Creative Corner

Arcticdeep is the kind of dragon that her unique name would suggest. She is rather quiet and mysterious, moving with the cool, swirling silence of deep ocean currents. Everything she does is done with purpose, shifting from task to task without rumpling a single strand of her main. She carries with her an air of secretiveness, as if she is always careful not to reveal too much.

Most dragons would overlook her easily, thinking her quite unremarkable. It is true that perhaps on the outside she may not be too memorable. She is an assistant to the clan librarian, taking care of many of the more menial tasks. Many of her days are spent meticulously organizing old scrolls and parchments, keeping track of where every important document is located. Arcticdeep has a perfect recall even without her notes, knowing exactly where to look to find anything.

She is nearly always in the library, flying up to high shelves or transcribing notes in her fine handwriting. For the most part, she finds comfort in the stillness, with only the occasional rustling of pages or scritching of a quill to break the silence. However, even the distant Arcticdeep feels lonely on the occasion. While most dragons do not speak to her outside of questions or simple pleasantries, there is one that she calls a true friend.

The one dragon that she is closest to could not be more different. They form a striking contrast, with the cool aloofness of ice countering the energetic heat of fire. While Firebird may be of the ice element, she would better have been born in Flamecaller’s care, where her passionate ferocity would have been far easier accepted and encouraged. A highstrung fighter with a wild sense of humor and an ambitious attitude, Firebird is a unique dragon indeed. What she lacks in scholarly learning, she makes up for in street smarts, having a shrewd sort of cunning beyond her years.

Despite their differences, they get along surprisingly well. Firebird enjoys the time she gets to relax a bit, and Arcticdeep enjoys the vigorous conversations to break up the laidback nature of her days. They never cease to amaze one another with the knowledge that they possess, albeit in remarkably dissimilar ways. It is the one time that Arcticdeep permits herself to open up, showing a different facet of her personality that few ever see. However, it is not the only thing that she keeps carefully covered up.

Beneath her somber exterior is a vast pool of magic, hidden like the polar seas beneath vast sheets of ice. She is startlingly powerful, though this is a fact that she would never let on. When she was younger, she would flaunt her ability to control entire storms and freeze living things, preserving them in ice for potentially indefinite periods of time.

However, she has since learned the folly of such actions. She is so strong with magic that can drop the temperature of the air around her simply by showing anger. Over time she found that dragons are easily threatened, and in that state are unpredictable. So she hides her abilities under a collected mask that is as cold and smooth as sea ice. While her name may reflect her personality, the similarities run deeper than most dragons would ever deign to imagine.