Queen Echis

= Notes ‘n crap =
* Ooh scary lady
* Queen during the time of the Scorching
* Ruthless(?)
* Murder haha
* Wanted her tribe to win really badly lol
* Really liked smoking mugwort, rose, chamomile, and lavender. Literally smoked a few times a day- 3/4ish.
* Probably died of lung disease/cancer
* Got fed fruit daily because she’s fancy like that
Introduction
Appearance
* Has a raspy/hoarse voice from smoking.
* Heartburn in her older years
Queen Echis, a regal and formidable figure from history, embodies the essence of SandWing majesty with her commanding presence. Queen Echis was a tall, slender dragoness, about the size of Morrowseer. She had a normal-length snout with the spike sanded down into a long, sharp point slightly slanted towards her sail. She had two narrow, sharp-pointed horns from above her brow bones curved backwards. Her ears were small and pointed backwards.
She had small eyes tinted with judgement, though primarily known for her dark, piercing gaze that could send shivers down even the bravest dragon’s gaze. Some said it held a secret behind it. She had long, sharp claws like those of a harpy eagle's, about as sharp as scimitars. Her scales, while kept polished and in pristine conditions, were ridged with a singular sharp point on the end of each one. The scales down her legs and spine were patterned with diamonds, the ones on her hind legs being slightly smaller than the others.
Echis had large bat-like wings protruding from the tops of her shoulders. The membranes on her wings were thin enough to be considered translucent. Her sail was thin and went from between her eyes all the way down her tail to the start of the stinger. The end of her stinger was about four inches long and curved outwards.
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Queen Echis had garnet jewels embedded into her brow bones, three each. She also had garnet embedding on the bones in-between each of the knuckles of her wings, the most noticeable being on the forearms, and one smaller embedment each on the elbows of her front legs. Each of her legs had its own respective armband, all matching gold with garnet embedding. She occasionally switched the embedding of the armbands and scale-bound ones out with other jewels.
When out in other areas of the SandWing kingdom, she might have worn a leather satchel around her neck to carry trinkets she found. Both of her ears were pierced, both having two small golden hoops. Her horns had three golden horn rings, connected to each other with two dangly chains. They, too, were also embedded with jewels.
Echis had various tattoos. Namely, she had a black chest tattoo. This chest tattoo featured a circle, positioned precisely in the middle of her chest on the breastbone. On the left, a swirl goes slightly below the circle, the curves weaving around the circumference, stopping just short of touching it. Simultaneously, on the right side, another swirl mirrored the fluidity of the first, but this time just above the circle. Scar-wise, she had a long scar down the left side of her neck, one from the middle of her left shoulder down to her calf. She walked with a limp in her back right leg due to a large cut on her heel.
She occasionally wore makeup from her own brand, often a blend of malachite or lapis lazuli mixed with animal tallow or water. From smoking, Echis had a raspy voice in her older years. When she was younger, however, it was smoky and mysterious yet taut with occasional anger when in hard-to-handle situations.
Personality
Abilities & Skills
Melee Fighting
From years of training, she has learned how to fight claw to claw easily. Before her death, it helped tremendously in avoiding the attempted assassination of 5 AS.
History
-planning-
* hatching ~27BS
* first word = mmm.. weeks?
* little celebratory coronation into the family(?) = a few months old
* found like a sword or a dagger, stabbed aunt. = year
* got renowned familial tattoo = two . half
* Sol was born = 3
* sol's coronation = 3.3
* core values discovered; decided to draw her life in a direction of a queen. = 4.2
* falls ill = 4.5
* funeral prepared for future = 4.7
* ciao, I lived = 5, no funeral hosted
* continues training to queen
* tbd
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Relationships
(NOTE: "✟" MEANS THEY DIED DURING ECHIS'S LIFE. EVERYONE IS DEAD.)
Familial
Queen Khamsin ✟
The mother of Echis. Throughout Queen Echis's childhood, she often despised her mother for having overall rule. She herself wished to overtake her mother and become the supreme, prime ruler of the SandWings. Though many good memories were made between the two- despite Echis's underlying hatred-, it eventually came to an end when Echis challenged the throne and eventually usurped it. Once Queen, Echis made a memorial to honor Khamsin. Once her mother died, she was buried with Anopheles as a way to signify their "undying love and loyalty" to each other. Echis did not keep her ashes.
King Anopheles ✟
In Echis's childhood, she often looked up to her father, Anopheles. While he didn't help rule the kingdom itself, he worked behind the scenes and as a war general, often creating elaborate plans for attacks on other kingdoms (such as the attack in ~12 BS on the SkyWings). After his death, Echis inherited his various scrolls describing and illustrating future ideas for traps, prison holding, and war strategies. Echis later took these ideas and later orchestrated them into effect during The Scorching. She made a memorial to honor him. Once her mother died, she was buried with Anopheles as a way to signify their "undying love and loyalty" to each other. Echis kept his ashes.
