Name: Paxton Fettel, Xkah-shuu'Vahh, the "Important Descendant of the Mystery", child of he-who-is-unnamed, "Inheritor of the Mystery"
Gender: Male, Straight
Age/DOB: 28ish / 8.2.96
Origin: Repurposed Earth, AAEC, Fairport Alabama
Family: Mother Alma Wade, Father Wilson Carver, minor splicing from David Hoyle, 3 other donor parents, (1 of those also shared with Geoff); is the 'inheritor of the Mystery', Keenan Lane's power resides in him; Geoff brother, Lynne sister, some other shared donor-based 'siblings' and relatives among the Pantheon; daughter Darr'lih keh-Vahh with Melissa, others with Melissa; Arachnae and Theseus with Tina; Athena with Mars (spliced); Patience with Jill
Other: since he's the leader of the Pantheon, he's kind of visible...
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 180, broad torso and shoulders, evenly muscled and quite a lot stronger than he actually looks, and that's saying something, notably his weight is hardly altered by the Icarus treatments, though he is much stronger than typical for his weight and build
Hair: very dark brown, but not black particularly in sunlight, kept short and swept back with prominent widows peak, is a little longer than full military cut, but has rarely if ever been below his ears
Eyes: vary, but generally a pale steel blue shade with a medium blue rim, judgemental and almost always peering into Vortal spaces, also can see out of literally anyone else's eyes; tend to pick up the color and lighting of the surroundings, not 'reflective' but visibly appearing to emulate the light and particularly any fires are apt to make his eyes look a copper-red shade
Appearance: Caucasian, medium to light skin with plentiful moles, a specific scar over his lip incurred by a childhood injury, and numerous other scars and blemishes from daily life; he has heavy stubble, but does not wear facial hair; Strongly muscular and broad bodied, not as lean and tall as his brother Geoff. Has an extraordinarily deep and gravelly voice that tends to send young women into swooning, and anyone else onto high alert. Paxton is an exceptionally intelligent man whose vocabulary and extensive literary knowledge has expanded his overall demeanor, he's very dramatic at times and his body language shows it. He prefers to wear sharply cut military outfits when formal, but also has a set of well-worn motorcycle leathers with creamy-green canvas pants, a red and black leather jacket with gold trim, and massive leather boots. At all times, he has his sidearm, a .50 weapon that even his brother admits is a bit over the top.
Quite frequently as an adult, he has, as shown in the images, a burning, red-black aura reflective of his ability with fire. His teleportation also is quite distinct (see below).
Icarus Processing: Yes, at age 4, the process increased his basic physical strength and durability, as well as speed of motion. He is roughly twice as strong and fast as a normal person. However, the process was far more successful regarding his Vortal abilities. Of note, Paxton and Geoffery are the only first-generation Origin subjects to have an Icarus-treated parent, Wilson Carver.
Image Credits: DollDivine Harry Potter / tektek / City of Heroes/Icon
Empathic Link - Paxton has always shared a uniquely strong bond with his brother Geoff, which comes as a completely naturally occurring effect of their genes. However, he can also sense strongly those around him, though he rarely uses their emotional input to make decisions. He prefers to imprint emotions on them, and does so shamelessly. He has a strong bond with Melissa as well, in the form of the Sanctuary that he's been allowed to create in her own Vortal mind.
Telepathy - he is highly tuned to Vortal thoughts, and can easily speak into most of the Pantheon's minds directly. He tends not to force this on people who aren't aware of his abilities, and uses it when silence is needed.
Pyrokinetics - Pax's ability to burn and cause heat damage developed in his early teen years, something that clearly distinguishes him from his brother, and was directly inherited from Alma. He mostly uses it for effect, visually as above, he tends to flash with fire as an aura now and then, but also he can just use it to burn holes in things that otherwise would be in his way. He takes things apart at a highly accelerated speed - molecularly, like Lane does, only he enjoys it far more than the elder.
Teleportation - A skill only learned after he fully accepted his Inheritance, being the Mystery's heir and living up to his Vortal name, Paxton can move mostly short distances (under 10km) carrying himself and one other at most. With practice he has been able to move far greater distances, but it is exhausting, and he mainly does it in close quarters combat or for effect. His teleport visually appears to be a fluttering of ashes and flames, both delicate and dangerous looking. While he pretends to be able to teleport to distant locations, he is actually cheating and uses exactly the same kind of 'Xen relay' as the physical machinery at Black Mesa does - he goes to Xen first, and then to another spot. This would wear him out, but after quite a bit of practice he can reach several distinct locations quickly and easily. Those locations can be up to 2000 miles distant.
Interdimensional Teleportation - in addition to moving in one dimension, Paxton has mastered moving between Vortal realms, and into different worlds entirely. This was not originally something he could control, when he was attacked by Alma - signalling the Synchronicity Event at the Enrichment Center - his mind fled his body, leaving it entirely uninhabited but alive, for nearly a week. He went to Xen, where he was named by Noah the Vort, and sent back to his body by him as well. This was an instinct for him, since Xen belongs to his ancestor, and is 'part of him'.
Vortal Space Creation - Melissa hosts a unique locale that Paxton has carved out of her living lih, regneration has its weird side effects. A location called the Sanctuary, Paxton stores everything he's ever read or watched - that he deems of use or interest anyway - in a large underground styled library, under a park-like location featuring a gazebo and fanciful treeline. Where Wilson's constructs are generally artistic and pleasant, and Lane's are sterile and somewhat lacking in detail, Paxton's is actually alive, given where it is.
