Bathyal

== I: The Abyssal Idol==
==Part 1: The Origin==
Around 3500 AS, the animus Queen Gyre of the Seawings was faced with a predicament. Her short temper and overblown outbursts, among other things, had made it difficult for her to find a partner for the heir of the Seawing throne. To solve this problem, Gyre chose to construct an heir out of magic, instead of allowing one of her nieces to step to the title of heir. 
Gyre had constructed the dragonet's egg out of the finest sapphires and silver available, constructing it into the form of an egg, and enchanting it to hold the daughter of Queen Gyre, and for that daughter to be able to have dragonets of her own, and finally, for the dragonet to be an animus. What eventually hatched, after more animus coaxing, was far from any functioning dragonet. Its scales were the color of basalt and the ocean desert. It did not breathe. It did not have the gills to do so. Its limbs cracked and fractured like a statue, the insides being perfect stone replicas of the muscles, bones, and skin that made up dragons. Whatever it may have appeared as, it was far from a dragon. 
Unwilling to simply scrap this failure and start over, Gyre choose to tinker with her creation, altering it. She tried giving it life, first by infusing it with kelp, then with a live fish, until it could wriggle and breathe like a dragon. At this apparent success, Gyre modified the dragon's mouth, so that instead of simply being for food, it could absorb the life out of an object and give it to the dragonet, sustaining it's feeble, artificial life. While some color turned to the dragonet's bioluminescent scales, and Gyre later enchanted the dragonet's wings and membrane to turn into flexible, living flesh of a dragon, that being a deep shade of cerulean, the dragonet's grey, stone-like hide never turned. Gyre named this dragonet Bathyal, after the ocean depths. 
==Part 2: An Heir, Not Dragon==
Princess Bathyal, in her earliest years, was described as "a ornate statue to be shown off by the queen." The princess spent her time doing nothing, staring abjectly into the distance, following the queen wherever she went. Reportedly, Bathyal was unable to perform basic tasks on her own, her needs being entirely fulfilled by Queen Gyre, mostly being kept a constant source of life to draw her own from. If Gyre neglected Bathyal, Bathyal would never voice her needs. It was noted that she would simply "turn back into a statue," sinking to the bottom of the palace floor, unmoving until Gyre remembered her daughter.
Gyre would make efforts to "correct" Bathyal's nature, the first revision of which was to give Bathyal a desire for her own self-preservation. This initial action made Bathyal extremely ravenous, consuming any organic life that couldn't swim from her talons, including fish, kelp, carcasses of various things, including dragons, and almost consumed a dragon's egg before being violently stopped by guards and animusly stopped by Queen Gyre. While not consuming, Bathyal would follow Queen Gyre in the same manner as she did before.
Gyre's later few revisions set to improve Bathyal's behavior and mannerisms. Afterwards, Bathyal would no longer prioritize maintaining her life force, rather, she would only consuming things that regular seawings ate, and would only do so when Gyre did it. Bathyal no longer swam to the nearest source to use, but would wait at the royal dinning hall, at a spot at the table to do so. However, Queen Gyre would not be content with Bathyal's pacifistic, unreactive behavior. 
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