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This seems interesting. If roleplayers are still needed or so, would it be possible for me to join in the potential fun?
He may not be as fast as the others but… damn that's one fucking big dragon. I believe that this one classifies as a leviathan class. The only problem I can see is enemies climbing on his back but as I stated before that's on big fucking dragon. He would be 76.4-128.7ft in length.Name: Xenophos, "The Black Comet", "Eldest", "Harbinger of Death", "Firebringer".
Sex: Male
Age: 878 years, 9 months, 8 days, and 6 hours old.
Dragon style: Western, four-legged.
Breath type: Fire, alternatively gale force wind. Famous for swallowing and melting various stones and metals inside his throat, and regurgitating them in a high-powered, molten form.
Height: 52 ft.
Weight: 450 tons.
Wing span: 115 ft.
Wing style: Bat-wing, single pair, barbed.
Personality: In his younger days, Xenophos was a pacifist, and one of the few dragons who believed that peace could one day be reached with mankind. He was so afraid of killing that he refused to harm a man that invaded his cave, instead trying to push him out with his claws (only to end up pushing him off a cliff, which haunted him for years after).
Immediately following Harmonia and his hatchlings' deaths, Xenophos devolved into little more than a murderous beast. All of the philosophies he had taught himself as a hatchling and adolescent fell to the side to be replaced by his immoral hatred. He had become what all dragons were at a primal level: Predators. And his rage blinded any logic that came with it. This is the Xenophos that most humans witness in nightmares.
After recovering from his century long rampage, Xenophos returned to his volcanic lair to brood and lick his wounds. There, he rationalized and developed a fierce hatred for the living, slaughtering any potential settlers in the area mercilessly and developing a vicious hunting reputation. His cynicism is only matched by his skill for evading and/or butchering dragonslayers. He has lost all faith in his kind at this point, and waits for the day that he dies from age or spear, only knowing for sure that his slayer will die with him.
Strengths and Weaknesses: Due to his massive size, Xenophos is an incredibly strong dragon, capable of shaking small mountains and causing avalanches. His very roar was known to shake his volcano home when enraged. When in flight, he was one of the fastest dragons of his brood. After years of living in ash and blackened gravel, his scales and skin took on a black color, some of which peeled off when he flew at higher speeds, earning him the name of Black Comet. And while many of these traits followed him into old age, he is no longer the youth he was. While still powerful, he can no longer perform the greatest feats of strength of his younger days. Nor does he fly as fast as he once did. His joints are slightly arthritic, and pained especially from where his metal augments are secured to the bone. This pain, and his overall declining health, serve as his greatest weakness, though it does provide him with the anger that fuels him to fight.
Unique characteristics: Metal augments dotted across the body, hiding wounds or replacing removed scales or digits. His jaw, dislocated and broken, is covered and hammered down with a metal prosthetic. Some of his claws are steel fashioned onto his phalanges. Many areas of his body are scarred, showing the light of fire whenever he breathes it.
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History: Once upon a time, Xenophos was regarded as perhaps one of the most optimistic and caring dragons in existence. Some of his peers even worried that his pacifistic nature and general weakness would lead to his demise and the weakening of the species as a whole. He refused to eat anything other than a beast that had come to the end of its days through natural causes. As he grew older, his frail body changed to one of a leviathan, large even by draconic standards. While this attracted many mates and restored some faith from the other dragons in him, it terrified and angered him as he unintentionally wreaked destruction and death wherever he went. So he opted to hibernate in one of the most remote corners of the world to rest for eternity, or however long he managed to live. This place was the volcanic peninsula of Juley in the south, where most humans dared not settle for fear of death or simply for lack of investment potential. Here, he was joined by his mate-for-life Harmonia, who shared his beliefs. He sired a hefty brood of eggs, and protected them judiciously. This is what he considers to be one of the few moments of hypocrisy in his life, as he was willing to kill any who harmed the eggs or his mate at that point. However, he lived relatively peacefully with the sparse villages of humans. They hunted in his territory, and so did he. Neither tried to assault the other, and so no violence escalated.
This tense peace lasted for a few centuries. However, the glories of dragonslaying and the influence of more civilized kingdoms began to reach the peninsula. In the third century of Xenophos' existence on Juley (the fifth of his life), a gang of amateur dragonslayers climbed the volcano that had acted as his home and butchered his family while Xenophos had gone hunting. Iron spears were driven into Harmonia's eyes and nostrils to pierce the brain, and the eggs that were so close to hatching were cracked open. The tiny bodies were harvested for meat and bones, which were arrogantly worn as trophies. Upon his return, it took an entire hour for Xenophos to fully comprehend what had happened. It took another day for the roaring, mistaken as the rumblings of the long-feared volcano, to cease. It was at this point that the rampage that would be known on Juley as the Hundred-Year Blaze began. Being as isolated as it was, Juley was never prepared for a dragon assault. Even the dragonslayers who had been hailed as heroes were unprepared for what attacked them. As he rose from his lair, Xenophos was mistaken for a black comet as ash trailed behind his speeding wings and body. As he sailed the skies overhead, he dropped rivers of molten lava and spewed storms of fire on villages, discriminating against none, be they man, woman, or child. No settlement was ignored, and even some swaths of the few wild forests were senselessly ravaged. When one village was destroyed, the kingdoms of the north attempted to recolonize. Each colony was in turn destroyed. The death toll rose dramatically in the first fifty years, sending hundreds of charred corpses home to their native north. The dragonslayers responsible were the only who were dealt with specially. The bone armor they wore gave them away out of the hundreds of dead. They were captured, limbs broken, and slowly scorched over the lava of the volcano they had invaded. Their bodies were then desecrated and cast off the side of the mountain.
The Hundred-Year Blaze ended with Xenophos' defeat at the hands of a battalion of far more effective slayers. His jaw was broken by a catapult, and multiple holes torn in his body by ballistae. His last appearance was in one of the newest colonies established on Juley (now known as the Ashlands), where he forced the locals to repair him with any materials they had, resulting in his slightly manufactured appearance. He promptly retreated to his lair for one of the last times ever, hibernating for another five decades to heal and gather himself. When he awoke, he found that cities had sprung up around his land and the legendary Black Comet had been forgotten. A swift eruption from the volcano reminded them. For many years after, Xenophos enforced his reign over Juley, daring many dragonslayers to hunt him, only to be cast off of his mountain.
In the present, Xenophos learned from one of the few remaining elder dragons of the few that remained. This very messenger died the next day of his age. To his knowledge, Xenophos is the oldest of the dragons alive. Realizing that his petty feud with mankind was little compared to the survival of his race, he determined that he would wait for or find those that the Messenger had named to teach them the way of their kind, lest they forget.
Miscellaneous:
- After his mate's death, Xenophos was disliked by many of his draconic brethren, A) For his actions, which seemed to coincide with increased slaying activity, and B) For his attitude, which was not appreciated when so many had died for being reckless.
- The many metal prostheses took months of work, the villagers responsible practically enslaved so that the job was done quickly. It drained a great deal of the natural metals from the area, leaving it largely worthless.
He may not be as fast as the others but… damn that's one fucking big dragon. I believe that this one classifies as a leviathan class. The only problem I can see is enemies climbing on his back but as I stated before that's on big fucking dragon. He would be 76.4-128.7ft in length.
I was reading ur pro before I seen the picture and thought of Neltharion (Deathwing)
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