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Rokkr: Application
Player Information
Name: Gail
Contact Info: PM scarsolderthanyou, cacopheny @ plurk
Do you play another character in this game?: N/A
Character Information
Canon: Books of the Raksura
Character Name: Stone of Indigo Cloud
Canon Point: After the events of book 5, Harbors of the Sun
History:
Stone was born to a Raksuran court in the sprawling forest of giant “mountain-trees” known to his people as the Reaches, in the vast planet known as the Three Worlds (Ground, Sea, and Sky). The Raksura lived there in a tree as large as a small town, towering thousands of feet into the sky and supporting whole ecosystems in their branches and along their trunks. His court, the small Umber Shadow court, had dwelled in their carved and magically sculpted tree-home for generations. Stone was a well-cared-for consort caste Aeriat, one of the winged Raksura. Consorts are the fertile males who can breed with the ruling female queens to continue the royal lines and produce sterile warriors, or with the wingless Arbora castes to produce magic-wielding mentors.
It was uncertain at first whether Stone would ever actually be chosen by a queen, because he was born, as he calls it, “imperfect”, with his right eye half blind and clouded over, and the Raksura breed for conformation and specific traits. It didn’t help his generally grumpy tendencies when for many years, in the Reaches and beyond, he was passed over-- but in the end, it was a needless worry. His queen, Azure, choose him from among the rest of the court’s consorts and from among the neighboring courts’ offerings, and he went on to produce a number of strong clutches, none of them with his distinctive disability. One line of his offspring went on to eventually rule the court, in his great-granddaughter Pearl.
The Reaches were getting too populous, though, and smaller courts were having more and more trouble keeping their territory. When the current reigning queen Cerise died and passed leadership on to her daughter Indigo, the court decided to take off for new grounds, renaming itself Indigo Cloud after the new ruling pair. Stone was still young, and considered the trek an adventure, learning to hunt while they traveled, and developing stronger and more wild than sheltered consorts in the Reaches ever got to be. The court explored for two generations, something like sixty to eighty “turns” or years, and eventually found an old ruined pyramid structure in the east beyond the forests of the rest of their kind. Stone never really felt comfortable there, by that time tired of the “adventure” and missing home, but that was where Azure chose him, and he stayed where she did to raise their clutches.
The court lived away from their ancestral grounds for about eight generations, or a little over three hundred turns. Raksuran consorts live to perhaps a hundred and twenty turns or a little less, with the exception of “line-grandfathers”, or consorts who live many times a Raksura’s standard lifespan and grow well past their standard size, as Raksura don’t ever stop growing over their lives. As the turns passed, it became clear that Stone was to become one of those, as first Stone’s queen Azure and then his children began to fade and die-- Raksura show their age by losing their coloring, fading to gray and then white-- while he remained strong and healthy, and only grew larger and stronger as time went by.
After he outlived the last of his earlier clutches, and with no queen to keep him settled in the court, Stone began to range further and further from the court, exploring the lands around them. He met groundlings-- intelligent life forms, usually bipedal, who lived on the surface of the Three Worlds-- and sealings-- like groundlings, only who live in rivers and oceans-- and even flew with skylings-- often very different from either of the others, those who lived most of their lives in the clouds. He fought stray Fell, the Raksura’s more violent sibling race, learned the customs of various peoples across the Three Worlds, visited their allies, and checked on their old mountain-tree in the Reaches. He enjoyed his freedom, but it was lonely, so he did always return to visit whichever generation of his family lived in the court’s new grounds, bringing stories of his travels.
Still, it was hard watching fledgings he had seen born and helped raise grow gray, fade, and die, so the intervals grew more and more lengthy, until one year he returned to find the number of his home court much reduced. There had been sickness, he’d been told. And a hunting accident. And there had been more stillbirths and fewer of the flighted, sterile warriors to protect the court born in recent years. All of the other consorts had died, or been sent away by the moody queen Pearl, grieving for her favored consort, and only she and her daughter Jade remained of the fertile Aeriat.
Stone was alarmed, and after conferring with the Arbora and the queens, left again to speak with their allies in a nearby court, to bargain for consorts and warriors to help protect their court-- and help them move, as he was urging that they return to their original home in the Reaches. None of the mentors could auger the cause of their decline, but all of them agreed that something had to be wrong, and sent him in the direction that they thought had the most chance of Stone returning with help.
