Torrent

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Torrent is one of the sons of Queen Coral, and a member of the SeaWing royal family. He was born in the Sea Kingdom just after the start of the War of SandWing Succession. After Orca's death in her challenge against Coral, he became an animus-hunter, and has been serving that role since.
Because of his self-imposed exile from the SeaWing Kingdom, he rarely tells anyone of his royal descent and goes as Torrent usually. He is one of the oldest sons of Queen Coral and King Gill, born before Orca's challenge. Torrent currently has no permanent residence, nor a family. He hasn't been to the Sea Kingdom in 14 years, sworn not to return until he can make make amends for what he considers his weakness.
== Appearance ==
Torrent is a muted cerulean, with hints of turquoise along his body. Like all members of the royal family, he has spiral stripes along the underside of his wings. He also has a large burn scar along the left side of his neck, along his gills, which causes him trouble breathing underwater. There are similar burn scars along the left side of his snout.
Torrent is very large for a SeaWing, almost reaching the size of the deceased Princess Burn. His fighting skills are slightly above average, similar to those of most dragons who fought in the war.
== Personality ==
Especially to those who don't know him well, Torrent comes off as grumpy, demanding, stubborn, and harsh. He is very direct, even to the point of rudeness. Yet, he is not humorless, and enjoys laughing along with others, especially those he can trust. He is around average dragon intelligence, but knows how to read and write due to his instruction from Whirlpool.
Not having participated in the war himself, and having met many dragons of other tribes since a young age (due to the SeaWing alliances with Blister and the MudWings), and eventually journeying with them, Torrent is relatively tolerant of other tribes. Yet, he is somewhat ambivalent of NightWings, due to their claims of having powers. Torrent also has a strong aversion, even a fear of fireborns, due to him and a companion of his being injured by a fireborn in a fight.
Torrent has a hate of all things magical or supernatural, and this extends to those who those who wield said powers. He believes that all animus dragons need to be destroyed in the shell due to the extreme danger they represent to all dragon-kind, regardless of soul-loss myths, but he is occasionally less harsh to those that are less omnipotent. He attempts to stay out of tribal politics or mundane conflicts to the best of his ability, but has been unable to bring himself to attempt killing his animus relatives, as of yet.
Torrent is dangerously utilitarian, completely willing to harm or even kill innocents just in order to make Pyrrhia a better, or safer, place. His sole purpose in life being to destroy animus magic and its harbringers, Torrent can occasionally be blinded by that purpose, and refuse to listen to logic in favor of destroying magic.
Torrent in general tries to be partisan to all dragons, no matter the tribe. Over his journeys he has met many different dragons from many different tribes, and in general views them all as equals. Still, he maintains some tribal superiority, and will object to anyone insulting SeaWings. He also is somewhat untrusting of NightWings, due to the powers that they once claimed they had.
Even though he has good intentions, he commonly comes off as grumpy, or rude even. This is partially because Torrent is very distrustful of anyone acting too unusual, especially if he sees signs of animus magic. He hates magic of any kind, but especially animus magic. Though he doesn't always immediately attack all animus dragons, he is almost always very rude to them and thinks of them as being evil and untrustworthy, and will kill them if he thinks they are a danger. Of course, some of his grumpiness is due to his generally prickly personality, though he is a sweetheart if you get to know him.
His intelligence is above the SeaWing average, though he mainly uses for advantages in fights. He has a good knowledge of dragon anatomy and battle tactics, and uses that to his advantage when needed. Due to getting badly injured by a fireborn animus, he has a fear of fireborns, and is a bit wary of fire.
== History ==
:See also: Dark Seas
TBA
Note: Apologies for the strange writing style, this is an outline draft.
Torrent is born, but scorned by his mother, so Orca (whose younger sister, River, is taking Coral’s attention) brings him up and they become friends. She reveals she is an animus, so they attempt to learn more about her powers to see if they can prevent her from going crazy. She creates a magical animus-finding map in order to help with their research. Meanwhile, Rift joins the warm, but is killed. Angler is shocked into depression while Gill becomes a pacifist (after an outburst at Orca and Torrent). River finds the two suspicious and attempts to figure out what’s going on (she’s a jerk). Orca creates Griffin from a statue, who Torrent has to hide. The two complete their scroll, Tales of the Animus. River finds out Orca’s secret after discovering Griffin. Orca kills River, then creates the dagger so Torrent can kill her and the rest of the animus because they are too dangerous. Torrent refuses. Orca challenges Coral and creates her nursery statue; Torrent leaves the Sea Kingdom. Orca is killed while Torrent reaches the Mud Kingdom (then allies of the SeaWings).
