Ironshard

BronzeRattle's OC, do not steal or edit, or Albus will turn you into a nice ice statue :)
== Appearance ==
"How do I look? Terrible? I know, the soot does that to you."
Warning for mentions of minor gore!
Ironshard is...well, let's just say not the most pretty dragon. He was once a beautiful light indigo color with a more purple casque, strong slender horns, and gray spines tipped with azure blue. His wings were the color of ice on the tundra dirt, like all of the IceWing Royal Family. His thick tail swished with another short set of blue spines intermixed with gray ones. He looked somewhat like his niece Immaculate from a distance, only more of a blue shade and larger overall.
But since his time in the forges, something unusual began to happen to him. Dwelling under sweltering high temperatures for much, much longer than recommended has began to "melt" his appearance. His chipped sharp scales are rounded and smaller, with visible growth lines under sunlight. His spines are cut short,even missing on his tail and lower back. They barely can be considered pointy. The once-great horns are now severely stunted and flimsy icicles, as if any hard impact would snap them right off. The sudden angles IceWings are known for are rounded for Ironshard, and he has a slight upwards valley at the very center of his snout. His cheeks are hollow. The wing membrane is easily seen as translucent even in dark lighting. Despite his shameful appearance, the IceWing has very sharp, nimble talons.
As for his actual color, Ironshard is blackened from soot and burns. His limbs have many small scratches, both new and old, and his upper snout has a particularly nasty blue wound that causes two of his fangs to always show. The IceWing has crazed bright sky blue eyes instead of dark abysses that are always squinted. His right ear is mostly torn off, and his left ear has a large, deep chip. His scales are often soaked in water from prespiration, smudging the ash to create a wet black paint over his body.
Ironshard is average sized and very bulky. He is seldom seen without his work in progress armor on his head, neck, chest, and upper back. He always has a small string necklace hanging 3 slate circles with a sun, moon, and star inprint separately. The blacksmith may sometimes have a pouch with tools attatched to his back right leg or a metal hilt under his left wing heating up a fireplace poker.
Ironshard makes an appearance in Deserted Sands down in the Molten Chamber along with Moor. He takes Foehn aside to do some measurements and ask him about the outside world, and is 14 DY in the story.
== Backstory ==
Ironshard, known as just Shard at the time, was honestly very content with his life in the Ice Kingdom. Being a direct prince to Queen Cumulus meant he didn't have to go through the nonsense of training to be a queen, and he had high respect from all. Shard was a great warrior, ending up by the Third Circle by the time he reached his 7th year. All was fine for 2 years until his sister, Praestring, had her first child called Immaculate.
Immaculate was essentially the complete opposite of Shard. She was always causing trouble, never listened to older IceWings, and had a strange interest in the medical field. The dragonet additionally hated fighting, for which she explained "Claws will tarnish my pretty purple scales". At first the other nobles attempted to calm her, but it was pretty evident after 2 years that she wouldn't change. Most saw her as a small bother who would pop up from time to time around the palace.
Shard didn't really care about the IceWing until she saw him for the first time. Ever since the brief glance Immaculate caught of him when she accidentally intruded upon his palace room, she stuck to him like butter. The dragonet would always track her way down to his room, and if she saw he wasn't there, she would scan the entire palace to find Shard. It got to a point where she would interrupt fighting sessions, so Immaculate was forcefully set on a leash to follow her mother. Not even 2 days later she had shattered it with her frostbreath and was found yet again at his room. The dragonet was then attached to a harness on her mother's chest. Although she wouldn't detach from Praestring during the day, Shard still found her lying next to him at the stroke of midnight. He didn't have the heart to tell his sister about her new activity, so he lived with it.
He finally asked Immaculate about why she kept in close proximity with him one night, and she explained he had an undying fire in his eyes, a why to everything. That was all she said before slinking back to her room in the dead of night. Immaculate kept coming back at odd hours of the night, telling him of her ambition of one day becoming a healer and asked if he supported her dream. Shard was completely honest and said it was a tad far fetched seeing her age and royal position. He told her she should be focusing more on one day taking the throne. She was insulted and promptly exited the room.
Ironshard felt guilty about he said until Immaculate showed up a few nights later holding large scraps of metal and with a satchel slung over her shoulder. She said she didn't want to train or be a queen. That she was leaving the Ice Kingdom and the IceWing brought him metal scraps for him to mess with before she fled. Immaculate exited his room and took off in the night sky.
The older IceWing hung onto her words, playing with the metal scraps to create a small simple bracelet. He wondered if out there, he could better his craftmanship, and seriously considered leaving his childhood home to pursue it. A few weeks later Shard also flew out of the Ice Kingdom to pursue his interest.
Shard was fully intent on finding someone to teach him, but he felt like he had the duty to protect Praestring's only daughter. So he changed his priorities and headed east toward the mountains. He arrived just in time: Immaculate was confronted by a SkyWing patrol about her trenching and the warriors looked ready to fight. Shard scraped the SkyWings, and fleed south down the Claws of Cloud Mountains.
== Personality ==
Prior to running away, Ironshard was strongly determined in the rankings, and defended it if the rankings were questioned. He was strong, not very sensitive, and generally a good role model for younger IceWings. He was strongly into design, and Ironshard could be seen sketching theoretical drafts into snow or later, scrolls. The IceWing had a lot of trust in older dragons, but barely any in younger ones. He was skeptical of Immaculate initially.
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