RYOKUOU
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Name: Ryokuou
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Race: Human
Magic Affinity: Energy
Artefact: Orb
Looks: Ryokuou is a wiry
man of slightly below average height. He has curly brown hair, brown eyes,
a large nose and thin lips. Since he's usually hauled up in his study, he
is rather pale. He lacks muscles but has the tenacity of someone used to
doing specialised work for long stretches of time.
Personality: Ryokuou is a serious, studious individual who gets lost
in his experiments and research. His work involves the study of the
essence of life and how manipulating it affects certain people in
different ways. It's a tedious process since it's potentially dangerous.
Ryokuou has standards and each study invariably leads to a follow-up
work.
Skills: Ryokuou can put a person's life in stasis for a limited
amount of time (about 2 hours). He can add or detract life energy from
another.
Hobbies: Work?
Family: Single without a wish
to find a partner. His parents are retired and are living in a warmer
climate.
Pets: --
Bond: Green
Aslorzinth from Ryslen (Flurry
2023)
HATCHING
“It’s time” came
the telepathic call to any who would hear it.
Candidates, spectators and officials all hurried to the designated place
in the Drift. The drak mothers still had their wings screening their eggs
from view, and dozens of the hundred or more visible eggs were rocking
where they sat, the little dragons within working on the double to out and
find their One. Though not all of these would need to bond to survive.
Eggs hatched one after the other, the resulting hatchlings showcasing a
myriad of features, colours and patterns, though with the expected white
and snowflakes being the most abundant. Trying to follow the hatchlings
soon became impossible as they mixed with the novos.
The eggs rocked to their own rhythm, some faster and some slower
and some in a syncopated beat that made them hard to watch. Observant
spectators, however, might have noticed a smaller egg’s rocking getting
slower and more feeble as the minutes progressed.
A septet of eggs towards the edge of the sands started rocking with
exceptional vigour, and two of them broke open
within a few rocks, spilling green and purple dragonets out onto the soft
sand. Their eyes whirled with alarm as they got to their feet and raced
across the sands not to the candidates but to the small egg that had all
but stopped.
‘We are coming!’ shouted the purple.
‘Hold on!’ shouted the green.
The duo smashed into the egg and scrabbled at it with egg tooth and claws
until they succeeded in pulling it open. Within, a small white face
pressed up through the slit in the membrane and took a big gulp of air,
and then another.
‘Thank you.’ The newly hatched dragon’s mind
voice was exhausted and seemed breathless. ‘I was so afraid I wouldn’t get
out.’
‘Never fear, friend. The Crystal Court is here now, and we’ll always come
to the rescue.’ The purple said, nuzzling the white cheek of their
half-hatched friend.
‘I don’t know how much more rescuing I will need.’
He said, his voice stronger now.
‘Well, maybe not you, but surely others will need
our help.’ The green said, and stood by while the white-faced
hatchling clambered up and out of his shell and revealed himself to be
purely white, with scales like his dam and a thick Geperna-type crest.
The Crystal Court dragons stood back as the white stretched open
his wings, showing off the pristine sails and the snowflake markings,
and then proceeded to find his bond.
With the theatrics of the white’s hatching and bonding complete, eyes
turned back to his rescuers, the purple and green, who now rested. They
were a perfect match physically, Old World in build like their
predecessors, but without crest or tail spade or any other frills, save
for two tiny horns currently the size of chocolate chips. Their hides were
solid in hue, but had a soft pearlescent quality once they dried. Not
metallic, but not wholly ‘chromatic’ either.
‘Are you ready to bond, sister?’ The green
asked.
‘Not yet. I know where mine is, but I will wait in
case someone else needs assistance hatching.’ The purple replied.
‘Go ahead if you’re ready.’
The green rose to her feet and trotted gracefully to the candidates,
stopping in front of one of the most recently arrived novos - a healer,
though perhaps a more scholarly one .
‘Ryokuou, I am Aslorzinth, and I thank you for your
patience. Together we will save many.’
Ryokuou stared for a moment at what seemed to be a plain dragon, no
markings, one solid colour. Yes, she had the Flurry Flakes on her wings
like every other hatchling, but beyond that she was unremarkable? He
hadn’t come here with any reason to suspect they’d be leaving with a Vella
Crean Court dragon… but now that he had one, he couldn’t think of any
other dragon he’d rather have.
