Niveous

== Overview ==
=== Description ===
Niveous is a SeaWing IceWing hybrid, primarily IceWing. He is slightly larger than most dragons, and as such tends to try and stay taller than those he finds. His snout is more rounded than most IceWings, but his build otherwise stays mostly in that lane.
His topscales are a bluish color, similar to seawater. His main scales are a slightly lighter tone, and his underbelly is a bit more greenish. 
Niveous maintained his SeaWing sail from his father, which is a swampy brown color. Contrast that with his wings, which are an icy blue. The spikes that line his neck, tail and wings are all a similarly icy color to his wings. 
All of his exposed skin, such as the inside of his ears, the inside of his mouth and a patch on his left arm, are all a dull purple color. They are also partially crystallized, due to the biting cold of where he lives. 
=== Personality ===
Niveous is a rather cold-hearted dragon, and a pessimist. He really does not care much for his fellow dragons, whether or not he finds them in his home lands or not, in which case they’re usually dead already.
He also has a rather large streak of cruelty, frequently killing those he does find alive in his territory. Usually after terrorizing them with his golems.
Niveous does however have a bit of a soft spot for his creations, seeing as they’re his only companionship that doesn’t die of the excessively cold air. He isn’t able to speak with them through conventional means, but still hates to see them “die.”
=== History ===
Niveous was born in the Ice Kingdom in roughly 4139 A.S. His mother was a standard IceWing citizen, and a member of the second circle, while his father was a SeaWing fisherman (fisher-dragon?). They had met during a freak accident when his mother and the rest of group were blown off course in a storm while on the way to diplomatic meetings with the SeaWing Queen.
Niveous wasn’t exactly a very popular dragonet. Unlike most of the the IceWing dragonets, likely due to his SeaWing heritage, Niveous would constantly be setting fires using stuff like blubber. They weren’t always for warmth, but the fires did tend to drive others away from him, as the IceWings didn’t really like the warmth.
Niveous was also notoriously weak, being rather slow and only barely able to carry a walrus. Unfortunately, this only added to his unpopularity. Additionally, it also caused him to drop all the way to the Seventh Circle of the rankings, making him almost an embarrassment to his mother, who was in the Second Circle.
Niveous eventually turned seven, as all dragonets do, and opted not to take part in the Diamond Trial. This meant that, as he ascended into the adult rankings, he was locked in the very bottom tier of the IceWing hierarchy. For roughly three years, he did mostly menial work, like Ice Fishing and just generally being an outcast.
Due to his low position in society, Niveous also lost contact with his mother, who lived much closer to the central Ice Kingdom. He didn’t make any attempts to visit her, seeing it as a “futile endeavor,” though he was noticeably saddened by not being able to see her. As such, he stayed where he was, much closer to the northernmost reaches of the kingdom, constantly setting fires for warmth.
It was at some point, when Niv was around 11 years old, that he just decided to leave. Simply disappear from the IceWing rankings and kingdom altogether. And so he did. Niveous gathered his meager belongings (a couple of scales, some bits of walrus and polar bear meat, a lot of stockpiled blubber, and a book or two), and set off for the far north.
He immediately regretted it. The air up there was extraordinarily cold, almost cold enough to make his blood freeze. Niveous found himself running through the piles of blubber he brought much faster than he had anticipated, essentially turning on a clock to his death. 
One of these days, Niveous crash-landed during a massive blizzard, and was unable to find shelter. So, he dug a small burrow in the snowdrifts and sat in it, waiting for the storm to pass. His supplies for making fires to keep warm were running dangerously low, and he hadn’t seen much to eat in days. It was hear that Niveous heard a slight humming noise coming from deeper in the snow.
Deciding not to leave the safety of his fire, Niveous stayed where he was, shivering violently in the cold. The blizzard lasted two whole days, and had buried him in the snow. It was at this point that Niveous decided that the humming noise was sounding really good right about then, and he followed it.
The humming eventually lead Niveous to a subterranean cave, where he found two things. A dead dragon and a rather interesting staff. The dragon was probably killed from the cold, as there was ice crystals scattered everywhere over its body and copious amounts of purple-ish skin. The Staff, on the other hand, was much more important.
It was a long stick of petrified wood, on the top of which was a large blue crystal, almost as though it were formed from ice. Being rather curious, Niveous took the staff from the dead dragon's talons. Immediately, the humming stopped and a slight warmth crawled over Niveous. He immediately knew that he wouldn't die of the cold, though he'd still have to bear it. 
Niveous went back to the place he had started, his snow burrow, and decided to try and get out. Through both digging and expelling the snow with the staff, Niv was able to create a way out, and continued north. He eventually settle in the snow as north as he could possibly go, a place from where he could even see the ocean.
Niveous stayed in that area for about ten years. It was excruciatingly lonely up there, and Niveous ended up resorting to building structures for sanity. That being said, he had already likely lost it, as he spent his days mostly talking to the sculptures he made. The sculptures were of various dragons. Some were IceWings, some were based on what he had heard other dragons looked like, though were rather poor approximations of the other tribes. 
Unfortunately, however, he was hunted down by the IceWings. They weren't too happy about one of their dragons deciding to leave, and wanted to bring Niveous back to the kingdom on charges of treason. Niveous obviously had no intention of going back there, and decided to try and defend his new home. Using the staff, Niveous was able to bring a few of his creations to a semblance of life. It was only four or five of them, and they could only heed basic orders, but that was enough for Niveous.
Niv sent the ice dragons after the IceWings who had come to bring him back. The sight of dragons made of solid ice terrified the soldiers to the point where they now wanted nothing to do with the area, and they just left, not wanting to fight ice sculptures. This left Niveous with...not really much to do. He just did his daily routine of fishing for food, conversing with his statues, figuring out the staff and just kind of sitting there. Life was peaceful.
