Dario Isidoro Orlando

Dario Isidoro Orlando, often referred to as Dio, is a renowned Junior Class Legionnaire with the rank of Brigadier General. Dario is an Awakened Sage, born on the small island colony of Lacerta on the outskirts of the Valiant Sphere. As a Legionnaire Dario is known as "Dio the Undying", and to the Dragons of Lacerta he is known as their "Draco Dominus". 
Dio was a member the Millennium Class of the Continental Academy, finishing as the #4 graduate. Currently Dario stands among the top 15 Legionnaires, ranked as #6 in the Legion. Dio, alongside Dusty, leads the Legionnaire squad known as Raptor. 
==History==
Dario was born on the island of Lacerta, a small colony of Valour. Lacerta is primarily known for its population of relatively friendly, who keep a good relationship with the residents of Lacerta due to frequent offerings. The Dragons of Lacerta are known to be incredibly unusually powerful for creatures living outside of Purgatory, though they have never attacked humans. Due to the close proximity with the Draconic inhabitants of Lacerta, Awakened Sages are uncommonly prominent among the human population there, and often develop similar abilities. 
Dario is one of those Awakened Sages, though the potency of his abilities certainly are not common. Dario was naturally powerful enough that the dragons themselves took notice of him when he was a child, sensing his presence inside his human village and mistaking him for one of their own. Dio had been abandoned by his parents as a small child due to his fearsome nature, and he was taken in and raised by the dragons. 
The ruler of Lacerta's dragons, the Draco Dominus, was quite ancient, and on the verge of death when Dio was brought in by the dragons. The dragons all saw Dio as one of their own, and chose him as the most compatible to be the successor of the Draco Dominus. As is tradition in their culture, the dragons had Dario absorb their leader's Beast Core upon his death, becoming one with him and gaining the power of his ancient lineage.
The Dragons of Lacerta are often visited by Legionnaire representatives to check up on them, and it was through this that Dio became exposed to the Legion. The visiting Legionnaire recognized Dio's outstanding talent, as well as his valuable connection to the dragons, and convinced him to try and join the soon opening Continental Academy. Dio would become one of the few to pass the Academy's very first entrance exam. 
Dario managed to do quite well in the Academy, despite his rather disagreeable personality, eventually graduating at #4. He would then go on to be a successful Legionnaire, reaching the rank of Brigadier General. Dario would spend the majority of his Legionnaire career on long-term expeditions into Purgatory, rarely returning to the Valiant. In more recent years he was convinced to form the Legionnaire team Raptor by Aquila Invictus and Dusty, taking on more short term missions. 
==Abilities==
* High Monster-level Physicals, Almighty-level Endurance/Healing/Stamina
* Aura Manipulation
===Natural Energy===
Dio is one of the rare Sages capable of utilizing Natural Energy, or latent Flux. Due to growing up in close proximity to the draconic creatures of Lacerta, Dio's body has gained the ability to passively draw in and absorb the Natural Energy of the environment around him. Most Sages of Lacerta are unable to control this Natural Energy, and end up losing control of their power, but Dio has been trained in the techniques of the dragons themselves, and is able to control and harness this latent energy and convert it into Aura to greatly empower himself.
Due to this special mutation, Dio is able to perpetually be utilizing the latent Flux of nature, at no cost to his stamina. Combining this Natural Energy with Dio's own Aura, Dio is able to exponentially increase the potency of his Aura, and achieve incredible physical capabilities. 
Dio can additionally use Natural Energy in other ways, such as projecting his aura from his body in order to increase the range of his strikes, or infusing it into inorganic material in his surroundings in order to control it at will. His utilization of Natural Aura also gives Dio incredible sensory capabilities, allowing him to sense the energy of others even at great distance, and even sense danger around him.
===Beast Will - Draco Dominus===
Having absorbed the Beast Core of the previous Draco Dominus, Dio is able to utilize his powers, as well as the powers of all previous Draco Dominus whose own Beast Cores were absorbed by their successors. Dio is able to manifest several different draconic characteristics due to this, giving him access to many abilities, as well as wield the combined strength of generations of the most powerful Dragons to walk the Valiant. 
* Basic Physiology - Dio is able to temporarily grow a powerful lizard-like tail that he can use essentially as a fifth limb, grow deadly claws and fangs, cover his body in tremendously durable draconic scales, or even sprout draconic wings to fly. Dio is capable of more specific mutations as well, such as taking on the properties of a sea serpent, a variant of a Wyrm, to travel underwater at shocking speed. 
* Dragon's Hide - Seeing as Dio has absorbed the abilities of all types of Elemental Dragons, he is extremely resistant to all forms of elemental attack. 
*Dragon's Lungs - Dio is also able to generate breath attacks similar to that of a dragon. Dio is able to produce several different variant's of his Dragon's Breath, ranging from fire, lightning, wind, ice, acid, and poison. Dio is able to control the strength of his Dragon's Breath, ranging from a basic projectile attack to one that will devastate entire environments. Additionally, Dio is able to breath even underwater or high in the sky.
* Frightful Prescense - The Aura given off by dragons will make lesser creatures flee in terror.
* Hydra - The ability that Dio is most famous for is his powerful healing factor. Dio is able to regenerate lost limbs, organs, and perhaps even more in little time at all. With the upper limits of his healing being unclear, some even say Dio boasts the greatest endurance among the entirety of the Legion. 
True Draco Dominus - Dario is able to, in dire situations, bring out the combined power of all previous Draco Dominus, transforming into a gargantuan many-headed dragon. It is said among the lore-keepers of the Dragons of Lacerta that their custom of the Draco Dominus passing down their power is for the purpose of one day returning themselves to the strength of their ancestors, the Elder Dragons long passed. When laying eyes on the true form of the Draco Dominus, one would be hard pressed to conclude that they have not achieved this goal. 
===Summons===
Dario is able to summon many of the draconic creatures of his homeland, including numerous varieties of Wyverns, Wyrms, and Drakes that are able to act as a significant boon in the field, in combat or otherwise. Many of these creatures have specific niches where they are incredibly useful, and many are simply just tremendously powerful combatants in their own right. All the Dragons of Lacerta are bonded to one another through their various rituals, and Dio is able to summon them where ever he is by spilling a pool of his blood, from which they will emerge. 
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