pistol

PISTOL

The enigma.

A robot borne from shards of other robots, or, this was who he was in a past life. Now, he is a small Ridgeback with terrifying skill in combat, whether it be hand-to-hand, magical, or otherwise. He is currently loyal to Overture, and most of the business he does is in her stead. Also, he goes by any pronouns.

A Transcendent of perhaps one of the oldest characters I have. Never finding a place in the main storyline, pistol has always been a strange representation of a tiny facet of myself.

COMPLETE 4/27/2022

art by me

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All of the lore-significant Transcendents are here. Not all of these characters or dragons are mine, but they are all 'reincarnated' versions of other characters. This list is ever-growing!




Below are the transcendents that belong to my friend Murvax. These characters belong to him unless explicitly stated otherwise in the dragon's bio!



Below are the transcendents that belong to my friend MagicalGriffin. These characters belong to her unless explicitly stated otherwise in the dragon's bio!

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The Shellbound clan's story begins with Gaia. Upon her arrival, the small family grew into a clan, and she currently claims a flexible role of leadership.

Gaia, and many other dragons in the clan, are what are known as transcendents. Sornieth-native embodiments of humans, dragons, aliens, and the like- from a universe known as the 'Old Universe'. Some appeared as adults in a flash of elements and a burst from a ley line junction, while others were hatched to families and raised as lifelong residents of Sornieth, though with strange memories dotting their daily lives. The most they can remember of their old lives are their names, and brief snippets of what they once knew and loved, manifesting in visions, periods of deja vu, or dreams.

This 'Old Universe' is completely, utterly dead. It has been rendered unliveable by a phenomenon called entropy- a spread of chaotic energy that destroys life, corrupts matter, and negates all existing 'stable' energy. Gaia, as well as all transcendents, are reincarnated from the old universe- but Gaia has retained all of her memories, for reasons unknown to any except her.

None of the other transcendents know what their past lives were, except Gaia. Gaia has seen friends, enemies, and complete strangers come into her life, whether it be by wandering in or literally exploding through the gaps in the world's mana- and while seeing welcome faces (though converted into dragons) is a blessing, they do not remember her, aside from vague implications that she may be familiar.

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You may have noticed that a fair amount of my dragons have names that consist of four capital letters. These are transcendent Phorons, an immortal alien race that existed in the old universe. They are fundamentally linked to all of consciousness, whether that be humanoids, AIs, or other beings that have an ability to think, and thus draw on their strength if needs be. Many of them can change shape and color. They were created in, and are currently imprisoned in, an empty an dark plane of reality known as the Plane of Stars. Their weaknesses are fire and a strange, visible type of radiation called Phoracide light- though these weaknesses are able to be resisted by extremely specific individuals.

There is a lot of lore to Phorons, but this will be explained some other time- all that I will reveal here is that there was once a Phoron 'queen', a benevolent creature named ALUM. She wanted to allow the Phorons to wander the universe at their own will- and upon coming across a ragtag group of 11 Phorons who exhibited patience and tenacity, she blessed each one with a small shard of herself, thus imbuing them with the ability to traverse dimensions if they all cooperated. This group came to be known by each other as the ALUM-touched Phorons. They escaped the Plane of Stars, thus landing on an Earth known as the Coral Earth- but it wasn't long before they began to quarrel and drift their own ways. This made the old dimension-traveling method obsolete, as all 11 of them needed to be together for it to be possible.

Many years passed, and ALUM was felled by a new queen- THETA. This THETA had found a new source of malign energy that she could use to push all of Phoronkind towards her own motives and goals- this energy was entropy. A war waged between she and the Coral Earth, while the ALUM-touched Phorons remained oblivious in their hiding spots deep in the wilds- except one. PRIS fought hard in this war, on the Coral Earth side- but he ended up needing to escape rapidly after THETA won and instantly drained the Coral Earth of all its life, to use for her own gain. Soon after this, the other ten ALUM-touched Phorons fled the now-dead Coral Earth. THETA was felled eventually, by an alliance that PRIS had built, but the damage was done- the entropy was spreading, and it was only a matter of time before it swallowed the entire universe.

Fast forward by many years, and the last remaining races and individuals are gathered in a stronghold against the entropy. PRIS suggests that they make an escape route to an entirely new universe via the ALUM-touched Phorons' strength- and while his plan is dismissed as ludicrous, he departs, finding his old allies and struggling to keep them from quarrelling as he brings them back to the stronghold. They unite once again, and with entropy at their heels, they slip through the massive rift that they have created, bringing the last survivors with them to the New Universe.

These 11 characters represent my friends. These characters and dragons are near and dear to me!

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The ALUM-touched Phorons have attempted to keep relations with each other for the sake of the New Universe. When they visit Sornieth, they take on the form of dragons. I will eventually breed all 11 of them, but here is the current list of existing ALUM-touched Phorons. Scries of the remaining ones, if any, are in VEIL's bio- the blue PC. ALUM will be here, too, when I breed her.