Iason
(#23716773)
Level 1 Coatl
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Energy: 50/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Lightning.
Male Coatl
This dragon is hibernating.
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
6.91 m
Wingspan
9.26 m
Weight
1014.45 kg
Genetics
Obsidian
Crystal
Crystal
Obsidian
Butterfly
Butterfly
Black
Glimmer
Glimmer
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: Iason Goes by: Ace Role: Astrapimancer, Gambler Friend(s): Eztli, Genim, Ashes, Hollis Romantic interest(s): Aleksandr Relative(s) in the clan: N/A
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"I like choosing the jobs I take and the places I go and the food I eat and the companions I sit and yarn with." Iason was born in a small clan which scraped out a living in a canyon in the heart of the Shifting Expanse. He never knew his father, gone long before he hatched, but he never much minded not having a paternal figure - he respected choice above all else, even if the result of that choice hurt him personally, and if his father chose to leave, well, he couldn't do anything about it anyway. His mother saddled him with a rather (in his opinion) pretentious name - she thought it heroic. He thought it too long and told everyone to call him Ace. Freedom-loving and laconic, he got by as best he could, trying his hand at different trades, learning the odd magical trick here or there. He was especially gifted in magic involving his native element, though as he liked to joke, there wasn't much use in a skill for calling lightning in a place positively sizzling with it - like trying to sell sand in a desert. Instead, he worked odd jobs and gambled. Ace loved playing games, especially card games, though he seemed cursed with bad luck and rarely won. Sometimes he barely scraped by, but the more he played, the faster he began to accrue massive gambling debts. Soon he owed vast amounts of treasure to some rather shady (and scary) ridgebacks in the prominent Lusio family. Ace heard rumors of an old cache of riches buried by settlers in the canyon long ago, and he decided to find it and use the funds to pay off his debts. It took hours of pouring over crumbling maps, quite a bit of exploring, and some nearly deadly encounters with beastclans before he finally found the right spot. The chest he unearthed didn't contain any coins, gems, or other precious materials, though. Instead, it held an old, crumbling book with a small, cracked mirror embedded on the cover and three scrolls - one sealed with the symbol of fire, the second with the symbol of ice, and the third with the symbol of lightning. He couldn't unroll the first two, but at his touch, the seal broke on the lightning scroll, and it opened to reveal a very long, very complicated sealing spell of sorts. At least, that's what he figured it was, based on the words he caught as he scanned it briefly before setting it aside. The book he opened with more care, given its condition, and he read through some of it. Blah, blah, bad evil spirit, blah, blah, sealed away by brother, blah, blah, countermeasures for resealing. Not very interesting reading, and not anything that would serve to repay his debts. Unless...now, there was a thought. He recalled a coatl who had passed through the canyon a while back seeking to recruit coatl for a colony of his in the Starfall Isles on an island that supposedly had a ginormous library. Maybe they'd pay a lot of treasure for an old book like this. If nothing else, maybe they'd take pity on a coatl in distress and give him sanctuary from the debt collectors. Gathering up the book and the scrolls, he left the desert behind, winging his way across Sornieth toward the Starfall Isles. He did his best to avoid highly populated clans, as the Lusio family had likely dispatched messengers to deliver wanted posters bearing his likeness. Making camp in some ruins on the shores of the Blacksand Annex one evening, he was startled to hear harp music accompanying the most melancholy song he had ever heard drifting through the mist. He wasn't a superstitious sort and had never really believed in ghosts, but all the same, his feathers stood on end until he came nose to nose with the singer and realized the other coatl was flesh and blood (and rather attractive at that). The harpist, Aleksandr, was startled to see anyone else in the ruins - all the nearby clans considered the territory that ought to have been his homeland haunted and avoided it. He was admittedly distracted during Alek's relating of his (and the area's) history because the other coatl was just so handsome in that kilt. Being around the fire dragon was making Ace feel rather warm (though maybe it was just the climate...or perhaps it had been way too long since he'd had much interaction with other dragons due to kind of sort