Memory Ingestion - though it's entirely distasteful for him to do so, 'learned' from Alma as it was, Pax can physically consume human flesh and read the Vortal imprint of the person's life. When he awoke from his week long coma during the Synchronicity, he found three already-dead scientists and began eating them due to madness and hunger. He has only consumed one or two others in the long while he's been alive, and Melissa is one of them - she regenerates, and had 'secrets only he could see' with it. He knows very well that in other dimensions where they all exist in doppelganger form (or they think 'we' are, he says) that this becomes a mainstay of his ability set. He is determined in this world not to go that direction.
As a child, Paxton was charismatic - even 'cute' at times - but also incredibly intelligent and canny. On trips to Armacham centers nearby, he wound up either reading a variety of hardly-age-appropriate books, or even going so far as to borrow a large Shakespeare collection. Reading them, he also tucked those pieces away into his Sanctuary for future reference. As his father Wilson commented on more than one occasion, "he uses everything available to him," while he sometimes does use people as tools, he more often has a goal in mind that everyone, even that 'tool' he's jumped into or jostled aside, can appreciate.
Alma had it in mind to use him to escape the Vault - not that she wasn't able to just up and leave, she did that constantly. But to use him in general, because she could. Though Geoff was almost invisible and completely impermeable to her will, Paxton's mind not so much: she reached into his mind on a daily basis for years, torturing him, giving him nightmarish suggestions to eat his peers or the scientists for their 'juicy' secrets... And he did his best to ignore these taunts. But as a child, he was not experienced nor powerful enough to resist her, and when he was a child, she triggered a response in him that he murdered at least one nearby scientist with his bare - tiny - hands, and would have gone for more if he hadn't been tranquilized. Geoff had allowed him to burrow into his own mind for safety, retreating into the mind that she couldn't get to. But after that point, Paxton's mind was already burning, and to spare himself the pain and eventual disaster, Geoff gently slid him away. Paxton moved house into Melissa's mind, where he's resided in a tiny portion ever since. Her own mind is not completely impermeable, but it is able to regenerate and resist most of Alma's worst thrusts. Over time, his Sanctuary grew into an amazing and very physical location. When the second Synchronicity happened, it was as the Borealis facility was moved back from Keenan's Vortal space - slamming into the grounds near the Enrichment Center, and causing Alma to destroy it entirely, and in her anger and confusion, she lashed out at anyone with the Vortal presence to detect it. Paxton fled, to Xen, mentally. Others merely shut down and would continue to have horrible nightmares for years if not decades to come. As Paxton recovered from his out-of-body trip, the magnitude of the disasters became apparent - it wasn't just the Enrichment Center that had been affected, it was a thousand miles away at Black Mesa, as well... things went downhill.
Paxton and his brother picked up the leadership roles that they'd been known for as single-digit aged children, and into their teenage years led the students and even some few of the staff and ELLs that existed, until Armacham put their own people back into the mix. That didn't last, as the Cities outside started getting built, they just abandoned the Paragon students and facility, along with whoever would remain voluntarily... until the Combine came.
At that point, Paxton and Geoff absolutely rose to power. Rescuing wandering Outlanders, keeping the grounds around their facilities safe, and eventually finding where Paxton's Replicas were created and stored. That was a key point for the entire Pantheon, because he had a dwindling supply of them from the EC. His importance to Keenan and Wilson however had reached a turning point, so eventually he was forced to go back to Xen, this time in body and not just in spirit, to learn the ropes of being the Inheritor of the Mystery. He did not - and sometimes still does not - relish this, though he understood its importance and eventually does truly enjoy being able to do the amazing things that he does, now that he's accepted the role.
That was not his last act, though, and in some dimensions, Paxton does die - this is not that dimension... Pax became the 'lure' that brought Alma back from her multidimensional jaunt. As things on Earth were prepared, technologically and Vortally setting up a huge network for the Vorts, Keenan, any other spare Pantheon with the ability, and then finally Pax and Alma, Paxton had to go looking for his mother, his tormentor. When they did return, their energies, all of hers anyway, were focused on a sort of 'magnifying glass' via the Combine's Citadels and dark matter power plants. As a portal opened to their Overworld... Alma's energy, focused by Paxton, Keenan, and the Vorts, was aimed straight at the brain of Ulathoi.
They'd won, finally, as Keenan's kinfolk, the Convocation, arrived to see what the hell was going on here. And thankfully for him in this dimension, they allowed it. Paxton knows that he is at times, criminally insane. The effort of keeping Alma on that lure heading home to Earth was a tremendous strain, and in at least one outcome in another dimension, Geoff needed to put a bullet in his brother's skull to keep him from doing any more damage - to himself, or anyone else. Rex has shown him this, with a distressed Keenan (and Melissa, and Wilson, and Noah) looking on. But thankfully in this dimension, rather than allowing his madness to destroy him, Paxton has set himself to the task of rebuilding and protecting these other dimensions from the threats that he knows he can conquer.
Dragons: Paxton actually does have his own whole squad/wing to himself. He can in fact prod any bonded dragon to obey him, and those who aren't Vortally attached to their riders are the only ones able to even remotely fend this off if they don't want the intrusion. They reside at varying points in the Rookery's many locations, and are attended to by Replicas who then become the teleportation point for Pax when he needs to be with them directly.
