802 PD

The crowd was deafening, screaming for blood and vengeance from outside the gated walls of the silvered palace. One year ago, Queen Iridia Belamin the 3rd had died, and her eldest and only daughter, Iridia Belamin the 4th, had taken the throne. It had not gone well, the grieving woman, barely nineteen at the time of her coronation, refused to take a hand in marriage and instead spent her time drinking and partying, in a grief filled stupor buried underneath an ocean of the finest booze that the taxpayers could afford. She neglected the roads, schools, guards, everything was left to wither and decay as she raised taxes so she could throw extravagant parties in her late mothers memory... and now it was catching up to her. Every year, Winterhold selected a maiden, a virgin not of drinking age, to be taken to the top of the mountain that the city was built upon, shed be tortured and killed before her battered body was thrown down a yawning chasm in an attempt to appease their draconic god, the cities patron deity, Salux, Draconic God of War. Iridia hadn't let the priests choose a maiden though, she deemed it barbaric, and now... now she was paying the price.

"My lady, with the diminished number of royal guards, I'd estimate that the commoners will breach the palace in ten minutes. Scouts say they have spotted a makeshift stockade outside, I fear that you will not live to see the clock strike twelve." A servant said, one of Iridias friends as a child... so sweet, he'd no doubt die too. "Hold them off, I'll not die at their hands. If this be the end, I will go out on my own terms." She said, a heavy goblet of wine in her hand as she pressed three fingers to the mans forehead, his body slumped over as the Sleep spell was cast. Standing, Iridia placed her crown, a golden thing weighing nearly four pounds encrusted with diamonds millennia old onto her throne as she grabbed a simple fur coat, and walked out the back of the throne room. "Make things right." Her mothers words echoed in her head, a somber hum leaving her mouth as an orb of light appeared above her head, smooth stone steps now stretching out before her as she gazed up at the mountain. She fit the bill, under twenty one, a virgin by technicality, female... it was better than being beheaded, she supposed.

Hours passed as she walked up the steps, the sound of fanfare below almost taunting her, gods how she yearned to go back down and punish the foolish rabble who thought themselves royals... she shook her head, she was too far up, she could see the peak, two sculptures of their god formed from the rock leering at her. Her legs ached, her lungs burned, her head felt light with lack of oxygen... and now she held a knife. She didn't seem to realize it, but she was at the top, a walkway set out before her, the monks knew there was no time, they had de clothed her, paying no mind to her former title as a cobalt blue knife of Decadence, a scourge that had sundered the world in ages past, was placed in her hand. No time for torture, just stab herself and fall...

The knife didn't hurt, somehow, instead a brilliant beam of cobalt light shot from where the knife entered, pure corruption seeping from her body as she stumbled, stumbled, and fell. She was dead before she hit the ground, her body little more than paste as her soul went to dissolve before, somehow, it was plucked away from the end. Iridia didn't realize it, but she had been chosen by Salux, a new body fit for his tastes formed in the heavens, her soul shunted into it. She was a god now, though hardly a powerful one, her role was simple, a bedside companion and mother for Salux and his children.

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God I love dragons! Hey y'all, this is an OLD plot idea that I had years and years ago that I'm wanting to run. Who is Salux, why Iridia, how soon will she be bent over with eggs shoved into her? All questions for DMs! I mainly RP on Discord so please add me on there at genderframe, I do RP on Reddit but my responses will be much slower.

PLEASE BE ABLE TO WRITE MORE THAN TWO PARAGRAPHS, EFFORT IS IMPORTANT!!!