experienced and capable he is in the magickal arts. How much knowledge does he have of the workings of summonings and other magicks? How many summons has he performed and what kinds? What method did that spider demon summoning ritual use to try and target a spider demon? You'd like to figure out why it targeted you rather than a spider demon. (Might give insight into targeting the other lost dragons.)
[X] Also ask if he knows if the summoning spell is designed to strip the target of everything they're wearing or carrying and sever any link they have to extra-dimensional storage spaces. As explanation for why you're asking, tell him that before you got chucked into the Tantara, you were clothed and had a voidspace inventory attached to you, all of which is missing now. You want to figure out if it was the summoning that did that or not.
[X] Look up at the summoning building and at the clearing around it and ask who had it built, who owns it now and how remote this location is. Because you didn't see a single other building around when you came outside, so it'd fit that it's way out of the way in case a summon goes bad.
[X] Ask under what circumstances is he here, attempting to summon a spider demon. Was he hired to do so by the one who owns this place? Is there somebody expecting results and he needs to deliver and it'll have to be you if it's not a spider demon?
[X] Ask if "Cayshic West (Imperial)" brings anything to his mind, like a location. If Edaine asks what that name is or how you know it, tell him it's the label on the language codex your translator determined is the closest match for his language and you're trying to figure out when and how your people recorded it. Also examine this language's spirit script's metadata for a date or location of recording.
[X] Yawn hugely (and toothily) and tell Edaine that you're exhausted, so you hope he doesn't expect you to stay awake a whole lot longer. Your mental faculties are flagging and the idea of just passing out here and now is slowly growing more appealing. You do hope there is some kind of safe shelter nearby you can fit in to sleep in; One outside the mana-stifling zone of the summoning building.
Ah, but would this world have the knowledge and means to make detectors for such a act? If they couldn't, or could only rarely, it could be worth pursuing, depending on if you could figure out how to cultivate that "silver tongue" Breath ability and how long it'd take to train.
Learning to do the summon yourself would sidestep most of this issue, but that'll take time and you got no idea how long the lost dragons have 'till the things in the Tantara get 'em. So... Could weave a line of bull like all dragons on your world are inoculated against binding with a version that doesn't subvert, but does violently kill the binder and everybody else nearby before sending the dragon to safety and you couldn't get inoculated 'cause of medical reasons. Would make 'em real reluctant to attempt to bind one of your fellow lost dragons, if he buys it. But you're bad at lying at the best of times, and now is far from those times, so keep this idea down the list.
If you can figure out how to break a binding, or transfer the "ownership" of the binding to yourself, then perhaps. But even if you do then there's the risk of them being taken where you can't get to them to do that. Like to fight on the front lines.
It's fortunate this update's pic is the first with what I assume is Zalan's official fur coloration (shades of grey, which reminded me of tozols' fur color (or lack thereof) scheme) since it allowed me to slap the binding color options over it to see how they look against his fur. And as much as I'd like to go gold 'cause shiny and dragon stereotype, the blue looks better against Zalan's fur. So, my vote:
[X] Yes
[X] Blue (default)
