Black Daggers, dragons, and the fires of Ahlor

The stories most frequently used to coerce young children to behave, especially in the coastal cities all over Eam'Rel, are stories of the Black Daggers, the pirates roaming Nydhira Sea. If you don't behave, the Daggers will come take you, is a threat frequently used (not always effectively, since little children seem annoyingly excited about pirates) by impatient parents. Even though the threat of pirates is very much real, the stories used by parents, of pirates tying little naughty children on the mast and letting them be eaten by gulls, or selling them for slaves in lands beyond the maps, or throwing them in the sea to calm the waters, are much less so. Still, sometimes those stories quench the excitement for piracy.
No dragon has even been sighted in Eam'Rel, but the stories tell that there is one sleeping under the mountains in the centre of Castaponda. Whenever people go missing, it is assumed that the dragon has taken them, by speaking in their minds and making them come to him. Children are advised to not be out on the mountains alone, and never wander out after dark, or the dragon will call to them, and then eat them in his cave. Naturally, this has led to teams of children gone missing for days, looking unsuccessfully for the entrance to the dragon's lair.
In Bran'Aredh, where there is no sea and no legend of dragon, little children are told that if they don't behave, then Rel'Ahlor, the sun-god, will turn his gaze at them, and the heat will burn them to a crisp. They tell tales of how the god turned his gaze to the desert, and the scorching heat has been there for hundreds of years, that even the saelí-tuk do not remember of a time when it was not there.