Way out at the edge of the Blue River Valley lies a large number of abandoned places. Homes and churches, shops and keeps. The ruins hold a strange nostalgia for the other residents of the valley, despite none of them sharing a history with the places. A reverence of who had come first, and the mystery of where they went, leaves them untouched by most.

To an enterprising young dragon, they were something more. An opportunity, a challenge.

A home.

The restoration of unfamiliar structures was a back-breaking task, monumental in scale to even the sturdiest of beasts. Reighein wasn't foolish enough to claim all of them to himself. No, he let his domain rest upon a simple run-down water mill. It would be a home, it would be a shelter, it would be...just a quite place to rest.

Though work was awkward as it was without strictly humanoid hands, it brought a sense of accomplishment to him. And though there is much work to be done remaining, if you're friendly, perhaps he will show you inside?
 
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This was a wonderful little commission I got from  HeliosDrawrs who was lovely to work with! I love their style, and how happy Reighein seems to be. I don't get much art of my first character, so it was time to show him some more love. This time of the outside of his home!

Check out the artist's original at: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51508304/