Saldryn's early life at first wasn't much to write about. Growing up as the daughter of the Dalamiq's chieftain was never going to be an easy thing:

One individual ending up having to learn so much responsibility and gaining a love for your people is enough to stress anyone to their limits at times, especially a young girl. But she'd take things one day at a time.
She would learn under her father's knowledge as Chieftain so she would take over when the time was right, taught by her mother about Dalamud and it's importance to her people. Very investing knowledge.
Eventually when she was 12 summers or so, a ceremony was prepared to celebrate the coming of Dalamud, even if it hadn't fully come how her tribe had expected, it's coming was to be celebrated all the same.

Unfortunately, some lone girl brought home a piece of the moon her people worshipped, and a mockery of the wyrm you so worshipped is summoned that slaughtered nearly everyone who gathered to pray to it.
The aftermath was....harrowing and once old enough, Saldryn planned to take her leave with what items of interest she had found in the remains of the fallen moon fragment and set off to find the one responsible.
The massacre pained Saldryn on a deep, emotional level, and when the girl was not found amongst the dead, Sald swore one day to find her and bring her to justice. At least that's what she sought at first to begin with.
Though the item she had found in the rubble of the fragment's impact site would forever change Saldryn even more than the massacre already had. It was a soulstone. Though it carried something else with it.
It had all the powers of a Summoner's Soulstone but it was 'tainted' by Bahamut's blood and memories so to speak, along with those of his brood.


Though her viewpoint and opinion steadily changed upon discovering Kalarisis after so many years. She seemed...different. Different in both life and combat experience. And...something else soon came to light.
The two got into a fight that left the local area damaged in places, scarring the land to a degree, mercifully nothing that could not recover in time. But in the end, something more important had occurred.
Saldryn learned despite everything, Kalarisis was gifted like herself. Blessed by the dreadwyrm's power and forever changed. What used to be two ordinary Dalamiqs, were now heirs to a power beyond reckoning.
And the mixture of this revelation and the pseudo imprinting the Bahamut tainted soulstone left on Saldryn changed her opinion on Kalarisis. She less and less desired her death as repentance and more...carnally.
The memories of Bahamut and his brood tainted it in a way, she now craved the fellow 'Heir' in more intimate ways, and would follow Kalarisis wherever she went, showing up from time to time for various reasons.
She had all the time in the world to get the Xaela to see things in her perspective. Plus she found it cute how she reacted. Though she'd make sure the nuisances of the world right now were dealt with.

Done by takanomiyo on discord.

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