Thundershower

They say he was the first and only emperor of the SeaWing Kingdom.
That he gained his power through lies and manipulation. 
He was the greatest ruler, he was the most ruthless, the most cunning, the most kind
He rode the waves and clouds, bringing forth fire and destruction. He was from common roots, they said. That he rose to power by befriending the right dragons.
The Oceanic Empire was the strongest while he was in power, it could never be as strong as it once was.
He was dethroned by an alliance. His daughter tribe and the dragons of the sky.
He's still here though, watching, waiting.
They say when the red light makes figures appear in the clouds, that's his army.
They say when the sunrise makes the mountains turn red, that's dragon's blood. The descendants of his betrayers.
They say when the flaming ship appears on the horizon, he has returned.
Overview
Entry for Macanut23's character contest. This character is not inspired directly by any real life monarch or political figure, any resemblance to any person alive or dead, was purely coincidental.
Sonus-Tempestas or as he is known now, Emperor Thundershower of the SeaWings, was the first and only 'emperor' of the Kingdom of the Sea. He ruled from 83 AS to 175 AS. He was the only monarch to have the title of Emperor and statistically had the most successful and powerful reign of any SeaWing ruler.
Appearance
Descriptions of Emperor Thundershower differ from story to story, but it's generally accepted that he was a huge hulking figure that radiated menace and power with storm grey scales and wickedly sharp claws with electric blue bioluminescent scales. He wore heavy plate armour, with spring loaded swords in his vambraces. According to legend, his eyes would glow red through the eye slits in his helmet.
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Thundershower was indeed a hulking mass of a dragon. His grey-blue scales were littered with battle scars, with a particularly nasty burn on his chest and gills. His obsidian black eyes radiated menace and calm. His handsome face was always twisted into a sneer. Thunder wore heavy plate armour with MudWing scale chainmail underneath it. His impressive wingspan had the talon-shapped biolumenecent patterns that is genetically dominant in the royal SeaWing line.
Personality
One of the greatest (if not the greatest) war generals of all time, and the most ruthless. Even if there are no survivng records about his personal life, SeaWing historians can confidently say that he was more bloodthirsty and more experienced in combat than even Princess Burn was.
Records from other tribes stated that he had no respect for anyone, even members of his own family or even his own tribe. He would often order war criminals to be executed so he didn't have to deal with the political headache that was prisoner swaps and/or negotiations.
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Despite what the history scroll may claim Thundershower was actually quite patient, ensuring he was in the most favourable position he could be before making the proposition for him to become the next ruler of the SeaWing Kingdom. He was also quite power hungry going as far as claiming big portions of what is now known as the MudWing, SkyWing, and Rainforest Kingdoms. He would make declarations of his power and greatness calling himself The Great Storm and challenging any ruler of any tribe to a fight to the death over their respective Kingdoms.
Abilities
Thundershower was a dragon with no physical or mental weakness, he was the most powerful dragon in the history of the Kingdom of the Sea.
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For the record, this is probably not true, but it was so long ago that we have no way of knowing, perhaps he was this indistuctable foe to everyone.
Stats
Strength
Charisma
Endurance
Loyalty
Agility
Intelligence
Stealth
Perception
History
Sonus-Tempestas hatched in 62 AD in the time of The Great Tide. They say that his mother was a soldier in the Queen's army and that his father was killed honourably in combat, and that Thundershower desired to follow the path of both of his parents and become a general in the Queen's army, though he would excel in his dreams tenfold.
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Sonus-Tempestas hatched to Thunder and Aquamarine and was the oldest of four siblings. When he was around two he decided to secure a job with the queen at the time and helping her construct what is now known as the Island Palace. He formed a close friendship with the crown Princess, Shark, who was five years his senior. Despite all the teasing that he got, he was never romantically involved with the Princess, but his relationship with her eventually got him to the title of Emperor.
