Ondal

HISTORY
Hatched in the Sea of a Thousand Currents - quite literally - Ondal was orphaned as an egg and set adrift in a basket. She was taken in and raised by a kindly clan, but always resented their hatchlings' fiery eyes, a constant reminder of the heritage she had lost.
Finally, though, she fell in with a runaway apprentice, Braith. Together, the two fled the clan, taking with them several valuable possessions, but inadvertently stealing a seeing-eye familiar with the rest of their loot.
Braith was returned to his former clan, and Ondal was sent to a military clan farther into the Ashfall Waste. Here, she met dozens of representatives of many flights. Despite her Water origins, however, she found herself drawn more to the passionate Fire dragons.
Applying her considerable tactical intelligence - one isn't the odd one out for years without gaining some knowledge - Ondal quickly became renowned, and was sent to the Clan of Burning Swords, as a junior officer. She became Commander of the Relief Forces, and began patrolling regularly in the Emberglow Hearth.
One of the first catastrophes she found was the ruins of Clan Heathglow, a dying Guardian princess named Vioghe, and a determined healer-minstrel named Zander. She assisted Vioghe in finding survivors, battling renewed Serthis attacks, and rebuilding Heathglow as the new Clan Embergarth.
Ondal stayed on special leave for several years, but finally was summoned to serve her deity at a training camp for young warriors. It was the night she returned on a visit that the world ended.
Again. And for some, permanently.
The halls and caverns of Embergarth were filled with smoke and screaming; Ondal battled desperately through to the royal rooms, gathering what dragons she could along the way. Finally, though, she reached Vioghe... but she was too late. In a hollow, rasping voice, Vioghe urged her erstwhile General to flee, and to care for the survivors as best she knew how.
Eight dragons escaped with her that fateful day. Ondal led them grimly to a deserted region of the Blacksand Annex, where they staked claims and began a precarious new life.