Artifact

Myriad Reality

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We can go back if you want. As much of a… Disturbingly beautiful view it is, I have a thing against bugs, and there’s no reason to keep you here longer than necessary. Unless you had more to show.

@Valiance

There’s nothing I’m dying to show off. Each scale offers some new abomination.
*Jabs my thumb at the orange planet*
That one is made of flesh, in case you’re still hungry.

Myriad Reality

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Does it bother you massively to be here? Based on the effects of this thing you just explained.

@Valiance

*Rubs my left eye*
It’s miserable. But it can’t control me.

Myriad Reality

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*Crosses my arms*
I have to admit. It’s baffling to learn something like this exists. Is this the ultimate source for where your hate for dragons comes from? If you had any way to guarantee someone was free of this thing’s influence, would you still hate them?

@Valiance

*Pauses*
...It would go a long way. They’ll always be terrible beasts, but this is the worst of them all.

Myriad Reality

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Do they exhibit similar traits? Dragons under its influence, I mean.

@Valiance

Feral ones do. Intelligent dragons often don’t.

Myriad Reality

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Is it hurting anything, actively? I mean this place is certainly in awful shape, but for all you or I know it’s always been this way. I’d be concerned about being the reason it wakes up.

@Valiance

Even asleep, it actively manipulates the minds of other dragons. For all I know, that girl was also under its control.

Myriad Reality

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But you hoped you could lead an army against it?

@Valiance

If that’s what it took. I really hoped that winning would give me the authority to kill this thing once and for all.

Myriad Reality

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And what makes it a dragon? If it is formless, it seems much more like some sort of Eldritch Entity or something.

@Valiance

*Nods at the bands connecting the planets*
It has something holding it together. But it’s not something you can traditionally touch.

Myriad Reality

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Recognize part of its soul, huh? Couldn’t imagine how I would.

@Valiance

You fought a small piece of it, there at the end. This creature has been asleep for— forever, as far as I know. But someday it might wake up.

Myriad Reality

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Scales of?…

@Valiance

It has many names, but I’ll call it the Formless Dragon. You may even recognize a piece of its soul.

Myriad Reality

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It is bizarre. Is it a someone, or a something?

@Valiance

Both. These planets here and in the distance aren’t actually planets at all. They’re scales.