Welcome
to the Mystery Box!
Intro and more about the magical plushie that helped
Impressionante in her first years can be read
here
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Stats
Name: Impressionante
Gender: Female
Species: Icarian Drak
Colour: Dawn (Day Variant)
Origin: mystery
creatures
Personality:
Impressionante is an optimistic, hopeful sort. She always sees the
silver lining and if she can find none, she'll gladly push herself
to the challenge of creating one. She has a near endless energy when
it comes to joy and cheer and she loves to see people, draks (and
just anyone) laugh. Though she thrives in happy times, she truly
shines when the going gets though.
Abilities:
* Rapid Language Learning
* Acid Spit
* Flight
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Chasing Destiny
Impressionante flexed her
wings and arched her tail. Her pastel coloured manes and wingsails
drank in the morning air. The soft singing of small songbirds
reached her ears. Smiling she opened one eye. The light blinded her
for a moment, but she soon got used to the new day.
Stretching her legs and arms and generally doing what she did every
morning, Impressionante got up from her bed in the
mountain peaks
and greeted the new day. After
her caretaker had bid her farewell to follow their calling,
Impressionante had travelled and looked for her roots. She'd somehow
known the planet where her ancestors hailed from and had been able
to travel there.
Impressionante had debated joining one of the wild packs or making
contact with the humans to add herself to their armada. But she
never felt like that was the right way to go. So she'd stayed
solitary, watching. She felt very little connection to the other
draks. But that changed when a drak appeared with an unusual human
on his back. The man looked old but he moved like he had barely
lived. And maybe the most troublesome characteristic of the man, or
fae she learned later, was that he had a keen eyesight. He spotted
her without trouble and did what none other had done.
"Hail there!" he called, "I seem to be a little lost."
Her trepidation didn't last long and Impressionante approached the
pair.
"Where do you want to go?"
The man chuckled, "Everywhere and nowhere. Don't worry about it."
"Don't toy with the lass." the plant
drak chided, "I won't let you trick her."
"Who says I was planning to?"
"Maybe you weren't, but you definitely thought
about it."
"But the lady feels like she does not belong and might want to come
live at WindChill."
Something in the words sparked her interest:
"WindChill?"
"Follow me there if you want to see it."
the plant Drak, who she later learned was called Cucurbita, told
her.
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Surprisingly,
WindChill had been just what Impressionante needed. It existed on
the border between traditional and alien, normal and fantastical. It
had become home. With the freedom to venture much further than
Icarus had offered. But yet with tethers and roots that her start
had lacked. Impressionante was part of the community.
So when she was called to Sunspark's quarters, she did not think
much of it. Outside she encountered
Alan, one of the human
hunters who also lived in the settlement. They greeted each other
and waited a few moments until Sunspark invited them inside. The
meeting room felt calm and understated. Pale silver walls were
accented by jeweltone sheer curtains that held just a hint of
sparkle. Indirect lighting gave the place a more magical feel. High
ceilings and the broad walkway meant that Impressionante had no
problems coming inside and feeling welcome. A large wooden table
stood at one end of the room and comfortable chairs stood around it,
waiting to be used. Refreshments were on the table and Moonbeam, who
was Sunsparkle Reflection's significant other, gave them a smile and
a small nod before she exited.
"Thank you for coming." Sunsparkle greeted them.
"Greetings." Alan said.
"It's always good to see you."
Impressionante said.
Sunsparkle told them of his plans to grow the community and to
create ties to the other fae-drak settlement called Icehearth.
WindChill would not be set up as a Castle in the traditional sense
of the word. It could not easily be reached but they would at one
point need others to help support the settlement. They could not
delude themselves that remaining self-sustainable was a possibility.
Sunsparkle ended his proposal with:
"So what are your thoughts?"
"I can understand a hunter being sent out to
something called a Wyld Hunt, but why me?" Impressionante
asked.
It was Alan who answered: "Well, we're hunting draks, who would
better understand them than one of their own?"
Impresionante let those words sink. She was indeed a drak, but was
she really? She'd not been raised by draks, had not been trained by
an elder. But then, who was to say how the Icehearth draks had grown
up. Maybe she truly had an advantage.
"Will you go?"
There was only one way to know: "Yes."
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??? was found during a Wyld Hunt at
Icehearth Castle
Impressionante
and ??? took up residence at
WindChill Castle
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