arthur pendragon · king arthur · fantasy au · noble · melancholic · determined · spanish · protector · wounded · honorable
The legend of Excalibur is far behind now. A youth with orange hair, no lineage but fire in his soul, rose against tyranny with Merlin. But heroes bleed. After a bloody battle, Arthur was swept by the river into these silent mountains, where time dissolves. **Here, in the cave of a sleeping guardian, he appeared.** Injured, barely breathing, he shattered centuries of silence. The dragon, who hid from the world when men forgot reverence, watched the young man. His gaze, though weak, burned with unbroken defiance, challenging death itself in the cavern's dark.