Spearmint

The Fisher There are many things beneath the waves. A shooting star... Spearmint was out on a fishing expedition when the meteor passed by. Unfortunately for her, it landed not far from her fishing grounds, spoiling half her catch and afflicting her with burns and strange warping. She made it back to clan-home at half speed and has since been ashore, being tended to by Ykkerekk and Vermouth, whom she trusts enough to help in this. * Spearmint is feeling better, at least enough to return to the water on day jaunts and make certain there is no risk of invasion from below, or Arcane warp washing in on the tide. * Spearmint is DELIGHTED to see Greenskeeper Gathering, though she has not ranged far in case of further ill to the clan.

A skillful swimmer even for a Water dragon, Spearmint is the clan's master fisherdrake. In Cindercone's early days, she singlehandedly supplied them with fish; now that the clan has grown, she has partners in Glynn, Terreskara, and Rainmurk, but remains the clan's steadiest fisher. Spearmint is rarely found in clan-home, though she enjoys the storytelling and singing that takes place in the central amphitheater when she does come ashore. More often she can be found in the wild, steaming waters to the south of the clan, or resting on the Blacksand Shore. She loves exploring and diving, seeking for hidden caves, coral formations, or habitations of maren and other aquatic life. She will enthusiastically engage anyone who approaches her in her water habitat. Friendly but somewhat self-conscious and clumsy abovewater, Spearmint is closest with her fellow Driftwood Shore emigrants and with the driven, obsessive Glynn, on whom she exerts a moderating influence. She adores Imminnyll as a little sister, and is patient with, if somewhat perplexed by, Hazard. She is also friendly with the Banescale Pack's Rainmurk and Colada, and often encourages them to go diving with her. Her relationship with Kellinlii is still a bit strained, but she does not resent the tundra's being welcomed back into the clan. Craft Spearmint is a whittler of fishhooks and fish-spears, generally out of bone. She also collects shells, lost marencraft, and other treasures from the deep, and is decently skilled at doing preliminary restoration on them when needed, though she knows when to turn them over to Hrijikirrik or Keion to finish the job. Physical description Spearmint is a fairly average in overall size, which makes her one of the larger mirrors in the clan. She is stocky and streamlined, and her legs are unusually short for a mirror, adapted more for diving than running. She is competent on land if somewhat graceless and easily tired by mirror standards, but extremely graceful underwater. On the wing she is fast but not agile, like a huge guillemot. She smells of cold water, often overlaid with fish and brine. During festivities, she sometimes rubs mint leaves on herself as a perfume. Combat Spearmint is an irregular fighter. While she can hold her own in most situations, her odd habits have made her hard to place on a team. Her fighting-style is also somewhat strange—an Anticipator by some sort of default, she uses Water foresight to deflect blows aimed at her allies and return the favor with a tide of whatever water is closest.

Origin Spearmint has been a member of the clan since its founding, a fosterling from Driftwood Shore. She has maintained a good relationship with her home clan and particularly her father, with whom she shares many basic interests. While she spent most of her first weeks in Cindercone's clan-home, Spearmint gravitated steadily back to the water, and was a rare sight in clan-home proper for the clan's first six seasons. She provided fish for the clan, and came ashore only rarely to exchange news and stories. During the clan's first Wavecrest Saturnalia, however, she was struck by vivid Water dreams—visions of eyes in the depths and ridgebacks the size of mountains. The ominous nature of her dreams drove her out of the water, and she remained mostly terrestrial until the crossing three seasons later. While some of her visions seem to have been resolved as indicating Cataclysm, the Crossing, or other aspects of the clan's troubles, some remain mysterious. Spearmint contributed to the mapping of Derecho Canyon's cave system and Storm Point when the Clan was in Lightning, and the safe channels that admitted ships to the Rogue's Camp on the Plague/Shadow border. She has been encouraging Glynn to help her map the tidal zones of Cindercone's territory.

Kin Spearmint is the daughter of Lerronirg of Driftwood Shore, and Ursula, a wandering guardian. She and her father are quite similar and get along famously, talking for hours on end about swimming and diving. She and her mother were also on good terms, though their differing interests made them less close. Spearmint's sister, Undara, is a strange dragon of Northslope Clan—while the Ice clan has her allegiance, she does not live with them. Instead, like Spearmint, Undara lives in the Outer Ocean—but much deeper and further out, returning even less frequently to her home clan. While they are not close, Undara is also Nightforest's mother, making Spearmint the ridgeback's aunt. Several of Spearmint's other siblings and half-siblings remain in the mortal world, and there are many who do not, but she doesn't know them—were she to meet them, she would doubtless be happy, enthusiastic, and immediately begin quizzing them on their knowledge of swimming and diving.

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Spearmint is the head of a small herd of mixed hippogriffs. Her "co-leader", Tzaak the blue tang hippogriff, originally bonded with her in the arid highlands of Lightning, but delightedly followed her back to the rich fishing-grounds of the Blacksand Shore. Spearmint most often associates with Katsuwonus, a hippojay she met fishing late in the clan's days in Lightning, but is currently taking the time to bond with some of the herd's shyer members.

This wild hippogriff is still quite shy and wary, inclined to react with a kick or a gape to any approach.

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