Andalusite

ANDALUSITE

Andalusite was once a dedicated researcher of Miskatonic University, spending countless hours in the restricted basement. She largely specialized in artifacts and creatures brought back, but very rarely suited up to venture into the portal herself.
___For years on end she was a constant, well-known presence in the research base, heeded for her level head, rationality, and dedicated pursuit of whatever project she had thrown herself into at the time. Notably, unlike the majority of other Guardians at the university, she had found no charge; her colleagues' teasing that her work itself was her charge was largely brushed off with a laugh.


After a particularly risky solo expedition out into uncharted terrain on the other side, she came back... odd.

Gone was her usual calm, steady demeanor; the Andalusite who returned was frazzled, twitchy, and near-manic, having latched onto something she found out there. A few days' time did nothing to help her condition; she only degraded, with her worsening mental state accompanied by subtle, unsettling physical changes—feathery growths on the shoulders and spine, jagged crystalline spikes sprouting on her horns.

An unblinking, hovering eye taking the place of her Arcane emblem.


They never quite figured out exactly what she had found out there—another portal? some kind of... structure? no one could decipher what her raving was even about—before she bolted, ignoring the concern and desperate protests of her friends and fleeing over the sea, her flight assisted by the growth of monstrous new wings.

Despite months—years—of searching, she hasn't been seen since. Expeditions near a particularly warped area through the portal have reported what looks like a lone Guardian dragon in the area—but that region is far, far too dangerous and irradiated for any dragon to survive there, they always say.

Any normal dragon.