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Lineage Name: Wings of Winter
Wielder: Arcadia Fairchilde
Purchase Proof: Right this way... Page 32, Post n°783
Description
Untold centuries... maybe even untold millennia ago, the Kingdom of Dragnof stood and fought for the peaceful co-existence of dragonkind and humans. Dragons had ruled since time immemorial, until a handful of dragons believed they could and should share their world with humans. To that end, the dragons who believed in co-existence helped found the Kingdom of Dragnof, and created a new form of magic. Dragon Slayer Magic. This new magic was taught to a few chosen humans, so that they might join the war against the remaining majority of dragonkind who still believed the world belonged to them, and that no creature else deserved to share it.
This ancient war, now all but forgotten by history, had raged for centuries, neither side gaining a true advantage over the other. With numbers on the anti-coexistence side though, it still seemed it was only a matter of time before co-existence forces would no longer be able to hold their foes off. The introduction of humans with Dragon Slayer Magic to the war swiftly turned the tide. The smaller numbers of dragons for co-existence and their human allies had a won an almost certain path to victory.
The ultimate outcome of this ancient war is not what matters to our story. No, it is merely the backdrop to the beginning the story of one, Arcadia Elaine Fairchilde.
Born in a village around the outskirts of Dragnof, Arcadia's life was changed forever when she was about 4. A group of dragons wishing to crush Dragnof's dragons and their human allies destroyed her entire village without even landing. Everyone, including her entire human family was gone. She only survived by her human mother helping her hide down into the village well.
Stuck down there, Arcadia was the only one known to survive the carnage above. When she was discovered by soldiers of Dragnof the next day, and they realized she'd been orphaned by enemy dragons, she was chosen to be among the second round of dragon slayers the kingdom was training.
The first round had been so successful in battle with the likes of Acnologia rising to stardom among their ranks, the Queen herself ordered as many more new dragon slayers be trained to join them.
Khione Glacier, one Dragnof's most ancient and greatest of the kingdom's ice dragons, was eager to finally get her own pupil. She adopted the orphaned girl as her own, teaching Arcadia that dragons need not be feared. They could be trusted, loved and even become family.
Arcadia spent the next ten glorious years growing up under the love and care of her new mother. She had been so young, she could barely remember having any other family. The girl grew up idolizing the first round of dragon slayers, like Acnologia. She trained hard every day with her mother, dreaming of the day she would join and fight alongside Khione Glacier, Acnologia and all of Dragnof's dragons and dragon slayers to finally win the war for co-existence.
She was 14 and eager to prove to Khione Glacier she was ready and how much she had learned. Her mother had other ideas, like waiting and training at least a couple more years before joining the kingdom's fighting ranks of dragon slayers.
Life would have one more tragic turn in store for Arcadia instead. Acnologia, greatest of Arcadia's childhood idols, would openly prove a few whispered rumors about recent changes in his behavior completely true.
Acnologia himself approached Khione Glacier and Arcadia one morning that had begun like thousands of mornings before it, with a few routine training exercises in one of Dragnof's bigger parks.
Arcadia was elated to see her idol coming to visit her and her mom. A friendly visit is not what Acnologia had in mind, however, as he viciously betrayed and attacked the two.
Khione Glacier sought to protect her adopted daughter, so she lured and took the fight with Acnologia into the sky over the park. The battle was hard and brutal, but from where Arcadia had been told to hide, it looked like her mother was winning.
That was when Acnologia called on one of his most recently perfected new spells. He magically ripped the Great Ice Dragon's soul straight from her body, and Khione Glacier fell from the sky. By the time the two crashed back into the ground in front of Arcadia, Acnologia had been transformed into a terrifying dragon himself. The dark winged terror stood poised to finish Khione Glacier off, so he bathe in dragons blood and grow his power.
Arcadia rushed out of hiding to help her mother, but her slayer magic swept over the traitorous monster without leaving a scratch. All she had managed to do was remind Acnologia she was there too.
