Viaferre

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Level 10 Wildclaw
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Energy: 48/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Ice.
Male Wildclaw
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Personal Style

Apparel

Gloomy Highnoon Brimmer
Ebony Antlers
Bleak Birdskull Headdress
Unearthly Onyx Ghastcrown
Black Currant Plumed Headdress
Sanguine Plumage
Carbon Cushion Colony
Bleak Birdskull Wingpiece
Classy Waistcoat
Grim Healer's Reference
Classy Pants
Classy Dress Shirt
Well-to-do Sable Gloves
Unearthly Onyx Grasp
Trailing Storm
Unlucky Tools
Black Aviator Boots
Unearthly Onyx Clawrings

Skin

Accent: Stormchaser

Scene

Scene: Haunted Museum

Measurements

Length
4.07 m
Wingspan
8.5 m
Weight
410.13 kg

Genetics

Primary Gene
White
Wasp
White
Wasp
Secondary Gene
White
Bee
White
Bee
Tertiary Gene
White
Opal
White
Opal

Hatchday

Hatchday
Sep 15, 2020
(3 years)

Breed

Breed
Adult
Wildclaw

Eye Type

Eye Type
Ice
Uncommon
Level 10 Wildclaw
EXP: 426 / 27676
Scratch
Shred
STR
8
AGI
9
DEF
6
QCK
5
INT
5
VIT
6
MND
6

Lineage

Parents

Offspring

  • none

Biography

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PROFILE
Name: Bernard Geribald Montmorency, The Iron Road

AKA: "Monty" (to friends); the Viaferre (to trade partners)

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Profession: Head of Terrestrial Trade; Legalese and Contracts.

Interests: Teaching the children, making amends for past mistakes.

TREASURES
Grim Healer's Reference
Memories before his embodying are fragmented, unclear. This journal he keeps as grim reminder of his past actions, that he can make amends.
Unlucky Tools
Much of his time, these days, is spent in his office. Still, sometimes he likes to get his hands dirty doing repairs.
Unearthly Onyx Ghastcrown
When he'd first woken embodied, he carried it with him. He cannot take it off. It binds all his worst aspects.
Dark Incense
He has amends to make, and for some things, all he can do is pray that the dead be kind.

TRINKETS
Stardust Sap Lamp Black Candle Cascade
Augite Fragments Ghostly Aura
Tarnished Cerdae Necklace Bean Juicer
Bottled Embers Iron Gear
Glass Knife Iron Wrench

FAVOURITE FOODS
Picked-Over Bones Ashmane Cat
Silver Raccoon Snowfall Elk Ear
Stomper Haunch Duskrat
Taillash Rat Savanna Burrowborrow

FAMILIAR

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Familiar: Shardback Slink

Name: N/A

About: As part of the Administrative Wing, the Viaferre tends new familiars on a temporary basis.

He carries his sins...
... like soot on his skin.

PERSONALITY

A deeply untrustworthy businessman in his youth, Bernard Geribald Montmorency (Monty to his friends) has long since retired to the clan of Tethys where he teaches youngsters the ins and outs of law and legalese. Still something of a trickster at heart, he is far less malicious than once he was and generally keeps to himself when not teaching or working, considering the reasons he did so many unethical things in his youth and - at times, wondering how he could make amends.

Known to those outside the clan as Viaferre, the Iron Road, he's most known for his construction of railway, tramway and minecart systems used to streamline transport around the clan's territory and to other clans.


ABOUT

Unmade.

Unmade, unmade, that he could be unmade, because he does not think he was ever born or hatched. He has never known where he came from, had picked up his names as he went through life - he is Bernard after the first to give him shelter, Geribald after the name he was given at one home, Montmorency after the town where he first started business.

He is the Iron Road for his creation, the Viaferre, the blood and bone of the earth used to earn the blood and bone of the living-

Was he ever living himself?

He is now. He knows he is now. Can poke his chest and feel feather-fur, feel all his storm and shifting air condensed down into physical form, shattered shards of memories that tell him who he was before.

He had a purpose before. His own growth and satisfaction, soot and snow and steel - he had not cared for others losses.

He cares now. He is a dragon now, a person, not some strange amorphous idea, made and unmade by fears and dread. Now he has fears. Now he has dreads.

It strikes him, these days, just how much he cares for those around him. He had never thought it possible before he'd been confronted, rendered down by angry witches into something no longer driven by single, simple purpose.

"Would that I were not," he'd whispered to the sky when first it had happened. Unmade, unmade.

But he has been made, by fears and dreads, and witch's magic seeking to end them; has had to put a name to his face and claimed all the ones he's known and remembers.

He has amends to make, for dragons destroyed and homes harmed. Steel and soot, breaking and burning - but he is good with laws and legalese, understands travel and speed, knows how to tame all his excesses to suit his new goals.

And he loves them, that too, these people he has found. He had not known to before, had not known how to, but they took him in without minding, perhaps only one knowing the truth of him, a bundle of broken beings seeking to become despite it all.

With them, he can learn to be whole. With them, he can pay back the wrongs he's done.

he is trusted - more, perhaps, than he thinks he should be, but he is competent and Alectrona is fearsome for all her small stature; he does his work. He has an office, he has colleagues - he has Calhoun, who's colours could make him almost his child and he does not know what he has done to warrant this. Harm is easy to perpetuate, after all, and it is harder to be kind - and yet here, amongst those shown such cruelties of the world, kindness flourishes.

Ghostlight only smiles when he asks, the glow of her belly lighting her counselroom.

"Because," she says. "At some point all of us looked at that harm and said no."

No.

Because it stops here, with them. It stops here, with kindness.

He will not ever forget.



RELATIONSHIPS
74126358p.png Percival Calhoun | Personal Assistant

Cal is far and away Monty's most reliable assistant. Intelligent, active and on the ball, Cal gets on with his work and reliably gets ahead of every problem.
Things would have been fine if that had been the end of it - but that Cal's markings came in only a month after working with the Viaferre, and Monty can't help but fear those inky stains are his doing. This is one reason of many why Monty will never admit that he sees Cal as an adoptive son.
18491370p.png Alectrona | Direct Superior

"You're more responsible than you think," had been Alectrona's first words to him when he'd expressed scepticism at his job. "You're so hard on yourself, there's no one I'd trust to do better." He tries, daily, to live up to that.

41510674p.png Ameliore the Herald | Trade Negotiator

Given his past, the Viaferre does not dare travel far himself. Instead, Ameliore carries missives and negotiations for trade.

28123277p.png Ghostlight | Emotional Counsel

With so many sins on his shoulders, Monty sometimes struggles to continue day to day, despair always close on his heels. To help, he sees Ghostlight, who has become something of a counsellor for him.

56720394p.png Kineore Witchdottir | Wary Witchkin

It was witches who made the Viaferre what he now is, who gave him body and life and a chance at a new purpose than the fear and dread that had driven him before. Of course Kineore the Witchkin, once a witch but no longer, recognised the traces of that magic.

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