Ninidin

Ninidin is a scribe from nowhere, who climbed up Bended Peak to ask Viscitule, of all dragons, for his patronage.

Viscitule is vain, however, and literature can downplay his "rough" form and make him beautiful again - in his own mind, anyway. Ninidin isn't much of an artist, but his ego-patting poems and vignettes about the extended and early travels of Viscitule keep him in a surprisingly and literally high position in the clan - not bad for a hack with a pen and a knack for survival.

The gems scattered on Ninidin's hide are not "true" Gembond at all, but a collection of land-based barnacles - in fact, common pests in the clan's territory, but generally unable to reach the dragons they prefer as hosts, either due to the height of their legs or semi-constant flight. Ninidin cultivates them on himself, as a combination of pet(s) and readily-available side dishes.

Hoard: Confined to what his caravan can hold without rolling down the mountain. Ninidin, unsurprisingly, prefers books and particularly books of fables, usually intent on plagiarising as much as Viscitule won't notice from them.

Familiar: "Plaguebringer, you're weird."