Only one of these is fully independent and purely sponsored, rather than 'bonded' to him,
Name: Marquisth (mar KEEsth)
Gender: Male, very male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Large, 14' hip, Bipedal / 45'+ l / 70' ws
Colors: Strong, shiny blood red, with remarkably dark shiny black striped with more red on lower limbs, mask, tail tip, under tail, inner hips, around shoulders, and neck ridges; mottled crimson soot wingsails, silver horns, bright white claws, teeth; red tail tuft; eyes can change, but are usually shades of red
Features: Bipedal four legs with 4 massive claws on all, thumbs on forefeet; hide is thick, rubbery and suitable for taking a beating, does not cut easily and heals perfectly; wings have 3 fingers with claws, leather, only leading finger visible, wrist thumb with large claw; head has strong central ridging, fin extensions from 'mask' marking, two long upcurved horns; neck has Ryslenesque upturned fin ridge, tail tip has frayed but fleshy tuft
Powers: Winged Flight; Marquisth is a very strong flier, though he's a bit hip-heavy and truth be told his skin is rather ... slippery? (Paxton makes note of him 'squeaking' when he moves?) Able to soar for hours upon hours, diving when the time is right, with perfect landings. No one has ever seen him actually take off, and it's possible that he just teleports straight into the air.
Teleportation; as a sort-of Pernese mutation, Marquisth has always been able to teleport, and his time in the Void has made this considerably stronger. He doesn't even leave a 'pop' behind, he's there, he's not there. Literally anywhere.
Verbal and Telepathic Communication; though he does as stated below speak with a grim and hissing voice, he also can pick up stray thoughts, or invasively peer into any mind - Vortal ones might put up a fight, but he likes that. While he's empathic, he also doesn't stop if someone is hurting.
Healing, his hide is not completely impossible to cut or pierce, but it heals within hours. Nothing has ever gotten past it, into muscle or guts, no one knows how fast he might regrow a limb. Did this dragon have Icarus treatments?
Breath Weapon? He bites, he doesn't need to breathe fire or something. It's possible that he can do so.
Parentage: Black Red Taquinerth and Orange Marked Hessianth; Is part of the group producing the magnificent Voy'urr
Origin: Interdimensional Vanya Flight aka Naughty Clutch, Healing Den; siblings include Masterth and Mistresseth, Leatheretth, Vinylth, Dominith, Wipth, Ninetailth
Other Info: (from hatching) When this dragon broke his shell, everyone knew that he was one of the strongest and most determined hatchlings ever seen. With markings straight out of a fetish bar, looking as though he's got a mask and gloves is one thing. Knowing that he does, he uses that to his advantage. No one expects him to be serious - yet he is, about his 'play'. He is bloodthirsty and cruel, but also values being able to train up a partner into more hardcore things. He is small compared to his dam, but much bigger than his tiny sire, perhaps 45 feet long (his mother is huge after all), and bipedal. He speaks aloud, with a grim, hissing voice that can go so deep it's almost subsonic.
*** THIS IS AN AU VERSION, Marquisth is still up on Aitan's page
and is BUG's
Note that his 'profession' has changed during his time in the Void. He will still play with his food, or partners, but when Paxton asks him to show up to a fight he's absolutely the first one in and the last one out. Bloodthirsty is the least of the words to describe him in a battle.
Resides: Wherever the fuck he wants to. Often Xen, he seems to like it there.
Name: Plerusqueth (PLER oo skweth)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Large Brown-Pernese / 12' shoulder / 40' l / 72' ws
Colors: White-Brown, a light and faintly speckled main shade evenly distributed, lighter at head, slightly darker at tail tip and wingtips, much paler brown-tinted white wingsails, particularly underside, eyes shift on emotion
Features: Pernese four legged with two wings; thick hide needing to shed and be lubricated with oils; 4 foretoes, 3 hind with faint heel nubs on all feet, and 'thumbs' on forelimbs; 3-fingered leathery wings, wrist claw (no digit), claws on tips of fingers, visible fingers; small head-knobs, discrete mouth, very short soft crest on neck only, thin long tail
Powers: Telepathic Speech and Empathy primarily with bond, but also with all dragons, and most other Vortal or powered people; is adept at swiftly conveying information to Paxton and other dragons while they are all in flight
Winged Flight, with his strong wings, he's able to lift off from a standstill but prefers a sharp drop to sweep back upwards, can soar for decent periods, and is quicker in the air than many his size
Teleportation, can go between or via the Healing Den or Xen, his knowledge of offworld spots is extensive, and he frequently goes 'home' to the Den to visit old friends; Going between is not nearly as exhaustive when done on-world, but he can also time-it and move through different dimensions if and only if he knows the destination
Fire Breathing, formerly assisted with firestone or coal, Pleru can now spit a strong gout of flame which is hot enough to melt many metals and certainly crisp-fry any living thing in moments; this ability can only be used for short periods or with a few minutes between each breath, as his adapted fire glands must recharge between each breath
Search - Pleru is an adept search dragon, and keeps his eye out for other humans or beings that could be good for a dragon bond.
Parentage: HD Tiny Yellow-Gold Aerinhath (HD Green-Gold Dulath+HD White-Brown Jazibth) + HD Large Pale Bronze Medyatith (HD White Seryth+HD Red-Black Dhumduanath) Note that his TH name will inherit to offspring with the appropriate mate
Origin: Healing Den Abandoned, Flight Frenzy 3 (Talor Cliff's)
Other Info: With a name meaning 'multiple', how in the world could this big brown-sized dragon resist Paxton's commands? He is eager to rejoin fighting wings, and put his skills back to use.
