Thread: The Riders' Legacy [ Ariamella & Greeneyed23 ]

RE Into the Riders' Legacy BlinkyWinky Greeneyed23 In addition to the two ancient Eldunari, Jurizen spoke through the two who could accept his thoughts without any worry of damage, like Fela who listened to the conversation and gave his opinion or statements when he felt it necessary but rarely. The dragons were instructing Veravada on flight, fire breathing, scale and talon care and all the basics making sure she had a good grounding and also giving her a number of advanced techniques and lessons. They also gave her a number on fighting with Amarose and how to make their union as Rider and dragon increase until the two not as a single being but something more. A joined mature Rider and Dragon is a force that even a Shade cannot best and as they spoke they taught Veravada and through her and Amarose's dreams her Rider, techniques and movements how together they could destroy any foe even a number of powerful magicians attacking at once. The biggest key to this was the Elven method of mental emptiness. The Elves had mastered the method to make their mental walls truly impenetrable and after the ascension of Galbatorix, the Shade Durza, and a flurry of other powerful foes to the Riders and free nations of Alagaesia the Elves had gone back to work on the matter. Before they had thought of only one thing and their mental barriers had been strong but still breakable. Emptiness however was an entirely different matter. It turned the person into a living mirror. With nothing in their mind but their opponents mind the emptied mind had simply to maintain their calm and watch as their attacker literally destroyed themselves as they very rarely recognized their own minds. The elves had mastered and even excelled at this technique to the point that it was now thought that a wizard's duel or any kind of mental attack on an elf, even in concert, was tantamount to suicide even more than before. Arya herself had used the technique to destroy an entire cult to a fallen shade by herself with only Feirnen supporting her. They had all literally torn themselves and each other apart. The dragons, like the elves, were quickly able to master this ability and now it was constant teaching for all Riders and dragon when they were preparing to meet actual attack and as such they were now teaching Veravada and her Rider. Near evening when Amarose woke they were coming in to land at the southern oceanic post. Jurizen landed smoothly and began to stretch as Fela leapt free of his dragon and did his own stretches as the leader of the outpost a Jessica and her dragon Tritos, a startling orange male, came forward bowing. Atra estern ono thelduin. Mor'ranr lfa unin hjarta onr. Un du evarnya ono varda Ebrithil Umaroth and Glaedr, Fela Turin and Jurizen. All four of them spoke as one. Atra du evarnya ono varda Jessica Shurt'tugal Tritos Bjartskulr. As is well? Jessica grinned. All is well Masters. We were not expecting you though. Is there trouble? Fela shoo his head. Not at all my apprentice. We are taking on another student to complete her training. Fela gestured at the purple dragon and her Rider. How have you been since we saw you last? Jessica giggled. Well Master it was a hundred and twenty seven years ago when i took this position. I have quite enjoyed it. Its beautiful and very happy here.. Fela nodded. 'You've done much. the walls look strong and powerful. Your forces are well trained and well armed. How did you gain them? Jessica giggled again. I asked for them Ebrithil. Fela laughed then looked at Jurizen. Would you like to rest? the black dragon shook his head still stretching his wings. And you two? The Eldunari did not respond for a long moment. No thank you fricia Fela. We are resting comfortably here. We will listen to your instruction to your student. Enjoy. Fela nodded. I'd like to see it all. Jessica nodded and took him on the tour of the post. the walls were indeed impressive. Protected from the weather and waves by powerful magical sealants and the runes upon each stone of the wall and the fortified foundation of the walls and the island itself. There were watchtowers with powerful signal lamps and weapons every fifteen feet along the wall which was thirty feet thick and more than a hundred tall with no gate in the wall at all. The only entrance to the post was by dragon. The post supported four hundred guards and their families, twenty five riders and their dragons, grew their own food, raised their own livestock, and made their own weapons, armor, and other arms, even carving out their own stone from the small but deep quarry within the post. Each rune and the sealant that connected the walls was supplied with immense magical power by an abundant supply from large powerful gems set into the walls, towers, and the foundations of the post themselves. Every spare bit of energy for the last hundred and twenty seven years had been put into these stones and by now the depth of the energy was so immense that the post could withstand a full assault by an armada of a thousand ships with dragons and Riders as well enduring a trio of hurricanes all at once and still remain unscathed. The guards, their families, the animals they raised and killed, the Riders, and of course the dragons who had lived, fought, died for, and left happily from this post had filtered spare energy, dying energy, and when they were resting their entire reserve, into the stones. When Jessica showed Fela the stones he whistled. The stones of the belt of Beloth the Wise could not have held so much...not even a minimal fraction. This is amazing my dear....allow me to aid you. Before she could speak he funneled a large amount of his own energy into the stones. She was impressed how very much he held. Seeing her face he smirked. I am a pureborn elf of more than six millenia my dear. When you reach my age you will also possess a similar energy reserve. While this went on a number of the younger Rider's, all of whom had completed their training, and were now stationed here as a defensive force and something a policing measure for the southern sea. The youngest, Anduin and his dragon Terda, had completed their training only a year before and had known Amarose and Veravada well and upon seeing them called out happily. Terda trumpeted to see Veravada and blew flames as greeting the heat and light making his deep brown scale shimmer with a burning golden light.