Tirnoch

## Tirnoch (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning)

Tirnoch is a female western Dragon from the 2012 video game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (or its 2020 remake, Re-reckoning) and serves as the games main antagonist. She is perceived as a goddess throughout the majority of the main story, although this is revealed to be false.

## Physical appearance

Tirnoch is a dark red dragon, with large sharp teeth, and a fictional mineral called "Prismere" growing on her body. She has two jagged horns, along with large wings with wing membrane the same color as her scales. She has an omnipresent glow coming from the inside of her mouth and eyes.

## Powers and abilities

Tirnoch has the standard fire breath, and physical strength of a western dragon, although she also possesses the inherit ability to manipulate fate, which in the universe of Amalur is the driving force in every event in people's lives. During the events of the game, it is typical of fate to give tragic endings to the characters, and it is quite possible this was done specifically by Tirnoch, given her disdain for mortal kind.

## History

Due to her long imprisonment inside a realm called Amethyn (a land inbetween the magic and mortal realms), Tirnoch desires vengeance upon the world for sealing her away, and went mad. With the seal on her prison weakened, she, or possibly Gadflow (a character that serves as a main antagonist up until Tirnoch's reveal), managed to contact one another. It is unknown whether she twisted his mind, or if his mind was already twisted, but Tirnoch swayed Gadflow to her service. Using Tirnoch's power, Gadflow massacred the members of the Winter Court, a governing faction of Fay, and when the heroes of the Winter rose to avenge their lost king and remove Gadflow from his usurped throne, Tirnoch's power manifested and impaled them upon shards of Prismere. She also used her power to interrupt the Great Cycle, a force that ressurected the Fay when they died.

When the secret organization that the Fateless One and a deurotaganist named Alyn Shir worked for discovered the murmings of the Tuatha about their new goddess, the Fateless One volunteered to assassinate Gadflow and reseal Tirnoch, despite the fateweavers' prediction they would only find death. Although all of the details are not known, they were killed on this mission, but this was not the Fateless One's end.

Although Gadflow proved a useful tool and would have eventually have been able to fully release her, Tirnoch chose another pawn to expedite her release into Amalur. Tirnoch broke the Fateless One free of the Tapestry of Fate and resurrected the Fateless One in Hugues' Well of Souls. This gave their the ability to change fate and to absorb the potential fates of others. Tirnoch knew that the Fateless One would eventually return to face her, full of tremendous power from the fates they had absorbed. It was Tirnoch's intention to then kill the Fateless One and use their accumulated power to free herself from her prison for once and for all.

Unfortunately for Tirnoch, the Fateless One's great power proved too much for her, and they were able to reseal her prison and prevent her from fully entering Amalur. This put an end to the Crystal War, and freed all of Amalur from the weave of fate.