Triss

Generally, you wouldn't expect a wildclaw to have devoted her life to making baubles and trinkets. Hunting and fighting seems far closer to the breed's interests. Well, Triss would have you know that haggling with customers and fighting with rival craftsdragons for the best location to set up your stall is a battle as vicious as any other. Also, she carves apart the local wildlife to gather the materials for her trinkets. The swath of destruction left behind her on a gathering trip is rather alarming.

Most of her creations are the sort of stuff that looks pretty but is useless for anything other than decorating your lair. Things like scale windchimes, bone statuettes, and the beautifully decorated skulls of mutated monsters. For some unexplained reason, her crafts are most popular among plague dragons. She's been working on that though, using a new, more aggressive and in your face sales tactic that's been seeing sales rising with visitors of every flight. But from the nervous looks some of her customers give her wares, they might just be buying something to make sure they don't end up on the merchandise shelves themselves.

Triss's stall out at the island's port is one of the first things visiting dragons see when disembarking a ship, despite the clan's attempts to move it somewhere else. Or to build a second, more powerful but less fear-inspiring stall in front of it. She tore that one apart and resold it as decorative woodcarvings. After a few failed suggestions, the clan's current solution has been to surreptitiously encourage some slight thievery from her stall. With the threat of thieves about, Triss has been less inclined to leave her stall when the goods aren't safely put away. So while the occasional dragon still flees for their life back to their ship, at least Triss isn't following them aboard anymore.

When she isn't forcing knickknacks into other dragons' claws and their treasure into hers, she's running through the Starwood Strand, looking for unusual creatures that can be turned into far better works of art. Pretty rocks too. They make good ammunition, whether they're thrown to injure a target or merely to grab their attention. That, and Triss has reluctantly admitted that she can't always make her crafts out of entirely organic materials.

Her snake, Aral, helps her on her hunts by constricting and immobilizing any unfortunate creatures that he can catch, so that she can inspect them for neat-looking body parts before deciding their fate. Unfortunately, he's not that fast as far as snakes go, so what he can catch is a bit limited. Triss helps him out by chucking him at animals like a wiggly, hissing javelin. (He bit Triss when she tried gluing feathers onto him for better aerodynamics.)

Despite being a wind dragon, Triss isn't much of a flyer. Sure, she's better at it than the average wildclaw, but no amount of extra feathers in her clothes will keep her in the air for that long. However, she is quite the runner. Not only has her elemental affinity enhanced her speed, but the wind left in her wake is sharp enough to draw blood. She tends to get in trouble with Rhys because she inadvertently ends up pruning all his flowers whenever she runs by.

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As Triss isn't part of the clan guard, sometimes Kokoro sends Primera to serve as an escort on her hunting trips. Not because he thinks she needs the protection, but because he takes every opportunity to get Primera out of the lair and have her burn off some energy. Luckily, the two get along well, and have a grand old time tearing innocent monsters to shreds. (Artisanal, locally-sourced and organic shreds, to be precise.) Primera has a habit of diverting the trips towards official guard business, but Triss doesn't mind. There's plenty of useful materials to be salvaged from Beastclan camps, after all.

But that's not to imply that Triss is the one attacking the beastclans. No no no no. There's no profit to be made in assaulting potential customers, after all. Unless you're assaulting them with great deals! But if somebody else got to those customers first, well, it's not like they'll be using any of that stuff anymore. Primera might be too incensed about being too slow to save anyone to see the upside of the situation, but not Triss. A successful dragon never lets any opportunity go to waste. And here she thought Primera was supposed to be the plague dragon.

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You didn't hear it here, but if you've got any bodies you need... disappeared, Triss is your dragon. Sonja can attest to her effectiveness and speed, what with her profession making this a common problem for the spiral. You can even get a realistic but obviously fake skull decoration as thanks for your patronage!