Carastor the Thoughtful

Archking Carastor Casimir was a legendary dragon-killer and the last king of of the Alderei before it was wiped from history by raids cosmic-eyed sea raiders. 
== Origins ==
He lived from the -70s to around 100 TE. He was a famed folk hero who was trained as a Viceroy under the penultimate Alder king, Qinlen.
He famously wielded a meteor hammer - a huge weight on a chain that he whirled around him in a graceful and deadly crushing arc. It was quite a distinct and artful weapon.
== 99 Nights Hunting the Dragon ==
Around the year -35 TE, Carastor was begged by civillians from the Burning Hills to help them. The Nethir floating cities in the area were powered by captured dragons. One dragon, an onyx gem dragon named Ah Thalarat, escaped violently from its sky-city of Vishutrabatha, grounding and destroying it in the process. The people who survived begged Carastor to help - he did, travelling to the Burning Hills, spending ninety-nine days in the desert hunting Ah Thalarat. Several times they fought, with Carastor denting the beast's gem hide, drawing its ichor blood, or sundering it, only for it to fly off in a cloud of blinding sand and dust. Finally on the ninety-ninth night, he was able to best it, killing the foul beast and earning a name as a true hero.
== Helping to Clad Xánwyr ==
Carastor provided the supple pinkish-black belly skin of the dragon Ah Thalarat to his good friend, the legendary smith Northstar. Carastor tanned it and clad the legendary black sword's handle in strips of it, which were reliable and firm in all weather.
== Death ==
Carastor succeeded Qinlen in 50 TE as Arch King of the Alderei. 
Carastor and the rest of his kingdom mysteriously vanished from history around 100TE. Few people know what happened. Legends say they were attacked by raiders with glowing eyes that came from the seas southeast of the mainland - though no one could prove that a continent (Vereäzora) lay that way for a millennia more. The raiders didn't settle or leave any marks except a few artifacts and goods. Carastor, Northstar, and their people fell into forgotten history.
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