Hello all,
This is Mortigaunt, writing somewhat later than was initially planned with some news:

First, just to be clear, I am not dead, and I have not abandoned this story. I am still working on it, and if life put a few speed bumps in my path, that's just how it goes sometimes. I have at points been tempted to apologize for the delay, but I think a more useful action on my part is simply to reaffirm my commitment to telling the entire story of the erstwhile Dragonborn Velandryn Savani and the world he inhabits.
I have in fact done an extensive rewrite of the story, and will be uploading it here at some point. HOWEVER, it is currently available to read over at Archive of Our Own under my same name (along with the legacy version largely identical to what exists here), and I strongly recommend you do so. I started writing this story almost a decade ago, and there are a lot of things that I think are much stronger in this new version. AO3 also has a much more robust tagging and comment system, so it is a lot easier to engage with readers on that platform. I will still be monitoring this account, but I am much more active over there purely by virtue of the communication options it provides. For instance, I cannot even respond to comments on this site.

As for those of you who wish to keep reading on this site, I will be bringing those same revisions and all future here as well. I don't have a timeframe for that (it's a nontrivial amount of work to update every chapter using this site's tools), but I expect I will do it when my next chapter drops, which should be pretty soon. (Famous last words, those.)
I have always been overwhelmed at the reception this story has received, and those of you who have been reading for as long as I have been writing are truly cherished. Whether here or there, I hope you will continue with this story!
-Mort