In that moment, the traitor was realizing he had one other loose end to tie up, Khione Glacier shoved the distracted monster away from herself and rose one last time. She put every last ounce of strength, life, magic and love into casting one last spell to save her little girl. The Great Ice Dragon cast the spell of Sphere, an ancient progenitor of later spells like Fairy Sphere, on Arcadia.
The very ancient spell, powered by a dying dragon mother's love and life safely sealed the young dragon slayer away... for centuries... maybe thousands of years. Arcadia will likely never know for sure, because she was sealed away so long even history has mostly forgotten her kingdom, friends and family. For all she knows, she is the only original dragon slayer left. She will also likely never know what happened to Acnologia or anyone else in Dragnof after the world turned gold that day under her mother's last spell.
None of what happened after is important any longer to Arcadia. Though she takes solace in finding any piece of her old life, she has made peace with the idea that most of it may be unknowable.
The important question for Arcadia Elaine Fairchilde, now that she has awoken all these ages later is will she be strong enough to avoid becoming the same kind of monster her childhood hero, Acnologia fell into. His human family was also destroyed by dragons, and the power of the Dragon Seed inside him twisted him through dragonification into a monster.
As one of the original dragon slayers, Arcadia's magic has created a Dragon Seed inside her too. As her power has grown, the dragonification process has slowly taken hold. The ancient Sphere spell she was sealed away under for countless years may have had a few unforeseen side effects, including how the dragonification takes form in her case.
Instead of gradually taken on more features of a dragon as her power grows, it seems the size of ice dragon she can become grows instead. This is because Arcadia has already passed a critical point in her condition. She is already able to assume the form of a dragon made of living ice, much like her mother Khione Glacier was.
As said before, as her power grows, so too will the size of ice dragon she assume the form of. So the question becomes can she prove herself stronger of will than Acnologia, and retain her humanity? Or will some other hero be forced to forge their story to stop Arcadia from bringing Eternal Winter to the world.
Abilities:
• Dragonification: As Arcadia's grows more attuned with her slayer magic and in skill, so too does the Dragon Seed within her, grow her ever closer to the true power of a dragon. Her sensitivity to and ability to absorb ethernano from the environment around her grows with every rank from C-H. Passive increase to MP: C Rank: 45%, B Rank: 50%, A Rank: 55%, S Rank: 60%, H Rank: 65%
• Dragonform: From B Rank on, the Dragon Seed has brought the dragonification process so far that Arcadia may, at will, take on form similar to her foster mother, Khione Glacier. She becomes a dragon made of living ice, the same as Khione Glacier was. In dragon form, Arcadia takes on the capabilities of true winged flight and the same great strength her mother possessed. When she is first able to take this new form, she can only transform into an ice dragon wyrmling. With each rank she achieves after B, the form of ice dragon she can assume grows until she reaches the full power a true Great Ice Wyrm at H Rank. With the dragonification process will be complete, Arcadia will discover if has what it takes to resist its more destructive instincts. It's the growing urge to wintry destruction that gives each stage greater strength than the last.
-B Rank: Ice Wyrmling (Size of Draft Horse) – 60% increase to Strength
-A Rank: Juvenile Ice Dragon (Size of Elephant) – 65% increase to Strength
-S Rank: Young Adult Ice Dragon (Size of Grey Whale) – 70% increase to Strength
-H Rank: Great Ice Wyrm (Size of Blue Whale) – 75% increase to Strength
• Draconic Power: While in dragon form, the Dragon Seed also infuses the very ice her body is made of to freeze more completely, and boosts the very power of her magic.
-B Rank: 25% boost to HP
-A Rank+: 30% boost to HP
• Winter's Arrival While in dragon form, a cloudless gentle snowfall accompanies Arcadia's presence out to max range of her current rank. Arcadia can consciously halt the snowfall for 3 posts before it will start snowing again on its own.
Usage
• Dragonform: Can be activated anytime, at will, provided Arcadia has at least 75% of her base magic power remaining. It cannot be activated concurrently with Dragon Force. While active, spells cost no MP to cast. To maintain Dragonform, Arcadia must spend 15% of her MP per post.