Resides: Rookery
Name: Vih'den ahlXen - Spread Wings Of Xen
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Large 14' at hip joint bipedal / 62' long / 120' ws with massively long fingers (wings are about equivalent to two brown dragons)
Colors: Medium to light brown mottled on wings, dark along tail, with brilliant glowing aqua markings along head, neck, back, and tail; wingsails are night-sky indigo with aqua markings resembling stars and spots; all frills, spikes as well as eyes are aqua
Features: Wyvern with two long legs, and wing-arms, bipedal; extremely long whip tail, extremely large wings; scaled hide with heavy armor plating on all body and neck/head area, absent on all limbs; 3-toed talon feet with very long toes that can grasp around things, heel claw, 4-fingered leather wings with claw-bearing thumb on wrist, fingers visible both surfaces, wing connects from shoulder all the way to midway down tail; head and face have extensive armor frills on chin, jaw, between eyes, and along crest of neck - note that these also sport independently floating brownish 'orbs', external ears, nostrils, and small eyebrow-horns; heavy jaw; extended armor frills on tops of hind legs also have floating orbs; smaller curved spikes along lower back and upper tail
Powers: Interdimensional teleportation, can relocate between any known spots in memory, this power works best on Xen, but can like some use this as a shunt between Earth or other world-based locations to reduce wear and tear; this ability is not exhausting unless he's spent little time on Xen recently; This power can also be used as an attack versus anything smaller than himself, he can 'pop' something away by about 100 meters or less, which serves to disorient as well as delay its inevitable death...
Communication, talks using Vortal flux-shifting, seems to understand Vortigese but does not 'speak' so much as bellow; cannot speak verbally because his voice is 'too deep to be heard'
Winged Flight. Yes, those wings are absolutely made for flight, and he certainly uses them. He can glide for days, particularly in the lower gravity of Xen, but also for hours in gravity with warm air; wings need a lot of space for take-off, but no running, prefers to drop from a height to start flying, will knock things over and do damage when taking off from a standing start.
Parentage: Unknown, in fact it's not even known that there were such things on Xen, but there he is, and he was one of several, so... (update: yes, that's his mother that hangs out with Noah...) Also among those chosen for Voy'urr's genetics
Origin: adopted from missnightstalker at deviantart, using lines by lordpuffballadopts
Other Info: It's unknown whether the Vorts named him specifically, or if he just took the title, even if he did they're not going to contest it. Who'd be stupid enough to fight him for it?
Resides: Xen, Rookery
Name: Brightburn
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Huge, 17' shoulder, semi-bipedal (bottom heavy) / 85' l / 55' ws*
Colors: Brilliant red scales on most of body, limbs, tail, and backs of wings, some small spot markings of purple and vibrant magenta; belly armor is paler washed-out red; under wings magenta with slightly darker pinkish shadow; head and neck crest, and ear webbing purple, eyebrows magenta; eyes navy blue with indigo pupils
Features: Equestrian Dragon, four legs and two wings, legs have 3 fingers and thumb forepaws, and 2-toed hind feet with retractable brilliant white claws on all, he remains seated on hind end and uses forelimbs quite well as hands, walking on hind feet (ungainly, but there he is); *two 3-fingered internal leathery wings that are quite strong but visibly much too tiny to actually lift a dragon this size, it's assumed that somehow his internal heat or possibly Vortal/Magical energies assist in any flight; body is heavily scaled with large softer plates along entire underbelly from chin to base of tail; tail is long and slender, whiplike, and has no fins or other adornment; head is long with a sharp beak-like lip, prominent sharp teeth, heavy scaled eyebrow ridges, external ears with webbing, and a tall, distinctly separated 5-tined neck crest with the first being on head and mobile with mood; breed lays eggs, eats gemstones (though is quite capable of consuming virtually any carbon-based matter); and goes through molts over the course of a lifetime. Young are born with tiny, flightless wings and must molt into them with proper nutrients and conditions.
Powers: *Winged / Magical Flight, Brightburn's wings are clearly too small in terms of span and surface area, to actually support an 85 foot long dragon's weight. However, he is aptly named, and the fact is that once he's in the air, it's hard to stop him from cruising around on his own updrafts. He can soar in warm weather for hours, but in colder or wet conditions must rest or fly shorter distances at a time to conserve whatever magical energies keep him aloft.
Verbal Communication, as all Equestrian dragons are able, he speaks English (or whatever passes for it there) with a hissing, growling, and occasionally booming voice. While he's not one to sit down and read a users manual or complicated science book, he actually enjoys reading and reciting poetry - the hipster kind - and has discovered that Paxton is very similar: this is the only reason he's even here, tolerating these smaller dragons (and his middle-of-the-flock status among them) because he knows that even the baddest-ass of badasses need a little intellectual and philosophical down time...
Heat, Flame, and Fire Production, as dragons go, Brightburn lives up to his name tremendously well. His coloration is that of glowing metal before being forged into weapons, he does actually glow when 'firing up his gut'. When aloft, he glows with a more broadly internal line, perhaps following his spine, and when gathering flames to breathe his entire gut is almost too bright to look at. His fire can melt solid stone, and is accurate to over 300 meters, though after a blast that long he does have to recharge and cannot do it at that intensity while flying. His overall heat is quite high, too, so he is usually found where easily burnable items cannot be damaged. Since he does enjoy poetry reading, he's learned to 'power down' and become more or less 'warm to the touch' rather than outright burning, so he can hold or view books without exploding them.
Parentage: Unknown, though he does know that a female Equestrian dragoness is also among the Rookery flocks.
