If the old empire didn't fall, he would have been a king.
His mother would have taught him how to be a good leader.
His brother would have showed him love.
And his subjects would praise him, as it always have been.
But this is just a reflection of what could have been, because his mother and empire are no more.
And his mother didn't name him Aeren.

His real name is Laathindsediiv, the last dragon of his kind. The last hope of dragonkind.

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