Rayne the Dragon Charmer
Race: Human/Dragon Changling
Class: Dragon Charmer - Healer
Age: 20
Character Background:
This is the tale of Rayne the Dragon
Charmer. Rayne was raised by dragons, they found her abandoned in
a small cave when she was just a babe. The dragons had entered
the cave to seek shelter from a heavy rain storm that had been
plummeting the land for weeks. Once inside they sensed magic and
detected a strange scent, it was dragon, but not dragon, it was
human but not human, inspecting further they found a small babe,
dressed in fine clothes and wrapped in expensive furs and near
death. There was no signs of life for many miles of where she was
hidden, and she had definitely been hidden. Someone had put her
there to keep her safe, but from what or from whom, they did not
know. Clinched in her tiny fist they found an amulet. The amulet
bore the symbol of a dragon, this may be the only clue to who or
what she may be.
Once detected and the child calmed, the
rains suddenly ceased. The dragons had to call her something so
they named her Rayne because of the rain they believed her tears
created. They took her back to their lair where she grew into a
very special young woman with very unique talents. Rayne grew up
happy and content among the dragons who rescued her and raised
her as their own. Yet she was haunted by reoccurring dreams, of a
beautiful couple with a tiny babe, very much in love and very
happy. Other things plagued her dreams as well, a great war with
much death, between humans and dragons. But there was one dragon
always haunting her dreams, a majestic deep purple, almost black
dragon with golden eyes. Those eyes haunted her, yet they
strangely comforted her as well.
The dragons were puzzled about her dragon
blood, she was human but she was also dragon. There were tales in
their history about changelings. Changlings were creatures that
existed only in the dragon realms, long ago wiped out by their
creators. Changlings were dragons that were born human, but when
they reached maturity they had the ability to change form at will
into a dragon. They were the result of dragons and humans
interbreeding to create a new race. When the race proved to be
more powerful then even the dragons themselves, possessing all
the abilities of thier dragon ancestors, as well as a variety of
other abilites the dragons didn't count on. The dragons decided
the race needed to be destroyed, but not all agreed, thus began
the dragon wars. According to legend, the race was completely
destroyed, along with other races as well. The dragon wars were
truly a dark time for the dragon realms. But all changlings were
believed destroyed, yet they could find no other explanation for
her dragon blood and her unique abilities.
Rayne's abilities were there, almost from
birth. The dragons already knew, she could call fourth rain, and
her first few years were rainey ones. But about the time she
learned to walk, it was also discovered that she had the ability
to heal with just her touch. She could feel anothers pain, she
could feel their distress, their anger and their joy. Her powers
growing stronger as she grew older. She grew up speaking the
ancient language of the dragons. She learned the language of
humans from an old wizard that spent alot of time with the
dragons of her lair. She also learned much about magic from the
old wizard. But there were things that even he could not teach
her that seemed to come naturally to Rayne. Her powers grew
stronger every day. The old wizard taught her what he could about
magic and a little about weapons, for he knew she would leave the
lair soon, but her strength was in her magic.
One day while she was in the nearby
village she saw a man beating a big black horse, he was ragged
and half starved. Rayne went over to the man and stopped him
before he could strike the horse again. The man protested at
being stopped. He said the horse was his and that he was useless,
he would do with him as he wished. Rayne told the man, name your
price, he just stared at her. To the dragons, Rayne was dragon,
so she never lacked for treasure or gold, dragons always had
plenty and she had access to what ever she needed. The man named
an outrageous price and Rayne laid the gold before him. His eyes
buldged, but he kept his word and now Rayne was the proud owner
of a half dead war horse. She named him Damien, she healed his
wounds, fattened him up and he became her friend and protector.
When Rayne reached the year of her 15th
summer she started to get restless, she would spend hours and
hours alone, and her dreams became more and more disturbing.
Something was calling to her, the pull was so strong that it
would not be ignored. Rayne stood it for as long as she could
then she decided it was time to leave the lair and see if she
could find the source of her distress. She said her fair wells
and climbed upon Damien and her travels began.
Rayne met many dragons along the way, and
healed and helped where she could, but the call that led her from
her home was still their. During one such encounter she came
across a dragon that had laid a catch of eggs. There was one egg
that had suffered a crack, the mother had decided to destroy the
egg but Rayne begged her not to. The dragon knowing that the egg
would not hatch, and even if it did the chances of survival were
slim gave the egg to Rayne. Rayne kept the egg with her and cared
for it as best she could, hoping it would survive. She did not
know why this egg was so special to her but she could not bear to
see it abandoned.
She sang to it, she kept it warm, but she
was unable to heal the crack. To her amazement, one night the egg
began to hatch, she had to help the tiny red dragon come into the
world. He was weak and way to small, but Rayne was able to heal
him. She named him Gideon and took on the role of his mother and
protector, though Gideon sees himself as her protector; he is
still too small to be much of a threat.
Thus this is where we are today, Rayne the
Dragon Charmer, who travels with a baby dragon named Gideon upon
a great black war horse named Damien following a call that she
can not determine, but drives her own.
Rayne
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I see her.
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Amulet
Damien
Gideon
THE EYES ARE THE WINDOWS
TO THE SOUL
COME AND LET ME LOOK INTO YOURS
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