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Corrosion

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Level 1 Pearlcatcher

Familiar

Watchful Viperpillar

Energy: 0/50

Personal Style

Apparel

Skin

Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

5.01 m

Wingspan

4.84 m

Weight

604.88 kg

Genetics

Coral
Ripple

Maroon
Freckle

Leaf
Crackle

Hatchday

Sep 14, 2015
(8 years)

Breed

Adult
Pearlcatcher

Eye Type

Plague
Uncommon

Level 1 Pearlcatcher

EXP: 0 / 245

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

Agony
Scathe

Offspring

Biography

Corrosion the Lost

Occultist

Head of the
Witchmaster Faction

Mate: Madura
Previous Mate: Rufina
Subspecies: Acidborn

Path of the Cursed

Acidborn
An Acidborn dragon by birth, he supposes that that alone is where all his problems began. Constantly oozing a vile, corrosive, and contagious liquid, it is no surprise that he grew up bitter about his affliction. The explanations given to him as to why he had to suffer never satisfied. Both his parents and his clan leader spoke of it as a curse, cast down upon his bloodline by the Plaguebringer Herself after a cowardly ancestor refused to accept his fate in the Wyrmwound. They said that courage, strength, and dedication could shake it off and save his bloodline from their terrible fate, though Corrosion felt differently. If it was a curse, it could be broken by lesser means with a bit of forbidden magic.

Thus, Corruption began his struggle against a god.

Call to the Dark
Delving into dark and arcane arts long forgotten by most of dragonkind, he followed a treacherous and winding path of occultism that eventually led him to the realization that darker realms existed beyond the world he knew. Darker realms with beings of incredible power who, if appeased, could grant almost any wish. The prices would be dear, that much was certain, but if it rid himself of the Plaguebringer’s needless wrath he would be willing to pay any price. Scrying and studying kept him locked away for months, lording over his tomes and divination tools, until one day he quite suddenly vanished.

He’d found a lead. He bolted for Dragonhome, following the mystic compass to Goetia, to Bifrons, to Flauros. While Bifrons was adamant about turning him away, hissing threats and curses, Flauros was pleased. She met with him in secret, slipping into the shadows, and made dark pacts and promises with Corrosion. By the time Mange found Flauros, and Corrosions’s sister found him, the Guardian’s talons were deep, deep into the sorcerer. Nobody knew how deep, save for Corrosion himself, and nobody understood the gravity of the mistake he had made quite like he did.

Goetia
His struggle against the Plaguebringer brought him to a new struggle entirely, a darker conflict that put him in the same playing field as Bifrons. The two grew close, conspiring to keep their souls and sanity intact. Ophelia struggled to keep Shatter from discovering just how corrupt and lost her brother had become. She was successful, in a way, the guise kept up right until Corrosion was destroyed by the very entity he thought he had come to serve.

He had thought there had been hope, for the first time since Goetia’s founding, that something may have been done that can change their situation for the better, though the process was bloody, ritualistic, and cruel. Hope or madness, he could not truly tell at the time. Witness to those terrible rituals, those that he designed and he was at fault for.

There was hope, it turns out. Just not for him, and not for him to be a part of.

Unmade
Corrosion was unmade by Flouros. His memories also unmade, or stretched like putty through some unknown abyss. He can recall the shadows which came upon him, and that brief instant in which he understood he was at an end. What should have been his end. Beyond that, however, there are other memories, though he can never feel certain if they did indeed come before the shadows or after. Flashes and brief feelings. Staggering drunkenly through the Scarred Wasteland. A Coatl female. Pain. Regret. Anger.

Following the shadows, however, he can pinpoint the moment the exact moment his lucidity returned to him. Looking into the red eyes of a Skydancer. The eyes, and the grin.

The Search For Corrosion
The Events which occurred on the Abandoned's land did not go unnoticed or unremarked upon by other clans, both beast, and dragon alike. Rumors of those terrible and dire goings-on reached the Clan of Singing Blood by way of Tephra's scholarly pursuits and contacts. An offhand mention of the story to the King, only because Sovri had happened come into the library while Tephra was discussing it with another dragon. In turn, Sovri took that small snippet of rumor and curiosity to his sister. It was the mention of inter-planar travel which caught the King's ear.

Minstri took an interest and set upon meditations and divinations to discover more. Her intentness on the task took her to brutal scrying rituals - auguries in blood and bone. Through her work, she honed in on Corrosion. The why of this was no concern to her. It was in the throes of a particularly powerful vision that she witnessed his destruction. The shadows which bore down upon him and opened a gate of nonexistence around him. She saw him fall. She reached out to catch him and did catch him. She heard the chanting of old familiar words and smiled at him. The shadows fell upon them both.

Sovri felt his sister's distress and was at her side in an instant. The Queen lay still on her chamber floor.

"I could not hold him. Find him. Find him."

She never said any more on the matter. When pressed, she seemed to know nothing of it at all. Sovri found this immensely disturbing. Minstri did not have a faulty memory. Some outside force erased the existence of her searches from her experience. Fortunately, a few scant records of her work had been collected, and through them, Sovri was able to mount a search for this dragon his sister had been watching.

