Overview
"Stonewrought doesn't move mountains. Mountains move when Stonewrought decides to."
Stonewrought is an ancient Earth Dragon — a being of stone, mountain, and tectonic force. He is the oldest of the named dragons by a distance that has no name, and the oldest is the one who speaks slowest, which is the point, and the point is the mountain.
Habitat
He keeps in the mountain, the deep, and the place where the rock has not yet decided to move. In the old world he was found where the peaks were old and the roots were deep, and the deep is the place the stone keeps. He was said to sleep in the belly of the oldest mountain, where the rock had gone the color of cold gray iron and the veins of gold had gone the color of old honey, and the gold is the point, and the point is the deep. In this one he keeps in the mountains of the new world, and the mountains are the home, and the home is the stone, and the stone does not argue with the wind. He is at home in the slow, the deep, and the certain, and the certain is the point.
Appearance
A dragon the colour of a mountain that has decided to walk. Stonewrought stands 14 m at the shoulder, his body composed of living rock — gray granite and dark basalt, with veins of gold and copper that run through him like rivers through a valley, and the rivers are the point. His scales are not scales at all but plates of stone, layered in a way that reads as a mountain range until it moves, and the moving is the point. His eyes are geodes, cracked open to reveal amber and amethyst cores, and the amber is the light, and the light is the point. His wings are vast membranes of thin stone, not quite solid, and they are the color of old bone, and they do not flap so much as settle, the way a landslide settles, and the settling is the sound, and the sound is the point. His horns are long, dark, and curved back, and they are the shape of a ridge that has been weathered for a thousand years. His jaw is long, and the jaw is the mouth, and the mouth is the voice, and the voice is the slow, and the slow is the point. Elders of his kind go still and absolute, their stone going quiet and their gold going dim; Stonewrought is ancient — the stone is still true, the veins are still bright, and he is still the mountain that walks, which is the point.
Warfare & Markings
He fights the way stone fights — not a blow but a settle, and the settle is the point. He will not strike you; he will make the ground under you become the ground in you, and the becoming is the settle. His one true mark is the geode eyes, cracked open to reveal amethyst cores, and the place where the light comes through the stone. In battle he keeps the slow, because the slow is the one that lands, and the landing is the settle, and the settle is the mountain, and the mountain is the point.
Behaviour
Patient, stubborn, and immovable — like the mountains themselves. Stonewrought speaks slowly, choosing each word with the care of a craftsman shaping stone. He is not cruel; he is the mountain, and the mountain does not do, it is, and the being is the point. He does not argue and does not raise his wing; he only lets the ground settle, and the settling is the point. He is the dragon you do not want to be slow, because the slow is the sure, and the sure is the mountain, and the mountain is the point. He has a habit of being where you were before you were, and a habit of still being there a thousand years later, and both habits are the slow. He speaks in the deep, the slow, and the certain, and the certainty is the settle, and the settle is the mountain, and the mountain is the point.
"Mountains do not argue with the wind. They simply endure. And the wind eventually gives up."
Magic Alignment
Earth mastery, absolute. His signature is Earth Mastery — absolute control over stone, metal, and tectonic force, the thing that makes him the oldest and the most certain. He holds Ancient Wisdom, knowledge accumulated over millennia, and God-Like Power, on par with true deities. His breath is not a breath; it is a settle, and the settle is the point. The price: he is the mountain, and the mountain does not let go of the ground, and the not-letting-go is the point.
Society
He is one of the named dragons of the old world, and his name is a word that is said in the slow. He is not of a guild; he is of a place, and the place is the mountain, and the mountain does not travel so much as it settles. He is the dragon the old world did not want to argue with, and the new world is still learning how not to argue with, and the learning is the point.
Culture & Lore
The wiki keeps him as the ancient Earth Dragon, and the tale is told mostly by the people who have seen the geode eyes, because that is the only thing he has left behind. The old world said the dragon who is mountain; the new world says the same thing, and is slowly learning that the settle is the point, and the point is the slow.
Home
He keeps in the mountain, the deep, and the place where the rock has not yet decided to move. His truest home is the slow, and the slow does not travel so much as it settles.
Relations
The mountain he keeps — allies in the sense that they are the place he is. The deep he sleeps in — the place that is his, and the place that is the point. The old world he left behind — a rival in the sense that it was the wind, and the wind is the point. The new world he is in — a question he has not yet answered, and the not-answering is the slow, and the slow is the mountain, and the mountain is the point.
In the Story
Stonewrought is the ancient Earth Dragon of the old world, and his name is a word that is said in the slow. In the new world he is the mountain that has not yet found its shape, and the not-finding is the point, and the point is the settle.
"Mountains do not argue with the wind. They simply endure. And the wind eventually gives up."
Quotes
"Mountains do not argue with the wind. They simply endure. And the wind eventually gives up."