Character Info
Character Information
General
Canon Source: Dragonlance
Canon Format: Literature
Character's Name: Aurican
Character's Age: At this point, he’s a little more than 6,000 years old. To dragon standards, he’s absolutely ancient.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. N/A
What form will your character's NV take? A large pale gem that can show a screen as he “summons” it when speaking in video format. In dragon form, he can speak out loud and the gem “types” in his text messages, but a keyboard will appear when he is in a humanoid form.
Abilities
He’s a gold dragon of Paladine, with the physical might of his claws and teeth and heavy form, but he is at his most dangerous when he uses magic. Here’s a list to his magical spells shown in canon what he can do:
- Transform into a humanoid form, as well as other creatures
- Teleportation
- Haste; can enhance speed upon himself or others
- Illusions*
- Levitation*
- Invisibility
- Elemental enchantment (can recreate a gust of frost, for example)
*Aurican wasn’t seen using these spells, but by the younger wyrmlings he was protecting and teaching. As the only draconic teacher of magic, it became only logical that he would have taught them those spells.
He has immense gravitas to his draconic nature called ‘dragonfear’. It is when he appears with his dragon form, all individuals will be affected with intense fear that is almost physically crippling. Those who are long used to his presence, or have a similar personality type (being good alignment), it won’t affect them as much or at all.
Physically, Aurican is another force entirely. A hundred feet long (or longer, the exact size has never been fully described) and with wide wings he can easily destroy buildings just by throwing his weight around, or can scatter bystanders by the flap of his wings. His claws can rend dragon scales, which is one of the toughest hides in all of Kyrnn. His fangs are long and sharp and just as deadly as his claws, capable of snapping a spine of the largest of reds. His breath is the most dangerous weapon of all: he can breathe a large range of fire that can incinerate several full grown dragons that aren’t fire-proof, like brass or red dragons. If Aurican feels to take drastic but non-lethal action, he can use his magic or his secondary, but less lethal breath weapon of weakening gas, which makes the target physically weaker and less likely to put up a fight. Aurican is immune to any fire attacks as well.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? The fact that he’s a spell-casting dragon sort of tells itself.
Weapons: MORE DAKKA - actually, no, there's no weapons. He's pretty much a walking, talking, flying weapon if you look at it at an angle.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Here is his history!
Character Personality: Like all gold dragons, Aurican is scholarly, wise, and well-mannered. He despises all things evil, and he does not hesitate in extinguish evil when it appears to him. Unlike his metallic cousins (though he often calls them his brothers, as they grew up together and became very close), Aurican does not actively go out and search for evil. He’s more inclined to seek more peaceful activities like socializing with other lesser beings like elves in an assumed form, or composing ballads. Out of all of his fellow dragons, he is the most creative, with his love for the theater and music, as well as architecture and the fine arts, as well with an obsession with magic. He has great patience and it is truly rare to find him acting out on his emotions for having such great emotional discipline. It’s often seen that to witness him overwrought with grief is just as disturbing as to see him emotionally distant.
However, because of his godly origins, Aurican has a certain arrogance that is clearly dragon-like. He believes that all beings, save other dragons, are lesser in status with him, with their lack of lengthy lifespans and magical and physical might. But he has a very important lesson instilled with him early on his life: always show mercy, even to his enemies. He doesn’t kill or taunt in sport, and would rather offer a hand of friendship instead.
Aurican often lacks the drive of many lesser beings because of his long lifetime. In fact, it can be said that humans made more accomplishments than he does because it simply takes more time on his part to do so. And the few accomplishments he made were influential, such as returning magic to Kyrnn and his assistance in winning the First Dragon War. Because he can live for so long, his capacity for love is very different to those of a short-lived person. He does not believe that he himself is capable of loving because of his draconic nature, but that is simply not the case. When the elves were first attacked and evastated by the chromatic dragons and their orge forces, Aurican was nearly paralyzed in grief. On the other hand, he did not fall into despair when his metallic cousins were slain by the chromatics. It is very much likely that he is very much capable of loving, but only in a different way that can only be suitable with his own psychology and lifespan. Again, it very much depends. But Aurican can love, but merely in the way that is not what is normally considered to be as such.
His lifespan very much determines how he acts out, and how he talks. To a lesser being, he acts and talks very wisely. While it is true that Aurican is wise, to be sure, but in actually he merely has patience and good manners on his side. However, he doesn't quite understand the emotions of lesser beings. Logic, certainty, but him seeing an angry human is like us seeing an angry cat: we can see the anger, but not what is causing it. Aurican is aware of this flaw, but he never makes any effort into really understanding or even change it, due to his arrogance as a dragon.
He also doesn't seem to really get sarcasm.