Runeforger

=== Introduction ===
As you walk to your house for the night, the cobbled path is shrouded in shadow. A mysterious forest has appeared where you don’t remember one. Enormous oaks and elm trees tower over you, darkening the already shadowed twilight. As you near the end of the path, your house is nowhere in sight. Even the path seemed longer than you remember. A large kauri tree with low hanging branches is at the end of the path. At the bottom, a den is carved out of the wood, and an amber light emits from it.
Despite your fear, the light is alluring, almost unusually so. It seemed to drive away the shadows. A break in the thin clouds reveals a patch of moonlight shining down on the clearing. But it was a new moon.
As you walk in, the forest closes around you, and your vision turns black.
=== Appearance ===
As your vision clears, you find that you’re in a bed made of moss. Even without a blanket, your body is completely warm.
The dragoness standing next to you appears to be a NightWing. However, she does have some SeaWing qualities.
A large, black cloak shrouds most of her features, but what you can make out is a short snout, with blobby features. At the end of her cloak, a short tail sticks out, ending in a blunt point, twitching across the floor. Both her snout and her tail faded into a deep blue, like an ocean abyss. Her talons were busy carving something on stone. Her legs were plump, and faded into blue near the end, and her claws were an ebony black.
She turns to you and says, “You’re up. Sorry, you aren’t supposed to be here.” And suddenly, you lapse back into unconsciousness.
When you wake up again, it’s just another day.
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Rune is, indeed, a plump and short dragon, with blobby features. Her brows are often furrowed, leaving a crease of worry on her face, making her seem older. Her snout is short and mushy, and her ears and horns are large and long. Her horns are straight and end in a point. Her claws are always carefully cleaned and sharpened, often coated with dust and small specks of light. Her tail is SeaWing-like, being short and blunt, and very strong. Her wings are averagely sized. She has gills and webbings between her claws, and on her spine and underbelly. She does have glowscales, mostly on her legs and underbelly.
In color, Rune is stunning. Her snout, legs, and tail fade into a deep blue speckled with glowing stars. Her horns, teeth, and claws are a shining ebony black. Her eyes are an electric blue that glow, in stark contrast to her dark scales, that seem to see into your soul. And they do. Her wings are beautiful, as the underside is black, fading into a bright blue near the edge. The three moons are shown on it, one being a crescent, the next half full, and the biggest one being completely full. Her underwings are painted with glittering stars. Most of her scales are a dark grey, almost black, but not quite. Her glowscales are a pastel blue, almost white. Rune’s webbing is black, fading into a deep blue near the edge, also freckled with stars.
Rune generally wears a long, black cloak, coated on the inside with a fluffy layer of fur. The cloak also has a hood to cover her head, and the cloak covers almost all of her body, save her snout and the tip of her tail. Rune wears multiple pouches on her legs and neck, and has no jewelry, besides a pendant with a small blue moonstone embedded inside.
=== Abilities ===
Rune is weird in this way. She has regular NightWing abilities, like blending into shadows, but she can also carve symbols into stone that can trigger magic.
=== Personality ===
====== Positive ======
Rune is very intelligent. She is skilled in all types of arithmetics and language arts, and other academic subjects. She is very observant, and not easily fooled, and is honest herself. She is also kindhearted, and willing to lend a hand, should she be given to opportunity. She is also very caring.
====== Neutral ======
Rune makes deep connections with those she loves or is friends with. She is crafty and strategic, and is generally true neutral, and does not like to meddle in other dragons’ affairs. At times she can be sly, or even cold, and is often very independent, working without the help of others. She can be considered Utilitarian.
====== Negative ======
Rune is weak physically, nor does she study any kind of combat, or is interested in doing so. Rune is willing to abandon or even kill dragons, if it is for the good of the majority, and does so with an iron heart. Rune gets suspicious easily, and it takes an abnormally long time to gain her trust.
=== History ===
====== Pre-Egg ======
Rune’s father was a high-ranking NightWing named Darkstrider. On the other hand, her mother was also a high-ranking Sea-Night hybrid, named Whiplash. Whiplash’s family had a long history of important dragons, and had a lot of property. Darkstrider’s family had a lot of wealth and importance, so the two were betrothed, even though they never really loved each other.