And then Niveous began hearing fighting on the horizon. What he didn't know was that the IceWings had entered a civil war amongst themselves, over who their next queen would be. Niveous wanted absolutely nothing to do with the war, but heard it drawing nearer and nearer each and every day. So, Niveous decided to go into hiding.
It had been ten years since the first time the IceWings had come for him, so this time Niveous had a plan. Niveous went back to the cave where he found the staff years earlier and took the a few of his sculptures with him, about ten of them. With their company, Niv strode back through the hole and stayed near the body he had taken the staff from, and then froze himself solid. Now an ice sculpture, Niveous' sculptures watched over him until he unfroze.
940-ish years later...
Niveous was eventually unfrozen in 5002 A.S, and the very first thing he did was to look for his faithful guardians, only to find them as puddles of water. Niv turned to face the ones who had freed him, and immediately drove them out of the cave before leaving. Niveous didn't even get a very good look at them before leaving for his settlement, where he attempted to regain the sense of normalcy he had once had.
=== Skills ===
==== Staff of Ice ====
The Staff of Ice is what Niveous calls the staff that he found back before he was frozen. Niveous still doesn't know the full power of the staff, nor its origin, but still uses it to bring life to his ice sculptures. Other powers of it include:
* Moving ice with the wave of the staff
* Discharging a blast of cold air
* Controlling sculptures of ice
* Controlling ice in general.
*Being practically immune to the cold.
==== Sculpture Building ====
Niveous is highly skilled at sculpting structures of ice. His claws are serrated, per IceWing genes, and make sculpting ice quite a bit easier. One of Niveous' first sculptures was hat of his mother. Over time, he refined his technique, and can now make nearly flawless ice sculptures.
=== Relationships ===
==== Sculptures ====
As close as one can actually get to having a "good relationship" with a block of living ice, Niveous somehow surpasses that line. He tends to like them quite a bit, seeing as they are his only companions that can actually survive in the cold climates well enough to keep him company. 
Niveous tends to create the sculptures in reference to dragons he has seen before or has heard of. For instance, Niv has made several sculptures of IceWings he remembers from the Ice Kingdom, and has even made rough approximations of the dragons he saw in the book on Pyrrhia written by the NightWings.
==== Aria ====
Aria is the name of Niveous' mother, with whom he had a rather good relationship with. Aria was one of the few dragons who didn't ridicule Niveous as a dragonet, and instead defended him against his tormentors to a degree. Due to IceWing societal rankings, she wasn't able to spend much time with Niveous, and lost all contact with him after he ascended to the adult IceWing rankings.
Niveous then chose to immortalize her as an ice sculpture, as she was one of his favorite dragons he ever knew.
==== Grouper ====
Grouper was Niveous' father. The two didn't know each other very well, or at all, really. Niv and Aria chose to stay in the Ice Kingdom and, as such, Niveous never met his father. And he never will, due to his father having died while Niveous was frozen over for those 900 years.
==== Other IceWings ====
Niveous had terrible relations with the other iceWings. He was generally looked down upon by them due to his rather large physical shortcomings and him being a hybrid. Niveous hated the IceWings for dropping him down to Seventh Circle without so much as hearing him out. 
Because of this, when he was hunted down by the IceWings for "treason" (they really just wanted to show that disappearing was not something you could get away with), Niveous made his statues chase the IceWings down until they forcibly dragged the IceWings back into the kingdom, as a little show not to come back for him.
== Miscellaneous ==
=== Strengths ===
* Intellect: Niveous is a highly intelligent dragon, and has a wide breadth of knowledge on ice, fishing, some general mythology, and tends to be a rather fast learner.
* Cunning: Niveous is also highly strategic, and has some rather useful ideas which he has his ice dragons put to use. Additionally, he has some of his sculptures made specifically for patrolling the border of his territory.
* Tail: Like most SeaWings, Niveous has a very strong tail, though it is noticeably weaker than the usual strength of a SeaWing tail on account of his physical weaknesses.
* Frostbreath: On the other talon, Niveous has extremely powerful frost breath. Likely due to the amount of time he's spent in the far north and his proximity to the Staff of Ice, his frost breath was amplified. Now it's essentially like Niveous breathes a miniature blizzard.
* Ice Magic: See the section on the Staff of Ice.
* Defenses: Due to living in the far north for so long, Niveous has developed a layer of ice and frost that covers his scales. These layers of ice allow Niv to have a rather strong layer of defenses. They're not impenetrable, and are prone to breaking, but the ice is at least something.
=== Weaknesses ===
* Strength: Niveous is a notoriously weak dragon. He isn't strong in any sense of the word, being barely able to carry something like a walrus, whereas even an ordinary dragon can lift two.
* Speed: Niveous is a rather slow dragon. He cannot run very quickly, and it's not helped by the ice that constantly forms over his scales.
* Flight: Following his other two physical weaknesses, Niv is a terrible flier. Not fast, not solid, nothing really anything useful. This also contributed to his fall into the snowdrift.
=== Diet ===
* Fish: Niveous is a skilled fisher, and as such tends to keep fish as a rather large part of his diet.
* Other meats: Occasionally, Niv will find a polar bear, or a musk ox, or a walrus, and will turn those into a day-or-two-long-meal for himself.
=== Likes ===
* His Ice Sculptures (living or not)
* The Staff of Ice
* His mother, Aria
* A generally peaceful life in the North
* The cold
=== Dislikes ===
* Other dragons.
* IceWings in general
* Warmth, some of the time, especially if it's from dragon fire
* Chaos in general
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