Greyhame/History

==History==
Naomi and Edric Dunfihr always wanted a child, but fate seemed to have other plans for them. Desperate after years of trying, they took a calf into the mountains as a sacrifice to the stone, in hopes they would be blessed with fertility. They watered the rocks with its blood and threw the body into a deep ravine. To their surprise, the ground split at their feet and yielded up a craggy egg. It was unexpected for sure, but they were not ones to turn down a gift from nature. They took it home and tended it carefully until it hatched a taloned, scale-plated baby. This was truly no ordinary gift. A dragon-child, given to human parents? They raised the draconic boy as their own, and gave thanks often to the aether for its blessing.
Greyhame grew up a farmer, tending cattle and tilling the earth until famine dried the fields and withered the beasts. They had lost their trade; their small savings wasted away not long after. Several thin years passed before the Dunfihrs decided they had to let go of their pastures and move on. They returned to the mountains where Greyhame was born and started a new life as farmers of stone, harvesters of rock, where the crop could never dry up. The stone did not feed them, but cutting it from the mountain to sell did. Greyhame picked up quarrying naturally, thanks to his roots. He learned to cut stone for construction and built his parents house larger and sturdier. He learned to carve facades and columns and craft arches. Many of the stone constructs in Almaria likely came from the Dunfihr quarry. 
Edric passed away peacefully when Greyhame was twenty-eight, and Naomi joined him four years later. It was only after burying them behind their beloved mountain home that Greyhame realized how alone he’d become. It stung at first, but rather than try to reverse the issue, he simply shrugged it off and returned to work. When the quarry became inadequate to fill the emptiness, Greyhame expanded his territory and delved the hills for minerals, gemstones, and precious metals to supplement his trade. Cairn became his sole companion; he grew so used to speaking solely with his familiar telepathically that he nearly forgot how to communicate verbally, and interactions with other citizens became difficult and awkward. Though he appears to age at a rate at least close to that of a human, he does not feel the drag of the years. He has wondered about his mortality ever since his family passed.
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