Meesha

Egg's Notes(OOC): This dragon was a welcome gift, and I wanted to keep the original information intact. She was my fifth dragon.




Subspecies origins:
There are no royal bloodlines in the Plaguelands. To rule one must command with strength, and respect is earned through survival. However, if there were to be an analog of nobility in Plagubringer's wastes it could be well represented by the Necromancers.

Serving triple roles as advisors, shamans, and priests, Necromancers are considered to be aspects of the Plaguebringer's Will personified. To have one serve a clan is recognized as a great honor and a sign of Her favor. Necromancers earn their title by meditating for twenty-three days and nights on the Rotrock Rim without aid or succor. Prestige is increased by choosing a perch closer to the Wyrmwound, but this also increases the risk of failure. Successful dragons are given a symbol of Necromantic rank and a familiar and thereby earn the title of Necromancer.

True Necromancers can infect with a touch, as well as pull disease from the body at will. Dragons that can infect but not cure are known as Necroservus and often serve accomplished Necromancers. Failed Necromancers, or Ghouls, are riddled with plague, slowly dying, and are thought to embody Plaguebringer's displeasure. Some Plague dragons believe that She sends them into disobedient clans to spread annihilation and death. Outside of the traditional hierarchy exist the Wraiths, dragons who did not pass the trial by their own merits and so forfeited their claim to a title. They do not possess the abilities of a Necromancer, nor the cursed fate of a Ghoul, instead existing in the nebulous space between success and failure.



Necromantic trials:
Necromancers face three trials to earn their mantle.

• The first is the trial of infection. Plaguebringer must acknowledge their ambition by touching their flesh with plague. If no plague develops after thirteen days, the dragon is considered unworthy and fails.
• The second is the trial of survival. Dragons prove their strength by fighting the plague, keeping it from consuming them whole by any means necessary. If they are successful the plague is suppressed and goes dormant, appearing on their skin as a series of slashing stripes across the spine and the edges of their wings.
• The final trial is the test of contagion. By the dawn of the twenty-fourth day the dragon must prove its domination of the plague by both passing it on to another through touch and calling it back again. Control of disease is a divine gift and the true Necromancer should be able to spread and cure it with ease. If a dragon can spread the disease but not dampen it, they are given the inferior title of Necroservus, and are usually bound to an accomplished Necromancer as their servant.