Devoured

The more you ignore me, the more you anger the serpents. If you continue, they will come, and they will not be happy.

— Yulemto warning

Naughty children and disruptive adults are a universal constant. For the Yulemto in the north of Abravost, and for some others who live in coastal areas, the solution to this problem is simple - tell the offending individual about the dragons who will eat them whole.

Story

Dragons are said to lurk beneath the vast waves around the continent, where the water is deep. They have never been confirmed to exist, but the idea of their presence strikes fear into the hearts of children and seasoned sailors alike. The Yulemto use this to their advantage. If a child is naughty, refusing to listen to their elders or simply being a nuisance in their community, their guardians will take them aside. The dragons dwell just off their coasts, and they hear everything. If the child continues to misbehave, a silvery serpent will slither up the sands, through the streets, and strike when the child least expects it, swallowing them whole and diving back into the ocean.
In the rare cases where the verbal reminder of the dragons is not enough, some frustrated parents will hire snake-wranglers, who will bring out silver or white snakes to stand-in for the mythical serpents and set them loose near the misbehaving child. While the child is never physically harmed in these instances, it is very successful at getting them to behave, at least temporarily.

Draconic Guardian

In most Abravosti cultures, dragons are inherently opposed to humanity, only benefiting humans in their deaths, as seen in the myth of The Dragon Krenar. This is not true of the Yulemto people, who believe that dragons are the attendants of The Mother, head of The Divinities. They serve to protect the physical plane, where the Divinities protect the more metaphysical and social aspects.

The Dragon Krenar by Isaac Thompson