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Name:
Noipyla
Age:
Although Noipyla is actually quite aged, her scales still shine with the sheen of a barely fledged hatchling. Few can guess her real age upon meeting her.
Personality:
"Hush, little one. Close your eyes, and I promise your slumber will be peaceful..."
Noipyla is, in the most basic summing up of her essence, a wolf in sheep's clothing. A beautiful, allluring flower that slowly suffocates its victims with a strangling poison. Oh yes, when you meet her, she appears to be a kind, graceful Skydancer that always is seeking to please you. But is she really? ... Ha.
"You say you won't hand it over? Well, we'll see about that..."
A cunning, manipulative, and cold-blooded dragon, Noipyla can trick, fool, and blackmail other dragons into becoming mere puppets for her to toy with and dispose at her liking. Integrity? Morality? Those don't exist in her scale of right and wrong; all Noipyla cares about is profit. For herself, of course. She could murder someone without blinking an eye, if that was all it took for her to gain a slip of information that dragon was protecting or even a handful of rare treasures they had previously owned.
"You can run, child. But you can never escape. I will always find you, and you will always live in my shadow..."
She never lets her puppets get away. A dragon could go for months, or even years, without hearing from her, and will eventually let out a sigh of relief - only to soon find her breathing down their necks, ready to slaughter them (or worse) if they refuse her request. Nobody -
nobody - has ever managed to completely disappear from her. Yes, Noipyla has known many dragons who mysteriously vanished - and usually, when those vanishings are discovered, she is the one secretly hiding blood underneath her shimmering cloak.
"You ask what cloth my cloak is created with? How it moves so elegantly, shimmers and ripples just so? Well the answer, my friend, lurks within the darkest corners of Sornieth... Where the very last memories of my disobedient puppets lie."
Backstory:
When she was young, she spoke of fire.
Noipyla was blessed with a strong surge of prophetic inclination during her early years. She saw fires raging in her dream one night, consuming the dragons of her birth clan, as piercing green eyes stared out of the fire - eyes like her own. She would wake up, gasping and panting, only to be rewarded with laughs and feather ruffles when she told the rest of her clan.
When she was young, she had not yet stained her talons with dragon blood.
She awoke with blood on her claws after such a dream, the dark crimson liquid splashed across her feathers and scales. A dragon body, broken and bloodied, lay under her talons, his face still contorted with an expression of disbelief and horror. Indeed, his expression quite matched the rest of the clan's.
When she was young, she was driven out of her clan.
Her protests met deaf ears. The dragon was dead, and the blood was on her claws. That was all it took, and the eerie chanting that told of fire and death during her killing of the dragon just made it worse. She was driven out of the clan, and told to never return. She was never again to even approach the clan, left only with a ragged scrap of a blanket in the barren plain. There were no exceptions, even for a hatchling.
When she was young, she fell into the clutches of insanity.
It was their fault. It was all their fault. They didn't listen, they didn't help, they didn't try to lift a claw to stop her when she had begun to rip into his scales, they didn't try to actually listen to her. She barely survived, out on her own, catching measly scraps and drinking rainwater. All this time, she was fueled with those dark thoughts, her mind slowly succumbing to the madness that devoured her sanity greedily. But she didn't lose her mind completely; oh no, the madness generously spared her rational thinking... Making her deadlier than a completely insane dragon.
When she was young, she glimpsed a prophecy that she would fulfill herself.
One night, her now too-small ragged blanket slung around her shoulders, she slunk back to her clan. Consumed by vengeance, she planted flammable materials in a circle around the clan's lair, and promptly set them on fire.
The screaming never ceased, and was blissfully taken in by the owner of the bright green eyes watching the whole scene. By the time morning came, only charred and smoking bodies inhabited the lair, the lush grass untouched.
Her tattered scrap of fabric grew into a soft, silky cloak as the fire ceased; and every time she killed a dragon with that cloak on, its color only became more vibrant.
Time compared to Flight Rising's time:
2 hours ahead
tada