Tonukk

Tonukk is a blessed dragon, with incredible luck that would carry him to great heights if he set his mind to it. Not that he has, instead preferring to win small amounts of treasure in games of chance in the clan's tavern. Never take a bet against him, no matter how improbable his success seems. Considering he once dumped a bag of coins on the floor and they all turned out heads, it's just not worth it.

An adventurous soul, Tonukk undertook quite the journey to reach the clan, and regales other dragons with (probably false) stories of dashing heroism. Tonukk's not a coward, and he'd be out there exploring Sornieth... if he wasn't also a pacifist. He could probably talk his way out of most things, but if things come to blows, he just doesn't have the stomach to do what must be done.

Lady Luck blesses Tonukk in more than just games. Once, an experiment went awry and blew up a significant chunk of the fortress, including Tonukk's sleeping quarters. Most assumed the worst, but after clearing out the rubble Tonukk was found unharmed, a set of bookcases having toppled over and formed a shelter. Tonukk was grateful for the rescue, and rather annoyed that it was too dark to read anything for the hours he was trapped.

And that's not all. He's survived fires, been the only one not to be poisoned by Levant's cooking, and has never once been randomly chosen to test Sorrel's potions. If one didn't know better, one might think that Tonukk made a deal with a demon to get his supernatural luck. But that's ridiculous. He did hatch in a cargo hold filled with relics plundered from some dusty old temple, that's true. But honestly though, who hasn't done that? Elliry has gone on record saying that Tonukk's unusual and mildly unsettling red eyes are not a sign of anything to worry about.

He'd be useful as a good luck charm, expect that he's got a very self-centred form of luck. Taking Tonukk with you somewhere dangerous seems like a good idea, until you realize that the best thing for Tonukk is for you to quickly meet an unlikely end so that he can go back home as soon as possible.

Such unnatural luck has attracted unwanted attention. Mostly in the form of Reina, who Tonukk is afraid of for many reasons, not limited to the fact that she's many times his size. She also insults him every time they pass by each other, and likes to disrupt his gambling games by 'accidentally' flipping his table with her tail. Also he suspects she's tried to have him killed on multiple occasions. But those all failed, so they don't really count, right? Tonukk almost thinks that she might be jealous of him. That's nonsense though, because Reina can't be jealous of anyone else when everyone else is less important to her than the dirt on her claws.

Surprisingly, he does actually know how to use that sword. He would really prefer not to though. Really. He'd happily give you the sword if it meant he didn't have to stab you with it. And then claim that somehow means he's the winner of that fight.

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Hatched to pirates, Tonukk's considerable luck has served him well for as long as he has lived. Left alone in a ship's cargo hold as hatchlings, the young Tonukk and his brother found themselves with an escaped umbra wolf. His brother sustained grievous injuries from the mauling before help could arrive, while Tonukk escaped with only a mangled left leg.

Tonukk survived, but as pirates aren't much for child-rearing, the next time the boat reached port he was placed for sale at an auction house. His brother was not. A spiral healer stayed to take care of him, and spun tales of her life as a pirate aboard the Crowned Thresher, the very same ship Tonukk was from. But when that ship returned, not only did his brother not return with it, but the spiral left as well.

His new guardian at the auction house did little more than keep him alive and his leg uninfected, and thus Tonukk had to learn how to take care of himself. Some older dragons were more kind, treating the nocturne well enough and even allowing him to watch their games. As he grew, Tonukk proved to be a quick study, and his luck even allowed him to make a tidy sum off these gambling games. Eventually, he even had enough treasure to buy his own freedom. But with hopes of his brother and the Crowned Thresher's return still lingering in his dreams, the newly freed Tonukk didn't leave the auction house far behind, instead staying close to port and the gambling tables.

As his winnings piled up, Tonukk became known as Lucky around the auction house, and eventually the entire port. The rumours became so great that Tonukk eventually woke up to find his head covered and one of his toes on his lame left leg cut off, presumably due to someone's belief that even pieces of him were lucky.

Seeking to keep the rest of himself in one piece, but having spent a bit too much of his winnings on fine clothes and a fancy sword, Tonukk booked himself cheap transport with a coatl weaponsmith. To Tonukk's alarm, the coatl turned out to both be a smuggler and not particularly concerned with giving the nocturne safe transport. But after a close call with some bounty hunters, possibly both caused and averted by Tonkk's luck, the smuggler deemed him useful enough to deserve safe passage to the coatl's home in the Starfall Isles.

There, Tonukk quickly separated himself from the smuggler, and just as quickly found himself in the local tavern, back at the gambling tables. After a week or two there, as he had nowhere else to go, the barkeep suggested he stay, as travellers seemed to like him and he had a knack for keeping the dice rolling and the drinks flowing. Tonukk accepted, as he was winning enough treasure to sustain himself. That, and the barkeep was offering him living quarters in one of the inn's spare rooms, as it had far more than could ever be expected to be booked.

Thus Tonukk is living there until a better opportunity presents itself, and can often be found, when not gambling, entrancing local hatchlings with tales of swashbuckling pirates and adventure. Endboss particularly likes those stories, though the fact that her favourite bits are the parts where the pirates destroy small clans and steal all their stuff worries Tonukk more than a bit.