Rebutia ✟
One of the few enemies to the throne's reign. Still, Echis adored her sister, truly. The two often engaged in traditional sibling banter when not in formal situations such as gatherings or political meetings. Snide remarks and flying claws towards one another were guaranteed. Under all of this was Echis's feelings of jealousy, for Rebutia was older, and if Queen Khamsin were to die, Rebutia would have inherited the throne by the family's rule of "Veritatem Dies Aperit." While familial love remained in Echis's heart, she could not take that, and challenged Rebutia on her (Rebutia's) first day as queen. This led to the death of poor, poor Rebutia, who never even got a ceremony. 
Such shame.
Hyrax ✟
Echis adored Hyrax's love for art. A polished alabaster-crystal sculpture was the basis for Echis's makeup in the early days- the eyes of which seemed "too bland" for the likings of Echis, so she created a ground-up mixture of malachite and lapis lazuli mixed with animal tallow to create a sort of eyeshadow for the sculpture. Hyrax, though absolutely livid, got a name for himself within the kingdom that slowly spread to other bits of the continent. Hyrax soon came to terms with it due to his newfound fame, and he and Echis later collaborated on other works. Echis's makeup products were used to tint and colour certain bits of sculptures- most of the time being eyeshadow, lipstick, blush, and certain scale colours.
Sol
Sol? Hah! Screw him. Throughout her life, Echis had always despised Sol. Even though he was younger, he was better at her in certain aspects of life- charisma skills, gaining allies (political) for the kingdom, associating trade deals, etc. Echis hated it. She wished to have his skills, for she believed that when she became queen, it would be better for the kingdom to have a ruler that could curve the minds of other leaders into doing what she wished, what she wanted. And so she learned.
Regardless, she treated him just like any of her other siblings. Playful banter, little tricks, the occasional argument or two. She and Sol were rather close up until the end of it all. Sol outlived Echis by about 20 years. He attended her mourning ceremony.
Ceja
Echis's favorite of her siblings, also the oldest. Throughout life, Echis wanted to stay close to her other brother. She viewed him as a means of comfort, but also someone who could protect her. She went to him for advice often, as she believed that he was a trustworthy individual. She quite liked that he took after their father in strategizing skills, but their mother in kindness. He was quite a calm and collected individual even when under stress. Which, really, Echis herself thought she needed to learn from him. In her queenship, she placed Ceja as Lieutenant General in the army, and as a high advisor in her court. Ceja outlived Echis by about 17 years.
Love Life
Queen Alcyoneum of the SeaWings ✟
Echis's first ever lover. In Echis's early days, she and the then-princess Alcyoneum had a bit of a romp adventuring their desires together. Though no official information was discussed or given by either of the queens, many citizens of their respective kingdoms have said they've seen the two being flirtatious with each other.
Echis was truly devastated whenever Alcyoneum died, even though their relationship had ended long ago. Echis was present at the time of Alyconeum's death- having witnessed the brutal assassination upon the SeaWing queen. The assassin, having been a SandWing, was executed days after the event took place. Echis made the execution public for both the SandWing and SeaWing tribes. Echis helped to plan Alcyoneum's mourning ceremony, and delivered a heartfelt speech during it.
Camelopard ✟
Echis's first and last male consort. In an arranged marriage started when Echis turned the age of 8, Camelopard was selected by her parents to play the role of suitor in marriage. Echis, for the three years they were married, absolutely despised the man. Citizens of the kingdom often reported hearing screaming matches late at night, sometimes seeing the (then princess) Echis storming out from the couple's den and flying off into the night only to reappear days later, seemingly fine. Echis did not seem to care much whenever Camelopard died before their fourth year together. Matter of fact, she seemed quite pleased to have gotten rid of him.
Serval ✟
Their dating period was short, but Serval's life after meeting Echis was shorter. Echis and Serval were together for the time of roughly two and a half months before The Scorching started. Echis, knowing Serval was a strong fighter, sent Serval off to fight in the war under the Brigadier General Hartebeest. Due to Hartebeest's [poor] commanding skills and a lack of knowing how to use his damned mouth, there was a miscommunication that caused Serval to end up taking the lives of seventeen enemy soldiers before taking her own life.
Ecru ✟
Echis's beloved consort in her later years. Ecru and Echis spent nine years together before the queen's inevitable death came. Echis, after three years of knowing the other, pledged her "undying" love to her. She loved the dragoness with her whole heart, despite how cruel it was to other dragons she came into contact with. Later on, Ecru was present when the queen died. She helped prepare the mourning ceremony. Ecru never seemed to mourn too much- it may be because she absorbed Echis's pledge of love, or it may be because she had something to do with the death.
Political
Queen Derecho of the SkyWings ✟
Queen Derecho and Queen Echis, while they did not interact much, had a minor trade deal implemented into their systems. The SkyWings handed (taloned?) over mountain sheep & goat, chowder, halibut, and creamed corn in exchange for addax, grubs, camel, and coffee blends.
