Zafnir Adubriscr

Peacebringer

Zaffy (from Selina)

Male

125~

Zeagnian Sky Dragon

Sandy brown scales, golden belly scutes.

Big and bulky

Three diagonal scars across his shoulder, claw marks that he doesn't care to explain

Zafnir doesn't wear much clothing; it's just not something dragons do. He may occasionally get caught putting a cloak, cape, or collar around his neck for fun.

He has large, forward-curving horns like a bull. They've clearly been broken and have regrown many times, being jagged and unequal in length. His right horn is slightly shorter than his left horn.

A little over 9 feet tall

Rusty red and brown

He's losing whatever coat of fur he had. A few patches of rusty fur here and there, on his face, down his back, patches on his elbows and ankles, etc.

Beard, short

Baby blue

Has come to distrust most bipedal races, although he does well to set his prejudice aside for the sake of keeping the peace.

Other than the general effects of aging, he's healthy.

For his entire life, Zafnir has strived for peace. He breaks several stereotypes about the explosive, hair-thin temperments of dragons by being very calm and soft-hearted, easily moved to mercy and shows of affection. He rarely takes sides in conflict, preferring to play mediator to negotiate a compromise. However, when he does choose a side, he commits to it with all of the passionate zeal his bleeding heart holds. Having been alive for at least 125 years, he has developed keen wisdom and long-lasting patience.

Reading, talking, sleeping, flying. He gives up flying everywhere when he travels with Helynah, a human woman who is terrified of heights.

Public speaking and wordsmithing.

Low energy, impractical goals, too eager to trust

Desire for peace and need to prove himself a good person.

He speaks formally mostly out of habit, and carries his head with relaxed confidence.

Sky blue and grey

He casually follows the draconic goddess Scrall, a diety who's only solid characterization is that she protects dragon kind.

He pursues peace when possible, and the preservation of all sapient life. All races are equal at least in his abstract thought. He despises the subjugation of any speaking or feeling creature.

Friendly banished dragon, formerly an ambassador

Turkey

He has a well-worn satchel swung around his neck and/or shoulders. What he carries in it changes all the time. It's all he feels that he actually owns and he'd be heatbroken to lose it.

Tooth and claw

Birds; he likes to watch them fly and enjoys how much their appearances vary. He also loves to eat them.

Zafnir was a draconic ambassador before his banishment.

Zafnir was born to nobility and trained to be an ambassador, assigned with negotiating trade contracts with Tray in order to help save an over-populated, starving country with a new supply of food. When the trade failed, a desperate and vengeful queen declared war on their neighboring human country. Zafnir was banished for protesting the war and spent some years a member of a rogue draconic clan. He left the clan as its members grew corrupt and found something of a home base in Mopo, a trade outpost between Tray and the southern countries, set through a mountain pass in the Arch of Opportunity. Because the people there are concerned not with war, but with trade as well as their own survival, he is safer there than he would be anywhere else. He still lives in Mopo when he meets Helynah while looking for something that Selina asked him to fetch for her.

June 11, 1092

Formally educated; knows how to read and write, fluent not only in his native tongue but also in Trayan and Arandarian. He also has basic knowledge of a handful of Chimeran languages.

No pets, although he gets along famously with Selina's therapy dog Cupid.

In short: A dragon of noble status, exiled for speaking against the Dracran-Trayan War. He now lives in Mopo, one of the few places politically unaffected by the fighting because it serves as a rest stop for travelers and holds no binding loyalty for any one country. One day, Zafnir is on a fetch quest in Arandar when he spots a bit of drama off the coast; there, he meets the fugitive Helynah. His choice to help her will cause his entire life to turn upside down for the second time.

• Zafnir is the closest to pacifist that he could logically get, fighting only when he thinks he has to and never using his inherit fire-bending abilities to cause harm.


• Prefers playing mediator over taking sides.


• He is easily moved to mercy and abundant displays of affection.


• He is at least 125 years old.


• He'd failed a diplomatic mission to Tray shortly before the war began, so he partially blames himself for all of the bloodshed.