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Bertram

(#18667247)

Level 25 Imperial

Familiar

Nature Sprite

Energy: 45/50

Personal Style

Apparel

Skin

Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

31.36 m

Wingspan

20.94 m

Weight

8788.68 kg

Genetics

Slate
Iridescent

Gold
Butterfly

Beige
Glimmer

Hatchday

Nov 23, 2015
(8 years)

Breed

Adult
Imperial

Eye Type

Nature
Common

Level 25 Imperial

Max Level

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

Arosan
Fira

Offspring

Biography

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Location
Zohran

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BERTRAM

.king of dawn | the living stone | guest of zohran.

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ABOUT.
Bertram is stone made flesh and given wing. Although properly he owes his power to the earth and growing things, he is fundamentally a guardian of light, born in the golden haze of a dawn early in the history of dragonkind. He was formed as a counterbalance to the malignant influence of the Hewn City deep within the Sunbeam Ruins.

When others came seeking hidden powers best left forgotten, he attempted to turn them aside long before they reached the darkest halls. Those too determined or foolhardy to persuade, he offered the chance to stay and explore so long as they returned to sleep beneath his wards. In time he raised vaulting halls and open arcades for the residents, dragons of every hue and size, merchants to sorcerers. Few of these left the borders of his territory after they accepted his rule.

As the generations passed, Bertram became more dragon and less spirit.

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Of his mate, the Twilight Queen, it is said that Eirian came bearing magic as powerful as a curse. Her Icegift surrounded her in a fog so thick that no time passed where she stood, preserved as well as if she had been a prisoner in the Fortress of Ends. She had come to the Hewn City seeking an answer only to find that the longer she spent beneath the Dawn King's wards, the better she was able to control the warp and weft of time.

Eirian first served the Dawn Kingdom as chief counselor and a powerful guardian in her own right, invited to add her magic to the communal workings of protection and binding. In time this stewardship endeared her to the Dawn King.

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Bertram's kingdom, suspended between the visible forests surrounding the Hewn City and the powerful arcane magics housed in its depths, darkened with the advent of the Shade. Though he possessed the light of dawn in his wings there was not enough power in him to do more than give his people time to run from the onslaught.

Nothing had prepared them for the speed of this blight. Yes, there had been Shade attacks in the past, but none so fierce as to breach the lightwoven defenses spread over the land like glittering armor. Intuition stopped him from shifting into the earth spirit able to travel through stone. The rock and root no longer welcomed his touch.

He and Eirian spent unnumbered days and nights at first believing that their city could be saved and then began to despair when their magics had no effect in halting the advance of the black devourer at their gates. In a moment that still haunts him, Bertram left her alone at the wards to oversee the chaos of the evacuation. He guided those who had never known seasons other than the touch of his eternal spring out into a world in the grip of winter.

The blooming lilies that were as good as his sigil withered and crumbled into dust after he and all his subjects had fled.

Bertram returned to find Eirian blinded but still fighting. He gathered her to himself and with the last of his magic fled to a mortal forest to nurse his injured mate.

NOW.
Cinder, errant Quartermaster of Late Lights Company, was the first to stumble upon them. They'd already spent a day entertaining their guest before Eirian realized that her long-dormant magics had woken to slow the passage of time. A few hours spent in her company would once have been measured by the loss of many days. This effect had returned in force.

Only Bertram's conscious intervention has been able to keep Eirian's time aura from wreaking havoc in Zohran, where they now live as honored guests.

Bertram has, for the moment, chosen to pose as a refugee from a clan neighboring Zohran. Rather than laying claim to his real identity as a caretaker and guardian of the land, he pretends to the normal sort of exile in the wake of the Shade's invasion. His deception has more than a little of truth, and most who hear it believe his tale.

Losing his ancient city was a blow both to his dormant sense of pride and also isolated quite a few dragons who once relied upon his wards as a haven from their own tempestuous magics.

If there were any warriors who might be able to aid him in retaking his lost country, Bertram has decided they would be the resurgent Shadeguard. Though he finds the group intriguing, their taste of Shade magic and Jael's more aggressive presence makes him wary of approaching Emalien with the truth.

Every hatchling born to Eirian outside their lost home provides mixed joy and sorrow. His children's magic has always been an unpredictable mixture of immortal blood and mortal power, and without the protection of the twilight lands control of such hybrid magics proves tenuous.

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