Silas
(#50772388)
[he/him] the first king
Familiar
Magic Mirror
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Energy: 49/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Water.
Male Tundra
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Personal Style
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Measurements
Length
4.73 m
Wingspan
3.93 m
Weight
381.71 kg
Genetics
Charcoal
Pinstripe
Pinstripe
Coal
Stripes
Stripes
Jade
Runes
Runes
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 8 Tundra
EXP: 9626 / 16009
STR
7
AGI
8
DEF
10
QCK
10
INT
11
VIT
10
MND
8
Biography
the king rises
-23 - 10 | a man founds a kingdom
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Future generations someday said that Silas emerged from a volcanic vent, fully formed, breathing in the scalding water and absorbing its energy for himself. In reality, he hatched from a dull egg discarded in an ocean trench, his tiny form indistinct from the shadows, and the first thing he knew was loneliness.
Children like him, discarded into the deep, rarely survived unless rescued by a passing stranger. Silas was an exception to this rule. In his more religious years, he attributed this success to the favor of the Tidelord. In his later years, he attributed it to luck. He was similarly exceptional in terms of his magical powers, which were, from an early age, far more well-developed than that of any typical dragon of the era. As a child, he learned to manipulate currents into whirling loops in which he trapped fish he couldn't digest for the joy of watching them struggle.
As a young man, he met Guppy and immediately felt drawn to her on account of their shared circumstances. She snapped up the fish he caught; he tended to her wounds with careful claws and brought her bouquets of shells and sea grass. They became home to each other, if only for lack of anything better to call home, and so began the only love of Silas's life.
Their nest was a cave at the bottom of the same deep, dark trench Silas was hatched in. Two eggs filled their nest, guarded jealously from prying eyes. Guppy, in their quiet, hoarse voice, confessed that they wanted to see their children grow up in a world that loved them. Silas whispered back that he would build a kingdom for them so they would never be lonely.
And so he did.
Silas carved a palace out of the face of an underwater cliff and furnished it with the finest materials he could find. Glass windows, imported form a faraway region of fire, looked out on the murky depths of a bottomless trench; he never thought of the tiny cave at its bottom and of the hollow shells of what should have been lives within. His queen sat curled around his throne of whale bones, growling at all who approached.
They named their world the Kingdom of Depths. Neither of them were known for creativity.
With trade came knowledge, and Silas took to knowledge like a shark to a whalefall. He learned of foreign magic- powerful magic, magic to change biology on a basic level- and he coveted it. Stubborn and confident in his abilities, he took himself on as a test subject and set to changing himself.
Though he ultimately succeeded, several historians have speculated that Silas's self-experimentation led to the impaired reasoning he showed in his later years. Some claim that this is what led to the fall of the Kingdom of Depths.
Silas transfigured his fur into a pattern he thought Guppy would like and dipped his paws in liquid magic, then drew his queen's name on his side in an ancient language he barely understood. They watched silently and told him, flatly, that he was a fool to think they cared what his pelt looked like and that he needed something else to focus on before he went mad.
Their second nest was of three eggs. Guppy turned them in careful intervals, watching them anxiously for signs of trouble; Silas murmured spells he half-understood over them, spells for growth, spells for good luck. In the end, only one ugly hatchling made it out of the egg, but Silas gave them enough love for five.
Silas had his family. For a time, that was all he needed.
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Silas
-23 - 49
• Cis guy, he/him • Pansexual • First King of the Kingdom of Depths 
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King Silas of the Kingdom of Depths was presumably hatched somewhere in the Sea of a Thousand Currents, though the details of his early life are unknown to the public. What is known is that he rose from a trench in a year he later named as 0 and took a small stretch of underwater territory for his own using a level of water magic that had not been seen since the Tidelord's disappearance. Silas was a lucid and competent leader in his early years of power, despite his occasional inclination towards violence; however, as time went on, his actions became increasingly baffling. Those close to the king claim that he became obsessed with old strains of magic that were more well-known in other regions of the world. Some speculate that his often irresponsible interactions with magic he did not understand caused him mental harm and led to his strange behaviors later in life; others pin this on the stress of his position and personal life. Regardless of the cause, Silas's often erratic behavior is frequently blamed for the eventual fall of the Kingdom of Depths.
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gene history: basic/basic/basic tundra -> pinstripe/stripes/runes tundra still very surprised at the fact that my random progen is a) one-off xxy and b) managed to also get a green tert. seriously, he might objectively have better colors than guppy? |
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