Role: Healer (Viral)
Familiar: Fungi Sage (Silas)

- Familiar meditates with them

- Populated by a million-million cells of bacteria, several of which have achieved sentience. They speak in turns, politely, recognizing the benefits of collaboration.

- Struggles with dysmorphia, loneliness, and displacement within drake society. Traumatized by their previous host's warlike nature and his body's total death, Aedon recognizes the potential lethality of infection. Thus, they have vowed to inhabit additional hosts in a more, well, conservative capacity; supplementing other systems without overwhelm.

- Their current host's consciousness is dormant. Aedon considers her restoration and development, alongside the preservation of the viral system itself, their life's mission.

- Fascinated by beings who retain their individuality despite hosting bacterial colonies; they see them as keepers of lush forests, and deeply respect the harmoniousness of wellness.

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⌈ A E D O N ⌋ parasite curious • they/its • swift ━━━━ POSSESSIONS ━━━━ Analogous Pigment Blend Organics This peculiar pigment blend has the unusual ability to match the tint of whatever it is applied to. 42 Glossy Frills Organics Frills of this quality can be patched together to create a stained-glass effect. 41

Children-- if you can call them that-- of the walking Wyrmwound virus and the escaped lab-grown pathogen are... unusual to say the least. Their main purpose is to spread the infection, and what better way to do that than to take on the form of a dragon and walk where they please? No region is safe from the onslaught that is the offspring of Valeth and Xinew, and they’d be a much more serious threat if it were not for the fact that there’s only two of them and Sorineth is as vast as the sky is blue. Oh, and some of the ‘hatchlings’ occasionally do form minds of their own. Mutations not included. >> Aedon's first host about five hours after successful infection. >> They learn pretty quickly after that. The second one takes four days. The third lasts three weeks. They're on their ninth body, now. Before Aedon took the reins, their host was a young ridgeback, a brawler in the coliseum. >> Deities willing, they'll be safe in this vessel for the next century.

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