King Conláed of the SkyWings ✟
Queen Argus of the SkyWings
Queen Whimbrel of the MudWings
Queen Mávro of the NightWings
Queen Mávro was one of Echis's close friends later on in life. The two were often seen meeting non-officially, often going out to little cafes for tea or coffee when war didn't get in the way. When either tribe hosted a gathering, the other queen was almost always invited. Some dragons say they've saw Mávro and Echis sneaking off together. Queen Mávro was known to be a gift giver when it came to displaying acts of affection, ending up in Echis having dozens of little trinkets and, when she was lucky, paintings crafted by the NightWing tribe's greatest artist at the time, Rillepainter. During the years The Scorching took place, the SandWing and NightWing tribes worked together. Queen Mávro attended Echis's mourning ceremony.
King Orison of the NightWings
Another friend of Echis. The two met through Queen Mávro, Orison's wife, at a political meeting. Orison occasionally accompanied the two queens to their non-official meetings- he had quite a liking for coffee. Though he was a quiet man, he and Echis got along just fine and often had little conversations of their own during meetings when they were not needed to speak. They were once seen dancing together at a NightWing ball. King Orison attended Echis's mourning ceremony. 
Queen Opossum of the RainWings
Throughout the reign of both queens, a massive trade deal was implemented. The RainWings monthly gave the SandWings things such as caimans, vanilla bean, honey, coffee/tea blends, various fruit, vegetables, nuts and herbs, and sugar in exchange for the SandWing's things such as camels, scorpions, cashew butter, almond butter, butter (just plain butter), breads, prickly pear, chia sage, yucca, and mesquite.
Queen Opossum, although old and generally bitter, tolerated Echis for the most part. She was an outspoken individual who often tried to talk Echis out of her more stupid ideas such as attacking the Village-of-the-Plentiful-Seals in the IceWing kingdom for little to no reason, except for the fact that Echis and Queen Nacreous despised each other. Echis also believed that "the IceWings in the Village-of-the-Plentiful-Seals should grow a pair of wings and hunt for themselves" instead of fishing from the three seal holes. Opossum, thankfully, talked the SandWing out of this before she could be stupid. Again. When Echis was younger, she occasionally played with the daughters of Queen Opossum when she was taken to political meetings by her mother.
During the years The Scorching took place, the SandWing and RainWing tribes worked together. Queen Opossum attended Echis's mourning ceremony, and delivered a heartfelt speech detailing the life of Echis, and her personal relationship. "The sort of daughter I wanted," Opossum stated, "but needed to grow some brains. Her wings were big enough."
Queen Alcyoneum of the SeaWings ✟
Echis's first ever lover. In Echis's early days, she and the then-princess Alcyoneum had a bit of a romp adventuring their desires together.
Echis was truly devastated whenever Alcyoneum died, even though their relationship had ended long ago. Echis was present at the time of Alyconeum's death- having witnessed the brutal assassination upon the SeaWing queen. The assassin, having been a SandWing, was executed days after the event took place. Echis made the execution public for both the SandWing and SeaWing tribes. Echis helped to plan Alcyoneum's mourning ceremony, and delivered a heartfelt speech during it.
King Carchadon of the SeaWings ✟
Queen Calanque of the SeaWings
King Arapaima of the SeaWings ✟
Queen Nacreous of the IceWings
Childhood friends turned enemies. When the two dragons were young, they often played together near the SandWing-IceWing kingdoms met their borders at the coast. The two created elaborate drawings in the shore ice that fell on the coastline. Echis introduced several things to Nacreous, such as her (Echis's) favorite, bighorn sheep smothered in spices, which Nacreous surprisingly didn't mind eating, having once commented "This is better than some of the food we've got in the palace" whilst eating. Though, all of this quickly ended when Echis was about 12. Nacreous rose to the throne, got a higher sense of maturity (which came with being snotty), and cared more about her tribe than maintaining friendship. Queen Nacreous did not attend Echis's mourning ceremony. In fact, the IceWing sent a letter saying how glad she was for Echis to be out of the picture officially.
King Phalarope of the IceWings ✟
The two only spoke together in political meetings. Echis seemed to speak with venom in her tone towards the king, mainly because of her relationship with his wife, Queen Nacreous. King Phalarope never seemed to understand this much, as he tried to get a better relationship with Echis just for the sake of getting to know her better.
Quotes
“In the dance of war, only the ruthless prevail.”
“Luxury is not a sin; it is the spoils of the victorious. Luxury is the birthright of the conquerors.”
“The battlefield is my canvas- it is to be painted with blood of foes. May it signify love for my tribe.”
"When did a dragon ever die from the bite of a snake?" - Ironically, her last words.
Trivia
* Remnants of her makeup are held in an area of the SandWing stronghold’s treasury dedicated to Queen Echis’ beloved possessions.
* Her ashes are kept in the Mausoleum of the SandWing stronghold.
* The term “herb-laced brain” was inspired by Queen Echis. It is a term used for dragons with a cruel mind similar to that of Queen Echis.
Gallery
TBD
File:QUEEN ECHIS EGG.png|Echis's egg (base by RenonsPrints)
File:Static-assets-upload2323084128934094126 (1).png|Queen Echis (by Mesa)
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