Wyrminghall Story

Wyrminghall Story

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1,[intro] [kattribute] King [kname] [act] the Little Kingdom. The former [former] achieved this feat by subduing the great dragon [dname] [dsaid] and claiming its great hoard of treasure. He was able to achieve this victory with the aid of [weapon]. The king imprisoned his pet dragon in a great pit and built over it a great feast-hall, which became known as Wyrminghall, owing to the great wyrm contained below it.[paren] From his mighty hall the king founded [order], a small order consisting of His Majesty and his [knnumber] bravest vassals. Although he paid nominal tribute to [gking], the lord of Wyrminghall ruled the Little Kingdom free of outside interference.
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10,Once upon a time 4,Lo! You have heard the story of the Dragon-Knights of old, now hearken to the tale of 1,A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away....
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5, 1,grumpy 1,old 1,merry 1,fat 1,smelly 1,brave 1,kind 1,mighty 1,ugly
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10,Ægidius 5,Agidius 3,Tame 2,Julius 1,Gulius 1,Ahenobarbus 1,Agricola 1,Hammo
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3,founded the realm known as 1,ascended to the throne of 1,usurped the throne of 1,rebelled against his liege and set up the pretender realm known as
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1,rough and tumble adventurer 1,stinking peasant 1,yeoman farmer 1,desperate bandit 1,drunken lout 1,alehouse bully
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10,Physochrylax 1,Vermithrax 1,Gorbash 1,Smrgol 1,Bryagh 1,Endriago 1,Fáfnir 1,Frænir 1,Scatha 1,Ancalagon 1,Glaurung 1,Finfangfoom 1,Locheed 1,Wormy 1,Puff 1,Trogdor
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10, 2,,said to be the child of the Great Dragon Satan, 2,,said to be the child of the Mother of All Dragons, Tiamat, 1,,said to be the product of the unholy union of Tiamat, Mother of Dragons, and Satan himself,
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10,the enchanted sword Tailbiter, which he [acquired1] 5,the enchanted sword Caudimordax, which he [acquired1] 5,the enchanted sword first wielded by the ancient dragonslayer Bellomarius, which the king [acquired1] 3,an enchanted Rod of Fire, which he [acquired2] 1,the great spear Sicarius Dracorum, forged for him by the legendary Weyland Smith 1,the hammer Mjolnir, which he found one morning in a dung heap 1,Garmr, the titanic blood-red hound that guards the gates of Hell 1,a coat of enchanted mail, fashioned for him by the dwarf-king Vestri 1,a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
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1,received as a gift from a grateful king, for slaying a rampaging giant 1,stole from the royal treasury of a trusting king, after impregnating the king's daughter on the same night. 1,won from the Devil in a game of dice
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1,stole from the treasure hoard of a Cornish giant 1,stole from throne room of the Goblin King 1,received as a gift by the smitten daughter of the King of Efreets 1,received in exchange for returning a leprechaun's pot of gold
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10, 1,(Though some say it would better be called WyrmingHELL, for the king was known to cast his enemies down to the dragon for food.)
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1,Knights of the Wyrm 1,Order of the Wyrm 1,Order of the Dragon-Knights 1,Knights of the Dragon
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1,seven 1,nine 1,twelve 1,twenty
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5,King Arthur 5,Alfred the Great 3,Uther Pendragon 3,Vortigern the Accursed 3,the King of Wessex 1,the King of Essex 1,the King of Kent 1,the King of Anglia 1,Old King Cole 1,the Queen of the Fairies
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1,[kbehavior], the Little Kingdom flourished, owing in large part to the fear of neighboring kings. None dared make war against the realm, for fear that the last thing they saw would be a flash of [dcolor] scales shimmering in the bright sunlight, followed by an enveloping gout of [breath]. Another factor in the success of the kingdom was the influence of Queen [qname], wife of the Lord of Wyrminghall. More shrewd than her husband, she was also known as [qreputation]. It was said that she first expanded the pits below Wyrminghall, adding a series of vaults to better protect the treasures of the realm and fiendish traps to guard the vaults as well as a series of dungeons and torture chambers for the benefit of local tax evaders. Some tunnels below the hall are said to be the result of the dragon attempting to burrow his way out of bondage to the king. Another tale suggests that some of the excavations originated from deep below the hall, made by the [deep] in an attempt to locate the gold and silver of the king.
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1,Despite the king's ineptitude as an administrator 1,Despite the king's efforts to rule his land as drunkenly as possible 1,Despite the king's neglect of the welfare of his subjects 1,Despite the king's general stupidity
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5,red 5,green 1,blue
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5,fire 3,smoke 3,poisonous vapor 2,acid 1,lightning
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5,Agatha 3,Hagatha 1,Matilda
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3,a witch 1,the daughter of a knight and a fairy princess 1,the daughter of a knight and a succubus 1,the daughter of a goblin trickster and a princess
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1,the undergnomes known as the smurfnibblins 1,the deep dwarves, members of clans who never feel the warmth of the sun on their faces, 1,the xvart-elves, cast out of the light at the dawn of time, 1,devils burrowing upwards from hell
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1,The first Lord of Wyrminghall enjoyed a long reign, as many as eighty winters by some accounts, before [kdeath]. [qfate] The son of the original king and queen of Wyrminghall, [2kname], ascended to the throne. Barely adequate as a warrior and terrible at everything else, the second Lord of Wyrminghall's reign was short and disastrous, with most of the Dragon-Knights dying in battle against marauders or seeking service with a more worthy liege. The second lord died without issue, leaving the tattered realm in the hands of his henchman Sir [3kname]. Eventually the hall was abandoned completely. What remained of the Little Kingdom was absorbed into the Kingdom of Wessex. Much later, [wizname], one of the founders of the Invisible School of Thaumaturgy at Christminster University, briefly took up residence in the now ruined hall. No one knows when the dragon left Wyrminghall to return to its native [dhome], but all authorities agree the beast is long gone from the vicinity.
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10,dying in bed of a bad sniffle 10,succumbing to decades of gluttony and drunkenness 1,he was slain in a duel with the legendary Black Knight of Aughtmoor 1,he was carried off in the night by a band of goblins from whom he had borrowed five gold pieces and never repaid 1,getting lost on the way to the wine cellar and stumbling into one of the deadly traps laid by his wife 1,Satan himself came round to collect him for all his years of egregious sinning
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5, 1,His wife died some twenty years earlier. 1,His wife ruled as sole monarch for nearly a decade before disappearing in a puff of smoke in front of an entire congregation at an Easter Sunday Mass. 1,His wife ruled as regent for several years until their son returned home from fighting as a mercenary in France.
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5,Georgius 3,George 1,Mordred
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5,Suovetaurilius 3,Suet 3,Suotaurus 1,Bedivere
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5,Wilchester the Mad 1,Morinehtar the Blue 1,Beorht of the Patchwork Robe
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1,Wales 1,Cornwall
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