Lennerd

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STATS
Name: Lennerd
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Race: Human (might have some other heritage)
Class: Sailor, Explorer

Description: Lennerd is a short, slender man with black hair and purple eyes. His nose and mouth seem to be too big for his face but they give him a somewhat charming look. 
Personality: Lennerd usually lives with his mind in the clouds. He is focused on exploring and is always thinking of going to new horizons, seeing new places. 
Skills: Navigating, Sailing
Enjoys: The thrill of landing someplace new
Dislikes: The absence of wind

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MEETING
Lennerd leaned out of the little boat on wheels and looked across the rocky desert. His sails hung limp and there was not a sign of life about. The explorer had sailed the oceans and had felt ready for a new experience. Someone had told him about crossing the deserts by windboat and somehow Lennerd had been convinced it would be a breeze. Maybe it would have been if said breeze had been present. 
The sailor got out of the boat and started pushing it toward the shelter of some large rocks. Shade was a necessity, he still had quite a bit of water and food in stock but this delay could not drag on too long of he'd be in serious trouble. There were supposed to be regular villages and trade posts, erected around water sources, but he had yet to come across one. 
Dragging out his map, sextant and numerous other navigational equipment Lennerd set out to determine his position and to start determining a course for when the wind picked up. 
Day faded into evening and Lennerd looked up as the glorious sunset coloured the sky orange, pink and purple. Almost as if answering his wish, a breeze picked up, tangling his hair.
"Please be here in the morning still." Lennerd prayed because trying to travel at night would be too dangerous. 
"Is that an invitation to spend the night together?" a silent reply came. 
Lennerd looked up and took a few moments to realise that some of the sunset didn't quite match. A purple dragon with orange spots and feathers detached from the sky and settled down next to the fireplace Lennerd would soon be lighting. The orange spots seemed to glow in the dusk and the dragon made themselves at home.
"I was praying to the wind, actually." Lennerd explained, "But you're certainly welcome to share my fire."
"Wonderful. I was getting a bit lonely, travelling by myself."
Lennerd and Idaea Muricata talked, introducing themselves and exchanging stories. They shared food and water and grew closer. 
"If it's wind you need then I can definitely supply it." Idaea finally said, feeling they might travel together longer. 
"You can manipulate wind?" Lennerd asked.
"I can do so much more, but that would be the trait you're most interested in, yes."
Lennerd grinned, "There's nothing more crucial to a sailor."

Idaea was hatched at the Refugium (Bug's Pedigree Challenge)

STATS
Name: Idaea Muricata
Colour: Salmon-Purple
Gender: Gender Fluid Hermaphrodite
Species: Air Dragon Whorling
Parents: Moth x Panaella
Description: A dark purple dragon with a multitude of salmon-coloured wings and 6 limbs. Idaea has salmon-coloured rosettes across their body. Lavender-coloured fur line their spine, forming a more abundant mane on their head and tailtip. 
Size: Small but long (4' - 5.6" at the shoulder and anywhere from 5x to 10x times as long as they are tall)
Personality: Preoccupied, genial, docile. 
Abilities: 
     *Bioluminescence
     *Night Vision
     *Size Manipulation 
     *Telepathy 
     *Telempathy 
     *Wind Magic

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FLIGHT
A couple of years later and on another adventure, Idaea suddenly picked up a peculiar feeling from their companion. A yearning for offspring that Lennerd had never previously disclosed. The feeling had come when they'd met some local children. One of them had resembled Lennerd so Idaea presumed that was the cause of the feeling.
"Would you like to mother a youngling?" Idaea asked.
Lennerd laughed out loud, "I wouldn't be able to. Maybe I have fathered a child in the past but I wouldn't know."
"How odd that you cannot decide which you want to be." Idaea remarked.
"So you can mother and father?" Lennerd asked. 
The explorer had never stopped to ask about Idaea's reproductive organs. He'd just assumed Idaea was male and had not inquired further. 
"How does that work? And how can you be certain that you father a child?"
"When you charm another and breed them, you father children. When you charm another and they breed you then you mother a clutch. It's not that hard." Idaea said plainly.
"Humans don't always conceive." Lennerd explained.
"Ah, I should have guessed, there is already plenty of you around but there could be more if it went like dragons."
"I don't even want to imagine that." Lennerd shook his head.
"How about I show you our way? I've heard it can be pleasant for our companions too."
"Why not?" Lennerd answered, it was after all another adventure. 

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Lantessama Isle
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