Into Blood
Sovri tracked him down and found him in the Abiding Boneyard residing with another clan. A coatl with rippling red feathers had claimed him as her mate. The pearlcatcher was in a lethargic and passive state which reminded Sovri of lobotomy patients. He seemed to nod emptily and go along with whatever prompts were given to him.

Convincing the clan to release Corrosion to him turned out to be a rather complicated task. When diplomacy and wealth failed him, Sovri turned to threats. In the end, the Skydancer settled on simple theft. It was not hard to charm the pearlcatcher into following him, the poor dragon's mind seemed to have been melted into mud, perhaps by the same force that had stolen his sister's memory.

When Corrosion was released from Sovri's magical charm, however, that changed. He became sharp, suspicious, and fully aware, if very confused.

"I was dead."

Sovri grinned at him. "Things do not die if my sister wishes them to live."

Sovri returned home with Corrosion behind him. They walked mostly, flew sometimes. Sovri walked very close to Corrosion, soothing the suffering of Corrosion's acidic curse with his healing abilities. During the journey, Corrosion told Sovri his story and the two developed something near to friendship. When they reached the Clan's stronghold Minstri continued to maintain she had no memory of the ordeal. She had very little concern for the Pearlcatcher, but Sovri had taken a liking to him, and that was enough.

With the King's favor, Corrosion found it easy to enter into the ranks of the clan. The King had also taken a keen interest in his physical affliction, and set about to understand it, and to change its nature. Corrosion came to serve as assistant to Sahko, his deep understanding of necromancy and the occult was a considerable asset to the mad arcane researcher.

Progress
Like Sakho's previous assistant, Matricide, Corrosion also spent some time with the Machine Faction. During this time he worked closely with the King, who was intent on learning more about the curse and condition of Corrosion's body. Sovri promised to help ease his suffering, and did so. Sovri, however, had no real intention of actually curing Corrosion, something he kept to himself.

A mechanical carapace was created to gather the weeping caustic substance and take various measurements. Continual adjustments were made as new details were uncovered, and the carapace was expanded to substitute some portions of Corrosion's body, to better draw out and harness the fluid, which could then be converted into elemental energies. This is what finally got Sahko interested in the project.

Corrosion was never exactly pleased with the alterations. It did not cure him, nor secure revenge upon the god which had afflicted him. But he no longer had to live in constant discomfort and occasional agony for it, and he had a new source of power which he could tap for spells and ritual purposes.

Children of the Siren
For the full story, start with "Singing Brood" here.

Corrosion's refusal to give Amanita the attention she desired resulted in her taking a strange sort of action and she has afflicted him as she had done Tephra and Sahko before him. In a half-mad stupor, he fled to the Inner Keep, where his mate helped him create a makeshift nest and cared for him while he watched over Amanita's strange parasitic eggs.

The morning the eggs hatched, the Queen once again sang upon the ledge of her tower window, the same song she had sung before. Sahko came quickly and asked the hatchlings be turned over to him for his studies, but Corrosion opposed him and Madura supported her mate. Sahko insisted and outranking them both, claimed rights to Amanita's hatchlings. The conflict escalated to a brief and brutal magical battle that ended with Sahko victorious and Corrosion badly beaten. When Putridus learned of the hostile invasion to his Cauldron, and the assault upon his guardian he was furious.

The injured dragons were taken before the King for healing and Putridus enumerated his complaints. The King deliberated on the matter and found the entire affair displeasing, but he would not move against Sahko, whose studies were of untold value to the clan. Still, Corrosion was his friend, and a great cruelty had been done to him. Sovri allowed Corrosion to formally challenge Sahko for the hatchlings once the necessary repairs were made to his body. Sovri did not inform Sahko of this until Corrosion was ready to make his challenge, and thereby catch the powerful Spiral unprepared. That edge was enough for Corrosion to come out of the battle victorious and reclaim his stolen children.

He took them and cared for them as his own, though their presence often caused him suffering and episodes of madness and nightmares. He wanted to study them as Sahko might have, but he could not bring himself to do it, though he did not know why. Their heritage was useful to him, but they were also of his own blood, and he had fought for them. He endeavored to teach them all he could, and learn as much as he was able to from them, but eventually, as they grew, their powers and alien effects on his mind became too much for him to cope with.

Witchmaster Faction
Following additional disputes with Sahko, including threats made to his daughter Scathe. Corrosion quit as Sahko's assistant, gathering friends and allies within the clan to form the Witchmaster Faction. This faction specializes in particular kinds of magic often overlooked by the mad Elementalist and works as a group in their pursuits.

The establishment and quick success of this faction granted Corrosion some immunity to backlash from his old master. His being a member of the Machine Faction is another source of rank and support.

Formerly of GOETIA

See the story here.
Chapters featuring Corrosion: V, VII, XXXIII

There isn’t a clear leader. There isn’t a clear directive. It seems less like a tribe than some kind of strange cult. Most of Goetia seems unwilling to talk to the other clans that make up the Abandoned, with the exception of the bewilderingly normal Ophelia, who seems to be the one who took it upon herself to move back to Dragonhome after the Wandering Contagion became too depressing. According to her, there really is nothing to worry about and they just like the company, but there’s something about their “mascot,” Flauros, that does not seem right at all...

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