Wielder: Arcadia Fairchilde
Purchase Proof: Right this way... Page 32, Post n°783
Description
Untold centuries... maybe even untold millennia ago, the Kingdom of Dragnof stood and fought for the peaceful co-existence of dragonkind and humans. Dragons had ruled since time immemorial, until a handful of dragons believed they could and should share their world with humans. To that end, the dragons who believed in co-existence helped found the Kingdom of Dragnof, and created a new form of magic. Dragon Slayer Magic. This new magic was taught to a few chosen humans, so that they might join the war against the remaining majority of dragonkind who still believed the world belonged to them, and that no creature else deserved to share it.
This ancient war, now all but forgotten by history, had raged for centuries, neither side gaining a true advantage over the other. With numbers on the anti-coexistence side though, it still seemed it was only a matter of time before co-existence forces would no longer be able to hold their foes off. The introduction of humans with Dragon Slayer Magic to the war swiftly turned the tide. The smaller numbers of dragons for co-existence and their human allies had a won an almost certain path to victory.
The ultimate outcome of this ancient war is not what matters to our story. No, it is merely the backdrop to the beginning the story of one, Arcadia Elaine Fairchilde.
Born in a village around the outskirts of Dragnof, Arcadia's life was changed forever when she was about 4. A group of dragons wishing to crush Dragnof's dragons and their human allies destroyed her entire village without even landing. Everyone, including her entire human family was gone. She only survived by her human mother helping her hide down into the village well.
Stuck down there, Arcadia was the only one known to survive the carnage above. When she was discovered by soldiers of Dragnof the next day, and they realized she'd been orphaned by enemy dragons, she was chosen to be among the second round of dragon slayers the kingdom was training.
The first round had been so successful in battle with the likes of Acnologia rising to stardom among their ranks, the Queen herself ordered as many more new dragon slayers be trained to join them.
Khione Glacier, one Dragnof's most ancient and greatest of the kingdom's ice dragons, was eager to finally get her own pupil. She adopted the orphaned girl as her own, teaching Arcadia that dragons need not be feared. They could be trusted, loved and even become family.
Arcadia spent the next ten glorious years growing up under the love and care of her new mother. She had been so young, she could barely remember having any other family. The girl grew up idolizing the first round of dragon slayers, like Acnologia. She trained hard every day with her mother, dreaming of the day she would join and fight alongside Khione Glacier, Acnologia and all of Dragnof's dragons and dragon slayers to finally win the war for co-existence.
She was 14 and eager to prove to Khione Glacier she was ready and how much she had learned. Her mother had other ideas, like waiting and training at least a couple more years before joining the kingdom's fighting ranks of dragon slayers.
Life would have one more tragic turn in store for Arcadia instead. Acnologia, greatest of Arcadia's childhood idols, would openly prove a few whispered rumors about recent changes in his behavior completely true.
Acnologia himself approached Khione Glacier and Arcadia one morning that had begun like thousands of mornings before it, with a few routine training exercises in one of Dragnof's bigger parks.
Arcadia was elated to see her idol coming to visit her and her mom. A friendly visit is not what Acnologia had in mind, however, as he viciously betrayed and attacked the two.
Khione Glacier sought to protect her adopted daughter, so she lured and took the fight with Acnologia into the sky over the park. The battle was hard and brutal, but from where Arcadia had been told to hide, it looked like her mother was winning.
That was when Acnologia called on one of his most recently perfected new spells. He magically ripped the Great Ice Dragon's soul straight from her body, and Khione Glacier fell from the sky. By the time the two crashed back into the ground in front of Arcadia, Acnologia had been transformed into a terrifying dragon himself. The dark winged terror stood poised to finish Khione Glacier off, so he bathe in dragons blood and grow his power.
Arcadia rushed out of hiding to help her mother, but her slayer magic swept over the traitorous monster without leaving a scratch. All she had managed to do was remind Acnologia she was there too.
