So You Think Being an Immortal is Fun?
Noctyrr Vael is an immortal dragon who has lived long enough to watch empires rise, heroes fall, and entire races fade into memory. Once raised by heroes and feared as the strongest of all dragons, he abandoned the world after learning a simple truth: everything he protects will eventually disappear.
Choosing isolation, he waits only for the day he can finally end his own existence.
That resolve wavers when a human child is abandoned at the mountain where he resides. Unwilling to grow attached, Noctyrr attempts to give her away to his former comrades and long-lived allies. Each of them refuses—not out of cruelty, but fear. They have loved mortals before, and they know how it ends.
With no one else willing to take her, the dragon becomes her guardian.
As the years pass, the child grows unnaturally strong, wielding magic far beyond any human’s reach. Noctyrr pretends not to notice, convincing himself that this, too, is temporary. Yet time moves forward for her alone. She grows, fights, and is eventually claimed by the world as a hero, while the dragon can only watch from the sidelines.
When her life finally comes to an end, Noctyrr is left behind once more—unchanged, unmoving, and burdened with every memory. Deciding that eternity has taken enough from him, he prepares to die.
That is when fate intervenes again.
This is not a story about saving the world, but about enduring it—about loving what will one day be lost, and the quiet tragedy of living long enough to remember everything.