The allied court, however, had no one to spare, and no real desire to risk themselves by offering to help a struggling court. Stone returned empty-handed… until he stopped to rest on one of the floating island ruins dotting the skies and all but ran into a solitary, courtless consort living among a local groundling tribe. Moon had no idea what he was, or what Stone was, but Stone managed to talk him into coming with him after the groundling tribe left Moon out to die because they mistook his scaled form for a Fell. Moon was suspicious and untrusting and largely unsocialized, but also lonely and curious and obviously aching for a little acceptance. Stone found himself rather attached to the little brat even before he got him all the way home. Moon’s grouchiness and independence reminded him of his own, and the plight of a lost and confused Raksura who didn’t even know what he was pulled at his old, parental heart.
With Moon’s help, Stone and his queens discovered the source of their court’s decline: the direct magical attentions of a Fell flight, including a Fell/Raksura crossbreed mentor with magical powers. Together they destroyed the flight, and finally made their way back west towards the Reaches with the help of some groundlings and their flying boats. It took various adventures, including meeting up and allying with Moon’s original court Opal Night and dealing with yet more Fell/Raksura hybrids, before everything started to settle down and the court could start breeding again-- Jade and Moon producing a clutch of five great-great-great grandchildren for Stone-- at least until the next adventure sent them investigating cities supposedly made by the forerunner race a few years later.
The result of that fateful trip was a half-Fell flight taking up residence in the Reaches in Moon’s birthcourt’s territory, Stone taking up with a misplaced sealing named Rorra for a while (at least as long as she deigned to stay near Indigo Cloud’s home tree), and the destruction of half or more of the population of the Fell by a forerunner weapon that nearly destroyed the Raksura and a large swath of groundling races, in the process. It was only through Moon and Jade’s efforts that the combined courts of Indigo Cloud and Opal Night stopped the weapon before it could complete its horrible task. Stone helped, of course.
CRAU History: NA
Character Details
Personality (Aspiration/Drive): The biggest motivation in Stone’s life at this age is protection: he’s the biggest, strongest, and most experienced in his court, and he loves his extended family and wants them to be safe. Next would be exploration, due to his restless nature after Azure died and his habit of disappearing whenever he feels he needs space. Finally, hard-coded into his DNA as a consort is renewal and guidance of children, because as a consort (even a very old one) he is a keeper of the court’s bloodlines and both the source for and guardian of new children.
Personality (Worldview/Alignment): Stone is both jaded and hopeful, in a strange sort of way. He has a lot of experience with treachery and violence and loss, but he still sees worth in approaching others, making connections, and learning new things. He especially enjoys trying new kinds of food. At his core, he’s basically a good person, if a bit bitter and a bit tired, and a bit too likely to growl and swat when annoyed. He prefers to handle things himself, rather than get people he cares about involved. Also, perhaps importantly to a horror game, Stone believes the purpose of his people is to kill their cannibalistic sister race, the Fell. This belief has been challenged a little by cooperation with some half-Raksuran Fell crossbreeds, but he will still readily fall back on “destroy dangerous monsters” in times of stress.
Personality (Traits):
; Gruff: This is the first thing most people notice about Stone, that he is gruff and no-nonsense and tends to display annoyance more readily than affection. Even his shows of affection tend to be couched in fond insults and light cuffs to the head, for all he’s a lot more touchy than many human cultures would be comfortable with.
; Direct: Stone doesn’t have a lot of patience for talking around the subject. He knows how, sure, but he still hates it, and tends to cut to the heart of any matter he’s discussing, when he can.
; Experienced: As the oldest and most well-traveled Raksura in his court, possibly even in the whole of the Reaches, Stone is very experienced in a wide variety of things. That doesn’t always translate to the situations he would wind up in through DWRP, but it does make it easier for him to incorporate new situations into his worldview, and also makes him harder to impress or intimidate.
; Confident: All that experience, plus his upbringing as one of the treasured consorts in the court, means Stone is very confident in himself. He knows the exact extent of his skills and experience, and knows he has the support of his court, and that helps him react appropriately in most situations. The only time we ever see him panic in canon is when he’s faced with the potential extinction of his race, with no way to stop it.
; Strong: Stone is used to being the strongest and the toughest of his court, and in some ways of his species. He will readily accept responsibilities and dangers that he wouldn’t expect of others, because he’s used to being strong enough to handle them.