of being in hiding), but he gathered himself when Alek asked him why he was camping in the ruins. Hoping to impress the good-looking coatl, he spun a tale of how he was traveling to the Starfall Isles so that a rare book could be archived there. He didn't think mentioning the gambling debts or being hunted by collectors would make him appear very attractive, so he left that part out. Alek remembered the coatl Ace spoke of - Eztli of the island of Prufrock. The envoy had also stopped in the Clan of the Blue Flame, where Alek was raised, and though Alek had been interested in visiting the island, he was unwilling to leave the ruins that were all he had left of his people. Curious about the text and the scrolls, Alek asked to see them, so Ace carefully unwrapped them. The fire coatl touched the fire scroll first, and just as the lightning scroll had when Ace laid his claws on it, the seal broke and the scroll opened. It, too, contained a spell of sealing, though the element of this enchantment was fire rather than lightning. The book was of greater fascination to Alek, and Ace watched with consternation as the fire coatl flipped the delicate pages rapidly, eyes moving back and forth as he tore through the text. Reaching the end, he slammed it shut with barely contained fury, then told Ace in a choked voice that he had found out what - no, who - had destroyed his people. The tome that Ace had failed to read told the story of the origins of the spirit realm. In the beginning, two spirits awoke and knew they were brothers, and also that they were the same and yet different. One spirit, who called himself Imago, began to shape the material around him, creating landscapes - the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the underworld - and spirits to inhabit them. The other, Speculo, was jealous of his brother. Unable to figure out the secrets of creation and unwilling to ask Imago for help, he trailed after him, warping and destroying that which his sibling had created. Finally Speculo decided that the only way that he would be the creator would be to kill his brother and absorb his powers. Imago narrowly won the fight, but he couldn't bring himself to kill his only sibling. Instead, he sealed him away. Knowing that the seals on his brother would weaken if he himself was weakened, he created three scrolls that could be used to seal him away once again if Speculo broke loose. Not trusting this task to spirits - his brother had too easily corrupted many of those - he designed the spells and the seals for dragons, coding them to the elements of fire, ice, and lightning - the three elements he used in combination to both defeat his sibling and create his prison. He had then tasked his loyal servant, Cheshire, to take the scrolls into the realm of dragons and hide them; the magic on them would ensure that they would be found if and when Speculo ever escaped. The tome then went on to describe exactly what Imago's errant sibling would do if freed - he would go hunting throughout the spirit and mortal realms, appearing out of mists and reflections to absorb the life and magic of spirits and dragons alike, leaving nothing but destruction in his wake. It finished with the warning that when Speculo absorbed enough power, he would once again challenge his brother...and this time, he would win if he wasn't sealed away once again. Alek was convinced that this Speculo had broken free and that it was he who was responsible for the destruction of Dur'yn. For once, he looked the part of a fiercely passionate fire dragon, for he was enraged at the thought of this spirit causing further devastation and swore that he would use the fire scroll to help seal him away again. He begged Ace to be the one to use the lightning scroll. Ace privately doubted the story was real or that they'd ever even find this spirit if it was, so he easily agreed, and the next morning, Alek was flying by his side as they traveled to the Starfall Isles. The fire coatl had initially wanted to divert their path to find an ice dragon so that they could then concentrate on locating Speculo himself, but Ace, desperately wanting the coin for bringing the book to the library on Prufrock, argued that surely the library would have texts that would help them find the evil spirit. And anyway, wasn't that goggle-wearing coatl envoy an ice dragon? They did encounter other ice dragons as they winged their way to arcane territory, but though they handed several the scroll, it opened for none of them. Alek theorized that the dragon had to have a certain level of power in their native element for the scroll to recognize them as a potential wielder. Ace had never thought of himself as particularly powerful, but now that he was outside of the Shifting Expanse (and doing his best to show off around Alek), he realized that his lightning