Eivedarium {Eve-Dah-r-ee-uh-mm}
You watch, equal parts terror, confusion, and awe, as the very stone of the cliff but a few dozen feet from you and your companions ripples like a pond when a stone is thrown into it. Stepping out of it, seemingly unbothered by the transition comes a creature that can only be described as myth made real. Deep bronze toned scales, that give way up the back and shoulders of the massive creature to a glittering topaz hue. The ground shakes as the four toed claws and feet step forth, the head, towering, observing the scene, monstrous, robust, with jaws you do not doubt can crack stone and steel alike. Piercing eyes, terrifying, almost enthralling, in their golden amber hue spear into you, their gaze rooting you as if harpooned unto the stone. You feel heavier, you feel a pull, a terrifying desire to create distance from this creature of legend, yet you can tell that would be easier said than done. The ground quakes with its step, the stone of the cliff seeming almost to shrink in its presence out of respect. Though it should be impossible, you know what stands before you. A Topaz Tane, a true blooded dragon, a myth, an extinct memory, yet very much alive.
"You enter lands sacred of stone and soil, you dare tread amongst the home of one of Domhan's favored children without permission! Your trespass shall cost you your lives. But fear not, foolish mortals, for I admire your kind, as one of your kind might admire pretty shapes, or flowers, or other such mundane things. One of you will not be immediately consumed and forgotten, no. One of you is destined to stand vigil over my lair, a treasure, a prize, a reminder."
Physical Description
Body Features
Beyond the sheer size and power of the creature and the awe it would inspire, something that is likely rapidly noticeable to anyone who sees Eivedarium are the strange writhing scars across the scales of both flanks. The scales themselves are intact but their pigment is....wrong, the color something no mortal can properly voice. Add to this the Magmis-Verin, thick, crackling with gold and topaz energy, the transluscent neck scales revealing the sheer elemental force within the Tane clearly for any to see.
Facial Features
Its head is a robust thing, blocky, massive, with pronounced jaws, the musculature structure of the hinge of its jaws reinforced and heavy set, allowing a truly terrifying bite force. This should not come as any surprise, given the stories and mythology of carving, consuming and garnering sustenance from the earth itself. Its teeth and jaws are thusly reinforced for biting through stone, mineral and ore, though naturally this means they are also more than enough to crush bone, and crack any armor.
Special abilities
Given the advanced age, Eivedarium has a host of unique abilities. Earth magicks, the ability to traverse with the stone for a time, instead of having to tunnel or burrow, and of course its breath weapon. Striding through the earth as if part of the stone itself, is another indicator of age. Beyond the powers and magicks of age though, Eivedarium shows some advanced signs of the Void Taint as well, including a secondary breath weapon, a gaseous substance it can unleash in a cloud, that both on contact and upon being breathed in will cause rapid petrification.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Eivedarium is the descendent of the last Topaz Tanes, those whom built the Forgehead Range, if one is inclined to believe such stories of power. The Forgehead Range is the youngest mountain range on Valerick, at least presumably given the stark difference in erosion and shape compared to other ranges around the world. At least so suggest the myths and stories. The tallest peak of the range, known as Peril's Peak, is said to be the lair of this mighty being. However the stories that persist are limited, given no reported sightings of this mighty beast have occurred in at least two centuries.
Mental Trauma
Eivedarium has been wholly and fully corrupted, the Void taint having ripped through the Tane's psyche completely. The only saving grace has been that Topaz Tanes are very naturally homebodies, they do not like moving beyond their home range. Given they feed off minerals as much as meat, if not more, it has had no need to move far beyond Peril's Peak.
True Corruption
True Corruption
The truth of Eivedarium's fall is a truly tragic one, and one that no living mortal is aware of directly, though they might be able to put it together when seeing the mighty Tane should they possess a massively deep knowledge of the dark arts and the Void itself. DC 28+ Occult check set at your discretion. Part of its layer is tunneled through a massive deposit, a meteor of pure Void Stone, which makes up part of the heart of Peril's Peak. Consuming this substance as it would any stone and minerals it tunneled through caused a very direct corruption of the mind and spirit, though the body shows little outward signs beyond the strange writhing scars that shimmer along the scales of its flanks. These markings are of an indescribable color, and seem to shift both in hue and position of their own accord. Far heavier are the effects on the mind.
Eivedarium keeps petrified statues of a variety of different creatures, forty of them in fact, at all times. They will, become food sources whenever the Tane decides to add a new piece to the collection, for there is a nearly religious, a near crippling obsession with the count of forty for the great dragon when it comes to these statues. It can stand there being one less but only when it has already established target and intention to acquire a new one.
Eivedarium keeps petrified statues of a variety of different creatures, forty of them in fact, at all times. They will, become food sources whenever the Tane decides to add a new piece to the collection, for there is a nearly religious, a near crippling obsession with the count of forty for the great dragon when it comes to these statues. It can stand there being one less but only when it has already established target and intention to acquire a new one.
Intellectual Characteristics
The deepest parts of the corruption within Eivedarium is without question its ferocity. Though still a highly intelligent, sapient creature, Eivedarium cannot be reasoned with, negotiated with or otherwise approached. It has a deep seated anger and hate for mortal beings, be they monstrous like orcs and goblins or those of the Ascended Children. It seem the taint of Iracundia dominates this dragon. He sees any living thing with notable intelligence, that is able to speak and communicate complex ideas, sapient entities, as invaders. Yet enough of the Tane remains that it conflicts with a deep shame over this, despite its inability to resist the corruption.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Eivedarium is driven equally by bloodlust as by the natural Tane desire to hoard some sort of treasure or wealth, however its guilt and self loathing at the twisted blood-hungry nature of its behavior manifests in the oddity of its statue keeping behavior. Those silent statues are a watch of shame, a penance, pitiful in its attempt, to try and retain some small bit of control over the corrupted form, hoping for release before the last bit of the soul is entirely consumed and the Tane is no more.
Likes & Dislikes
As with any Tane, Eivedarium has a hoard, and its collection will be the most 'dragon-like' from stories and tall tales. Topaz Tanes natural instincts are to hoard precious stones and metals and objects made of them. Manna Gems, coin, enchanted arms, armors and other finely made objects of stone or metal. The most notable part of this particular Tane's collection however is inevitably the forty statues of pure bronze and copper, petrified, metallicized by the gaseous corrupted breath, a secondary breath weapon, a Void driven mutation unique to Eivedarium.
Alignment
NE
Species
Age
1341
Children
Pronouns
He/His, They/Them
Sex
Currently Male
Eyes
Deep golden amber, though they become a sharp Topaz under stress or when using earth magick. Rough circular shape not unlike a stone.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
Deep bronze toned scales, giving way to the shoulders and spine ridge scales and skull crown of brilliant topaz.
Height
10.5 meters (34'5")
Weight
6.9 tonnes (7.6 tons)
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