; Curious: Stone does love seeing new places, meeting new people, and learning new things-- also, eating new food. He has a restless nature and wants to know about the things he sees in his travels.
; Caring: As both guardian and progenitor of his court, and despite his constant loss by living longer than everyone he’s ever known, Stone has strong connections with the people in it and readily makes other connections with people he meets outside. He is hard-wired to care about others, and rather than withdrawing from that urge after his long life, he embraces it.
Inventory:
; Weapon: Iron shield. Stone is not trained in the use of any weapons except his claws and teeth, so something simple to bash with is recommended.
; Runestone: Runestone bracelet
; Tunic/Cape color: Gray
Offerings
Memory Loss: Stone will forget the names of his deceased queen, Azure, and his forty some-odd children, only a couple of whom are actually named in canon. He’ll remember he had a queen, even remember her scent, but not who she was or what she looked like, and that he had a lot of kids, but not specifics of each clutch.
Runic Mark: Algiz (protection/shelter) - Natural Armor The covering and structure of the chest and back of the character are strengthened. Weapon blows, teeth and claws will not break or bruise the skin in these areas.
When in use, the rune glows blue. The marking itself is blue when ignited and turns black when extinguished.
Skills and Abilities:
; Shapeshifting: Stone has a human-like “groundling” form, and a dragon-like winged form. The shapeshift itself looks like disappearing in a cloud of dark mist. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Blurring effect: In his winged form, Stone is a little hard to see clearly. There’s some sort of mental power he exudes without conscious control, blurring his face, claws, and the edges of his form. He can stop it if he really focuses, and it stops when he’s too injured to hold it up or asleep, but mostly it’s an automatic power, related to his age and how the Raksura shift. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Shapeshift stowing: Due to the nature of shapeshifting in his species-- though they don’t understand it, the series creator has stated they exist in both forms at once, only swapping the dimension each form is in-- when shifting from groundling to winged form, Stone takes his clothes with him, into some nether space, as well as anything he was carrying with him. They return exactly the way he left them when he shifts back to groundling. He can in fact hold onto an object and shift with it, hiding it wherever his clothes go it until he shifts back into groundling form. The object can’t really be very big, but it can be anything not alive. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Magical mass: Again due to the odd nature of Raksuran shifting, in groundling form, Stone can be as immovable as if he were still dragon-sized, though if weighed he wouldn’t have the same weight as his winged form; it’s a magical effect rather than a physical one. Also, when he growls in groundling form, it can reverberate as if it were coming from a much larger body. And yes, he still growls (and hisses) in groundling form. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Slow aging: No one’s entirely sure exactly how old Stone is, not even Stone. He’s at least several centuries old at this point, many times over the typical lifespan of a Raksura, and has only in the past couple of decades started showing signs of aging: the graying out of his hair and skin in groundling form, and the fading of the black of his scales in winged form.
; Quick healing: Compared to most groundlings on their world, Raksura heal at an accelerated rate. Stone recovered from a slash to the throat in about a week, and Moon recovered from having half his ribs broken in about two weeks. This is inactive in Rokkr.
; Sharp senses: Raksura are predators, and rather more animalistic than humans whose development hinged less on ambush hunting and more on tools and persistence, and as such their senses are more powerful than your average human’s senses. As Raksura get older, they get more powerful, and that applies to their senses as well, so Stone’s hearing, sense of smell (more through his mouth and tongue, like a lizard, than through his nose), and distance vision are very powerful. His vision is hampered on his right side by partial blindness in that eye, though, which results in him turning his head more often than he otherwise might, to get a clearer view. His different forms also have different sensory abilities-- touch and taste are stronger as a groundling, while vision, hearing, and smell are stronger in his winged form.
; Directional Sense: Raksura always feel which direction south is, on their world. This may or may not translate to knowing where south is on other planets. Related to this, Raksura can sense the position of the sun even when indoors or underground, so they know generally what time it is at all times. This is inactive in Rokkr.
; Fighting: More mundanely, he’s big, he’s scaled, he’s fast, and he’s surprisingly hard to see-- plus he has claws and teeth that are even sharper than they look. After several lifetimes of wandering and killing the Fell, he’s learned more than a few things about defending himself and others. He’s slightly less useful when confined to groundling form, but still stronger and faster than he looks.
