Side Story 3

Side Story 3: Slumber
Side story 3 follows the story of Grunvarodurminon (or Grun for short), a collosal, millenia-old dragon who came to Odwia from another world with a small group of his friends.

Each of them heads their own separate ways, with Grun finding a grassy area next to a river to rest in. There he goes to sleep.

Over time, a small village sprouts up next to him, unaware of Grun but taking advantage of the fact that no wild animal would willingly draw near him. It gradually grows, but then is raided by another settlement, killing the majority of the residents and destroying much of the place. Grun engulfs the whole place in flames, destroying both remnants of the village and raiders.

Later, a war is waged nearby, irritating Grun, although he decides not to interfere. That is, until the war continues for quite a long time, and Grun finally breaks it up by breathing a thin column of flame down the centre of the melee.

Grun's dreams suddenly change from war to hunting. Noticing the discrepancy, Grun looks around and finds a young human. Upon requesting the human to explain, he finds that the young man has the ability to travel into other people's dreams. When the young man creates a doorway to demonstrate, Grun finds that he is able to duplicate the feat, creating a portal into the dreams of the leader who brought his group to Odwia.

After that night, the young man, Ruvel, often visits Grun's dreams. They talk and explore their power over dreams together.

However, one night when Ruvel visits, he tells Grun that he has died - in real life. After consulting again with the leader, they find that Ruvel is most likely immortal within the dream world. As a result, Ruvel and Grun continue to talk and meet within their dreams, although Ruvel is now only able to see reality through the dreams of others and Grun's own recreations.

Back in reality, a tribe of kobolds makes an agreement with Grun - they would bring him gold, gems and such, and he would protect them. Thus a kobold village, and eventually a city grows around him.

Even more time passes, and Grun has grown so large and been so still for so long that the kobolds no longer know the form of their guardian dragon, and have started to build cities atop him.