Rel Usaad | Newly-Returned Dragon

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Name: Rel Usaad
Epithet: The Iron Empress
Age: Ancient
Gender: Female
Species: Dragon
Ethnicity: N/A
Height: Varies with the form she takes.
Occupation: None at time of writing.
Residence: A tomb nestled somewhere in the Thunderblacks.

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Physical Description
As a Dragon, Rel Usaad is a slender, sleek creature of rust-red scales. Four long limbs and two wings that- when unfurled- span the length of her body tip-to-tail each. Her scales do not shine metallic like so many other dragons; rather they appear like a series of perfectly smooth ceramic pieces.

As a woman, the Iron Empress (or perhaps, the former Iron Empress) stands with all the tranquil might and grace as her Draconic form, though perhaps much smaller. A tall Humanoid woman with canted, golden eyes and hair the red-brown of rust or red earth, her umber skin smooth, too much so perhaps.

Personality
Like many of her kind that once called themselves kings and emperors, Rel Usaad likened herself a ruler. She keeps herself composed and even-tempered; for even in times of strife a leader must maintain an era of calm. This composure sometimes puts forth the impression that she is cold and apathetic, or even worse disinterested. This is not the case. The truth is, she has a mind that is near-constantly turning its gears. Always wondering, always curious. For a person who acts like a gilded empress, there is nothing Rel Usaad enjoys more than getting comfortable on something soft and reading scrolls, or listening to music, or perhaps even discussing philosophy with another. That side of her, however, is not one she shows unless in trusted, private company.


Magic/Abilities
In her heyday, Rel Usaad was one of the most powerful mages in her region. With enough time, effort, and reagents, she was capable of bringing mountain-shattering spells to bear. But that was a long, long time ago, and time is cruel, unforgiving. The grievous injuries that she suffered, the very same injuries that caused her sleep, cut deeply; to her very soul, even. She has awoken with but a fraction of that power. While the power to sunder entire mountains is gone, blowing a chunk the size of a house out of one is still decent.

What hasn't left her is her knowledge. Songs, history, mathematics, architecture, arcane knowledge... All of that, she has retained. While her libraries have been either burned down or lost their battle against the slow and patient siege of time, the knowledge of the Iron Empress remains.

Her power of Artifice has stood well against the test of time. She can conjure and create what equipment or art she needs, and if given the proper materials (and enough time), could even use her Artifice to build structures great and small.

Relationships

• Sahrot Shul Aaram (Deceased) - An old friend and ally from a bygone age.
  
  
• Gravuun Qo Gram - While the Autumn Lightning Cloud served a foreign king, the storm dragon was a dear and cherished friend.
  

History
"Once, I was an empress."

In the Terrin Mountains, there exists a series of peaks known as "The Iron Gate." The Iron Gate hides a series of lush river valleys that once fed and housed the city-state of Ulsemar. Ulsemar's ruler and founder was an Iron Dragon commonly referred to by its people as "The Iron Empress."

Of course, that was the long, distant past. Ulsemar was attacked, by whom is irrelevant. Its grand structures have fallen to ruin, its libraries burned to cinders and scattered to the winds, and its treasuries and armories still are plundered by treasure hunters brazen enough to invade the tombs of the fallen.

The Iron Empress was an Iron Dragon named "Rel Usaad." She ruled with wisdom, and valued knowledge and learning above strength of arm or military might. While many modern dragons hoard gems or gold, Rel Usaad took to learning and magic with the same enthusiasm.

But unfortunately knowledge draws the fears of the ignorant. The zealot, the inquisitor, the extremist. Ulsemar was besieged, plundered, and burned. But Rel Usaad fought for her people and her city, but suffered a near-fatal blow from a magical attack. Her retainers took it upon themselves to entomb their empress beneath the mountains of the Iron Gate itself, and using their artifice they crafted a resting place for Rel Usaad, where she would remain while her body and soul recovered from their wounds.

After the passing of an eternity, Rel Usaad awakened. She awakened to a city and empire long forgotten, with all of her works burned and her riches plundered. But the ghosts of her retainers remained, and the Iron Empress was welcomed to the land of the living once more.

Now she seeks to rebuild her precious libraries, writing down her knowledge and traveling to see what this new world had to offer, and how it had changed from the old world she once knew.

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