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Tourmaline

(#4068529)

Level 25 Snapper

Familiar

Moonbeam Crayfish

Energy: 49/50

Personal Style

Apparel

Skin

Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

3.1 m

Wingspan

2.94 m

Weight

6197.32 kg

Genetics

Stone
Ripple

Obsidian
Facet

Stone
Gembond

Hatchday

Jun 10, 2014
(9 years)

Breed

Adult
Snapper

Eye Type

Ice
Common

Level 25 Snapper

Max Level

STR

124

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

none

Offspring

Biography

Origin: Snastle #103101

Tourmaline
Beloved Grandmother

Important items

Lore

Tourmaline is old, as old as the hills themselves some say.
Nobody knows how long she lay encased in stone, her body barely sustaining itself in a comatose state. So long that the wind blew earth over her stone coffin, and grass and plants grew lush and green as she slowly faded towards death with each passing year. However, it wasn’t to be.

An old local legend led Amethyst and her team to investigate the site. The work was grim, they expected to find only bones, but Amethyst felt that she had to know. That fate could easily have befallen so many of them. Buried and forgotten.
When they finally found her, they were baffled. So deep was Tourmaline’s hibernation that there were no signs of life, but nor had her body began to degrade. They took her back to the clan, and there she stayed. Peony lent the full extent of her healing, but she could only stave off death and remove the overgrown stone, no improvement in her state could be made. For months the old Snapper lay there, Peony doing everything she could just to keep her comfortable.

Yet the healer was not Tourmaline’s only companion during her slumber. Chalcedony, the old bard of the clan, was saddened to see her in such a state. Remembering tales from Turquoise and some of the other Geodes about being able to hear sounds during their hibernation, he took to keeping her company during the long, silent hours. He sat by her side for a while each day, singing to her softly in his rumbling voice, regaling her with ballads and grand tales, telling her of life in the clan and outside it, anything he could think of, on the chance he might ease the pain of solitude.

Months passed, and he still faithfully visited her every day. One quiet night, he was sitting by her bedside, eyes closed as he sang a gentle tune. When he opened them, she was meeting his gaze. Her eyes were pale and she blinked slowly, but there was recognition in that look, and he knew she had been hearing him.

From that day on, Tourmaline slowly recovered. Much damage had been done by the lengthy hibernation, and her mind was not what it once must have been. Speech comes rarely to Tourmaline, although some days are better than others. At her worst days, which remain blessedly infrequent, she struggles for memory. At times like this, she retreats to the calmness of slumber or solitude, nodding off peacefully in the gardens or reading books in her bed. Most of the time her thoughts are unclouded but speech eludes her, but on her best days she has whole hours where she speaks easily and cheerfully, before stuttering heralds the end of her conversation and she seemingly forgets how to speak once more.

Chalcedony never stopped visiting her even after she recovered, and the two quickly grew to love each other. The old bard cares for his mate well, and even on her worst days when she forgets even his face he sings to her, for she never forgets his gently rumbling voice.

She is a fascinating old lady, always happy to share tales of days long gone, always eager to spend time with anyone who comes to visit. Her joints move stiffly, but without pain, and she loves to watch new and interesting dragons as they pass through the clan on market days. Much of her time is spent with her beloved cat Booke, who never leaves her side. Booke was specially purchased by the clan as an assistance animal after Tourmaline fell one day and couldn't get up, and he is trained to assist by getting help should she have any troubles. She hasn't fallen again since, as Snastle quickly made some calciferous slime for the masons to form into assistance railings in and around her and Chalcedony's room.

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