magic was shockingly (heh) useful. It seemed maybe he was part of some weird destined thing, but well, if he was, he had chosen that path - chosen to be with Alek, at any rate, and if that meant playing a role in something that might very well get him killed, well...Alek was worth it. Ace had done his best to steer them away from highly populated clans, but when they reached Lantern Port across from the island of Prufrock, there was a dreaded wanted poster with his likeness drawn on it, a (pitiably low, in his opinion) amount listed as a bounty. Though he tried to rip it down, Alek spotted it and questioned him, and he was forced to confess his gambling debts and the real reason for his journey to the library on Prufrock. He knew that Alek would have abandoned him on the spot if the fire coatl hadn't needed him to wield the lightning scroll, and though he had often been saddened by his lover's melancholy air, he discovered he greatly preferred melancholy to mad. Though Alek was barely speaking to him, they nevertheless completed their journey, finally reaching the library spire on the island of Prufrock and presenting the tome to the envoy Eztli. They never expected Ez to have actually met Imago during a previous adventure, nor that he knew why it was that Imago had been weakened - trapped in his dark castle, fighting an eldritch being from beyond the stars, it was no wonder that he couldn't keep up the strength needed to maintain his brother's seal. Ez even related that, until recently, Imago had lived for a time on the island, though he had left after so many spirits dwelling in so small a space had completely destabilized the veil between the two realms. After hearing all that, Ace wasn't too surprised when the ice scroll opened at Ez's touch. As the seal on the remaining scroll cracked, a dark shape appeared in the minuscule mirror on the cover of the tome, resolving and solidifying into a spirit in the shape of a mirror dragon. Introducing himself as Cheshire, the servant of Imago, he promised to lead the three coatl to Speculo's location so that they could once again seal Imago's brother away and prevent further tragedies like the one that had befallen Alek's people - not to mention avoid the terrifying possibility of Speculo taking over the entire spirit realm. After they practiced reciting the spell on the scrolls several times, Cheshire led them through a mirror and into some tunnels in the heart of the spirit realm. There they met with Imago, who had taken the appearance of a massive imperial. He promised to fight and distract his brother while the coatl read off the spells. Much to the surprise of the three coatl, Imago's brother had taken the form of a dark pearlcatcher, much smaller than his sibling but no less formidable. He lashed out at his brother, and their blows shook the tunnel walls around them as the coatl struggled to recite the words on the scrolls. Despite Imago's best efforts, Speculo - with the increased power he had obtained from annihilating clans such as Alek's - was besting him, and one of the attacks he threw at his brother went wild, flying straight at Alek. Unthinking, Ace lunged at Alek, pushing him aside as the dark magic sizzled through him instead. He could feel his lightning magic attempting to burn it out, but most of his own power was absorbed in the scroll's spell, and he struggled to read it to the end in spite of his injury. For a time, Ez had to read on alone as his companions regained their positions, but finally all three completed their section of the spell, and Speculo was hit with a powerful blast of the combined forces of three elements. Debilitated by being simultaneously burned, frozen, and electrocuted, Speculo was felled, and Imago worked quickly to reshape their attack into a prison that would once again seal away his brother, protecting the world from his jealous wrath. Ace barely remembered Cheshire escorting them back into the mortal realm through yet another mirror. He spent a long time recovering, and when he finally woke, he discovered that his feathers had been blackened permanently by their contact with Speculo's dark magic. He also discovered that while he'd been unconscious, Alek had negotiated for the clan to pay off his gambling debts in return for the services they'd rendered - the whole saving the world bit, Ace figured. It seemed his lover had forgiven him, or at least wasn't quite so mad at him any more. At any rate, Alek agreed to stay with him on the island of Prufrock, where Ace is once again doing odd jobs - mostly assisting fellow astrapimancer Genim in maintaining the clan's electrical lines. Alek has forbid him from gambling, but he still gets to enjoy games with Genim, Ashes, and Hollis - so long as he doesn't bet anything on the outcome. |
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