Verbana

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Level 1 Bogsneak
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Giant White Toridae
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Energy: 50/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Plague.
Female Bogsneak
This dragon is hibernating.
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Personal Style

Apparel

Enchanted Book Collection
Teardrop Ruby Bracelet
Teardrop Ruby Earrings
Teardrop Ruby Choker
Teardrop Ruby Necklace
Teardrop Ruby Pendant
Teardrop Ruby Leg Band
Roseate Scale Wingplates
Garnet Flourish Anklets
Proper Monocle
Fancy Ring
Pastel-Edged Claw

Skin

Scene

Scene: Cartographer's Office

Measurements

Length
6.55 m
Wingspan
7.86 m
Weight
453.61 kg

Genetics

Primary Gene
White
Iridescent
White
Iridescent
Secondary Gene
White
Shimmer
White
Shimmer
Tertiary Gene
Crimson
Capsule
Crimson
Capsule

Hatchday

Hatchday
Sep 18, 2020
(3 years)

Breed

Breed
Adult
Bogsneak

Eye Type

Eye Type
Plague
Uncommon
Level 1 Bogsneak
EXP: 0 / 245
Anticipate
Shred
STR
7
AGI
6
DEF
7
QCK
7
INT
6
VIT
7
MND
6

Lineage

Parents

Offspring

  • none

Biography

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PROFILE
Name: Verbana

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/They

Profession: Researcher & Librarian

Interests: Reading, research, cheerful bickering with her siblings. Verbana adores history.

TREASURES
Enchanted Book Collection
Verbana's personal book collection, a mix of personal research notes and her extensive library catalogue.
Fancy Ring
Enchanted to keep close tabs on her need for blood, Verbana never goes anywheer without this ring.
Copper Pocketwatch
With how sunlight burns her, Verbana keeps a close eye on the time.
Gothic Tea Tray
Verbana loves a good cup of tea. There is no better accompaniment to research, conversation, or the end of the day.

FAVOURITE BOOKS
Long Form Poetry Tales of Terror
Owlcat Journal Battered Book of Fables
Toridae Mythology Forgotten Poet's Tools
Book of Eldritch Horror Scary Storybook

RESEARCH DOCUMENTS
Historical Text Crumbling Relief
Weathered Grimoire Aged Tome
Forest Field Guide Grouse Basilisk Field Notes
Coral Basilisk Field Notes Book of Urban Legends

FAMILIAR

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Familiar: Giant White Toridae

Name: Hirudo

History: Though similarly pale to Verbana, Hirudo is not nearly as sensitive to the sun. Thus, he helps shield her from sunlight when necessary.

Verbana from Hirudo verbana
A kind of leech used in medicine

PERSONALITY

Verbana is a very prim and precise and polite and well-behaved dragon, but is also known to take no bad treatment from anyone. She learned this from Porcelain, her mother and one of the smallest faes in a clan known for it's large numbers of guardians and imperials. As clan Doctor, Porcelain has had to heal them all and has a patience and firmness second to none. Verbana has, for many years, considered her mother's manner to be deeply admirable.

Generally Verbana is quiet and keeps to herself, with a love of books and quiet time spent with family. She can be a bit intimidating to strangers due to her size and haemophagic nature, but the only blood she drinks is from her father, largely because he created her without thinking of the consequences - and she wants him to think about the consequences. If not for her sake, at least for that of her siblings.


ABOUT

Second creation of Bilberrios - after Panoptes, and not accidental, in this instance - Verbana is the result of Bilberrios' continued attempts to create life from nothing, in this instance working from the capacity of cauldron-work to create Bogsneaks. However, Bilberrios believes that the use of Muck in creating Bogsneak eggs - distilled living essence of familiars, after all - makes it not exactly life from nothing, as it uses distilled life from other things.

Thus, he created Verbana, using the base recipe for a Bogsneak egg but swapping out the Silver Muck for a mixture of other ingredients intended to do much the same thing.

Well... Verbana certainly lives, but like all of Bilberrios' early creations there is something odd about her. Panoptes is a kind of formless life, able to alter his shape at will, and incredibly, vibrantly alive. Cenotaph, who followed Verbana, is firm of form but lacks energy, often taking both magical energy and personality from others. Verbana is vampiric, requiring blood to live. In her early years this was provided (with much complaining) by Bilberrios, and these days she is still fed largely by Bilberrios (still with much complaining).

