Alvara

Gen 2 Royal Knight

Alvara is the granddaughter of Princess Agion of the Crystalline Shadows clan. She came to her current clan as a half-grown hatchling, after a successful diplomatic mission to obtain a protector for the clan's chief healer Lazuli. Once settled into her new clan she was assigned to Harimanna to be mentored and raised into a powerful warrior. During her training period the young guardian pressed her mentor for as much information on her charge-to-be as the skydancer was willing to share.

Harimanna explained that though Lazuli took his healer's duties to the clan very seriously he was far less careful with his own wellbeing, and was in the habit of slipping out alone to forage ingredients for the medicines he made. One day when Lazuli was discovered to be missing Harimanna and her cousin Kearney scoured the countryside for him, finally finding his broken body at the centre of a multitude of beast footprints. The pearlcatcher's wounds were so severe that she had mistaken him for a corpse, but Kearney insisted that Lazuli's spirit hadn't left yet, and scooped the body up to take home. Despite not being able to even find a pulse Harimanna knew that her cousin walked with one foot in the spirit world, and so took Kearney at his word and rushed home to find the assistant healer. Though Lazuli survived the experience one of his wings had been completely shattered, leaving him unable to fly. Without someone to protect him it was only a matter of time before the beastclans killed him, and he was a gifted healer that this clan desperately needed. By protecting him Alvara would be protecting the whole clan.

Knowing all this Alvara threw herself into her training, and took it upon herself to stalk Lazuli in her spare time to learn everything she could about his habits. Her studies paid off-- from the moment Alvara was grown Lazuli couldn't so much as take a single step outside without her being right there to protect him. She had expected the pearlcatcher to be annoyed by her constant presence but instead it seemed like he genuinely appreciated the guardian's company. And Alvara soon found that she quite enjoyed being around Lazuli-- he was a curious mix of gentle and charming, humble yet brilliant. She determined for herself that no member of the beastclans would ever touch him again.