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Name: Gail
Contact Info: PM scarsolderthanyou, cacopheny @ plurk
Do you play another character in this game?: N/A
Character Information
Canon: Books of the Raksura
Character Name: Stone of Indigo Cloud
Canon Point: After the events of book 5, Harbors of the Sun
History:
Stone was born to a Raksuran court in the sprawling forest of giant “mountain-trees” known to his people as the Reaches, in the vast planet known as the Three Worlds (Ground, Sea, and Sky). The Raksura lived there in a tree as large as a small town, towering thousands of feet into the sky and supporting whole ecosystems in their branches and along their trunks. His court, the small Umber Shadow court, had dwelled in their carved and magically sculpted tree-home for generations. Stone was a well-cared-for consort caste Aeriat, one of the winged Raksura. Consorts are the fertile males who can breed with the ruling female queens to continue the royal lines and produce sterile warriors, or with the wingless Arbora castes to produce magic-wielding mentors.
It was uncertain at first whether Stone would ever actually be chosen by a queen, because he was born, as he calls it, “imperfect”, with his right eye half blind and clouded over, and the Raksura breed for conformation and specific traits. It didn’t help his generally grumpy tendencies when for many years, in the Reaches and beyond, he was passed over-- but in the end, it was a needless worry. His queen, Azure, choose him from among the rest of the court’s consorts and from among the neighboring courts’ offerings, and he went on to produce a number of strong clutches, none of them with his distinctive disability. One line of his offspring went on to eventually rule the court, in his great-granddaughter Pearl.
The Reaches were getting too populous, though, and smaller courts were having more and more trouble keeping their territory. When the current reigning queen Cerise died and passed leadership on to her daughter Indigo, the court decided to take off for new grounds, renaming itself Indigo Cloud after the new ruling pair. Stone was still young, and considered the trek an adventure, learning to hunt while they traveled, and developing stronger and more wild than sheltered consorts in the Reaches ever got to be. The court explored for two generations, something like sixty to eighty “turns” or years, and eventually found an old ruined pyramid structure in the east beyond the forests of the rest of their kind. Stone never really felt comfortable there, by that time tired of the “adventure” and missing home, but that was where Azure chose him, and he stayed where she did to raise their clutches.
The court lived away from their ancestral grounds for about eight generations, or a little over three hundred turns. Raksuran consorts live to perhaps a hundred and twenty turns or a little less, with the exception of “line-grandfathers”, or consorts who live many times a Raksura’s standard lifespan and grow well past their standard size, as Raksura don’t ever stop growing over their lives. As the turns passed, it became clear that Stone was to become one of those, as first Stone’s queen Azure and then his children began to fade and die-- Raksura show their age by losing their coloring, fading to gray and then white-- while he remained strong and healthy, and only grew larger and stronger as time went by.
After he outlived the last of his earlier clutches, and with no queen to keep him settled in the court, Stone began to range further and further from the court, exploring the lands around them. He met groundlings-- intelligent life forms, usually bipedal, who lived on the surface of the Three Worlds-- and sealings-- like groundlings, only who live in rivers and oceans-- and even flew with skylings-- often very different from either of the others, those who lived most of their lives in the clouds. He fought stray Fell, the Raksura’s more violent sibling race, learned the customs of various peoples across the Three Worlds, visited their allies, and checked on their old mountain-tree in the Reaches. He enjoyed his freedom, but it was lonely, so he did always return to visit whichever generation of his family lived in the court’s new grounds, bringing stories of his travels.
Still, it was hard watching fledgings he had seen born and helped raise grow gray, fade, and die, so the intervals grew more and more lengthy, until one year he returned to find the number of his home court much reduced. There had been sickness, he’d been told. And a hunting accident. And there had been more stillbirths and fewer of the flighted, sterile warriors to protect the court born in recent years. All of the other consorts had died, or been sent away by the moody queen Pearl, grieving for her favored consort, and only she and her daughter Jade remained of the fertile Aeriat.
Stone was alarmed, and after conferring with the Arbora and the queens, left again to speak with their allies in a nearby court, to bargain for consorts and warriors to help protect their court-- and help them move, as he was urging that they return to their original home in the Reaches. None of the mentors could auger the cause of their decline, but all of them agreed that something had to be wrong, and sent him in the direction that they thought had the most chance of Stone returning with help.
