Smaug, from The Hobbit

[smaug_thegolden]

((Permission granted by the other Tolkien players on the active roster. Smaug has several noteworthy abilities including "Dragon-spell", which he can use if someone looks into his eyes. Characters are free to react or not at your discretion. Unless he's trying to exert his will upon someone it probably isn't a great concern.))Outside one of the

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[woocha]

Smaug? Cool! Wishbone wagged his tail.

[smaug_thegolden]

Smaug lowered his head to peer at the dog. Such a small creature, barely the size of one of his talons. "How do you come to know my name?"

[woocha]

I've read about you! I'm Wishbone!

[smaug_thegolden]

It wouldn't have surprised Smaug in the least to know his name was now part of history (considering how many he'd slain, and the hoard he'd laid claim to), except that this wasn't his land. Had word of his deeds spread so far?

"And where, pray, have you read about me?" he asked. "Have you a master?"

[maid_brienne]

"I have no need for baubles, ser," the maid of Tarth said coldly. "Why should I give you my leave to stay in this place if you wish only to cause destruction?"

[smaug_thegolden]

"Destruction," Smaug repeated carefully, as though tasting the word, and tilted his head to peer down at the woman. And no common maiden was this; she possessed the unmistakable bearing of a warrior. Knight, perhaps. Of course baubles would be useless to her.

Dark smoke curled from the dragon's nostrils. "If none trouble me, Lady, then none shall I trouble in turn."

It was a shade of the truth.

[maid_brienne]

"Fair enough," Brienne conceded. "Do you intend, then, to study magic?" The dragons of House Targaryen did not, as she recalled, have a yen for learning, and so she was finding it hard to believe this dragon would, either.

[smaug_thegolden]

"Indeed... magic. It permeates every stone here. Why else should I come to this place, if not to study it."

He'd inferred that was the purpose of this castle, and though learning magic certainly hadn't been his original intent, he did think it an interesting prospect now. They would willingly impart their secrets to a dragon?

[rebelvalkyrie]

Silmeria was surprised, but not afraid of the dragon in the sorting room, though it appeared much more intelligent than the ones she has killed before.

"How do you intent to eat while within the castle, Sir Dragon?"

[smaug_thegolden]

"During my flight I saw that there are woods nearby. I expect it will be simple enough to hunt in them," Smaug replied dismissively. He knew better than to admit to having no qualms over eating the residents of the castle.

And food wasn't quite a concern at the moment.

"What manner of creature are you?" For he couldn't place Silmeria's scent.

[rebelvalkyrie]

"Wise decision."

She felt she could have defeated the dragon should it have answered otherwise, but the lack of armor did not do her any favors. Particularly, she realized thoughtfully, in the area of recognition; that feathered helmet of her's does have quite a silhouette.

"I am a valkyrie, once a Chooser of the Slain for Odin. It is not typical for me to move within the plane of living mortals."

But then again, not much of Silmeria was typical.

"What are you searching for at this school of magic?"

[smaug_thegolden]

The species and title were rather lost on Smaug, but he would remember them all the same. Everyone was, by default, a potential enemy to him, and he would seize any advantage he could. It was not in his nature to do otherwise.

"The answer is in the question," he said. "Don't all who come here seek magic?"

He hadn't been, at least not at first. But he was quickly warming to the idea and now his answer wasn't wholly a lie.

[iam_beowulf]

This was one monster Beowulf would not woo, for he knew by the logic of Gaiman and Avary that such creatures could be born of a man's union with monster.

"HWÆT," he bellowed at Smaug. "WHO FATHERED YOU, DRAGON?"

For once, he didn't give the creature an introduction to himself straight off, which was unusual for the man who generally shouted I AM BEOWULF at all and sundry.

He didn't want to give the dragon any ideas.

[smaug_thegolden]

But Smaug was so eminently wooable.

At the bellowing, Smaug drew himself up so that he was sitting taller, wings slightly unfurled to either side of him. He regarded Beowulf with half-lidded eyes. What nonsense was this?

"He who fathered my race was known as Glaurung in the tongue of the Elves." He doubted the name would carry any significance in this place one way or another, so there was no harm in giving it. "Who asks?"

[lion_in_white]

Jaime Lannister, knight and Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, took one look at the dragon and inhaled deeply, that he might better exhale a long aggrieved sigh.

"Fucking Targaryens," he muttered.

The Targaryens had been the royal dynasty that once ruled Westeros with aid from the dragons they commanded. But each successive generation of dragons grew up weaker, likely due to the same inbreeding that sapped the Targaryen strength, and the last had died long before Jaime personally put an end to the last Targaryen king.

"All right," called the Kingslayer up to the dragon whose head appeared to be wedged in a window. "What the fuck is going on here?"

[smaug_thegolden]

By then, with the help of the house-elves, said dragon was no longer quite so stuck. He was also able to look down rather intently at the person addressing him.

"I might ask the same," he replied, dark smoke trailing his words and dispersing as it rose.

[lion_in_white]

Jaime did not recall any tales of the Targaryen dragons possessing the power of speech. Surprise showed on his fair face.

"I take it you're no toy of Daenerys," he said.

[smaug_thegolden]

"A toy," Smaug said contemptuously. "Hardly. I recognise no master. What is this Daenerys you speak of?"