Aurjalon

Alright, so there it was the giants on top with everyone else beneath their heel, but there exists a hierarchy even within slaves, at the time of the Liberation, the only Dragon that was kept by the Giants was a young gold wrymling, the dragon was named Aurjalon. Aurjalon was a vicious creature, and was a favorite to watch, even some giants were sickened by its cruel and terrible wrath in the fighting pits, Aurjalon had not been captured, it was taken from its mother as an egg and hatched to captivity and war.

Aurjalon cared not for the world, simply death and its next meal, all that changed when it slaughtered the leaders of a group of dwarves planning a revolt. The dwarves were captured and sent to the pits to fight the dragon. Dwarves cried and wept and the giants cheered as Aurjalon in the pit toyed with its prey, taunting and mutilating the bodies in front of their families with relish and cruelty.

That night after eating its fill and locked in its cavern, Aurjalon encountered something strange, he saw a young dwarf girl trying to break into his cell. With a roar he wanted to scrurry off the dwarf but was baffled to find the young girl, did not back down, rather it pulled out a pickaxe and attacked him!

Picture it: A malnourished young dwarf, defiantly sneaking into a dragons cage and attempting to kill it. Aurjalon laughed and swatted away the dwarf over and over again, but each time it would rise up and attempt to kill him, finally he pined it down before he devoured her and asked why she would challenge him. He learned that earlier that day he had killed and tortured her parents in the pits, she claimed she had nothing to lose and for the first time Aurjalon the gold saw something other than food or fighting or cruelty or malice, he saw some kind of justice, the righteous fury that burns inside someone that would die defiant against inconceivable odds. The interaction was staggereing, he threw the girl out of his cell and began to think.

The girl returned the next day and this time after pining her down they began to talk, Aurjalon learned more about the world than his cage and bloodlust, and she learned that he is not just a beast.

She showed him injustice and what true strength was, and after this happened for days when her attempts to kill him grew half hearted the more they spoke, the less the hate she had for him. For the first time since her families demise and for the first time ever for him, they found friendship.

But one thing that brought them together, was their anger at the giants, and together they planned to bring about the ruination of the city.

While this was happening the giants were distracted with something else, they encountered Dragonborn, a moving refuge camp from the north, and the giants were fascinated. they did not know that dragons could come in this form and so they took all they could back to Krigheim, and this was the last part needed to seal their own demise. For dragonborn are a proud folk and while generations of dwarves had been beaten down and only a handful had some fight left, each and every dragonborn had an inner fire in them.

The Dragonborn were difficult to control and gave the giants a hard time, but they were unorganized, lashing out in anger, until they met a young dwarven girl. You see she convinced them that their salvation would be Aurjalon, So every rebellious Dwarf and Dragonborn made a plan and next time in the fighting pits, they launched an attack and in the confusion, broke the chains of Aurjalon. hundreds died for his freedom.

And for the first time ever, the gold Dragon Took to the Skies

Aurjalon would attempt to break the giants 7 times before realizing he himself was insufficient and so made a promise to comeback in 50 years after gaining new knowledge and Skills.

Not much is known of this time but he came back with a Bronze Dragon: Rosgorurt. And with Tooth and Talon, Magic and guile massacred a great deal of Giants. During this time several Dwarves and Dragonborn had escaped and made their own army, Led by First King of Dwarves the son of that young girl who had passed waiting for Aurjalon to return. The last war for the Reth had begun.

Over the course of a year both sides suffered heavy losses but the population of Giants suffered more and finally a truce was called. The giants would Leave Krigheim and never come back if The dragons left them alone. And Aurjalon agreed, the new city was named Arush Reth, A home for the broken, and hunted and to this day Aurjalon watched over it. And Far in the Gewaltig wilds, the giants wait, for Krigheim belongs and they know one day they will march to take back their ancestral home.