When they got married, Whiplash moved in with Darkstrider.
====== Egg ======
Whiplash had a clutch of two. One of the eggs was a beautiful dark blue, with scattered stars. The other was an “uglier” dark teal color, with fainter stars scattered sparsely on it. As it would happen, Rune would be the prettier one.
The couple’s family arranged for Rune to be married into royalty. They soon threw away the teal egg. Who knows where it went.
====== Baby Dragonet ======
When Rune hatched, she was utterly spoiled. She had everything she wanted, instantly. Despite this, Rune soon developed a realistic view on life, acknowledging that dragons were suffering, and that she should try to help them.
Because of the superior learning her parents provided her, Rune learned to speak, read, and write quicker than most dragonets, and was considered a prodigy. She was named Twilight instead of Runeforger.
====== Dragonet ======
Twilight was quickly signed off to a wealthy private school, where she hated literally everyone. Her classmates, the teachers, even the executives were all annoying snobs. Twilight took an interest to drawing and studying, and topped her classes every year, learning more on the way.
One day, Twilight was drawing as usual, when her hand went awry, and she wrote a strange symbol. She wrote it off as an arm spasm, or something like that, until she started getting the urge to write more things like it. So, she did what any dragon with common sense would do, and…
wrote some more!
Eventually, she had filled up her paper with the strange runes. The air around her began to spark with energy, and suddenly, a bright light filled the room Twilight was in. A hologram appeared.
It was a huge dragon, with floating stars and galaxies incased inside of it. The starry dragon explained the situation. It told Twilight that it was the universe, or a god of kinds. The god encouraged Twilight to continue writing runes, and then dissipated right before her mother came in to see what was happening.
For the rest of her childhood, Twilight quietly practiced Runespeak, as she called it. A few other holograms appeared. One said it was a god of fire. Another said that they were the exiled god of the moons. Funnily, the moon god’s face (and head) was on fire. Permanently.
====== Adolescent ======
Twilight was finally told about her arrangement to marry a prince. At first, she was slightly apprehensive, maybe a little excited. But after she met said prince (his name was Illustrious), all she wanted to do was run away. Not only was Illustrious so obviously evil, but he had a horrible personality otherwise.
However, her parents somehow found out her plans, and set up security guards to make sure she couldn’t escape. They basically turned her house into a prison. Twilight was only let out to eat and go to the bathroom. It was suffocating.
Finally, she had enough. She summoned The Universe, and asked them to get her out. They agreed, and by the next day, she was free, with some food and a cloak personally gifted to her by The Universe. Nothing special, of course.
She changed her name to Runeforger, and began her life as a nomad. Since she escaped, her parents sent out multiple bounty hunters and trackers to look for her, so the cloak came in handy. She rarely had to confront any of the searchers, as her magic allowed her to be very evasive.
====== Adult ======
A few years into her escapade, Rune was approached by a young LeafWing named Cycad. He said that he had been told about her by The Universe, and that he apparently had developing Runespeak skills. So Runeforger took him in, and taught him what she knew. Cycad grew into her trusted assistant.
Multiple years after that, near the end of Cycad’s training, The Universe sent her another trainee. A Sea-Sky hybrid named Rush. They had been given to Runeforger for a similar purpose, and Rune realized that The Universe was hoping to teach a generation of Runespeakers. And she embraced it wholly.
====== Present ======
Rune’s still going strong with her two apprentices. Cycad has almost completed his training, and is hoping to be sent out into the real world very soon. Meanwhile, Rush is about a tenth done with his training.
=== Relationships ===
====== Cycad ======
Rune’s apprentice. While she would never say it out loud, she would do anything to keep him safe. And no, they are not in love.
Positive
====== Rush ======
While Rune knows Rush less than Cycad, she knows that he has much potential.
Neutral-Positive
====== Illustrious ======
For the short time Rune was in contact with him, she hated him utterly and completely.
Negative
====== Darkstrider ======
Dark never loved Rune, and vice versa. She still resents him for betrothing her to Illustrious.
Negative
====== Whiplash ======
Whiplash and Rune never had much of a mother-daughter relationship, and Rune doesn’t really care about her.
Negative
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