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Skadi

(#19301163)

Twilight Magister

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Energy: 48/50

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Length

29.81 m

Wingspan

21.28 m

Weight

6996.49 kg

Genetics

White
Iridescent

White
Facet

Platinum
Glimmer

Hatchday

Dec 16, 2015
(8 years)

Breed

Adult
Imperial

Eye Type

Wind
Common

Level 1 Imperial

EXP: 0 / 245

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Biography

S K A D I

Magister | Academic | Linguist

BOOKBOUND

The prodigy child of Clan Silverwind's chief historian and head theologian, Skadi was destined for a life of learning from the very start. Unlike many of her peers in the Magisterium or on the Council, Skadi grew up at a time when the clan was much more well-established. She spent her youngest days in the creche, playing with the other hatchlings under Gretchen's watchful eye.

Skadi's parents, Lasadh and Adelina, enthusiastically encouraged her to read everything she could get her claws on. She learned ancient languages under her father's wing, and her mother told the wildest bedtime tales of ancient civilizations that worshipped strange gods.

Her studies eventually led her to the discovery of the theoretical boundaries between universes, and the concept that even more magical worlds might lay just to the left of Sonrieth's universe excited and thrilled her. She began to study the magic of twilight - of barriers, of in-between, of transition and the places in between the eleven known elemental schools of magic. This not only led her to some amazing discoveries, but to her position on the clan's Council.

BEWARE THE CATACOMBS

It had taken the Magisterium months to open the door. The magic guarding it had felt strange to any who touched it, vibrating differently than any known element. They had called in Skadi weeks ago, and even she had spent hours in the dark, damp-smelling basement room that housed the door. She had slowly picked apart the threads of magic until she could feel where they stitched together, multiple elements woven in harmony. It was truly a shame they had to break this spell, she thought. It was truly a masterwork.

There was no helping it, though. If Skadi didn't take the barrier down properly, someone else would take it down by force, impatient to know what lay beyond. This section of the Archive, sealed away by ominous warnings and not a few curses, had been the source of curiosity and consternation alike for a long time. Now, with the help of the elementalists, Skadi could worm her magic into the weak area of the barrier and unmake it from the center out.

There was like a noise without a noise, a sudden rush of air like something huge had taken a breath. The doors swung open. A nervous tap tap tap tap sounded behind her as Thallane's claws clicked on the stone.

"Shush," Sekhmet hissed at him. She slithered forward, clambering around the doorway, her tail knotting nervously behind her. Then she blinked and breathed, and her head was lit with a flaming halo. "I'll go first so I can light the way."

"Just don't set anything on fire this time," Sobek grumbled, following the other spiral like a flowing wave moving across the stone.

Gingerly, Skadi picked her way into the tunnel; it was a comfortable fit for the spirals, but her wingspan was cramped. Behind her, Jotunn thumped his head on the ceiling and grunted out something unkind about the ancestral builders of this place.

The dark, cobweb-strewn tunnel finally opened into a huge, echoing chamber. Massive pillars supported the ceiling above them. Stretching between the pillars, disappearing into the shadows beyond Sekhmet's light, were massive rows of stone shelves.

"Look at all this," Skadi breathed, excitement curling up through her very bones. "It'll take us years to go through it all!"

"We might as well start somewhere, right?" Sobek asked, skittering up one of the near shelves. He picked something up in his claws and scurried back before Skadi could tell him to stop.

"Wait, we don't even know what that is," she said, hurrying over to the shelf he'd plucked it from. "Where did you get it?"

"Oh, that empty space over there," Sobek said.

There was only one empty space on the shelf; with the thick coating of dust on everything, it was obvious where the object Sobek grabbed had come from. Skadi took a cautious breath and blew, chasing some of the dust away from the empty space. A glint of brass caught her eye, and she blew a little bit harder. The dust flew up in her face and she coughed, stirring up more, swiping at her eyes when they began to water. There was an inscription on the brass, swooping lines of script. Skadi knew that language - if only her eyes would stop watering long enough!

The noises of scuffling and arguing coming behind her were distracting, too. "Keep it down, I'm trying to translate!" she said, peering at the tiny letting on the inscription. Here is a hungry dark- that wasn't right- Contained in this dark- that didn't look right either.

"Let me see it-"

"I found it-"

"That doesn't mean you need to sit there brooding over it-"

"There's an entire room of artifacts, get your own!" Sobek snapped, and Skadi finally looked.

The object looked like an orb, wrapped up in some kind of metal inscribed with hundreds of tiny runes. Something shifting and black, almost like smoke, roiled around inside the orb. As Sekhmet tried to snatch the orb from Sobek, the smoke seemed to shiver.

"Sobek, put that down," Skadi said, alarmed.

"I found it!" Sobek snapped, grabbing the orb in his back claws and whipping around one of the columns.

"For the sake of the Windsinger, would you at least let me read this inscription first, it looks like a warning!" Skadi put the bickering out of her mind, focusing on the ancient grammar. What this said had to be important.

Here lies contained a hung'ring dark
may ye who holds it heed and hark:
Gaze not beyond abyssal gates
lest ye wake the quick'ning hate
whose fouling gaze passed like bane
across our lands and blighted plains.

Imprisoned, keep this shriveled soul,
or for your lands the bell shall toll.

"Thallane, Jotunn, get that thing away from him!"

"NO!" Sobek roared, and the smell of brine filled their noses as a tide began to boil up seemingly from nowhere, between the stone under their feet. "It's MINE!"

"Okay," Skadi said, backing into a line with the others. "Next time, can we all agree that nobody touches anything without reading first?"

MAGISTER COUNCILOR

The orb, as they discovered, had somehow imprisoned a tiny portion of Shade. Once they were finally able to pry it away from Sobek and replace it on the shelf, Skadi led the group out of the Catacombs and personally sealed the door again. Now, entry is only permitted with direct supervision from either her or Cassiel, as the head of the Magisterium.

The incident also brought the Clanmother's direct attention to their experiments and explorations; whereas before she was perfectly content to allow the Magisterium to operate mostly independently, it had become evident that she needed to be aware of what her Magisters were doing - not least so she wouldn't be unpleasantly surprised when two of her Magisters had to bar a third in his room for days because he'd been tainted by a Shade-touched artifact. For her quick thinking and responsible head in a crisis, and because she was one of the few dragons of the Magisterium who had been born into the clan, it was suggested - rather forcefully - that Skadi should take up a post on the Council.

Now, she splits her attention between overseeing the dangerous catalog of the Catacombs and handing out approvals for various magical experiments. If a magister finds an old spell they want to try, by decree of the Clanmother, Skadi must review it first. Her skill with languages and her particular affinity for being able to feel the barriers between things makes her ideally suited for the job, as she can decipher the purpose and likely effects of a spell before it's tried, and not after. Her parents, who often had to remind her as a child that experiments require safe controls, couldn't be more proud.

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