Origin: Adopted from Keroshima on Deviantart, artwork originally from MLP:FIM cartoon/Hasbro
Other Info: It's easy to not take Brightburn seriously if seen from a distance. And then he covers that distance and you realize just exactly how freaking large he is. It's a very good thing that he can consume rock and metal - because if he had to eat meat like the other dragons, there would be absolutely nothing left for miles.
Resides: Rookery
Name: Khazparu (KHAZ pah roo)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small Bipedal Drak 7'6 hip / 30' l / 50' ws x2
Colors: twilight base, violet-red face, red-violet forelimbs, blending down to golden orange and yellow-orange hind limbs and tail; all speckled with clumped/striped metallic gold; mane is black-graphite speckled with grey, tail tuft is grey with black speckling; wingsails are medium grey and black; horns ivory; eyes change, but are usually violet.
Features: Icarian / Mindspace Twilight Ore mutation, Drak, four legs with 5 and 4 digits, thumb on forepaws; four leather wings with three visible fingers and a very long-clawed wrist thumb, claws on all digits; pointed, slightly ridged muzzle, external ears, two straight, spiraled, sweptback horns, moptop mane from forehead to shoulder joints; tail tuft; Offspring will inherit male -**ru, female -ru** naming pattern
Powers: Winged Flight, like nobody's business this Drak can fly. Though he looks playful, he is absolutely a springing predator, and loves to hide in tall savannah grasses or even dusty ruins, waiting for something to just explode onto. With four wings he can maneuver very well in tight spaces, and attain his top speed remarkably quickly after taking to the air. He requires very little to no takeoff or landing space and can go vertically up and down, hover, and do many speedy moves.
Teleportation, "Portaling", as Draks are able to do short or medium range teleportation, Khaz can move between spaces from a few miles to several hundred, if and only if he knows where he's going - and that's never a problem with Paxton and his Replicas around. If given a glimpse, he'll land directly next to a Replica standing guard, and often enough will allow that Replica to ride him, it's Paxton after all.
Verbal Speech, Mental Communication, though Draks aren't known for much more than an empathic bond to their Knight, this one has a strong Vortal sense and can pick up meanings even if he doesn't understand the words he's hearing. He can speak a drak-lisping English, and his full voice given to Drakonic. His mental bond to Paxton is strong, and he is not jealous in the slightest about the other bonds around him, he's protective and likes knowing if he's needed, pinging the other dragons if Paxton isn't contacting him directly. He does however have a strong communication web among the dragons, not just Paxton's group.
Acid Spit, as all Draks can do, Khaz can lob a spitwad of highly caustic acid that clings to surfaces and burns very quickly. While his spit isn't nearly as deadly as some, it can, if left unattended, burn through Combine metals... Including those locks on the Citadel doors...
Parentage: Midnight-Twilight Xadarpa + Mutant Ore Issurru, Icarian Draks (Dun Keiba) -- Will hook up with Lapiz's Iglatyna making amazing colorful 'draks' ****
Origin: randomly bred, bored...
Other Info: Having come along with several of the unrelated Drak population, via whatever weird portals from Icarus, Khaz is enjoying his stay with the Rookery, and thinks that the desert is just exactly as awesome as anywhere else he's been. He's more upbeat than he ought to be, but also he's quite vain, and enjoys the attention that he gets whenever Marquisth isn't around. He is after all quite stunning.
Resides: Rookery
Name: Sehkohruh; Blood on the Ice, or Blood Blizzard (seh KOH roo)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium, 12' shoulder / 50' l / 90' ws
Colors: Cloudy medium blue with darker and lighter mottling, sky pale blue on neck, body and under tail armor, half of tail down to tip is crimson-bloody red, including all spikes and wing claws, hind claws, and horn tips, foreclaws and base of neck spines are icy white; wingsails are clouded mix of blood crimson, faded red-violet, and cloud grey-white; eyes are yellow
Features: Sky-Ice Wing, four legs with strong curved claws 5 and 4 with high heel claw on hind; massive leather wings with four visible fingers, an elbow strut, and wrist thumb, all bearing very large claws; skin is scaled with thick even armor on neck, chest, belly, and down under tail, plated armor on spine from neck to tail tip and over fronts of limbs, other hide is tiny scales too small to see; head has one small nose horn, jaw nubs, and two slightly spiraled backswept horns, external ears, and a patch of long, sharp spikes at the back of head and top of neck; evenly spaced very sharp spikes on neck and upper body, and a set of short sharp spikes on tail tip
Powers: Winged Flight, as one of the larger hybrids of Pyrrhan dragons, Blizzard is certainly the mistress of the skies, particularly when they're overcast or in bad weather. Her huge, strong wings can carry her securely through virtually any amount of wind or storm, though she tends to avoid lightning storms and tornadoes or hurricanes, preferring to habit the northerly realms for her ice and snow storms. Because she has remarkably sharp spines on her back, it's difficult at best to ride her, but she has allowed Paxton and rescued Scavengers (she still calls Humans that, it's not even by habit, she prefers to call them what they are...) to hold on to the spines as they fly. She is not adverse to having gear put around them, either, having gone so far as to suggest they drill holes and put clips into the spines themselves, to make it much easier for these little creatures to hang on. Even if she calls them something slightly derrogatory, she still wants them to live and thrive!
Verbal Speech, she's picky about who she speaks to, and usually speaks Draconic particuarly around any given Human who might understand other languages she can speak. She understands far more English than she lets on, if she were Human she'd be a too-eloquent gangster, prefering to keep her big words for rap battles...
