The living story
The story so far
Scarlight was the first braiding the Emberwilds and the Planetary Universe ever made — her mother Scar, the feathered dragon adventurer who always left at dawn, and her father Elderlight, the stone sage who had not moved for a century. The multiverse expected a fighter or a philosopher. It got a child who reads stars like weather and wanders anyway.
Happening now
She walks the Living Roads at night, comparing the constellations in the sky to the faint ones shimmering under her scales. When a keeper is lost, she finds them — her stone brightens the closer she gets, and her crest catches the starlight like a lantern.
What may come
Elderlight says some stones glow because they remember every hand that held them. Scarlight's stone has started remembering roads nobody has walked yet — she keeps it close, and waits for the keeper it is warming toward.