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The western distance still bore the faint touch of night, lingering just behind the mountainous dragon that held the daylight back, day and morning reflecting off his body. His scales glinted in the light, their edges sharp like miniature blades. He was the night: the dragon's body was a mass of inky blackness, darker than any earthly night, leg and back and tail imperceptible from one another. Shimmering pinpricks of stars lay scattered over his scales, still even while he moved; he did not seem a physical body as much as a door into the sky. Each of his four horns were curved parodies of a unicorn's that pulsed with black light and distant stars. Four blood-red coals smoldered in deep sockets, glowing through the thick black smoke that rolled forth from his nostrils and over his head. He opened his jaw to reveal starless darkness.

Sotii, Fsehuu! Exelii vuu caas vjii odii ef duumf! he roared forth in a guttural voice that could hardly be understood, black voids bursting from the throat and eating the ice at his feet with each breath and word. The blackness sliced at the ground soundlessly, not cutting or breaking but simply wiping away the snow's existence. It disappeared into the blackness and vanished, the voids dissipating with it.

As the sun rose higher in the sky, the great dark dragon snarled and his night-body began to give way to transparency.

Mowii vuu vetvii csohjiv nuusih ef duwiis vjii iiesvji xovji zuaas gymenii!

Black dust rushed from the dragon's jaws, settling over the icy pit as a fine mist, its heavy depths shimmering like crushed obsidian sands. Then he took flight, spiraling into the sky and soaring west, vanishing into the horizon as the last of night's shadows fell away before the sun.

In the east, a figure rose up from the snow, camouflaged by sparkling white armor. He turned away and sprinted in the direction of the sun.

Joril is the second-in-line to the throne of the Empire of Glace, a cluster of northern territories, most of which are snowy and cold for the majority of the year, dropping to dangerously low negative double-digits in the winter. Up until his mid to late teenage years, Joril lived a "normal" childhood for a prince in a northern Empire; his life was mostly happy and worry-free while he was educated in various academic, athletic, and cultural fields.

Joril's home, the Empire of Glace, is home to many aggressive dragons. These dragons, being fire-breathing, have a very high core body temperature. It literally takes days for the heat to leave their bodies after they die, due to the high specific heat capacity of their blood. The dragons of Glace are usually very bright and colorful, and their blood has the same hue or hues as their scales do. The blood is often used in medicines of the Empire.

Due to the vicious nature of the dragons, Glace is often plagued by dragon attacks, especially during midwinter. For this reason, the Empire has a regiment of hunter-warriors that track and annihilate the dragons if they get too close to the capital/central city of Gelid. Joril joined this group of warriors at the age of 17, a requirement of "royal service" that every male of the royal family has to go through. One night, a dragon managed to make it to the outer borders of Gelid, undetected, and the hunter-warriors were sent out to drive it away and then slaughter it. They did so, but a freak blizzard blew over the mountainside, causing a whiteout, and Joril got separated from the rest of the hunting group. (He later found out that they were attacked by another dragon, a companion of the first one that was slain.)

Joril knew he would freeze to death if he remained out in the subzero temperatures, so he returned to the dragon's carcass and took refuge within its body. By doing this, Joril was able to survive the night and live through the snowstorm.

The next morning, a group of people from Gelid (some soldiers, some of the hunter-warriors, and some searchers) found the body of the dragon. When Joril came out, they didn't recognize their prince. The dragon's blood had stained Joril's previously-white hair (only his hair, not his fur), and scales had started to form on Joril's right side, leading down from his cheek to his jaw and down his neck, then over his shoulder and scattered over his right arm. As the dragon was sunset-colored -- gold, orange, red, rose, violet, and blue -- Joril's hair and scales ended up taking on this color pattern as well, and this earned him the name of "Dragon Prince." The people of Gelid and Glace didn't fear their prince for his newly-acquired dragonic characteristics, but instead loved the already-loved prince even more. They believed the change was god-sent and that Joril was meant to be the Empire's protector and the first in line to the throne, instead of his slothful and avaricious older brother.

Less than half a year later, Joril's brother was assassinated, along with his beautiful mother who tried to protect her children. The Emperor blamed his son, Joril, for the assassination, and Joril was exiled.

Joril's purpose is to regain his dignity, clear his name, take the throne of Glace, and to right his father's and brother's wrongs. And believe me, there are many.

Personality

Joril has a very strong sense of justice, though he is mildly cynical and believes that strength, power, and battles will solve everything, although, at the same time, he wants to avoid creating unnecessary deaths. Joril is intelligent, strategic, and compassionate to an extent, as well as very honest and dignified. One of Joril's flaws is that he has a superiority complex even while he fights to do things for the "common people." Although he realizes that having such a thing isn't good and tries to suppress it, Joril isn't entirely successful.













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