The Water Titan: Dragon Pirate

The Dragon King’s request

Captain Rhubarb summoned the Hero to meet his new client. To the Hero’s surprise, that client was Zelgarius, King of the Dragons. The king rarely asked for help outside the Dragonlands. Trasix explained that Captain Scalebeard had captured the Prime Water Dragon and fled to the open sea.

Scalebeard was an enemy of Zelgarius’s father and wanted the throne. The king stayed to drive Scalebeard’s pirates out of the city while Rhubarb and the Hero pursued their captain. Trasix promised them a reward if they brought the Prime back safely.

The pursuit at sea

Scalebeard had left Draconians behind to slow pursuit. The Hero fought through them and the wyverns the pirates kept in place of parrots, then cleared a path to the only ship available to follow him.

The pirates sent stronger fighters and gunners after Rhubarb’s vessel. Rhubarb and the Hero took planks from the boarding parties and used them to cross onto Scalebeard’s ship. They fought through the captain’s best mates to reach him.

Scalebeard’s ritual

Scalebeard said he would keep the Prime until his ritual was complete. Rhubarb and the Hero refused to stand aside and took him on.

After the fight, Scalebeard revealed that the ritual was already complete. With the Prime still caged on the deck, he offered the power of the one who had sealed the Titan beneath the sea and called Leviathanius to the surface. He meant to bind the Titan to himself and divide the spoils between them. He would take the Dragonlands, and Leviathanius would rule the sea.

The capital under siege

Rhubarb had heard sailors tell stories about the Water Titan to frighten new recruits. He had never expected to see it himself. The Hero wanted to hurry to the capital and hoped Zelgarius could hold off the attack until they arrived.

Scalebeard’s pirates blocked the road to the castle. The Hero used supplies taken from them to lay pitfalls, fought through water elementals and leeches that had drawn power from the Titan, and reached the throne room.

The legacy of Desoloth

Scalebeard had served as one of Desoloth’s generals. He blamed Zelgarius and his father for sealing Desoloth away. Zelgarius said his father had sacrificed himself to save their people from Desoloth’s destruction.

Scalebeard remembered Desoloth as a friend and wanted to continue what he had started. Zelgarius was already struggling under the Titan’s attack. The Hero and Rhubarb took on Scalebeard again and then fought Leviathanius.

Leviathanius breaks free

Rhubarb raised a barrier of water against the Titan’s attack, startling the Hero. Zelgarius severed the link between Scalebeard and Leviathanius. When Scalebeard ordered the Titan to attack, Leviathanius turned on him instead.

Rhubarb reasoned that Scalebeard had used the Prime Water Dragon’s power to control Leviathanius. Zelgarius confirmed it. The Titan returned to the sea, and the Hero meant to tell Nevanna it was still at large. Zelgarius thanked them for saving the Dragonlands, and Rhubarb remembered to ask about the reward.

What the pirates left behind

Rhubarb had offered the Hero a share of any doubloons recovered from Scalebeard’s pirates. He said Zelgarius was asking for help clearing the water elementals and Titan Leeches still roaming the capital. They would earn the king’s favor if they succeeded.