Sombra
(#22855879)
Level 1 Coatl
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Energy: 50/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Shadow.
Male Coatl
This dragon is hibernating.
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
7.88 m
Wingspan
9.42 m
Weight
814.88 kg
Genetics
Black
Bar
Bar
Charcoal
Eye Spots
Eye Spots
White
Underbelly
Underbelly
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Coatl
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
6
AGI
7
DEF
6
QCK
7
INT
7
VIT
5
MND
6
Biography
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Full name: Sombra Goes by: Sombra Role: Skiamancer (shadow mage) Friend(s): Albus Romantic interest(s): N/A Relative(s) in the clan: N/A
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"What if we could use shadows to travel through time?" This drab coatl was considered unlucky by others of his breed in his home clan even though he blended well into the shadows of his native Tangled Wood. Bullied because of his coloring and the eye spots on his wings others in his clan considered creepy, he hid from his tormentors in the shadows. He came to love the shadows, and they embraced him in turn, to the point where he could control them and even travel through them, though he found the practice draining. One day a lightning coatl named Xo visited the Tangled Wood. Like him, she had eye spots on her wings, and like him, she had tremendous magical power. She had crafted a ring that allowed her to control her powers better and concocted an idea to create a similar object for him. Xo had heard tales of the immense magical powers of peach trees and suggested that they research how to turn one into a magical staff. Both of them had heard Ez's recruitment speech about the coatl colony in the Starfall Isles, and, as it contained both an extensive library and a peach grove, they decided to travel there. They were readily admitted to the colony and commenced their research right away, though they told no one what they were planning - they weren't sure how the other dragons in the clan would perceive their goal. Their search for information consumed them until finally they found it - a crumbling text that gave concise instructions on making a magical staff out of a peach tree. The anonymous author claimed that the more ancient the tree, the more powerful the staff. There was a scribbled warning at the bottom, but the coatl pair gave it no heed. Instead, they innocuously inquired as to which tree on the island was the oldest and learned that it was not in fact on the island of Prufrock but instead on the much smaller island close by it, Lazarus Rock. Sombra and Xo flew there, made their preparations, and commenced their spells under the light of the stars. After a full night of spellcasting, the ancient tree gave a shudder, then folded in on itself, its roots and branches braiding together and shrinking until it formed a staff. All seemed to have gone as planned. Sombra reached out to grab the staff, but as soon as he touched it, a rain of black petals fell all around the two coatl dragons. The trees of the Starfall Isles had long been subject to the arcane whims of its atmosphere, which had allowed a spirit to cross the veil and intertwine its identity with the physical tree. That spirit was highly displeased that its life, such as it was, had been destroyed for the mere sake of a little boost to a single dragon's arcane abilities. Though it did not speak with words, they understood its meaning well enough - it was using what remained of its essence to curse them. When the petals had finally swirled away on the wind, Sombra was left holding a blackened staff, and on the ground in front of him was a coatl hatchling - a female with shadowy petals imprinted on her scales, a dark version of the tree's pink blossoms. Terrified, the two dragons flew off the rock away from the hatchling. When they got back to the island of Prufrock, Sombra was startled to see he was still holding the staff - he could have sworn that he had dropped it. He attempted to leave it in the peach grove, then returned to his lair with Xo, but when he arrived in his lair, the staff was propped up against the wall. It followed him wherever he went, appearing wherever he was, so he started carrying it with him so that the other coatl wouldn't get suspicious. He didn't dare to use the staff he had worked so hard to make, though. It didn't even feel magical - just a stick with no power. He shuddered every time he looked at the blackened wood and recalled the shadowy petals eddying around them. A few days passed. Sombra had finally gotten used to the constant presence of the staff in his life, and he had almost forgotten about the hatchling when he entered his lair and found her sitting in the middle of the room next to a male] who was almost identical to her. He wanted to flee the island to get away from the hatchlings, but Xo