Ice Piercing Breath, though most Skywings breathe fire, Blizzard definitely takes ice breath to its limits, able to shoot out basically chunks of super-cooled ice at such speeds that they can penetrate thick metal and armor. When she gets a good deep breath behind it, and from above with room to form it right, she can produce a 3-meter long javelin of ice so powerful that it will pin armored vehicles into the ground, or destroy a Strider in one carefully managed shot. She is accurate from around 20 meters to 100 meters with this power, though when raining down smaller bits, she can hit things from 200 or more meters up and lets gravity do the hard work.
Ice Shredding, Tolerance, because she's half Icewing and her Skywing parentage allows for it as well, she has a remarkable ability to simply never get cold, though she has been known to overheat in very warm weather. She can also tolerate low-oxygen and high-altitude weather patterns. But her claws and spikes are ideal for gripping into any surface that might be slick or deep, and has no trouble at all scaling ice walls, crevasses, or Citadels just by starting to climb.
Parentage: Unknown, though the Pyrrhan contingent is quite strong, it's unclear whether she has direct relatives. Her Skywing parent is clearly the one responsible for Ziva's bond Pneumo
Origin: Adopted from Moonshimmer981 on Deviantart
Other Info: As fierce as any male, and quite a bit bigger than some, Blizzard enjoys her time with Paxton, the little hoodlum, because he can help her practice blasting ice holes in things with his fire trying to melt it away... She loves the challenges that living here has brought, and much prefers fighting an enemy like the Combine, than other dragons, which she feels is just wrong.
Resides: Borealis
Name: Amineth (AM in eth)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small 7' shoulder / 31' long / 30' ws
Colors: Opal Blue - light and shining blue with opalescent white wingsails and crest
Features: Pernese-based, four legs and two wings, long tail; thick rubbery hide which needs to shed and will dry out due to his aquatic nature; feet have 4 toes and strong webbing between each, suitable for swimming and awkward on land, forelimbs have fins along shoulder; wings are short and scoop-shaped with a single long 'finger' at leading edge, leather wingsail that is extremely thick; very long crest-bone (rather than head knobs) with a long thick sail along neck, back, and most of tail - soft, but helps for movement; has nostrils that can close tightly allowing him to dive and remain under water for hours at a time; color-shifting eyes based on emotion
Powers: Water 'breathing', is remarkably bouyant, and it seems that his "flame stomach" fills with gasses to keep him afloat! Thus, he cannot use firestone to flame, but he can actually fill up and use this on land to belch an awful smelling and slightly-caustic blob of snot on things, pinning and miring them for a time, it is more sticky but as it dries it becomes slicker (and also a hazard in that regard). He is much more used to actually-fresh water, but he can for short periods of time immerse within almost any liquid. The toxicity of it will eventually damage his hide and he must be completely cleaned off or else he will scar or incur damage. He can open his eyes in toxic water, but prefers not to damage his flight-lids.
Wings can glide for short distances, but he will be better off trying for sea-faring prey. In the water, he is extremely fast and quite nimble, but small fish will elude him with ease, so he goes after larger things... and more dangerous ones
Teleportation, can go between, and if he does this while under water, the water around him in an immediate area will come with, dropping it has proven interesting to put out fires... Yes, Paxton believes this is an absolutely valid use of a dragon, he's thinking with portals after all...
Senses, seems able to orient on objects by echolocation in deep water or darkness, and anyone with sensitive hearing can detect his ping sounds, he can also focus a much deeper frequency for stunning prey under water (only)
Parentage: Tiny Aquatic Gold Mijath (HD original) + Large Orange-Rust Moeomth (HD Stunt1) Note that any offspring will inherit TH name if of an appropriately bonded mate.
Origin: Healing Den Swim 1, Reinith full sister (mikalla7?? no idea who this was)
Other Info: this is an aquatic dragon at his heart, and doesn't do very well above on land, so he is a specialist waiting for a job out there in the wastes. His coloration allows a greater amount of camouflage in the Arctic areas and thus he's been placed at the Borealis.
Resides: Borealis
Name: Tallorok (TAH low rock)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small (but considered 'large' for breed) 6' shoulder / 27' l / 55' ws
Colors: Blue, strong vibrant medium blue overall, with sky-blue thin and slightly dappled stripes along half of tail, limbs including wing fingers, and face; under wingsails, crest, and tail spade are mottled blue and sky blue, while outer wingsails are speckled sky blue with more white than blue sheen; horns are ivory-gold, claws are ivory; eyes are blue
Features: Paniyan/Alskyran Dragon, four legs, with thick claws on all digits, 4 total each paw, with thumb on fore and heel claw on hind feet; leathery wings with 3 visible fingers, all having heavy curved claws, and a wrist claw (not a thumb); skin is heavy hide that occasionally sheds or must be scratched free; head is long and slender with pointed lips and narrow eyes, a pair of spiraled horns that can grow very long (his are somewhat stunted at only the same length as head), neck has sharp tall crest; tail has broad diamond shaped stability fin, tail is very long and thin
Powers: Winged Flight, a dragon of his speed has rarely been seen. Tallorok is adept at low-altitude flight speeding through ruins and around objects, his skill has kept him from ever even scratching a wingtip on a jutting branch or piece of rebar, and has allowed him to evade even the most intense pursuit. He is often sent in first, as a distraction, while other dragons and Paxton's Replicas go into an area to secure it, while the Combine are trying to keep up with the bright blue.