STATS
Name: Aslorzinth
Colour: Green
Gender: Female
Species:
Parents:
Origin: Ryslen Flurry
2021-2023
Size: 8 feet at the shoulder
Personality: Always ready to help, Firm and Dependable.
Description: The Crystal Court dragons share the body type of their
original Ryslen heritage, long limbs and large paws. Unlike Ryslen
dragons, they have iridescent spiral horns instead of headknobs or a
crest. They have no other spikes or spines like some of the other Court
dragons. Their hides have a soft pearlescent sheen regardless of rank
rather than being matte or metallic. Their crystal horns can chip and
break. Any pieces broken off will melt away as if they were ice. Broken
horns can be set back together if one acts quickly and can be fused if the
dragon has any healing power available.
Abilities:
SPEECH
Telepathic Speech: The ability to speak
mind-to-mind with another receptive being.
Verbal Speech: The ability to speak aloud.
They may only know a handful of words in any given language, but they
automatically understand them due to being telepathic.
PSIONICS
Enhanced Empathy: The ability to sense
emotions in others and share feelings with another. The enhanced version
allows the wielder to temporarily impact the emotions of another – to calm
a panicked person, for example.
Foresight: Has a sense of the possible future
which allows them to teleport into dangerous situations without
immediately being in physical danger.
Danger Sense: The ability to know when danger
is coming and which direction it is coming from. It does not stop the
danger, only alerts the dragon to incoming peril.
Enhanced Teleportation (self): The ability to
go “between” places to a place they have personally been, a place they
receive clear coordinates to, or are in contact telepathically with
another being in that location.
HEALING
Limited Healing Powers: The healing powers of
a Crystal Court dragon manifest as a ball of light between their horns.
When the light is reduced to nothing, their ability to heal is exhausted
until they have had time to recuperate. Recovery to full power can take as
little as a week if the power is not fully exhausted but may take months
if it is overused. These powers are usually held for emergencies due to
their limitations.
Self Healing: A Crystal Court dragon can heal
their own wounds no matter how egregious. They can regenerate their own
lost limbs and repair their horns if cracked or broken off. However, if
they use all of their healing energy on another while injured, they will
have to heal naturally. It is dangerous for them to become gravely injured
during the recovery period on their healing powers.
Manifestation of Power: Ball of Light (dims
and reduces in size as used, glow on area being healed (if external), no
visual connection between the ball and the site)
MAGIC
Elemental Power - Ice (moderate): – local
temperature control, and freezing liquid (including living things, but
they will not be harmed unless they break, they'll thaw to be normal
again), create ice/snow
Elemental Power - Light (minor): can create
and direct small floating balls of light.
NOTES
Bond: Required
Bond Exclusion: Cannot bond to other Court Dragons. This is believed to be
due to their neutral status amongst the courts. Having a Court dragon as
their bond would necessarily bias the Crystal Court towards their bond’s
court.
ADULTHOOD
Returning to Khleur had been easy. Aslorzinth had no
problem finding her way to his home when she saw it so clear in his mind.
Though Ryokuou and Aslorzinth had trained in the basics most fledgeling
pairs needed to master, like flight and self-care, they had also spent a
lot of time practicing their healing. Ryokuou had been surprised to find
that Aslorzinth healed in a similar way to him, using an orb of light -
though hers was less tangible - to direct her magic to those places that
needed healing. Ryokuou was more adept at storing energy away, which
proved to be quite an advantage when they were needed to heal multiple
people. But Aslorzinth always made certain that Ryokuou did not take too
much of his own energy. Likewise, Ryokuou made certain to keep an eye on
Aslorzinth's orb of healing power.
In times when they needed to recharge, they would study. A passtime that
Ryokuou still felt was the most enjoyable.
"Only studying comes at a disadvantage for your own
health too." Aslorzinth chided.
"So you've told me many times before." Ryokuou replied good-natured.
They had come to talk openly and frankly with eachother, there was no need
to hold back when they knew eachother so completely.
"I feel it might be time to get some exercise."
"I'm not stopping you."
"I'm taking you with me. You've been sitting for far
too long!"