Rise of the Dragon Riders {CLOSED}

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This is an RP set in the days of dragon riders, when dragons could be befriended, tamed and ridden. The riders live in a vast fortress of a mountain they call, The Nest, as a joke. But in reality it is a stronghold that protects the last remaining dragons from the hands of the evil riders.

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Character: Dwarf
Name: Dagor
Age: 52 (still prime for a dwarf)
Appearance: 4 1\2 ft tall, very big red beard, dark green eyes
Chosen Weapon: War Hammer
Dragon's name: Spruce
Personality: He is rather amiable for a dwarf, and witty, he also loves his dragon, though he never shows it openly
Gender: Male

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Name: Spruce
Age: 31
Rider: Dagor
Powers: can spew lava from his maw
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Personality: In truth he is rather lazy and would love to sleep all day, that is, if Dagor would let him
Mate: None
Strengths: Lava, heat, rock hard scales
Weaknesses: Slow flight, the cold
Gender: Male

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Character: elf
Name: Elexian
Age: 21
Appearance: tall, black hair, dark blue eyes
Chosen weapon: standard long bow, which is about as tall as Dagor, but he is very good with most sorts of blades
Dragon's name: currently gaining the trust of his dragon, has not named it yet
Personality: He is quick tempered, and very stubborn, he also does not like most people. He tries to stay away generally, and is pretty much a loner. But a lot of times you can get him talking if the conversation is about dragons.
Gender: Male


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Name: has not been named yet
Age: 21
Power: she has an organ that can create water from oxygen and hydrogen, she can spew this water great distances and with considerable force. She can also fly very fast.
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Personality: She used to be a very sweet and playful dragon, that is, until the evil riders captured her. Now she is angry and distrustful, even to her own kind.
Mate: none
Strengths: Swift and agile on the ground as well as in flight, silent in flight, forceful jets of water
Weaknesses: she is not physically strong, molts in the winter leaving her mostly flightless, her scales are not very tough, immediate suspicion of all dragons and people
Backstory: When she was very young she was kidnapped by the evil riders, who made her obey them by using cruel methods such as pain and starvation. Eventually she was pushed to her limit. The evil riders left her to die out in the forest, and she would have, had not the good riders saved her. The riders healed her bodily but was it too late for the scars in her heart to mend?
Gender: female

[Chloriosus]

Character: Human
Name: Sorgen
Age: 17
Appearance: Medium height, green eyes, dark brown hair, very pale skin
Weapon of Choice: Dagger
Personality: Is sort of a nervous fellow, who got his dragon not very long ago, and is constantly getting into some kind of trouble with it. He is usually kind of an introverted person but he will talk with other people and try to make friends.
Gender: male



Dragon
Name: Regen 
Age: 15
Power: she has an electricity power that gets easier for her to use in thunderstorms
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Personality: on the contrary of having a rather worryfull rider, she is very temperamental, and is still very much obedience training. She i very confident in herself, which is sometimes a bad thing.
Mate: none
Weaknesses: She does not get along very well with most dragons, and she quickly gets exhausted in hot or very dry weather
Strengths: She is very agile and fast, and she blends in very good on cloudy days
Gender: Female

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Character: Elf
Name: Alalëa
Age: 20
Appearance: Average height, Light brown hair, dark violet eyes, slightly tanned skin, with a very faint scar on her right jaw

Chosen weapon: Made from the strongest, lightest metal known, forged specifically for her use, having been trained in this weapon by her father, who learned from her grandmother, she wields the Urumi, which she calls Islingr. It has no pommel, both ends of this unique sword ending in a pointed tip. The hilt is of white metal, bound with leather at the grip. Between the metal and the leather is an open space, which the point of the sword, when in whip form, can slip into, forming a belt which she commonly wears when riding, as it is much safer, especially with the flexible leather sheath concealing it. The guard curves simply towards the end of the blade, and is not large at all, with runes carved along both sides. Shining silver metal creates the actual sword, with flexible white metal creating the connection between the links. It is a deadly whip, but may also be used for stabbing, once all links have clicked into place. In short... it is a fearsome sword/whip. She is also well skilled in most other types of blades. 

Dragon's name: Visilva

Personality: Alalëa is rather serious, almost scornful, and certainly is scornful with those who seem to be unnecessarily weak. She prefers to give and receive straight forward answers, and is often blunt. She also hates small talk. Although she is highly skilled with blades, particularly the Urumi, and although she does practice a lot and is not afraid to be seen practicing, she does not like to show off. She only uses the necessary amount of energy or effort to reach her goal. She is one of those people that seems as though they could almost be good at anything, so long as it has anything to do with athleticism. Of course, she still has a more open friendly side, but this is rarely attainable, and mostly only seen by her dragon, Visilva, although the reptile pretends to disdain such behavior from her rider. 