stopped him. She insisted that they raise them to atone for their crime against the peach tree. Her theory was that somehow the two coatl hatchlings were the peach tree - or part of its essence, anyway. She figured that one of them was the tree itself while the other was the power that should have gone into the staff. He reluctantly agreed to help care for them, so he and Xo raised them as their own hatchlings, telling the others in the clan that they had been sent to them by distant relations. As Sombra continued to distance himself from the situation (save for his growing obsession with the staff), Xo looked into it more deeply, spending most of her days researching in the library to find a way to reverse the curse...especially once the side effects began. The eye spots on her wings faded, and a butterfly pattern traced its way across their surface. A few of the clan's coatl also saw similar changes affect their wings, and many began to develop the outline of petals on their hides. Several dragons in the clan thought it an auspicious sign, given that a stylized peach blossom was the clan's symbol, but a visiting fortuneteller read the runes and saw otherwise - it was the sign of a curse, not a blessing. She insisted that the affected coatl dragons be quarantined, even though she herself was among their number, but various physicians examined them and swore that they were in perfect health. Unbeknownst to Sombra, who had preoccupied himself with removing the curse from the staff, Xo finally found a relevant spell and cast it, summoning a couple of peach tree spirits. When the spirits approached Sombra, however, he feared retaliation and refused to allow them to cast any magic on him. He also declined to hand over the staff, thinking that some day he might finally be able to harness its power. Though true to their word the spirits had not told the other coatl in the clan what he and Xo had done, he figured it was only a matter of time before they found out and tried to persuade Xo to leave with him. However, Xo had grown close to another coatl who had been affected by the curse, the archivist Mo, and ultimately left Sombra to lair with him. Disheartened though unwilling to leave the island entirely (thinking he would need the library's resources and perhaps even the magic inherent in the location to ultimately break the curse on the staff), Sombra left Coatl Cove and moved into Michelangelo's Cave on the beach, hoping that perhaps the ghosts who dwelt there could assist him. He spent a long time in solitary study, using the tunnel that ran between the cave and the library to collect the materials he needed, pouring over them in the hopes of "fixing" the staff. He was engrossed in his task, oblivious to the other events on the island, even when his magic could have aided or assisted others. It wasn't until a small white coatl washed up on the beach in front of Michelangelo's Cave that he began to reenter society. The hatchling with his dull plumage reminded him both of the childhood bullies he had endured and the cursed hatchlings he and Xo had been saddled with. Refusing to deal with a hatchling who awoke an onslaught of emotional baggage, he bundled him in a blanket and sent him up to the library. The hatchling, Albus, never entirely forgot Sombra, though - much to the elder coatl's consternation. Why didn't the little fellow understand that he just wanted to be left alone to conduct his research on the staff? He thought Albus had finally gotten the hint - at least, he hadn't seen him around as much - when suddenly his staff disappeared from his side. Frantic, Sombra tore the cave apart in search of it, only to have Albus show up, beaming, holding his staff out to him. Only it wasn't his staff, not the staff he'd worked so long and hard to create, the one who'd been with him day and night since the curse was enacted. It was merely a long piece of unmagical peach wood. Somehow the little coatl had done what he could not and managed to remove the curse. Sombra was at first enraged that Albus had "ruined" his staff and refused to speak with or even see the other coatl. He eventually softened, though, under the influence of the ghosts and his former mate - he realized how much nicer it was not to have the curse hovering over his head, the staff following him around like a badly trained dog. His jealousy that Albus had figured out what he could not lessened, and he began to spend more time outside of the cave, interacting once again with the clan's denizens. Sombra is still not entirely social, by any means, but he has made progress, and he is most often seen in the company of his new friend Albus, deep in discussions of magical theory. He still carries around the staff, but now both he and Albus view it as a symbol of new beginnings rather than dead ends. Notes: This dragon is part of Project Stogwen. |
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