The allied court, however, had no one to spare, and no real desire to risk themselves by offering to help a struggling court. Stone returned empty-handed… until he stopped to rest on one of the floating island ruins dotting the skies and all but ran into a solitary, courtless consort living among a local groundling tribe. Moon had no idea what he was, or what Stone was, but Stone managed to talk him into coming with him after the groundling tribe left Moon out to die because they mistook his scaled form for a Fell. Moon was suspicious and untrusting and largely unsocialized, but also lonely and curious and obviously aching for a little acceptance. Stone found himself rather attached to the little brat even before he got him all the way home. Moon’s grouchiness and independence reminded him of his own, and the plight of a lost and confused Raksura who didn’t even know what he was pulled at his old, parental heart.
With Moon’s help, Stone and his queens discovered the source of their court’s decline: the direct magical attentions of a Fell flight, including a Fell/Raksura crossbreed mentor with magical powers. Together they destroyed the flight, and finally made their way back west towards the Reaches with the help of some groundlings and their flying boats. It took various adventures, including meeting up and allying with Moon’s original court Opal Night and dealing with yet more Fell/Raksura hybrids, before everything started to settle down and the court could start breeding again-- Jade and Moon producing a clutch of five great-great-great grandchildren for Stone-- at least until the next adventure sent them investigating cities supposedly made by the forerunner race a few years later.
The result of that fateful trip was a half-Fell flight taking up residence in the Reaches in Moon’s birthcourt’s territory, Stone taking up with a misplaced sealing named Rorra for a while (at least as long as she deigned to stay near Indigo Cloud’s home tree), and the destruction of half or more of the population of the Fell by a forerunner weapon that nearly destroyed the Raksura and a large swath of groundling races, in the process. It was only through Moon and Jade’s efforts that the combined courts of Indigo Cloud and Opal Night stopped the weapon before it could complete its horrible task. Stone helped, of course.
CRAU History: NA
Character Details
Personality (Aspiration/Drive): The biggest motivation in Stone’s life at this age is protection: he’s the biggest, strongest, and most experienced in his court, and he loves his extended family and wants them to be safe. Next would be exploration, due to his restless nature after Azure died and his habit of disappearing whenever he feels he needs space. Finally, hard-coded into his DNA as a consort is renewal and guidance of children, because as a consort (even a very old one) he is a keeper of the court’s bloodlines and both the source for and guardian of new children.
Personality (Worldview/Alignment): Stone is both jaded and hopeful, in a strange sort of way. He has a lot of experience with treachery and violence and loss, but he still sees worth in approaching others, making connections, and learning new things. He especially enjoys trying new kinds of food. At his core, he’s basically a good person, if a bit bitter and a bit tired, and a bit too likely to growl and swat when annoyed. He prefers to handle things himself, rather than get people he cares about involved. Also, perhaps importantly to a horror game, Stone believes the purpose of his people is to kill their cannibalistic sister race, the Fell. This belief has been challenged a little by cooperation with some half-Raksuran Fell crossbreeds, but he will still readily fall back on “destroy dangerous monsters” in times of stress.
Personality (Traits):
; Gruff: This is the first thing most people notice about Stone, that he is gruff and no-nonsense and tends to display annoyance more readily than affection. Even his shows of affection tend to be couched in fond insults and light cuffs to the head, for all he’s a lot more touchy than many human cultures would be comfortable with.
; Direct: Stone doesn’t have a lot of patience for talking around the subject. He knows how, sure, but he still hates it, and tends to cut to the heart of any matter he’s discussing, when he can.
; Experienced: As the oldest and most well-traveled Raksura in his court, possibly even in the whole of the Reaches, Stone is very experienced in a wide variety of things. That doesn’t always translate to the situations he would wind up in through DWRP, but it does make it easier for him to incorporate new situations into his worldview, and also makes him harder to impress or intimidate.
; Confident: All that experience, plus his upbringing as one of the treasured consorts in the court, means Stone is very confident in himself. He knows the exact extent of his skills and experience, and knows he has the support of his court, and that helps him react appropriately in most situations. The only time we ever see him panic in canon is when he’s faced with the potential extinction of his race, with no way to stop it.
; Strong: Stone is used to being the strongest and the toughest of his court, and in some ways of his species. He will readily accept responsibilities and dangers that he wouldn’t expect of others, because he’s used to being strong enough to handle them.
