Tialle's Demon is approximately twelve thousand years old. The first thousand or so of those years were spent in Shadow Mountain, home of the Endarkened, where he was frequently tortured, usually in an attempt to punish him for not enjoying other people's suffering enough. He really doesn't enjoy other people's suffering. Eventually he escaped and found a dragon, and it turned out that they were extremely fundamentally similar, so much so that the mental sharing inherent in their Bond never ended and they continue to share a consciousness to this day.
Ever since they Bonded, they have been living together on a remote island being quietly lonely and quietly resigned to the inevitability of one day being found and killed either by enough other Endarkened to overpower them or by non-Endarkened who will expect Tialle's Demon to be as cruel and dangerous and terrifying as the rest of his kind.
They are somewhat suspicious of Kithabel, but they are content to wait and see how trustworthy she turns out to be. And if she really does introduce them to another of the same sort-of-person, and if they really can Bond to that person (the last time they spoke to another sapient creature was long before multiple Dragonbonds were a thing), then they will be very happy about that.
The similarities to Jewel are pervasive and obvious. The way Jewel refused to participate in the Hunger Games and the way Tialle's Demon refused to participate in the torture-centric Endarkened culture share a nearly identical underlying attitude.
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Tialle's Demon is approximately twelve thousand years old. The first thousand or so of those years were spent in Shadow Mountain, home of the Endarkened, where he was frequently tortured, usually in an attempt to punish him for not enjoying other people's suffering enough. He really doesn't enjoy other people's suffering. Eventually he escaped and found a dragon, and it turned out that they were extremely fundamentally similar, so much so that the mental sharing inherent in their Bond never ended and they continue to share a consciousness to this day.
Ever since they Bonded, they have been living together on a remote island being quietly lonely and quietly resigned to the inevitability of one day being found and killed either by enough other Endarkened to overpower them or by non-Endarkened who will expect Tialle's Demon to be as cruel and dangerous and terrifying as the rest of his kind.
They are somewhat suspicious of Kithabel, but they are content to wait and see how trustworthy she turns out to be. And if she really does introduce them to another of the same sort-of-person, and if they really can Bond to that person (the last time they spoke to another sapient creature was long before multiple Dragonbonds were a thing), then they will be very happy about that.
The similarities to Jewel are pervasive and obvious. The way Jewel refused to participate in the Hunger Games and the way Tialle's Demon refused to participate in the torture-centric Endarkened culture share a nearly identical underlying attitude.