Backstory: Alalëa grew up in a small village right by the Dragon riders, and eventually moved into their camp with her family. All of her family, down to her great grand uncle, were dragon riders. Even her two older brothers became dragon riders, although Rolstin was chagrined to find his own dragon AFTER his one and a half year younger sister. As a child she was always rather curious and quiet, and often she could become lost in her discoveries for hours on end, being so quiet that it took her family quite some time to find her, even if she was sitting in plain sight. And most of her attention, was taken up at a few specific areas of the camp. The dragon stable, which was not necessarily the safest place for a young elf girl, the weapons practice grounds, and the dragon training grounds. All of which really were not ideal for a girl of her age, but she was adept at avoiding her family's attempts to keep her safe practicing with wooden swords at home, and multiple times would find her having cajoled a dwarf into letting her attempt to lift his war hammer, or wield his sturdy dagger, which was more to her taste. Her father realized that she was not going to be one to be constrained, and finally her mother gave up as well, giving him permission to begin training her, which at least let them keep an eye on her.... most of the time. And so she learned the art of different blade fighting, until she was old enough to wield an Urumi, which was found she had a natural ability for. When she wasn't training at home, or at the training grounds, she would sneak off to go and simply watch the dragons as they came to and fro from the stables, some with riders and some of their own volition. Especially, she watched the nameless Shadow dragon, of which her family had told her stories of, as her own Aunt had rescued it as a young dragonling! Whether or not the dragon noticed the girl, she did not let on, seemingly ignoring her. Alalëa was enthralled by her cold beauty, and soon became bolder, often sitting just outside the dragon's stall. And when she grew of age to become bonded to a dragon, she already knew which one was meant to be hers. The cold dragon was not necessarily open to the idea, and the girl found she had to do it in rather sneaky ways, slipping her tidbits and simply getting her used to the sound of her voice and touch. And then came the glorious day when they became a true Dragon and Rider, the former of whom Alalëa had named Visilva, with the dragons permission of course. Nothing was done to Visilva that she did not give her permission for. 

Gender: Female

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Name: Visilva
Age: 28
Rider: Alalëa
Power: Shadow travel (the ability to change her body matter to become any shadow, still retaining her senses of sight and hearing), and Shadow Breath (a blinding blast of darkness that causes confusion, disorientation, and dizziness, and perhaps even blindness in certain cases. It is so strong it can even blot out the sun at times)
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Personality: She is extremely sarcastic, and it is not often you will actually get a true answer out of her. She's unfriendly to most of her own species, and certainly most of any other species, although she has a glimmer of fondness for her rider which she attempts to conceal, and does so rather well, except that Alalëa already knows that she's fond of her. She is not one prone to tempermental attacks, instead always keeping a cool almost bland expression, with an almost constant scornful smirk. She doesn't seem to fear anything, but most things end up fearing her. Although she isn't given to fits of anger, she certainly can get into a snapping blazing rage, but surprisingly it's usually in a situation that calls for it.
 
Mate: N/A, Open
Strengths: Night (when the world is in shadow), Cloudy days, Shadow powers, Physically she is very strong, an extremely good hunter, doesn't get fazed by anything

Weaknesses: Strong sunlight/sunny days, beaches, water, is not necessarily the fastest or most agile of fliers which is why she usually sticks to shadow travel as that is her swiftest form of movement (often she will merge into another dragon's shadow, and simply go along for the ride, taking her somewhere faster than she could herself), doesn't get fazed by anything, is sarcastic to a fault, doesn't get along well with other dragons due to her snarky insulting manner. 

Backstory: Visilva was abandoned as a hatchling in a mountain cave nearby the dragon riders domain at the age of 1. Her father hadn't hardly been around, but her mother disappeared one night with him and they never returned again. For two years, the little dragonling managed to survive, using her limited shadow abilities to snag her some small prey, until the day when a dragon rider (who was actually Alalëa's Aunt) found her. She took the angry hatchling back with her, and Visilva was brought up from that age in their company. Many assumed that since they had rescued her, she would turn into a loving creature, but her abandonment had hit her harder than they realized, and she remained mostly cold to everyone, and as soon as she was old enough to realize what sarcasm was, it became her most common language. Despite having been rescued at such a young age, she obstained from any training or bonding attempts with cold disdain, remaining on her own, a loose cannon so to speak, about the camp. Those who had been there long enough to know her knew she would not hurt a human, unless she had good reason to do so, as a few bullies found out, but to others, the sight of this free flying, rather large, foreboding dragon often sent shivers of fear through them. As the years progressed, she often saw Alalëa running around the camp, first as a toddler, then a young girl, but she did not pay much attention to the little brown haired elf, despite the girls apparent infatuation with her, having heard of her Aunt's rescue. Until the girl suddenly reached the age of 16, and began to unobtrusively care for the dragon, slipping her treats, talking with her, picking bear claws from uncomfortable places in between her scales, and other such trivial matters. Before Visilva knew it, she had a grudging fondness for the girl, and eventually accepted her as her rider. 

