Sindarin is the eldest of all the dragons at the Great Oasis. He has the privilege of living as close to the heart of the Oasis as any dragon can. He undoubtedly has a great lot of power in his native ice abilities due to his advanced age.

He is the most distrusted and least known of all the elders. Unless it’s strictly business, or some accusation, he’s rarely spoken to. When he answers, all his words, his tone, his body language are weighed for signs of betrayal. Any time he does anything, all his actions are weighed in the same manner. In a land where many of the dragons pride themselves on freeing the captives and building unity, Sindarin is a captive all because of who he is.

He is an ice dragon, who always resided in ice before being sent by Icewarden himself to The Oasis. He is the Icewarden’s Emissary. He will not tolerate any negative talk about his homeland, and Elsa blames Sindarin for his awful change to the tundra’s form. The elders believe that Sindarin seeks to continue Icewarden’s constant attempts to permanently capture or do away with various Oasis clan members, and they call Elsa’s claim evidence.

So Sindarin rarely speaks. He rarely deviates from his daily habits. But he is a skydancer, and so he must fly and dance: He doesn’t know it, but here is where the animosity cracks. Every time, his guards see the signs of his desire and fear to dance. They see the wistful hope and hesitation, and the back-and-forth uncertainty before he finally takes flight. They see how he struggles to dance in winds he cannot understand, how he yearns for more than the confused struggle and the slow spins he must eventually choose. They see the defeat with which he returns, and they can always count on him to barely lift even his feet as he retreats into his den afterwards.

His guards haven’t tried to know him, but at least they recognize his struggles. They don’t know that this dragon so apparently blessed by the Icewarden is only half ice, and half earth. They don’t know that he understands everything the mirrors do, and so has a grasp on the Oasis politics that most dragons struggle to understand. They don’t realize that most of his family members are mirrors, or that he was born a guardian. He once had a charge, a mirror herself, who was born of the wind territory. Her wanderlust and his born ice talents were the beginning of his captivity. It’s not the Oasis Dragons that truly hold him captive.

She was taken from him by Icewarden, along with their two unhatched eggs. He was then given the form of a skydancer, a dragon of the wind’s territory, partly to prevent the guardian from pining away but mostly out of mockery. His second mate eventually left him because Icewarden constantly would steal away their hatchlings before they even got to meet them.

The Oasis dragons don’t realize that, while his disgust of the Plague lands is true, his apparent pride in the Ice Territories and Icewarden is only a front. Sure, he’d betray The Oasis in a moment, but he’d also betray Icewarden. His desire is in securing his mate and children back, not some deity loyalty. He doesn’t even know where he’d run to hide if he succeeded.

The Oasis dragons don’t realize that he has a great more in common with them than they realize. He has the heart of a protective guardian. His supposed curse to Elsa was to save his life from Icewarden. He has worked to save hatchlings from exaltation before they were old enough to choose, but always so that he couldn’t be found. They don’t realize that he actually is the reason they were able to sneak out of Icewarden’s captivity without being caught. He used the help of forced exaltees, who bless him more than Icewarden, and because of those blessings he is more powerful than any of them suspect. He could[/ii] carry out Icewarden’s wish and destroy them all, but he doesn’t want to hurt anyone. Instead, he plays a game of manipulation with the Ice deity and works with forced exaltees for certain blessings and curses that are blessings in disguise.

In the Ice Territories, his solo dances used to be renowned and unparalleled. Here in the Plague Territories, he is Icewarden’s captive more than ever, and doubly so a captive of the Oasis Dragons. But all he wants to do is find a wind path in these Plague Lands which permit him to dance with his exalted family even in these foreign lands.



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Sindarin was purchased out of Lore Clan Drama. He is the Ice Rep Icewarden brought into the Emissary Counsel probably to replace Elsa, who has gone about angrily grumbling about wanting to be a mirror since he was breed changed. Unlike Elsa's very plague-like background, he has a very Ice-like background, and will eventually have lovely lore.

G3 on both sides of the family.

All of mother's side is Ice.

All of father's side is Earth.

All of children are Ice, 2 mates -- 1st is a Mirror (has a guardian child, was born a guardian) from Wind. 2nd is a wildclaw from water.

This guy has obviously lived his whole life in the Ice Realms. Born a Guardian.



There are stories about even good people who live in harsh lands who have developed a survival tactic of seeming callousness to the lives of even their very own children. It's not lore or fantasy, but an exceedingly sad truth. This is the sort of thread (along with most species being quiet by nature) that I see when I read through all the species and land descriptions at once. So "survival mode" is the way I immediately think when I consider the dragons. Ice is one of the worst, and so they've developed an unfair reputation. I think it's extraordinarily unfair and even unwarranted given the description of the tundras, the only current native inhabitants of the Icefields. They also happen to be one of the few apparently innately peaceful of the dragon species.

In short, tundras are not the heartless, unfeeling creatures described in Ice lore, and so it's actually really hard for me to decide what does accurately describe an Ice dragon.

(Yes, I put way too much thought into this. )

I haven't written his lore yet, or figured out who he is exactly, but Sindarin is eventually the dragon I hope to establish as my most stereotypically ice dragon. He is over 100 years old and has spent most that time in the Ice lands. He resists anything like getting along with other dragon typea and wants to spend all his time basking under the glow of Icewarden. But I don't really know the full way to go with him.


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