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Kariz

(#21428693)

Level 1 Coatl

Familiar

Longneck Scholar

Energy: 50/50

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Length

7.49 m

Wingspan

10.49 m

Weight

685.44 kg

Genetics

Brown
Tapir

Sand
Peregrine

Sand
Smirch

Hatchday

Feb 26, 2016
(8 years)

Breed

Adult
Coatl

Eye Type

Water
Common

Level 1 Coatl

EXP: 0 / 245

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Kariz

Engineer
Water Tender

"Pressure seems pretty good. I'll check further downstream."

Fun-loving and quick to laugh, Kariz loves a good story more than anything else. What better place to find one than in Dragonhome, where so many stories are remembered? She is often found raptly listening to the tales of travelers and fighters. For fun, she will put their stories to metered rhyme and set them to music.

But Kariz is no skaald. Her passions run deeper.

Kariz has a sixth sense about water, even in the arid plains of Dragonhome. She can sense underground springs, the way the water runs beneath rocks, and where the groundwater will flow when the rains return.

She spends her time surveying the mountains and subtly diverting stones to fill aquifers. She has engineered a water retention system that provides fresh water for the clan even in the driest months. Her intricate system of wells, cisterns, and quanats and their maintenance causes her to be away from the rest of the clan for long stretches of time.

But this doesn't bother her.

Kariz is confident in her skills and her own company. Many of her journeys through the mountains are performed alone. She must trust in her own sense of balance and head for heights while working and handling heavy stones and debris.

But during journeys through the lowlands, she takes great joy in the company of Rikuto. She finds his company pleasant and amiable. His humility in spite of his fierceness warms a spot in her heart she never knew needed warming. Besides, he always has a good story to tell.

The tunnels of Oakrest had been sealed for weeks before Rikuto and Kariz even knew about it. Both had returned to the Citadel to discover all the terraces blockaded. Blackshore directed them to the terraced orchards, and there they met Bordeaux, the ancient founder of the clan.

"It has been a long road, friends," he said softly, his wizened voice reedy with pain as it often was. "So much horizon still stretches out before us. I will stay here with my oaks, to protect them as I have sworn to do."

"You're being foolish," Kariz said sharply, her blue eyes narrowing at the old guardian. "Where there are trees, there is water. Where there is water, there is life."

"Easier said than known for certain," Bordeaux countered. "But a kindly thought at any rate. I will stay here with Blackshore and the others and wait and see. But you, I know, are young and like to wander the sands." He turned to Rikuto, and smiled at him. "And you have a great many to lead to the Pillar."

Rikuto bowed his head. "I know my place of service," he said.

"Oakrest is no longer the Citadel it once was. It is but a thin husk, set upon and devoured from within. We will not know its fate for many years, perhaps. But your jobs, your livelihoods, they depend on a stable base. I will not deny my blessing if you decide to leave."

They watched the guardian retreat back to the trees, then turned to look at each other, then the distant land behind them.

Rikuto brushed his fingers down Kariz's feathers and smiled over at her. "The horizon is so broad," he said. "But I know a path that's safe to travel."

She touched her nose to his cheek and smiled. "Lead on, my love," she said. "I'm not afraid."

Original lore by ixris/26035 -- all edits by later users
Layout by Straif/34928
Stat block by hisako/19016
originally tiger / peregrine / smirch

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