Telepathy, an average ability to communicate directly to Paxton and the other dragons, however it's easier for Pax to think to him. The Replicas also count toward this mile or so distance, so if there are any Paxtons wandering around he can usually get his point through.
T-Power - Tallorok's variety of powers is wide, but his overall ability with the strongest is fairly average. He can use Telekinesis to aid his flight, probably why he's so fast and maneuverable in the air, but he can also use this power to lift around 400lbs worth of gear, people, or objects quite close by himself. Elemental Production and Control, rather than being able to breathe fire, Tallorok creates a strong jet of compressed air, able to hit with effect up to 25m away, or a broad 'wall' of air to buffet things within a few meters that can knock things down, whip small items into the air, and even suffocate those within if he chooses. Last of his abilities is the power to sense living creatures, generally he can sense dragons without any issue, but also Humans - he's working on Vorts too - within around 100m of himself. This has proven useful when he's zipping around ruins, as he can pass by a spot a few times and home in on any people that 'ping' this power.
Parentage: dam Cream Cytajhik, sire Blue Istzhok (Paniya both, councilwoman Eowelia and Caerlord Qalam)
Origin: Caer Paniya random
Other Info: Tallorok could be considered 'royalty' on Paniya, as his parentage are both involved in the island's leadership. However he has no interest in hanging around boring meetings or listening to speeches. He wants to be on the go, and go fast.
Resides: Aperture North
Name: Reinith (RIE nith)
Gender: Female, infertile
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small Slightly bipedal stance (hind legs longer than fore) / 7' shoulder / 29' long / 50' ws with wide sails
Colors: Dark forest-like green, faintly speckled with brighter greens, almost white green wingsails, shifting Pernese eyes
Features: Pernese variant, four legs with two wings; heavy thick rubbery hide fit for cold waters, must be oiled and kept wet; 4 toes on each foot, long toes, thumbs on forelimbs, clawed; thin long tail, long neck; headknobs; small slightly ridged skin flap on neck and tail only; 3-fingered leather wings, clawed at tips, no wrist claw, leather covers two fingers entirely
Powers: Winged Flight, though aquatic by nature, she can fly quite well, usually at low altitudes or in clear areas. Because she isn't all that big, she can only carry so much, but she also can grasp with her hands and just ... drag things, too.
Teleportation, Reinith is good enough with her betweening that she can easily teleport to a specific location and back, providing transportation from the Aerie Island above Rapture, and down into its depths. This is a little disorienting for anyone she's taking with her that has never suddenly gone down two miles under the ocean, but she seems to enjoy doing it. One of the Replicas is usually on hand to guide her.
Telepathy, as with most Pernese dragons, Reinith is adept at casting brief thoughts at her bond as well as other dragons. She does limit this to Paxton and any relevant humans around him, having been abandoned gives her a mistrust of others that has never left. Her range is fairly short.
Firebreath, she does not need to chew firestone or coal, to produce a medium-heat flame that spreads in a wide fan to a decent damage rating. Anything within the cone of this fire will ignite, the cone itself is hottest at around 20 meters from her head. She can belch out a good number of these bursts before requiring some down time. Because she can breathe fire, she is infertile - it may be because of her lengthy stay in the Healing Den's artificial 'coast'.
Parentage: Tiny Aquatic Gold Mijath (HD original) + Large Orange-Rust Moeomth (HD Stunt1)
Origin: Healing Den Swim 1, Amineth full brother ('apq/weyrship'?)
Other Info: Reinith is a quiet, somewhat reclusive dragoness. She feels that Paxton is the better of her bonds, though she barely remembers what her original Impression was like now. She's a bit smarter than a normal Pernese green, but not by much.
Resides: Rapture, specifically Aerie Island to roost, but
has quarters below
Name: Sting
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Small 8' shoulder / 34' long / 38' ws
Colors: Brown, Tan, Russet, Orange, Black, White scales, White horns, spines, claws, transparent charcoal black wing membranes; deeply blue eyes that glow with power use
Features: Pantalan Hivewing purebred; four legs, four wings, long tail; heavy armor scales on all body parts, neck, head, limbs, tail, and wing supports; 5 and 4 sharp clawed talons front and rear respectively, high heel claw on rear, long hind legs; Wings are stiff insect-type with veins visible between 4 fingered tines, small 5th fingerlet, and thumb on wrist joint, all bear small sharp claws; heavily curved nose and forehead horns, two long backswept slightly curved head horns, small jaw nubs, very sharp jagged teeth, sharp spines along entire spine from head to tail tip, jagged tail hook end - injector.
Powers: Winged Flight, Sting is able to lift off and land in any direction and with only minimal space required; flies best in moderate temperatures, overheating is an issue, and if too cold will slow down. Wings make a buzzing sound when in motion.
Verbal Communication, though she prefers not to speak, she can understand and speak English and some Draconic languages; generally all you're going to hear is her wings as she drops from above, before being stabbed by her...
Venom, can use her tail tip to puncture nearly any natural skin or hide, and injects a venom that attacks nerve tissue and renders its victim paralyzed; this is extremely painful, but will not in itself kill the victim.
Scent Production, though pungent, her 'stink' is hardly the worst thing that anyone in this post-apocalyptic setting have smelled. She can leave this specifically with her spoor for other dragons to track her, and no one's the wiser.
