This is a bit of an oddball request, since it is normally something that I would consider for solo-writing myself, but figured that i might as well see if anyone was interested in collaborating on it.
The plot is already laid out, since this is sort of an interstitial flash-back to a fully-baked legend in a con-world setting that I have used multiple times for rp.
It takes place in a fantasy world, and there are three principal characters involved. There is no romance, and no sexual content of any kind, for this particular story.
The Smith - a blacksmith's apprentice
The Demon - a demon who makes a deal with the smith
The Dragon - an ancient polychormatic Great-Wyrm who lives in a mountain and collects many things, including legends and stories. Name and epithet: 'Etherios the Prismatic'
This is an attempt to expand what is a historical legend in-universe, into a proper narrative. Because of this, there is a fixed plot arc, but some of the details are given enough room to deviate, as long as the main beats are hit.
The legend is the following:
The idea would be to start with a disconnected prologue, followed by a frame-story from the perspective of the first meeting between the Demon and the Dragon, which would flash-back into the story of the demon's interaction with the smith up until they parted ways. It would end with the demon being slain by the dragon, and then it would just simply finish.
Since this is a very specific request with a fully-baked plot, I imagine it may not be the most compelling RT for most writers. But if anyone wants to help me write this, I would love to work on filling out the legend with two narrative voices, even if it's part of my own narrative vision originally.
The plot is already laid out, since this is sort of an interstitial flash-back to a fully-baked legend in a con-world setting that I have used multiple times for rp.
It takes place in a fantasy world, and there are three principal characters involved. There is no romance, and no sexual content of any kind, for this particular story.
The Smith - a blacksmith's apprentice
The Demon - a demon who makes a deal with the smith
The Dragon - an ancient polychormatic Great-Wyrm who lives in a mountain and collects many things, including legends and stories. Name and epithet: 'Etherios the Prismatic'
This is an attempt to expand what is a historical legend in-universe, into a proper narrative. Because of this, there is a fixed plot arc, but some of the details are given enough room to deviate, as long as the main beats are hit.
The legend is the following:
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Eons ago, a forgotten deity, corrupted enough to become a great demon by some unknown influence, emerged from a crack in the earth from the pits of the Infernal Realm, and began slaughtering the elves in their ancestral home. Those who fought were killed, and those who ran were all that remained. It took over their continent, and its rampage is what led the elves to migrate to the world of men originally. This horror was given the name 'Blightbringer'.
The elves lived in peace from that point forward, but the eldest of them could not forget the horrors of Blightbringer, its cavernous maw devouring entire castles as it felled armies with its foul waves of putrefication. Its red skin rotting away to sickly yellow as its demonic shell was cracked by its horrific defilement.
In time, however, a great paladin arose, a leader among elves, who decided that their days of cowering in fear were over. He ordered the finest smith in all of the land to forge him a blade capable of defeating this demon. Thinking him nothing but a mad fool seeking meaningless glory over a made-up nightmare, the smith decided to let his apprentice forge the blade instead of deigning to touch it himself. But this turned out to be the Fates' design, as his apprentice crafted Unbringer, the purest blade ever made, as if the gods themselves had smiled upon the forge and sought to send the Blightbringer back to oblivion.
With Unbringer, the paladin, called Uriel the Mighty, organized a party of warriors, an army one thousand elves strong, to return to their homeland, defiled and abandoned, to bring death to the death-dealer. -
There was an old man who lived on a hill, a veteran blacksmith, who dreamed of training an apprentice, but his skills were too great for any would-be heir to his craft to accept his mentoring, fearing that his advanced age and endless knowledge would leave them half-baked by the time he died. Fearing that his art would die out, he made a wish from his pure heart that someone fearless would arrive at his forge, skilled enough a vessel to soak up his training before he should grow too weak to ply his trade anymore. As if to answer his prayer, a clever demon offered him a trade. He would teach the demon all he knew, and in exchange it would extend his life and vitality beyond his normal limits, but upon the demon's creation of a work that his master considered to surpass his own, the master would pass away, his remaining life-force restoring the demon's power.
Little did the demon know, the old man had only ever once created a blade he considered to be good, back when he was a mere apprentice, and it was so long in his past that it had grown more and more elaborate in his mind's eye, and every piece he made from that day forth was an attempt to capture the fleeting beauty of that single sword. So no matter how much of his own wisdom the master smith bestowed the demon with, the demon could never create a work to rival his master's, as that was a skill the veteran smith could not teach, as he had not the skill himself to do the same.
So the veteran smith never died, and instead grew alongside the demon, the veteran learning how to teach, and the demon learning how to learn. They eventually parted ways, each content with nullifying their pact as they considered the time they shared its own reward, as well as the wisdom they had gained; the veteran died, and the demon went on to teach other monsters how to craft blades, none as beautiful as his master's perfect ideal, but all far greater than any mortal could rival.
Eventually the demon came to a dragon, who was curious of this unattainable treasure-blade for its own horde of masterpieces, and traded its wealth and adamant scales, lit the demon's forge, and paid it in jewels and rare artifacts it considered dispensable, all to recreate the perfect sword that the demon had heard of every day from its master, after the forge went out in the evening when the veteran smith grew wistful. For dragons love treasure as much as they love knowledge and stories, and the demon had many from its years and years in training. Eventually, the demon could no longer stand to lift its hammer, and the dragon killed it in anger, as it had defied the dragon's will.
But the dragon grew to regret killing its perhaps only friend, and mourned its actions, vowing to sire an heir capable of wielding a hammer and anvil to recreate the craft of the demon and his master's youth.
The idea would be to start with a disconnected prologue, followed by a frame-story from the perspective of the first meeting between the Demon and the Dragon, which would flash-back into the story of the demon's interaction with the smith up until they parted ways. It would end with the demon being slain by the dragon, and then it would just simply finish.
Since this is a very specific request with a fully-baked plot, I imagine it may not be the most compelling RT for most writers. But if anyone wants to help me write this, I would love to work on filling out the legend with two narrative voices, even if it's part of my own narrative vision originally.