Background
KetsuekiRyuu was the dragon who found a site for her lair, which would later become the first home for the clan Fukutsu no Seishin. She worked to make it large enough to hold multiple dragons in the hopes that she would not be alone for long.
She had been young, and perhaps naive, when she started her project. Beginning in winter, when even the magic of the Starfall Isles could not entirely keep out the chill, had not been her smartest idea, but she had been driven to do it nonetheless out of a desire for company after being alone all her life.
She did not know what had happened to her parents, with only a vague recollection of two red fae, much like herself, before they had disappeared. Why they had abandoned her, she did not know, but they had and at times she grew quite bitter in her thoughts when she remembered her hatchling self clinging to the peak of one of the crystal spines protruding from the water, desperately seeking shelter and food.
When her plans finally bore fruit and she was joined by Kanshi, begging her for shelter and help saving the almost cold egg he was carrying, she was delighted, and accepted his advances. If they mated, then he would not leave her.
The loss of her child almost killed her, only her other two keeping her sane as she looked desperately, only to find her safe and cared for in an Ice clan. Her daughter’s abandonment hurt, but the young guardian’s determination to enter the clan, not as a replacement out of guilt but because she thought she belonged there, soothed the ache.
As the clan began to grow, with more and more hatchlings, and the occasional grown dragon, joining the clan, she was relieved. While many that were born there, including her remaining two children, decided that it was time for them to move on, most going to serve the Arcanist directly, the clan was now so numerous that she knew she need never worry about being abandoned, and that despite her suspicions that her parents, too, could be found in the Observatory, she swore an oath to herself, binding it with her own magic, that the day she stepped foot in the Observatory would be the day the entire clan moved there with the prestige of a lair honoured enough by the Arcanist to be referred to as Ancient.
Personality
Despite her diminutive size, she is a capable clan leader and is well respected. Her main priority tends to be ensuring that the hatchlings behave, when the clan has them. Her favourite perch is on the shoulder of Kanshi, who she often ends up scolding for one thing or another.
Appearance
She has the colours blood/crimson/obsidian and is slowly transforming herself into an almost Plague-like dragon with the genes Iridescent/Shimmer/Spines. Those that do not see her eyes often mistake her flight allegiance.
Abilities
While she chooses not to fight in the coliseum, that does not mean she is incapable of defending herself and her clan, due to her natural ability as a fae to channel the natural magic found across Sornieth.
Trivia
- KetsuekiRyuu is Japanese for 'Blood Dragon'