"In my world there are multiple realms. In the Heavenly Realm resides a race known as Immortals. It is to this race that dragons belong since Immortals can be any number of true bodies. A dragon, a phoenix, a flower... Your true body will be that form but the rest of the time Immortals will walk around looking similar to you do now."
It was an interesting experience to explain this to another. Still, he saw the interest and that made him ready to offer his knowledge.
"Children born to Immortals often take on one aspect of each parent to become who they are. One will give the creature they become and the other the element. It makes it so one can trace the parentage this way. In the Heavenly Realm, dragons have only ever been part of the royal family. Before I was born it was my father, the Emperor, who was a golden fire dragon. At his side was his wife who was a phoenix. Two creatures of fire."
That alone was a solid clue that the Empress was not actually Runyu's real mother. After all, two parents of fire could not create a child of water. That was not how it worked. "My father had a habit of enjoying many women and seduced my mother who was a fish. From that union I was born. Water from her and dragon from him."
There was so much more to that story but...
"I have a younger brother who lives here too. He is a phoenix like his mother and his nature is that of fire. People have likened Immortals of my world to that of gods. Our purpose is to make sure that the natural movements of the Mortal Realm run smoothly and as they are meant to. For a time before I took my father's throne, I was the Night Immortal. The one who moved the stars across the sky every night and recorded the dreams of the world."
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It was an interesting experience to explain this to another. Still, he saw the interest and that made him ready to offer his knowledge.
"Children born to Immortals often take on one aspect of each parent to become who they are. One will give the creature they become and the other the element. It makes it so one can trace the parentage this way. In the Heavenly Realm, dragons have only ever been part of the royal family. Before I was born it was my father, the Emperor, who was a golden fire dragon. At his side was his wife who was a phoenix. Two creatures of fire."
That alone was a solid clue that the Empress was not actually Runyu's real mother. After all, two parents of fire could not create a child of water. That was not how it worked. "My father had a habit of enjoying many women and seduced my mother who was a fish. From that union I was born. Water from her and dragon from him."
There was so much more to that story but...
"I have a younger brother who lives here too. He is a phoenix like his mother and his nature is that of fire. People have likened Immortals of my world to that of gods. Our purpose is to make sure that the natural movements of the Mortal Realm run smoothly and as they are meant to. For a time before I took my father's throne, I was the Night Immortal. The one who moved the stars across the sky every night and recorded the dreams of the world."