Name: Shukuzu "remnant lord"
Gender: Male
Age: born on old world**, 5th born

Fur: White, very very white
Marking color: brilliant blood-red
Ears: tall, long, slender
Face markings: 'eyebrows'
Hair marking: entire forelock / over forehead dark blood-red
Eyes: green
Clothing: as shown, is surprisingly stylish and usually has big black boots and gloves with trendy spikes, otherwise in red and white with gold trim
Height: 5'9", plus about 10" ears

Species: Half Gelgelan, Half Human Necromancer
Genetic History: as above
Family: Mother Queen Sean, father King Sapadt, royal prince

Born in Gelgelan main castle ** NOTE that this story will retrofit him to bond while on their original world, and will be bonded before they move to Dragondeep

Personality: perhaps more sure of himself than he ought to be, but Shukuzu is certainly lordly as his name implies. That he's the 'king of discarded corpses' well doesn't that kind of describe everyone in his line that does necromancy?

Dollmaker: Gen8Hedgehog / Doll Divine

Magic:
Extremely strong Summoning, able to bring virtually any entity to his side with concentration. This he does with care, because summoning the wrong thing on their new Dragondeep home might be very dangerous

Extremely strong Necromancy, Shuzuku is actually able to revive and heal things back to life, but prefers to leave things narrowly on the side of deadness so he can control them more easily. Can bring anything from skeletal fragments together into a shape, uses tendons and muscles like a puppet master, and can control up to 2 dozen full sized bipeds at ranges up to 2 miles as long as he has line of sight on them

Dead Vision, wherever things have died, he knows how and when. Also this allows him to see through his dead troops, though it does not extend his range for them

Dragon Affinity, most dragons will consider his presence to be at least peaceful, if not beneficial, and they tend to listen to him if he asks them to do things for him

Favored Weaponry:
Shukuzu is unlikely to pick up a mace or even a sword, but he truly loves using those spikes on his gloves and boots to their best impact, literally. He is a brawler, even if he looks too skinny or delicate he will definitely engage a larger opponent with a terrifying grin

 

Sent to a place that seemed like it had familiar people as well as dragons, Darkling Dawn's sands were rather bustling with life. Of course that meant that Shukuzu's strongest abilities were ... probably not going to be of much use or fun here. But he wasn't here for 'fun' - though the thought of joining his family in becoming a dragon rider was definitely high on his mind.

They had always been this way as far as he knew. His older siblings and now several younger ones all seemed to be able to atrract the attention of dragons. Maybe one, maybe more - showoffs.

He didn't really want to 'show off' but there were patrols to do, battlefield remnants to clear up, dead to move. His ideas included somewhat morbid things: if you need those beloved dead somewhere less flood-prone, let's just get them to stand and walk to their new digs.

Get it? Digs? Because -- yeah didn't think so...

**

The place was bustling, even when they were all called to the sands. Though most of the people here were humans, there were a fair few others, and also enough dragons waiting nearby that it was clear they were also here for this hatching in the hopes of someone coming to them. Everyone needed companionship, at some point in their lives, right?

Shukuzu was used to that companionship being hand-made and magically-revived, but what of that.

Well over half the clutch had hatched by the time a larger one broke up around a Twilight-colored hatchling. Dark as the evening sky, but with color to match the sunset's last remnants. She shook free from the egg shells and goop, flicking sand off her still wet paws, but then proceded to march herself in a happy trot around the sands to check out those left there. Would she have gone up into the stands?

No need - she sat in front of Shukuzu. Looking happily up at him, very sure, she gave a creel that was very pretty and soft, and added with her keen mind, I am your Llica, Shukzu, and you are mine.

Proudly and quite filled with her hungry desires and exhaustion, Shukuzu picked the hatchling up bodily - and it was a bit of a chore, she was on the larger side of this clutch - to parade her around a little bit. He noticed that some of his family members had made it to the stands after all, but there was no way he could hold a full-ass hatchling out to display her, they'd both wind up on the sand again.

That was her doing, that thought; but though she seemed like perhaps a more pessimistic little one than normal, she would positively love being around this necromancer for the rest of their lives.

**

"What is that?" Llica asked, sniffing the air. "It's too long dead, no no no. It's gone off."

