The Shining Wyrm & The Blood Immaculate [Original Fantasy/Dragon Ficiton]
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The story of Jewel, a dutiful daughter.

A kind lady to the people in her village.

An enthusiastic bather.

She loves her home in the rural barony of Rochford.

She loves her brother and parents.

Jewel would be happy to be everything a baron's child should be.

Unfortunately she is also a dragon.
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Summary of What We Learned: Book 1 Through to Part 8
Work in progress. More chapters will (hopefully) be added, but this is enough that I feel like it's finally worth posting.

  • 1.1−1.ii
    1.1−1.9: Introducing the main Rochford cast, in addition to a seemingly ordinary morning, weird politics, and mysteries about the Tyrant War.
    1.i−1.ii: Two very different accounts of tyrant wyrms.
    2.1−2.i
    2.1−2.9: Journying on an ill fated hunt, in addition to Jewel's capabilities, priorities in the face of crisis, and the heroic slaying of a boar.
    2.i: A poem warning of dragons cute and fluffy.
    3.1−3.i
    3.1−3.9: Celebration with festivities, in addition to public relations, managing resources, and a peddler somehow less polite than Fizzbunches.
    3.i: Coinage and the metals it is minted from.
    4.1−4.i
    4.1−4.9: Teaching a dragon to dance, in addition to finding belonging, the aiding of others, and wisdom not found in books.
    4.i: Stewardship from late spring through summer.
    5.1−5.iii
    5.1−5.9: A summons by the countess, in addition to the prospect of war, empathy between species, and a different sort of god botherer.
    5.i: Stewardship in late summer.
    5.ii: Warnings of stars bringing fortune.
    5.iii: Musings on the universe.
    6.1−6.ii
    6.1−6.9: Pomp and pagentry in addition to, various reactions to Jewel, accusations demanding war, and reestablishing hierarchies.
    6.i: Stewardship in early to mid Autumn.
    6.ii: On Truths, Words, and the nature of sorcerous magic.
    7.1−7.iii
    7.1−7.9: The true meaning of home, in addition to various magicks, fleeting joys, and the anxious uncertainty of preperations.
    7.i: Stewardship in winter.
    7.ii: On the minimal wizard related risks of clean water.
    7.iii: Volta's cursing of nearly an entire city by way of water.
    8.1−8.ii
    8.1−8.9: A new normal, in addition to logistics of mustering, testing of allegences, and learning whatever could help.
    8.i: Stewardship of thread and cloth production.
    8.ii: Notes on Jewel's personality, nature, and magical capability.
    9.1−9.ii
    9.1−9.9: The march to war, in addition to logistics thereof, chains of command, and working with partial information.
    9.i: General Aurelia at the beginning of his seige of Volta.
    9.ii: Georg Thurzó's account looking back on Aureilia's seige and forwards to his war against Countess Bathory's army.
    10.1−10.ii
    10.1−10.9: The true cost of war, in addition to realities not glamorous enough for writing, foiled plans, and the trauma of so much slaughter.
    10.i: A letter from György of cautious optimism for the battle, rhightous fury, and asking about home.
    0.ii: A letter from Erszébet replying with, optimisim, matters of their remaining children, and good tidings.
    11.1−11.ii
    11.1−11.9: Empathy for the enemy in addition to, rationalizations of varying justifiability, strained naïveté, and the nagging feeling that all of it was arbitrary.
    11.i: Thurzó panicking over Jewel's intellectual and social capability to King Mathias
    11.ii: Bathory assuring Kliatbatrn that the above warnings of Jewel are nothing to worry about.
    12.1−12.ii
    12.1−12.9: Taking up new responsibility in addition to, returning with trauma, a resettling of the political landscape, and maintaining the image that everything was just.
    12.i: Rochford's economics and scale.
    12.ii: An informal bibliography.
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