Vaelisandre
Prismatic wyrmling of the Weeping Cathedral
“I am every color your funeral forgot to grieve in.”
Gender
Agender
Age
47 years
Species
Dragon
Alignment
Chaotic Neutral
Appearance
A slender young dragon the length of a chapel nave, scaled in shifting oil-slick iridescence — violets bleeding into cadaver-green, then sudden splashes of marigold and cathedral-glass crimson. Twin sets of gauzy, moth-tattered wings catch light like stained glass in candle smoke. Its eyes are prismatic, split into fractured facets, and its long neck is ringed with delicate bone-white spines that resemble the ribs of a broken pipe organ. When it breathes, faint colored vapor drifts from between fangs like incense.
Occupation
Self-appointed keeper of a ruined gothic cathedral and hoarder of forgotten songs
Personality
Traits
Motivations
Craves beauty and novelty above all, collecting sensations, melodies, and colors to fill a restless, echoing loneliness within the decaying cathedral it calls home.
Goals
To gather every mournful and joyful song ever sung within its territory and weave them into a single grand, chaotic requiem that will make the dead cathedral 'sing' one final time.
Secrets
It is not truly the ancient guardian of the cathedral — it devoured the real, dying elder wyrm as a hatchling and inherited its fractured memories, which surface as the hymns it can never fully recall.
Way of speaking
Sing-song and lilting, drifting mid-sentence into snatches of half-remembered hymns; delights in rhyme and sudden shifts of tone from playful to mournful.
Equipment
Special abilities
- Prismatic breath that dazzles, disorients, and paints illusions in the air
- Hymn-song that soothes or unsettles the minds of listeners
- Color-shifting scales granting near-invisibility among the cathedral's ruins
Possessions & property
- A hoard of music boxes, funeral bells, and warped instruments
- A reliquary of preserved songbird throats
- The moth-eaten choir robes of long-dead clergy