"It's called practice, not lunch, Llica." Shukuzu muttered while bringing in an admittedly-rank pile of remains. "But it's practice for both of us, like I promised."

I thought you might have forgotten I wanted to do this, she bespoke with that everpresent gloomy outlook. But she was happy that she did get to work with him, even on these exotic dead-raising projects.

Dragon: Llica
Gender: Female, clutcher
Size: medium (brown Pernese sized) 11'5" s / 50' l / 90' ws
Colors: Twilight, body black with indigo blue darkest at chest, grading to royal blue, with tail violet; wingsails muted grey-blue and greyish violet; neck ridge similar, and tail spade black; claws and horns white, eyes turquoise
Features: Darkling Dawn 'mutt' with obvious Ryslen, Lantessama, and other features as shown
Powers: Winged Flight - able and willing to soar for hours upon hours, Llica enjoys flying in half-dark and moonlit nights, feeling that the broad daylight sun is too hot for her to really get going. She takes to the cool breezes and even stiff winds of the mountains, almost acting as though the hot updrafts of the fields and beaches may have the opposite effect. She's a good sized dragon and can stand having half of Shukuzu's siblings on her back, and will carefully transport whatever or whoever is needed without complaint... verbal complaint that is
Teleportation - while she's good enough to move from one location within sight to another, for some reason she doesn't care for it. Shukuzu thinks it's because there are actual ghostly dead spirits there, some of whom are not happy, and her worry is that they'll 'haunt her' if she remains too long between. She can move up to 80 miles if she's high enough to see that far, but won't go blindly anywhere. She can genrehop but wants to be guided by a more experienced dragon where they are going, concerned that she'll just get lost amid the dimensions and that would be even worse than stuck between
Telepathy, Verbal Speech - Llica prefers speaking out loud, and her voice is rich like the royal blue on her hide. She has a vocabulary peppered with the technical and medical terms that her rider uses, magic spells and all, though she cannot actually 'cast' a spell even if she knows the words. Her mental voice is smooth and velvety, though often with a tint of 'what can go wrong will go wrong' lurking in the mood behind it
Unassisted Firebreath - she's a good sized dragon with a good sized naturally-produced flame, and she's used this to help her rider with new projects. Meaning, she'll crisp fry the bad results and they can start fresh. Well, fresh-er than that icky rotted stuff please!
Healing Power - somewhere way back in her lineage is a skill with inherent mastery over the flesh, and she is able to concentrate on both draconic and humanoid healing. She enhances the normal healing process and cannot truly heal deep gut wounds or injuries to the brain, but she is definitely able to remove or destroy parasites and viruses, bacteria, and the like. This is a skill that Shukuzu can definitely exploit, but won't do it too often, so she finds herself wanting to practice on the Royal Guard's dragons since they see more combat activity...
Parents: White Rainbow Ryslenese Esraphyr [rainbow white Gzrieth flurry (white rainbow Sadikith (pg) / silver blue Selnyan {black fire glenn Neres Storm [Utopia/Atlantis] / teal black Jishinth [Dulath/Vaoth]}) / sunset brown Liojuth (duo green flurry Ainchisth {white Seryth / white brown Kukoricath} / sunset brown flurry Ambroseth {ltgrn Tesimith /cream-bronze Sampath})] *many farther lines Talor + HD + Ryslen
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Midnight-Moon Lantessama/Pern/Avyndal Caleve [sunset purple Ialee (purple sunset Evelia {California/Teuroi} / brown Arajaxth {green-gold Dwyth**/copper danach Xcenisorath)} / moonlight Birayen (spectral sunset Arayath {white green flurry Kyrenath/bronze Ithtyruith} / sunset spectral Naryen {Kyrenath/Aseth})] **pern/glenn
Origin: Darkling Dawn clutch 42

Other Info: from hatching - One of the larger eggs shuddered and fell apart, revealing a beautiful purple-indigo-black hatchling called a twilight. The female hatchling shook herself off and trotted over to the candidates, moving quickly from one to another, already sure what she was looking for. Sure enough, she stopped in her tracks as soon as she saw Shukuzu , and crooned. I am your Llica , Shukuzu, and you are mine.