Torrent hears tales about MudWings disappearing. He checks his map and sees a nearby animus. He goes to investigate, but doesn’t see anything. He then discovers that there is a hidden city where MudWings worship an animus (they can’t leave). The city was created to protect them from the war. He meets some dragons rebelling against the leader (including Schist) and they hide him. They go to defeat the MudWing animus. There is a fight, Torrent turns the animus to stone, and frees the dragons. He then travels north to the Sky Kingdom with a MudWIng he freed (Slate’s father Schist). The two meet Crystal on the way, who tells them she’s fleeing the IceWings. Torrent doesn’t want her to come, but she wants to help and Schist allows her to.
The three go to the Sky Kingdom, and meet a fireborn animus. She attacks the three, and Schist goets horrible injured, while Torrent is scarred. Before dying, the animus says someone gave her her powers, which surprises Crystal. Crystal says she can save Schist, and tells the others about the darkstone. She takes a random diamond in the animus’ lair and enchants it to heal whatever dragon touches it. It heals Schist, but Crystal falls into a coma, and the Diamond Healer won’t wake her.
The three are stuck in the lair for a few months, while Crystal stirs every so often. She slowly regains health (letting loose occasional hints about Calamity, who is in her mind) while Schist continuously goes to get food and supplies, leaving Torrent and Crystal alone. The two slowly fall in love. Crystal tells Torrent her story piece-by-piece, leaving out parts about Calamity. She eventually comes back to health, and the three go to the rainforest for their next target. Torrent sees it’s a RainWing dragonet, and isn’t sure about killing him. Schist tells him not to, but Crystal tells he’ll grow up to be a killer, and Torrent kills the dragonet. Schist leaves after a fight with the other two. Torrent and Crystal go to the Claws of the Clouds Mountains (not Opal Mountain). Griffin meets with them there. The couple has an egg (Aurora), but Crystal takes the egg and Torrent’s dagger while Torrent is sleeping under Calamity’s advice. When dagger tries to return to Torrent, she pries out the black pearl. Torrent then wakes up to find them missing.
Two years later, Torrent and Griffin meet Nightreader while hunting down an animus (Stonemover). She is delivering Stonemover orders for a third tunnel. Nightreader convinces Torrent to not kill Stonemover if Stonemover stops working for the NightWings. Both dragons agree, and Torrent spares Stonemover. Torrent then hears about the animus who enchanted the fireborn, a SandWing living in Crosswinds. Torrent, Griffin, and Nightreader go and confront the animus (who had previously left Pyrrhia). They meet Gazelle and save her life (she was the animus’ slave?). They fight, and end up killing her (the animus). Torrent and Nightreader fall in love and go to Opal Mountain. Griffin continues to search for Crystal while the two have two eggs. One night, the eggs hatch after Nightreader delivers (or tells about) a prophecy. Griffin returns, but with Crystal and a strangely aged Aurora (who forced Griffin to obey her). Crystal kills Nightreader, but Griffin escapes with Ink’s egg. Midnight and Torrent survive.
Torrent realizes Midnight is an animus, but describes to spare her. Torrent takes Midnight to Crosswinds on the Brightest Night, and gives her to Gazelle. He then leaves, unsure of where to go.
=== Prince of the SeaWings ===
Torrent was born 11 years before the brightest night, and 4,994 years after the Scorching. As a child of the Royal SeaWing family, he was rarely allowed to interact with non-royalty, and his best and only friend ended up being his older sister by 3 years, Orca.
Out of everyone in her family, the only one Orca trusted to tell her secret was him. She told him about her animus powers, and made him promise to keep them a secret, fearing that if anyone found out she would be used in the war. Upon finding this out, Torrent went to research animus dragons. Using Queen Coral's personal library, he uncovered many legends about animus dragons, including many versions of Albatross's and Darkstalker's tale.
He eventually told Orca about the many animus dragons he had read about, and that he worried about her losing her soul. Orca told him that she would try to use them less then she had been, and would only use them when necessary. Eventually, Torrent and Orca wanted to learn more about animus dragons then what was in Coral's palace, and started secretly meeting with some of Blister's SandWings while they were at the Summer Palace.
In order to get more information, the two went around different SandWings and told them that if they brought back any scrolls or information on animus dragons, they would pay them with their personal treasure. They also asked them to tell the same to any brothers or sisters they had which supported a different queen. Though many of the SandWings were hostile towards them, eventually they started to get back different legends, from not just one but all of the tribes. Orca and Torrent then decided to try to share their knowledge.
At the age of three, he and Orca co-authored a scroll called Tales of the Animus, a collection of stories about animus dragons from all over Pyrrhia. In order to help preserve Orca's secret, they published it anonymously. To this day, Torrent carries a copy of it with him, signed by both himself and Orca.
Not long after, Orca started getting colder, and crueler. Torrent quickly realized what was happening, and brought it up with Orca. Orca then made him swear that if she ever got to a point at which she was a danger to other dragons, that he would kill her. Torrent agreed, but then made Orca promise that she would never lose her soul, so he wouldn't ever have to kill her.