Parentage: Unknown, full blooded HiveWing. It is unknown whether she was ever under the influence of the Queen's mind control, but she readily accepts Paxton as her Queen now (much to his amusement, the title still sticks no matter who he tells not to say it)
Origin: adopted from Catbreeze212 at Deviantart
Other Info: Sting is a fast-moving force of nature, Paxton sends her out to scout or distract troops in order to take down large numbers of them without notice. She is extraordinarily dangerous, and antisocial to a strange degree given her heritage. She only hangs out with others of Paxton's dragons, though if absolutely necessary will make appearances when the rest of the Rookery demands it.
Resides: Rookery, Ranch
Name: Vezilk (VEZ ilk)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Small (large for breed) 6' shoulder / 28' l / 45' ws
Colors: Green, very dark forest base on body, limbs, tail, neck and head; dappled with large spots in mint through seafoam green, though they are large around limbs including wings and back, they are concentrated and smaller in clumps on face, neck, and from shoulders, belly, upper limbs, and upper tail as a swath; wingsails are seafoam green through medium mint brighter close to body, and considerably darker on outer sails; crest and tail fin also these shades, brighter on tail fin; horns are gold, claws ivory, eyes are various greens
Features: Paniyan/Alskyran Dragon four legs, with thick claws on all digits, 4 total each paw, with thumb on fore and heel claw on hind feet; leathery wings with 3 visible fingers, all having heavy curved claws, and a wrist claw (not a thumb); skin is heavy hide that occasionally sheds or must be scratched free; head is long and slender with pointed lips and narrow eyes, a pair of spiraled horns that can grow very long (hers are quite long and will continue to grow), neck has sharp tall crest; tail has broad leaf-shaped stability fin, tail is very long and thin
Powers: Winged Flight, Vezilk is a strong but not very fast flier, tending to rest among treetops and building roofs, ambushing prey or Combine with a quick dive and a sharp landing. She is reasonably tough when it comes to lifting more than just Paxton or a Replica, though she clearly prefers to be used to scout than to transport.
Telepathy and Verbal Speech; she's got a rare ability to speak in English, and though she can't really speak as clearly as some who were born to it, she does understand all that she hears and can deliver short messages as long as they're in easy to say words. It's much easier for her to understand her bond and his dragons, mentally, and she can detect not just Pax but all of his attendant dragons as well as Replicas for up to 5 miles. Her mental voice is velvety, rich, and just a little aftertaste of sickeningly sweet.
TPower - Pyrokinesis; though she's not remarkably adept at producing flame, she can still cough out what equates to a cloud of spores, and then ignite them chemically, nearby. She can also place flammable spores around a location and ignite them from a bit of distance, producing an explosion of some damage.
Elemental/Spores+Mold, her primary power is that over plant life such as mold, spores, and algae or other simple but small plants and bacteria. While studying she has learned how to separate one breed of mold from another, and has aided the scientists in producing vaccines and treatments for the Rebels. Because she can create a large amount of mold or spore activity in a short time, she can disguise an area and hide in it, her lovely coloration allowing her to just lay down and not move, hardly seen.
Parentage: dam Green Thiritzik (Paniya/Afedri), sire Brown Ashasuth (Brynmore/Brelag)
Origin: Caer Paniya, random
Other Info: Quite young when the Rookery began looking for recruits, she boldly stepped up and took her place beside Paxton without question. She lives to serve, not just him, but Humanity as a whole, and enjoys being relied upon for scouting as well as scientific duties.
Resides: Lane Mansion, typically guarding Dragon Tower 15 at the hemp and flax fields
Name: Fetch
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium-Small (long) 8' shoulder / 60' l / 54' ws
Colors: Crimson with tiny slender cream colored slash marks across back toes, and spaced over tail and shoulder joints, muzzle, and high throat; eyes are a lime green, horns and claws are ivory
Features: Whiptail, four legs with paw-like feet with claws but no padding, very long body and tail 2x longer than body; single-fingered transparent leathery wings which can become damaged; two swept-back 2point horns; skin is scaled with incredibly fine tiny scales
Powers: Winged Flight, though more durable than he looks, Fetch is not really intended as a flight-worthy boi, and tends to slink along the ground with his wings folded in. He can fly quickly but his length tends to slow his turns.
Boldness; though this isn't a power so much as a personality trait, Fetch is much more self-assured and stable in unusual settings than most of his breed, making him a good companion for Paxton on foot patrols. He doesn't fight, he is absolutely not a combat worthy dragon, but he also doesn't run and hide when the shooting starts. Well, he does, just not very far away. When something startles him, Paxton knows that there's danger around.
Parentage: Unknown Whiptail, one of several that have come to the Rookery
Origin: Adopted from Dragonsandvideogames on Deviantart
Other Info: Fetch is true to his name, he enjoys sniffing around ruins and digging up things to bring back to Paxton in the hopes of a reward. Also, Paxton thinks his color scheme is just perfect, and enjoys posing with the long slinky dragon wrapped around him. Also note that while a Whiptail's wings are often permanently scarred, any damage that Fetch incurs while out on patrols will be purposefully healed up by either medics or Pantheon healers.
Resides: Ranch, Rookery
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Size/Shoulder/Length: 6' s when upright
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Features: Zekiran Desert Dragon, Extra Heads; Aggressive, requires warmth, nearsighted
Stats: Int 16, Str 89, Size 1:1, Dur BT/L 99, Rea/Spd 96, Rea/Per 60; PR5
Powers: Crawl and Burrow, Stealth+
Lifespan Extended
Hypnosis
Bite
Constrict
Parentage: Spliced Desert Dragon
Origin: Zekira, specifically bred for Paxton by an expert DragonBreeder,Vihnihanyr
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Resides: Ranch, Rookery
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