Gender: Female

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Character: Human\elf\dwarf
Name: Sarah
Age: 27
Appearance: long brown hair, with blue eyes, and about 5 foot 10.
Chosen weapon: sword 
Dragon's name: (if they have one) Blizzard
Personality: Sarah is an understanding dragon owner, she understands her dragon Blizzard, and she lets Blizzard do what she wants. She is sweet, and loving, and she loves all her friends, but she has as a very soft spot for her dragon. 
Backstory: (optional) Sarah grew up learning about dragons. Her father owned a dragon rescue, and actually gifted one of the dragons to her when she was about 13  years old. That dragon, was Blizzard. Blizzard is her one and only dragon, and she has a very strong connection to Blizzard. She feels like she can understand her dragon, even though she really can't. She loves talking to Blizzard and giving her treats when Blizzard isn't out hunting for herself. Sarah always lets Blizzard roam on her own, unless of course she needs to put her up in her cage, which doesn't usually happen. Sarah loves her dragon and she always tries to make sure Blizzard is comfortable before she leaves for bed at night.
Gender: Female

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Name: Blizzard
Age: 12
Rider: Sarah
Power: (please don't have a power that has to do with controlling other dragons: power control, mind control, mind reading etc.) Ice
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Personality: Blizzard is known for being a kind yet fierce dragon. She only gets super fierce if something she is close to, like her rider, or the other dragons are in danger.
Mate: N/A
Strengths: hunting, flying, making snow storms
Weaknesses: warm weather (does better in the cold) windy days
Backstory: (optional) 
Gender: female

[Chloriosus]

Character: elf
Name: Firasko
Age: 19
Appearance: Very tall and thin, with pitch black eyes and pale skin, black hair that she usually keeps in a tight braid, with a long scar on her face and another one along the side of her neck. She is extremely flexible, and many times uses this ability in her fight tactics.
Chosen weapon: She has two matching katana-like swords, both with a double edged silver blade, differing only in the appearance of their hilt. One has a black hilt with a red leather strap                                      around  it, and the other has a red hilt with a black strap wound around it.
Dragon's name: Crimson
Personality: Firasko does not have good social skills, she is very awkward around people and often comes across as cold. She used to be very temperamental, with slight anger issues, but now                        she usually keeps to herself, and tries to avoid most people.
Backstory: Firasko is a mute. When she was younger, she was a very hotheaded and rather disobedient child, always trying to prove people wrong. This lead to her not being very liked by most individuals. One day, when she was about eleven years old, her father warned her that there was a rather rogue dragon in the dragon stables, and warned her against approaching it. Firasko, being the contrary person she was, entered the dragon's stall and was attacked by it. It slashed her in several places, including her throat. Thankfully she recovered from her injuries, but she permanently lost her voice and her father's trust. Now she is very socially awkward, and rarely approaches people she doesn't know.
Gender: Female



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Name: Crimson
Age: 16
Rider: Firasko 
Power: Has extremly venemous teeth, the venom is a deep Crimson, from which he got his name. Depending on the venom andministered, it can cause dizzynes, disorientatednes, sickness, or death by bleeding out.
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Personality: Very focused and observant. He is a very intelligent dragon, and at times uses that to take advantage of other people, he also has a very fast reaction time.
Strengths: He is a very fast flier. Although ground hunting is definetly not his forte, he holds her own quite well. He has very sharp scales.
Weaknesses: he is not very agile, and heat weakens his poison greatly. Although he is fast, his wings are very delicate, and are easily injured.
Gender: Male

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Character: Human
Name: Harrowmandercy (Harrow)
Age: 20
Appearance: red-headed, average sized, ridiculously skinny
Chosen Weapon: sling
Dragon's name: Fire Bomb (Fire)
Personality: very dare-devil reckless, quirky
Backstory: Being a twin everyone always had a hard time keeping track of him and his brother, even he did.
Gender: male

[Chloriosus]

Character: Human
Name: Soremarrow (Arrow)
Age:20
Appearance: average height, rather skinny, dark green eyes. Redhead.
Dragon's name: Spitball (Ice)
Weapon of choice: fire-ball flinging sling
Personality: more reckless
Backstory: As Harrow's twin, he sometimes forgets who is who himself.
Gender: Male

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Name: Firebomb (Fire)
Age: 25
Rider: Harrow
Power: fire
Appearance: (the orange head)
Personality: He is a very laid back dragon head, but gets annoyed at everything Harrow does
Mate: None
Strengths: his brother's head, very long whip-like tail
Weaknesses: Harrow, slow flight, heavy non-agile body
Gender: Male