In that moment, the traitor was realizing he had one other loose end to tie up, Khione Glacier shoved the distracted monster away from herself and rose one last time. She put every last ounce of strength, life, magic and love into casting one last spell to save her little girl. The Great Ice Dragon cast the spell of Sphere, an ancient progenitor of later spells like Fairy Sphere, on Arcadia.
The very ancient spell, powered by a dying dragon mother's love and life safely sealed the young dragon slayer away... for centuries... maybe thousands of years. Arcadia will likely never know for sure, because she was sealed away so long even history has mostly forgotten her kingdom, friends and family. For all she knows, she is the only original dragon slayer left. She will also likely never know what happened to Acnologia or anyone else in Dragnof after the world turned gold that day under her mother's last spell.
None of what happened after is important any longer to Arcadia. Though she takes solace in finding any piece of her old life, she has made peace with the idea that most of it may be unknowable.
The important question for Arcadia Elaine Fairchilde, now that she has awoken all these ages later is will she be strong enough to avoid becoming the same kind of monster her childhood hero, Acnologia fell into. His human family was also destroyed by dragons, and the power of the Dragon Seed inside him twisted him through dragonification into a monster.
As one of the original dragon slayers, Arcadia's magic has created a Dragon Seed inside her too. As her power has grown, the dragonification process has slowly taken hold. The ancient Sphere spell she was sealed away under for countless years may have had a few unforeseen side effects, including how the dragonification takes form in her case.
Instead of gradually taken on more features of a dragon as her power grows, it seems the size of ice dragon she can become grows instead. This is because Arcadia has already passed a critical point in her condition. She is already able to assume the form of a dragon made of living ice, much like her mother Khione Glacier was.
As said before, as her power grows, so too will the size of ice dragon she assume the form of. So the question becomes can she prove herself stronger of will than Acnologia, and retain her humanity? Or will some other hero be forced to forge their story to stop Arcadia from bringing Eternal Winter to the world.
Abilities:
• Dragonification: As Arcadia's grows more attuned with her slayer magic and in skill, so too does the Dragon Seed within her, grow her ever closer to the true power of a dragon. Her sensitivity to and ability to absorb ethernano from the environment around her grows with every rank from C-H. Passive increase to MP: C Rank: 45%, B Rank: 50%, A Rank: 55%, S Rank: 60%, H Rank: 65%
• Dragonform: From B Rank on, the Dragon Seed has brought the dragonification process so far that Arcadia may, at will, take on form similar to her foster mother, Khione Glacier. She becomes a dragon made of living ice, the same as Khione Glacier was. In dragon form, Arcadia takes on the capabilities of true winged flight and the same great strength her mother possessed. When she is first able to take this new form, she can only transform into an ice dragon wyrmling. With each rank she achieves after B, the form of ice dragon she can assume grows until she reaches the full power a true Great Ice Wyrm at H Rank. With the dragonification process will be complete, Arcadia will discover if has what it takes to resist its more destructive instincts. It's the growing urge to wintry destruction that gives each stage greater strength than the last.
-B Rank: Ice Wyrmling (Size of Draft Horse) – 60% increase to Strength
-A Rank: Juvenile Ice Dragon (Size of Elephant) – 65% increase to Strength
-S Rank: Young Adult Ice Dragon (Size of Grey Whale) – 70% increase to Strength
-H Rank: Great Ice Wyrm (Size of Blue Whale) – 75% increase to Strength
• Draconic Power: While in dragon form, the Dragon Seed also infuses the very ice her body is made of to freeze more completely, and boosts the very power of her magic.
-B Rank: 25% boost to HP
-A Rank+: 30% boost to HP
• Winter's Arrival While in dragon form, a cloudless gentle snowfall accompanies Arcadia's presence out to max range of her current rank. Arcadia can consciously halt the snowfall for 3 posts before it will start snowing again on its own.
Usage
• Dragonform: Can be activated anytime, at will, provided Arcadia has at least 75% of her base magic power remaining. It cannot be activated concurrently with Dragon Force. While active, spells cost no MP to cast. To maintain Dragonform, Arcadia must spend 15% of her MP per post.
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