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Goytulku Suerina


"I hunt the creatures who plagued my clutch-mates." -Goytulku Suerina

History

It was the fourth day of midweek, in the month of the Platinum Dragon, during the year 2370 of the Epoch of the Chosen, when there was a gathering somewhere in the mountains above the Highfells.

Bhreith Elders from several Arnashiclans had come to the home of Clan Goytulku in order to honor a rare hatching. While all dragonkin of metallic-scaled clans believe that great fortune or honor will come to those born in Bahamat’s Month, the Copper-scaled Arnashiclans find it an extra boon when such a hatching lies during the height of a trickster god’s constellation in the night sky. Such as it was this night, with the constellation of the deity Olidammara. This is because “True” copper dragons embrace trickery and humor, and though the dragonborn who share their scales are much more humanoid, they find kinship to their shared ancestry through also embracing these values.

Tragedy struck during the following week that led to the Adgunu, or “Name Day” for all clutchmates in a hatching, a strange plague swept the village and all but one from that honored hatching perished. It was quickly learned that the reason that one survived, is that she had wandered away from the clutchden and began chewing on a rare root that does not normally grow this far down the mountain. It may have been too late for her clutchmates, but the discovery would be passed on to all neighboring clans and prevent more of such tragedies. For this the Elders bestowed her the name Suerina, after an ancient ancestor widely known as a great healer.

In the years that followed Suerina would excel at many disciplines within the clan. Sword fighting as well as witty performances among them. Her favorite, perhaps, was tending to various growing things. She was a prodigy in the realms of herbalism and healing remedies, and as a side effect of this, she knew the best fruits and berries to pick and the best times to gather the other ingredients to make a beyond-excellent mead. This feat earned her the childhood nickname of Ead’ifrite, which in the Perluxia’s merchant tongue of artision means “Meadwitch”.

At 20 years old she decided to both expand and share her knowledge beyond her home in the Thol’zanor Mountains. Her adventure saw her travel down into and through the dangerous Highfells, a region of the Quilled Hills where Hill Giants dislike intruders, and eventually made it to the gnomish city of Tor and then south, through Burrowguard Capital, Quarry Town, and all the way to the southernmost gnome settlement of Stoneberry where the Shimmeryield Fields meet the river of Lightning’s Run. Here she set up shop for a time, experimenting with many more ingredients and learned many new healing techniques. She also was taught how to ignite her draconic blood and harness magic as a sorceress. All throughout, while encountering new people, she introduced herself by clan first to honor her home and was therefore known as Goytulku Suerina. Sometimes for those who have difficulty with the draconic language or for those who have become friends, she would translate her clan name and introduce herself as Skyfox Suerina.

26 years later she caught word of a plague similar to the one which harmed her clutchmates all those years ago. This rumor was told by a traveller who had come up from the Hierarchy colonies in the wild, southern continent of Prim’terra, somewhere in a region called the Forlorn Marsh. So off she went to investigate, many who she meets call her a trickster witch, but those who take the time to sample her mead or donate for some healing find her to be great company.

Now in the year 2422 EC, five years after she began her journey to the Untamed Shelf of the south, she has honed in on the source of these plagues. The elves call them Lar’fui-ag, the humans call them hags, but in either case they are a dark-hearted fey who’s tricks are always malicious. As a sorceress warrior for good, a healer, and true lover of good-hearted pranks, Goytulku Suerina has decided to devote the remainder of her years undoing their dark work. For now her journey has taken her to the Myriad Islands in the Merid Sea, where she is tracking not one but two such malevolent magical beings.



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Lore:

During the Epoch of Light, an elven woman on the precipice of ascending to godhood, had foreseen the coming Dawn War. She saw the destruction that would be wrought from the battles between gods and primoridals. If she could complete her ascension in time and perform a great ritual that she saw in her mind's eye, she could prevent it all. After succeeding in her ascension, the new goddess found fifty-two souls with enough will and power to channel her magic during the ritual. Only the thirteen with the greatest arcane sensitivity would actively participate and it was they who had actually selected the other thirty-nine who would remain unknowing conduits of the magic.

 

The ritual began, and at first the fledgling goddess felt it working, but just after the point of no return she sensed treachery among the thirteen. They sought to siphon the goddess's power for themselves and had sabotaged the ritual by choosing the thirty-nine most treacherous souls they could divine. She aborted the ritual, at great cost to herself, and her divine form was twisted in the arcane backfire. The young goddess' mind had been shattered and history would now know her only as the Raven Queen. She resides in the Fell, and collects memories and mementos from various beings and stores them away. Which leads some scholars in the ages since, to argue about there being a purpose to her collection, or if she is just insane.

 

As for the thirteen arcane savants who betrayed her, she transformed them into the Nagpa and cursed them to be eternal scavengers of what is left behind. Their only way to gain power of their own accord is to rummage in the ruins of fallen cultures. The treacherous souls they recruited were also cursed. Every three were fused into a single undead monster, a Skull Lord, and set loose in the Fell to eternally squabble with each other over territory while simultaneously betraying themselves at every turn.

 

The Crowwitch Maugosma is one of the cursed thirteen, whom some ancient texts refer to as the "Thirteen of the Rift". She is a Nagpa who resides in the city of The Derelict, at the center of the Decrepid Saltwastes, within the Shadowfell. She, like the other Nagpa, hides from the Raven Queen while eternally seeking artifacts of great power. The Derelict serves her purposes well as since the curse, the Skull Lords have grown in strength enough that their evil obscures her own, and The Derelict is currently ruled by the Skull Lord known as Chamberlin Skexin. She works out of sight of the Raven Queen, hoping to one day take over The Derelict and use it as a bastion of power from which she could challenge the Raven Queen.

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Created from one of the two halves of the fallen Io along side Tiamat. He has since ruled as the primary deity of metallic dragons.

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