[Chloriosus]

Name: Spitball (Ice)
Age: 25
Rider: Arrow
Power: Ice breath
Appearance: (the white head)
Personality: He is a rather temperamentful dragon head, but he is frustrated by the nuisance that is Arrow
Mate: none
Strengths: the same as Firebombs
Weaknesses: Arrow, slow flight, heavy non agile body
Gender: Male

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Character: Human
Name: Nuana
Age: 18
Appearance: tall, pale blonde long hair, a slightly sharp distinct face shape, pale pink eyes, perfect slimness.
Chosen weapon: Nuana has tried many different kinds of weapons, but she has found that she really isn't very good with any of them. She can throw a dagger sufficiently, but no one is ever quite sure if it'll go the right direction, and so she is usually avoided when she is doing any sort of practicing. Recently however, she has discovered a unique weapon, the Naginata, and seems to be able to handle it with much more instinct than any other weapon, although she is still definitely in the training phase with it. If she herself had to answer this question, she'd probably put something like... "My Beauty would stun everyone and make them fall before me" or something to that sort. 
Dragon's name: Leilani
Personality: She is very snobby of other riders, especially if she thinks they aren't as beautiful as her. If someone manages to be fixated in her mind as more beautiful than her, she will most likely obsess over it for days, until finding some way to take them down a notch, with a soft look here and there getting her way with quite a few of the young stable boys and riders. She also has a very volatile temper if something does not go as she planned,  but overall she usually speaks with a natural born sweetness, despite her other horrible characters. She can be  very caring in some circumstances.... but not quite so in others. Really, she's just a teenager that hasn't figured out how she wants to be for the rest of her life, despite the fact that she really is supposed to know. 
Backstory: Nuana's father died right before she was born, in a fierce battle with the dragon capturer's. Deemed a hero in death, her mother and her were given the best of care by the officials of The Nest, an unrealistically large house, with anything they could want. Nuana, growing up in such luxury, did not find the need to learn any useful skill, except caring for her health and beauty, and searching for a dragon worthy of her. Leilani soon drew her interest, and she demanded that she be her dragon. Leilani was relieved to finally see someone of her own beauty and strength (somehow she was blind enough at the time to see strength somewhere) and agreed. And so the two horrors were born, the snooty snobby never hard working duo often drove other dragons and riders to madness with their talkativity and queenly acting. 
Gender: Female

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Name: Leilani
Age: 16
Rider: Nuana
Power: Her most powerful weapon is a strong poisonous breath, a heavy green colored fog which she can breathe from her mouth. It causes dizziness, vomiting, confusion, and in some strong cases, unconsciousness. She also has deceptively soft and beautiful looking petal like scales, which shed now and then, mostly in the spring - summer months. Left lying around they can become quite the hazards for stepping on, as they are very very sharp. She can also throw these petals from her tail, like flying petals of doom.
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Personality: Leilani is vain. That is the best way to describe her. She always looks down her nose at others, even if they're taller than her somehow, as that is most generally the case. She can talk for hours about the weather and her scale hardness and how many scales she shed that day, to the point of driving other dragons crazy. She also has a rather sudden mischievous bend, although she usually finds a minion to carry out her plans for her, so as not to get her claws dirty, literally and figuratively. but everyone always knows it was her anyway, she is terrible at lying, but as soon as anyone gets mad at her she can easily turn herself into the trembling victim, and mostly squeeze her way out of any situation.  She hates being ridden because of the soft petal like spikes on her back, as they can get quite flattened by a saddle, and stay so for quite a few hours after being ridden. She also does not use her poison breath very much, even when she really should, because it's a hideous green murky color that she says looks absolutely disgusting and terrible with her pink scales. 
Mate: N/A Open
Strengths: Can talk your ear off, is extremely fast and agile, is a good swimmer, does best in general in spring weather, enjoys the rain in the right circumstances, can make a friend easily but cannot keep that friend very easily. 
Weaknesses: Hates getting dirty, being ridden, using her poison breath, doesn't like flying fast although she's very good at it, hates mud and thunderstorms, hates the sound of metal on metal and avoids the training grounds and forges, and has little personal attachment to her rider, despite the proud knowledge that she got the only creature almost as beautiful as her, other dragons do not tend to like her, is way too talkative. 
Backstory: Leilani grew up at the Nest, her father and mother were both around her almost constantly, as she was their only offspring. Needless to say, she grew up pampered, and many tried to become her rider, but none could match her stunning beauty. Until Nuana, and so she swiftly accepted, despite the fact that she didn't know hardly a thing about the girl, nor the girl about her. This wasn't really a problem as they both were almost the same, except Leilani's mischevious nature, which frustrates Nuana to no end, as she considers such things childish, despite the fact that she does almost the same thing, just out of spite for others instead of mischief.
Gender: Female