; Curious: Stone does love seeing new places, meeting new people, and learning new things-- also, eating new food. He has a restless nature and wants to know about the things he sees in his travels.
; Caring: As both guardian and progenitor of his court, and despite his constant loss by living longer than everyone he’s ever known, Stone has strong connections with the people in it and readily makes other connections with people he meets outside. He is hard-wired to care about others, and rather than withdrawing from that urge after his long life, he embraces it.
Inventory:
; Weapon: Iron shield. Stone is not trained in the use of any weapons except his claws and teeth, so something simple to bash with is recommended.
; Runestone: Runestone bracelet
; Tunic/Cape color: Gray
Offerings
Memory Loss: Stone will forget the names of his deceased queen, Azure, and his forty some-odd children, only a couple of whom are actually named in canon. He’ll remember he had a queen, even remember her scent, but not who she was or what she looked like, and that he had a lot of kids, but not specifics of each clutch.
Runic Mark: Algiz (protection/shelter) - Natural Armor The covering and structure of the chest and back of the character are strengthened. Weapon blows, teeth and claws will not break or bruise the skin in these areas.
When in use, the rune glows blue. The marking itself is blue when ignited and turns black when extinguished.
Skills and Abilities:
; Shapeshifting: Stone has a human-like “groundling” form, and a dragon-like winged form. The shapeshift itself looks like disappearing in a cloud of dark mist. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Blurring effect: In his winged form, Stone is a little hard to see clearly. There’s some sort of mental power he exudes without conscious control, blurring his face, claws, and the edges of his form. He can stop it if he really focuses, and it stops when he’s too injured to hold it up or asleep, but mostly it’s an automatic power, related to his age and how the Raksura shift. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Shapeshift stowing: Due to the nature of shapeshifting in his species-- though they don’t understand it, the series creator has stated they exist in both forms at once, only swapping the dimension each form is in-- when shifting from groundling to winged form, Stone takes his clothes with him, into some nether space, as well as anything he was carrying with him. They return exactly the way he left them when he shifts back to groundling. He can in fact hold onto an object and shift with it, hiding it wherever his clothes go it until he shifts back into groundling form. The object can’t really be very big, but it can be anything not alive. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Magical mass: Again due to the odd nature of Raksuran shifting, in groundling form, Stone can be as immovable as if he were still dragon-sized, though if weighed he wouldn’t have the same weight as his winged form; it’s a magical effect rather than a physical one. Also, when he growls in groundling form, it can reverberate as if it were coming from a much larger body. And yes, he still growls (and hisses) in groundling form. This is inactive in Rokkr, but can be regained though AC/Favor exchanges.
; Slow aging: No one’s entirely sure exactly how old Stone is, not even Stone. He’s at least several centuries old at this point, many times over the typical lifespan of a Raksura, and has only in the past couple of decades started showing signs of aging: the graying out of his hair and skin in groundling form, and the fading of the black of his scales in winged form.
; Quick healing: Compared to most groundlings on their world, Raksura heal at an accelerated rate. Stone recovered from a slash to the throat in about a week, and Moon recovered from having half his ribs broken in about two weeks. This is inactive in Rokkr.
; Sharp senses: Raksura are predators, and rather more animalistic than humans whose development hinged less on ambush hunting and more on tools and persistence, and as such their senses are more powerful than your average human’s senses. As Raksura get older, they get more powerful, and that applies to their senses as well, so Stone’s hearing, sense of smell (more through his mouth and tongue, like a lizard, than through his nose), and distance vision are very powerful. His vision is hampered on his right side by partial blindness in that eye, though, which results in him turning his head more often than he otherwise might, to get a clearer view. His different forms also have different sensory abilities-- touch and taste are stronger as a groundling, while vision, hearing, and smell are stronger in his winged form.
; Directional Sense: Raksura always feel which direction south is, on their world. This may or may not translate to knowing where south is on other planets. Related to this, Raksura can sense the position of the sun even when indoors or underground, so they know generally what time it is at all times. This is inactive in Rokkr.
; Fighting: More mundanely, he’s big, he’s scaled, he’s fast, and he’s surprisingly hard to see-- plus he has claws and teeth that are even sharper than they look. After several lifetimes of wandering and killing the Fell, he’s learned more than a few things about defending himself and others. He’s slightly less useful when confined to groundling form, but still stronger and faster than he looks.
Character Samples
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