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Character name: Stone of Indigo Cloud Court

Character canon: Books of the Raksura, CRAU from Last Eden

Canon point: One year after the end of the last book, 6 months after being kidnapped to Last Eden

Physical Description:

The big one is Stone. Normally he’s obscured a little around the edges by a blurring effect, some artifact of his age combining with his power and the peculiar nature of Raksura shapeshifting. He has wings, protective scales and ridges along his body, a lot of spines and long, soft scales called “frills” in a mane down his back, and he is comfortable moving both on two legs (making him very tall) or on all fours (making him only slightly less tall). He can’t talk in this form, but he can growl and communicate some with his spines. He’s lighter than he looks, with nearly hollow bones like a bird, and his wingspan in canon is sixty “paces” from tip to tip, which might translate into anywhere between 70 and 80 feet. Also, his tail is semi-prehensile and he could, if he found anything big enough, hang upside-down from it.

In groundling form, Stone looks basically human, aside from the fact that his skin is dull gray, like his shaggy hair. His canine teeth and the teeth right next to them and some of his molars are sharper than a human’s would be, capable of tearing meat off of bones, and his tongue is longer and thinner than a human’s tongue, but otherwise, he pretty much looks human. He’s very tall and lean, weathered and lined as much by travel as by age, and one blue eye is clouded over and partially blind.

Played by: Jeremy Irons (in grayscale)

About the Character:

Consorts, as the most valuable breeding Aeriat (or winged-form) Raksura, are typically delicate, sheltered, and gentle, maybe even a little flighty. They’re fond of children and good at sussing out the motivations and feelings of others, are often shy and moody, and are considered some of the more graceful and polite of the Aeriat, and of the Raksura as a whole. Stone, however, is so old and well-traveled that the only two of those that still apply are his parental nature and his ability to see to the heart of things, though “shy” and “flighty” never even applied to him as a fledgling. Instead, these days, he is grumpy and snide, showing affection more through light cuffs and casual insults (“idiot” is his favorite) than the smiles and kind words of a younger consort-- though even then, he’s more ready with a hug and a comforting lap to sit in than any human would be if someone seems to need it. The Arbora, in particular-- flightless Raksura, made for climbing-- are very demonstrative with their affection and often find him a safe target for it, so he’s very used to being clung to and climbed on.

Most consorts only leave their homes if they are being traded to another court to share out their bloodline or for a tame diplomatic mission to forge an alliance, but even then young Stone’s experiences were different. The court left the Reaches (the jungle homeland of their people) to find a new location to settle when he was still an adolescent, spending about two generations (between 60 and 80 “turns”, or years) traveling before finding and staying at an old groundling ruin. At the time, Stone 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. Later on, once chosen by his queen Azure, she and he would be sent on various diplomatic missions for the court.

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. When Azure finally died, he started spending more and more time away, exploring the surrounding areas and bringing back stories of his travels. Even after his eventual return, his size, strength, and experience with the world outside meant any adventures outside the court that had to be partaken in (and there were several, after their return to the Reaches) included him.

Between all of those things, Stone has spent more time away from his court than within it. He’s talked to a lot of non-Raksura, killed a number of non-Raksura, and even had sexual relations with a handful non-Raksura-- the latter of which scandalizes his court a little bit when they think about it, even though the Raksura are generally very open-minded and straight-forward about sex. Stone knows enough to be suspicious of strangers, particularly those who smell off or who seem shifty to him, but it doesn’t stop him from engaging with them. Instead, he has a quiet sort of curiosity for new things, enjoying traveling through the various groundling territories and learning about their history-- and especially their food. He does, in fact, tend to have a lot of skill at putting other species at ease, being more polite with them than his own people.

It helps that he is also very confident in himself. He grew up protected and valued, allowed to express himself and put himself forward as he wished-- or not, as he often kept to himself more than Raksura usually do-- and that plus his age and experience have bolstered his confidence and given him a strong base to interact with the rest of the world. He’s used to being deferred to, respected, and obeyed the way a stern but affectionate parent would be, and it shows in nearly all of his interactions with others, familiar or otherwise. Even in unfamiliar or difficult situations, it helps him keep steady that he knows his own worth and the exact extent of his own abilities. He might growl about it, but he keeps his head, accepting that any trouble that comes up will be dealt with. The only time he’s ever really shown as losing his self-control in panic is when his whole species was at risk of being wiped out by an ancient weapon, and they were blocked from getting to it to stop it.

Some of Stone’s confidence also comes from competence. Stone has had a long lifetime to learn new skills, and discover the best ways to do things, so usually when he sets his mind to something, he does it well. It also comes from quite literally being a parent many times over, of several clutches of five bitty Raksura each, watching them grow and assume responsibility and make him grandbabies-- then great-grandbabies, and now they’re on to great-great grandbabies. Because of his age and the responsibility of consorts to breed with Arbora to create mentors (Arbora with additional magical abilities), he’s related to a sizeable portion of both halves of the court, so he sees the rest of the extended court as his responsibility, as well. He has never actually met anyone as old as he is, so he’s used to being the most experienced one in the room. The singular person in the previous panfandom rp game he was in who claimed to be older than he is he didn’t particularly trust, so he has yet to really grapple with the idea of true immortals.

Over the course of his long life, Stone has lost a lot of people he’s cared about. It’s admittedly part of what makes him grumpy-- though most of that is just that he’s lost patience with trivial things and is dismissive with what he considers to be stupidity, and some of that has always been there even as a young consort-- but it’s also part of what makes him protective of those he has currently. While many things annoy him, the only thing that really makes him lose his temper is a threat to people he cares for. He’ll lose them soon enough, by his standards, but he doesn’t want to lose them sooner than he has to. Loss doesn’t keep him from loving; it has made him, instead, love more fiercely and with more wisdom.

Unlike most of his people, Stone is aware that there are other worlds out there beyond the Three Worlds the Raksura call home (ground, sea, and sky respectively). He was kidnapped magically to a traveling moon where he learned that not only was his world not the only one, but most of them out there appeared to be populated by groundlings called “humans” with strange magical powers. He’s been since returned, after helping the moon reach its destination… but only for a month or two before the rift ate him and spat him back out in this new other world. Stone blames the annoying gods of that traveling moon for apparently making him tasty prey for magic-kidnappers.

Character 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.
; 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.
; 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.
; 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.
; 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.
; 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 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, and by being a dive-bombing predator making him slightly far-sighted, so seeing small details close up can be difficult (this will make text posts on the communicator fun). 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.
; 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.
; Politics: Politics are everywhere, including in Raksuran courts. Politics is what keeps a race of haughty predators from killing each other over every little insult. Consorts, in particular, are raised to be closely aware of the political situation in a court, and to manipulate it as needed for the good of the court. Stone may be a century or two removed from when he had to really use his consort role in such a fashion, but he’s been well-trained, and he has a good eye for things of that nature.
; Tea: Stone makes a great cup of tea, and can pour it with great decorum. Not that he bothers with the decorum much lately, but still. He can.

Inventory:

; Stone comes through the rift with nothing but the clothes on his back, and a single bracelet tucked up under his sleeve, gold and designed like Aeriat flying entwined.

Samples:
Test drive sample
Sample thread from his CRAU game

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