She's also definitively albinistic, and when she hasn't fed recently she burns easily in the sunlight, something which causes Panoptes to, as some of the clan have dubbed it, "eldritch out". Despite the age and maturity difference in the siblings, Panoptes adores its younger-bigger sister, and is most upset whenever she's hurt. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Verbana is one of very few able to calm them.

Most of the time Verbana can be found in the clan library, helping her mother in the infirmary, or having tea with her siblings or her mother's tea companions. Verbana enjoys peace and quiet more than most things (aside, perhaps, from quietly antagonising Bilberrios) and has been known to be roped into research projects if she finds it interesting.

Presently, she's most often found helping Archaeosaur, who always has something new for her to look into.

RELATIONSHIPS

20425368p.png Porcelain | Mother

By far the dragon who taught Verbana the most, Verbana has a deep respect for the one she considers mother. This is both for raising her and for dealing with Bilberrios'... everything.
It was Porcelain to realise that Verbana is a haemophage and to convince Bilberrios to feed her. Verbana also helps her mother in the infirmary at times, enjoying more peaceful time learning something new as she helps her mother organise the infirmary medicine shelves, and has been known to join her mother, Phoebe, Alectrona and various others for their tea parties.
62581983p.png Bilberrios | Father

Verbana is not longer than her father, but she is heavier and with a vaster wingspan which she will admit to enjoying being able to lord over him.
She is not impressed by Bilberrios' behaviour and while she knows her mother loves him she does not pretend to understand why Porcelain does. Is this general dislike why, perhaps, she still insists on getting most of her meals from Bilberrios, a quieter method of winding him up than Panoptes and Brea's methods? Maybe. But given the unfairness of her and her siblings' existence, she thinks it only fair.
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Panoptes & Brea | Goop Siblings

The two eldritch goop noodles Bilberrios created, both firstborn Panoptes and fourthborn Brea, adore their big sister. Panoptes is especially protective of Verbana and it's generally recognised that she's the only one who can (with her long claws and the fact Pan loves her) pry it off something when annoyed or upset. This has led to several interesting discoveries, such as the fact that Panoptes hates mirrors.
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Cenotaph, Chalice & Fauna | Sisters

Bilberrios' less goopy creations, Verbana loves her sisters - even troublesome Chalice - and spends a fair bit of time with them. While Chalice enjoys her potions and Fauna her gardening, Cenotaph struggles to be a person at all, and often spends time around Verbana, helping with research as she tries to identify who she actually is - if she's anything at all.
74541724p.png Archaeosaur | Research Colleague

Every time Arke goes to visit Verbana, she has no idea what to expect; he has asked for everything from manticorean epics, serthis songs, kitsune sigil dictionaries and draconic histories. Despite the surprises she never minds it: it is, she says, never boring.

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Coded by EssayOfThoughts. Lore by EssayOfThoughts. Graphics are hyperlinked.


Essay wrote:
(Yes that is blood you see in Verbana's belly. Why yes, she is vampiric. Oh yes, most of that blood is Bilberrios', why do you ask? Oh was he complaining again? I'm so sorry, Father just has so many troubles understanding the needs of his children. Porcelain - our lovely mother, you know - she's trying to convince him he should wait on his current projects until he can handle us. Of course if he will... that's another question.)
Please imagine, when Verbana is grown up, her sometimes having to use her long Boggysneaky claws to carefully pry a Very Insistent and Upset Panoptes off someone or something that is upsetting it - she's not apologetic about her sibling's upset or behaviour, but just pries Pan off and lets it coil around her and then probably scolds them if they're a beastclan individual or dragon for spooking eldritch bb Pan or just... removes Pan from the area if it's a random object... or not random. Apparently Pan doesn't like mirrors.

Verbana is very prim and precise and polite and well-behaved but also takes no bad treatment from anyone. She learned this from Porcelain, Teeny Tiny Fae in a clan of mostly Guardians and Imps who also has to manage healing them all. Porcelain is a very good adoptive mother; it was she who realised Verbana was a haemophage and required blood to survive. Of course, Porcelain does not have enough blood to sustain Verbana. Bilberrios on the other hand...

(Bilberrios is not best pleased by this circumstance. Porcelain thinks it serves him right until he learns to stop making eldritch cauldron babies)

(Bilberrios refuses to learn)

Porcelain absolutely loves their eldritch cauldron babies... but that doesn't mean she gives Bil a pass for making them, nor for his terrible parenting.

For a Fae, known for being so unexpressive, she has a surprisingly loud voice when outraged. She is often outraged on behalf of Teh Babbies.
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