Orca then gave him an item she made, an ornately carved dagger, inlaid with three different gems, an emerald, an amethyst, and a pearl. The weapon itself was enchanted to be indestructible and made it so that it and anything it was touching were protected from animus enchantments. It would also attempt to return to Torrent if it was separated from him. The three gemstones were each given enchantments that would activate when they were touched: the emerald would get warmer whenever it was near an animus or an animus enchanted item, the amethyst would remove any enchantment on an item the knife was touching, and if the knife was stabbed within an animus, the pearl would turn the animus to stone.
Though she said that the dagger was to protect himself and his family from her if she ever fully lost her soul, Torrent promised never to use it on her. Within a year, soon after Torrent turned four, Orca told Torrent that she knew she her soul was lost, and that he needed to kill her. Torrent refused, and ran from her, crying.
While Torrent was sleeping, Orca put an enchanted item in his room, a map, along with a letter.
"Dear Torrent,
I'm sorry things had to end this way. I am to challenge Mother tomorrow for the throne, and I fear either result...
...I have given you this enchanted map in order so that nothing like this happens again. The map shows the location of every animus dragon on Pyrrhia, and I hope it will be of use to you...
...Little brother, I wish you the best of luck wherever you are.
-Orca"
The next morning, Torrent left the Sea Kingdom, swearing not to return until he had conquered his weakness in being unable to kill Orca when she asked him. He set out into Pyrrhia, alone.
=== The Lone Wanderer ===
Torrent looked at his map only after reaching the Mud Kingdom, then allies of the SeaWings. It confirmed his worst fears, Orca's mark was gone. Within a few weeks he heard more about how she had died, only because of accidentally being pierced with a narwhal horn.
He soon decided that he would use his map for its intended purpose, and went out to track down an animus. There was one in the MudWing kingdom, luckily, and not too far away.
==Items==
*A magical dagger, enchanted to return to Torrent if separated and enchanted to not allow animus enchantments to affect it, anything it's touching, or who it is in the possession of, unless Torrent wills it otherwise. The dagger contains three gemstones embedded within it (although one was stolen at the time of 5012 Post-Scorching):
**an emerald which when touched, permanently removes all enchantments on items the dagger is directly touching;
**an amethyst which heats up when the dagger points towards an animus or an animus-touched object, the amount of temperature relative to the distance between the gemstone and the object/dragon, not including the dagger itself or any gemstones attached to it;
**a black pearl which when touched turns any animus dragon that the dagger cuts to stone (this was stolen by Crystal and re-enchanted by Aurora so that it can turn any dragon to stone if it is attached to a weapon).
*A map of Pyrrhia, showing the locations of all animus dragons within the continent.
*A scrollcase containing his map and a scroll by him and Orca containing numerous animus legends.
== Relationships ==
TBA
== Family Tree ==
The family tree template was deleted on this wiki, Torrent's family tree can be found here: Family Tree.
== Trivia ==
*His original name was Chlopsid, a type of eel.
== Gallery ==
Torrent Reference.png|Torrent Reference Sheet|link=http://riokodragon.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-Reference-Sheet-657928959
Torrent_by_saebira-dbwrkms.jpg|by Saebira|link=https://saebira.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-720162100
dc39144a2022aa3b029406fa2b33c2aa-daui7lt.gif|by AuroratheIceWing|link=http://auroratheicewing.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-Pagedoll-Gift-655899905
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Torrent_nochtli.png|by Nōchtli
Torrent_by_wingsof_fire34-dc3yu0w.png|by WingsOf-fire34|link=https://wingsof-fire34.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-732258176
torrent_headshot___for_riokodragon__by_aquaticgecko4147-dat6gaz.jpg|by AquaticGecko4147|link=http://aquaticgecko4147.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-Headshot-For-RiokoDragon-653671691
torrent_headshot_gift_by_draggirlmon-darua8d.png|by Draggirlmon|link=http://draggirlmon.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-Headshot-Gift-651424333
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torrent__gift__by_glorydarainwing-dab8xq6.jpg|by GloryDaRainwing|link=http://glorydarainwing.deviantart.com/art/Torrent-gift-623554494
TorrentDH.jpg|by Darkkiller-WIKI|link=http://darkkiller-wiki.deviantart.com/art/OC-requests-610887411
torrentfanart_Chilicpepper.jpg|by Chilicpepper|link=http://chilicpepper.deviantart.com/art/Watchers-Batch-1-629994027
Torrent by Snowflake.jpg|by SnowflakeTheIceWing1
TorrentZero1.jpg|by Zerodestiny169
TorrentZero2.jpg|by Zerodestiny169
Torrentdragonlover.jpg|by Thedragonlover102
torrent_by_voidlegend-db482vd.png|Torrent by GMDS
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