Hexaptych

Hexaptych is my custom progen and the keystone of Terhothyl's Clan.

Scattering...



Oceanside Keep was founded by a wandering Fae, Hexaptych, and her Skydancer companion, Pileous. Years ago, two small dragons gathered bamboo and reeds and built a haven of tiny turrets on the edge of a stub of rock in the Zephyr Steppes near the sea. They made their home there, joined by other dragons of the Windswept Plateau, until they met a wandering Guardian from the Southern Icefield named Atramental.




When Atramental met Hexaptych and her tiny band, she realized that guarding Hexaptych's clan was her calling. Knowing she could help the fledgling clan be more successful in her home, she led the clan out of the Zephyr Steppes and into the Icewarden's territory, where they built the second Oceanside Keep, a recreation of the tiny castle cobbled together from stones and seashells next to a cave large enough for Atramental, and there became an Ice clan.



The Keep has moved many times and taken many shapes since then, but it always lies close to the ocean, where sea and land and sky meet. Now, Oceanside Keep stands on a foundation of rock-hard ice south of the Fortress of Ends, facing deep waters. The Keep is a haphazard structure strung along the cliffs’ edge, wings large and small built on or expanded to accommodate residents of every size, but the core is the Rotunda, a vast circular chamber carved out of the ice by magic and capped by an imposing dome. Dragons enter the Rotunda by way of the aperture in the dome and leave by any of half a dozen corridors into the adjoining wings, some of which lead back to the surface and some of which descend deeper into the glacier.



Cold winds and salt spray keep the southern face of Oceanside Keep coated in hard white ice that never melts, while the north-facing sides of the stone towers and slate-roofed halls are covered in a layer of translucent ice that melts in the sunlight each day and refreezes each night. This constant drip of water forms long icicles on every eave and arch, and the opening in the center of the Rotunda must periodically be cleared of ice to keep dangerous missiles from forming inside the Keep itself.