Yiranu

The dragons of the Sunbeam Ruins seek truth and justice. So when Yiranu found herself lost there, she learned to copy their ways and quickly memorized every one of their laws. The dragons of the Starfall Isles also seek truth, but only for as long as they feel that truth will be sufficiently interesting. So when Yiranu found herself lost there, she quickly became infuriated by their utter disregard for anything that even resembles a rule.

Did you know many Arcane dragons prefer to dish out justice by their own claws? (Or magical skills, as the case may be?) What barbarians!

In this lawless, radioactive wastland, Yiranu has found herself the last bastion of civilization. She's found herself a fortress to transform into a stronghold of law, and while it was previously inhabited, it shouldn't be too long before the local dragons understand the value of having a lawyer keeping order. The clan's leader didn't seem against it, anyways — though Yiranu got the feeling from speaking to him that he'd permit anything that wasn't actively harming someone.

She brought her in-depth knowledge of Light's traditions with her, and has been working to adapt them to Arcane's far more flexible interpretations of... well, everything. The first thing Yiranu learned was that unless you expressly forbid something, Arcane dragons will easily find some loophole that says they can do that thing anyways. The second thing she learned was that if you do expressly forbid something, Arcane dragons will just take that as an invitation to do that thing immediately. One of these days she'll figure out how to convince mages that it's not just or lawful to experiment on anything they can get their claws on, especially if somebody else owns it, but sadly (to her) that day doesn't seem to be coming any time soon.

Currently, her courthouse is underground, in a room recently cleared of its previous occupants: Rakos, king of cinderkelp loaches and his court. Well, he was king until Yiranu used her legal prowess to show he had no claim to any throne, loachic or otherwise. While Yiranu's original sentence for his impersonation of a king was that he be cast into the sea, she eventually took mercy on him and instead instated him as her bailiff. Not that a loach is really capable of ordering defendants around, but he does keep track of Yiranu's books and papers for her, for which she is grateful. (Yiranu never even questioned that a loach was intelligent and able to speak, but that may just be because "an arcane dragon did it" provided an obvious solution.)

While nobody in Clan _______ has yet shown any interest in taking another dragon to court, this hasn't discouraged Yiranu. She'll help these order-less dragons whether they want her to or not! Case in point: there's rumours of a ghost floating around the place, and nobody's ever bothered to do anything about that. This is a simple problem for a lawyer, for by the clan law Yiranu has penned herself, as the ghost is not a clan member, it has no right to live on clan territory. Thus she'll serve it with a eviction notice, and it'll have no choice but to leave. Nothing to it. Who needs an exorcist when they've got Yiranu?

But this doesn't mean that Yiranu is totally purposeless. Even if Clan _______ doesn't pay her much attention, other clans do have some respect for the law. (Even if sometimes it's very faint.) Yiranu is one of Silas's go-to dragons for negotiations with other clans, especially those from ice. Her knowledge on obscure laws and even more obscure exceptions has saved a number of clan members from a one-way trip to the Fortress of Ends.

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After a lot of hard work, Yiranu finished writing a tome containing the full body of the laws of Clan _______, all of which she had to create herself. As it quickly became obvious that nobody other than her would ever read it, Yiranu turned her attention to finding somewhere nice to put the very heavy book on display.

The obvious place would be the clan library, but convincing Invernale to put a book somewhere other than where she believes it goes is no easy task. Her intricate and incomprehensible (to Yiranu) sorting system places books on law near the back, and as Yiranu's name starts with a Y, her book would go in the back part of the back. But the law requires something far more prominent, and so the two dragons engaged in a fierce battle of words that lasted an entire night. In the end, Invernale was convinced to do what was best for the clan she founded, and agreed to place the tome of law on a nice shiny plinth. In the back of the library, with the other books on the subject.

Reluctantly, Yiranu accepted that small victory. Later she would muse that looking like a old forgotten spellbook might be what her book needs to actually be read by her clanmates.

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As somebody who's spent her life rigidly adhering to a moral code, Courante is in full support of Yiranu's goals. Not enough to actively help her, but enough to cheer her on from the sidelines. Courante thinks some laws are just what Clan _______ needs to, at the very least, superficially appear functional. And it's not as if she doesn't want to help, but the paladin knows that trying to impose her old order's ways on the clan is doomed to fail. It's better for everyone to let Yiranu figure out a method to control the madness. Instead, she makes sure to visit Yiranu down in her courtroom, to listen to how her work has progressed, and to make sure she doesn't go weird with only an overgrown fish for company.