When Shark challenged for the throne at the age of fifteen and won, one of the first things that she did for Thundershower was make him a general in her army. From there he would lead many successful battles against enemies and make the Kingdom of the Sea's army the most powerful.
Shark would later have two daughters, but they were very unmotivated for the throne and would have rather be spoon fed for the rest of their lives. Thunder remembers the youngest being an exceptionally lazy dragon and was unable to mentally conceive the idea that some things other dragons could have while she could not.
After the failure with her own dragonets, Shark looked into other potential dragonets of other SeaWing nobles to inherit her throne. Though after many years Shark couldn't find a worthy candidate for the throne, so Thunder teasingly joked about him inheriting the throne after Shark passed, Queen Shark took the joke pretty well and laughed with him, but little did she know that he was actually serious.
Thundershower would keep planting the idea into Queen Shark's head until she officially made him her heir at the age of forty-five. Surprisingly, the idea of Thunder becoming the next ruler of the Kingdom of the Sea had a lot of support, as he was known by the tribe as a strong and logically strategist and fiercely loyal soldier, the fact that he wasn't royal in the slightest didn't turn any of his future subject against him, even though blood 'purity' was a very important topic and factor in royal succession.
Eventually Queen Shark was assassinated at a Peace Treaty signing at the SkyWing border by a group of SkyWing terrorists. Thundershower's first declaration as King of the SeaWings was to go to war with the SkyWings over the assassination of his predecessor. He successfully lead several assaults on the SkyWing Kingdom before attacking the palace directly and killing Queen Bloodfyre.
He took the entire SkyWing tribe under his wing and declared himself the Emperor of both the SkyWings and SeaWings and renamed his own Kingdom the Oceanic Empire.
After he gained control of the SkyWing Kingdom, Thundershower became extremely paranoid of another stealing his power, so much so, he forbade his sons from having any dragonets and killed any dragons that showed an inkling of ambition.
Eventually Queen Bloodfyre's great-grand niece reached the age of five and was already a promising candidate to become queen, so a couple dragons who were still loyal to her great-aunt had her smuggled out of the Kingdom when Thundershower ordered her assassination.
Crown Princess Amaterasu of the SkyWings eventually reached out to Crown Princess Tempestas, Thundershower's younger sister. Both dragonesses gathered a great following of dragons who no longer believed that Thundershower was a worthy ruler of the Oceanic Empire or the SkyWing Kingdom, and this great movement would be miraculously been hidden from Thundershower for the next six years.
Eventually, Thundershower caught wind of something happening under his nose, so he ordered that all of his female heirs be killed, which was his younger two sister Tempestas and Belisima, though that didn't stop the rebellion against him.
A couple months later after his sisters' deaths Crown Princess Amaterasu lead portions of the SeaWing and SkyWing armies against Emperor Thundershower. Despite being a very big and imposing dragon, he was overwhelmed and eventually defeated with a spear to the back of the neck.
Relationships
Queen Damselfish: Thundershower didn't know his queen on a personal level, but Damselfish greatly respected his hard work and dedication and hinted for her daughter, Shark, to get together with him.
Queen Shark: Queen Shark and Thundershower had quite a good relationship, they were like two peas in a pod before shark became Queen. Though Thundershower manipulated Shark to get on the throne he was genuinely devastated when he found out about her murder.
Crown Princess Tempestas: Thunder didn't really care about his younger sister, he eventually just saw her as a threat to his throne so he had her killed.
Queen Bloodfyre: He didn't really know the SkyWing Queen before, only by reputation. He did take some sick joy in her death and admitted it was like karmic justice.
Crown Princess Amaterasu: Thundershower spent his last moments alive staring into the eyes of Amaterasu. She hated him for taking her tribe and would gladly murder again.
Miscellaneous
*The last part of his legend, the flaming shadows in the sky, is vaguely inspired by the Flaming Ghost Ship of Prince Edward Island
Family Tree
Credits
*Wheatproduct
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