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Nathan

(#13684401)

Level 1 Skydancer

Familiar

Nature Sprite

Energy: 50/50

Personal Style

Apparel

Skin

Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

4.82 m

Wingspan

4.42 m

Weight

400.23 kg

Genetics

Seafoam
Giraffe

Seafoam
Hex

Seafoam
Glimmer

Hatchday

Jun 01, 2015
(8 years)

Breed

Adult
Skydancer

Eye Type

Nature
Common

Level 1 Skydancer

EXP: 0 / 245

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

Sadrith
Mora

Offspring

Biography

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nathan

gardener

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While it is unusual to be a Skydancer in war, Nathan is not the first, and he will not be the last. However, it is possible that he is the only Skydancer to leave a war not fully of his own accord, but from the influence of a time traveler. That is quite the unique phenomenon indeed.

But to understand Nathan, a brief understanding of his hatchling days must be taken into account first.

He was raised by a relatively peaceful Nature clan, secluded deep within the Gladeveins. It was a region quite free of war until a party of Shadow dragons exposed its vulnerabilities. Suddenly, the Gladeveins were under attack from all sides, and Nathan's parents whisked him through the Viridian Labyrinth to a safer location. From there, his young life was formed by strategy and secrecy. Forced to live in constant fear of Shadow raiding parties, caution and careful thought came before bravery. Eventually, the tides did turn, and the Nature clan he hailed from was able to turn the tide, pushing the fight back into the Tangled Wood, but it was too late; shrewdness was ground into every fiber of his being.

Additionally, his skill at remaining concealed did not (ironically) go unnoticed; his birth clan commended him for it, and he was soon recruited by what militarized groups of the clan remained. His parents' encouragement only convinced him that this decision was the right one, and he left only days after accepting a position as a scout. This role was not enough, though; while he was able to keep himself concealed, Nathan had no authority over his fellow soldiers, and often had no way of helping them to camouflage themselves until it was too late. Driven not to attack, but to defend, he worked tirelessly to climb the ranks. The meager scout, so difficult to see unless he chose to be seen, rose to become a mighty general, seen by all at the head of the party every time. It was a vulnerable position, yes, the first exposed to the enemy, but Nathan enjoyed the accountability he had for his fellows; in this position, he was able to be the protector he so desired to be.

But this began to change when the time traveler appeared in the clan's camp in the Tangled Wood. She was an Imperial named Verity, and after questioning her briefly, it was all too obvious that not only was she telling the truth about not being from the rival Shadow clan, but that she had truly arrived from another era. Intrigue overrode sense, and against his better judgment, Nathan offered her a place in the camp as long as she could pull her weight. His intuition insisted she was no threat to his well-being.

This was true, if he excluded his heart from that well-being. There was a genuine quality to Verity, an eagerness coupled with a sense of adventure that left her open to every wonder she encountered no matter how small. Her delight in such wonders was infectious and endearing; often times, when Nathan should have been strategizing to outfox the Shadow clan, he caught himself answering Verity's questions and entertaining her advice at every turn. His colleagues disliked this behavior, demanding the involved and courteous general return to them to end this war, but it was too late. After all, Nathan was ready to not only end the war, but to call it a truce and negotiate instead of obliterate. At Verity's urging, he presented the idea of a peace treaty to his soldiers, suggesting that the clans appoint ambassadors for these conflicts rather than sending armies decorated to the tips of their claws. Before any debate over the proposal could occur, though, the Shadow clan acted deeply against it.

The ambush was swift, and to this day, Nathan remembers little of it. He can recall Verity vanishing into thin air across the camp, and he can remember the towering Imperial that fell from the sky, but the remainder of the battle is a haze. In truth, he blacked out from the Imperial's heavy paw on his neck, and his wings and tail were lacerated from a rather avaricious Nocturne that descended to help its brethren finish the job as painfully as possible. Most of his clan suffered similar wounds, and many died. He should have been among them, too, but was saved by a clan for wanderers that happened to live near to the site of the battle. A Guardian patrolling the smaller clan's borders discovered that he was still alive despite resting among a pile of the fallen, and he was swiftly taken in for care. In this place, he slowly began a risky recovery, filled with various lapses into infection or paranoia as his state fluctuated. Left to his own devices, he likely would have wasted away.

The impossible changed his mind. Weeks after the ambush, when he was finally beginning to move his wings without help, Verity returned. Convinced he would never see her again, the Skydancer was certain he was imagining her, some kind of trick cast by an Arcane dragon perhaps, but a sudden wave of concern and relief crashed over him. His innate ability to sense emotion in others proved to him that she was no dream. The time-traveling dragon he had come to love had returned. Whether by luck or divine intervention, that was not important. More important was that she had not abandoned him fully, but had instead worked her way back to his side, purely of her own choice.

They remained inseparable, and one of the first things Nathan did for Verity when he was physically able to spread his wings in flight was perform an elaborate dance through the air, something that she joined him in without hesitation. Despite their difference in size, Nathan was certain that not even another Skydancer could have complemented his acrobatics so well, and no sooner than they had landed did he offer her his fidelity as pale glowshrooms began to sprout under his feet.

Now officially mates, brought together by curious instances of war and time, they have a number of children, each of which displays some curious affinity for magic. None possess their mother's talent for time travel (while some show their father's slow-blossoming gift for cultivating fluorescent foliage), but other unusual abilities (such as dream reading, eating, and walking) have been noticed among the offspring of this magical couple.

The only thing that can put a damper on Nathan's mood nowadays is the presence of unfamiliar Shadow dragons. While his family makes him deeply happy, he has not forgotten the suffering he experienced at the hands of his enemies, and living in the heart of the Tangled Wood makes him more than a little uneasy from time to time. He only stays because Verity considers the coven her home, and because she believes it will never engage itself in war, something he could stand to avoid for the rest of his days. To keep his mind off the prospect of war, though, he often hides away in the garden, which has ultimately become his domain.

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notes

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: "i was born to be by your side"

gathering and grinding

Gathering Swipp Ingredients

x89 - Foraging in Lightning/Plague/Wind

Grinding Swipp Ingredients

x4 - Woodland Path/Forgotten Cave

- Woodland Path

x209 - Arena

Grinding Apparel

x7 - Scorched Forest

- Volcanic Vents

- Ghostlight Ruins

x2 - Ghostlight Ruins

- Ghostlight Ruins

- Mire

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