Avoles

Avoles, known also as the Brass Magi, is an ancient brass dragon, thus only encountered in a humanoid form.

## Description

Like near all dragons of Ahlus, Avoles has the ability to change their appearance, including being able to take on a humanoid form. It is in this form that Avoles has come to reside the majority of the time, taking the form of a merchant of fine and rare art pieces and curiosities from a store strategically close to the Myriad Market in Oxresh.

Their chosen form while in this location is that of a human woman of average height, dark hair and tawny-tanned, most commonly with intricate skin dye patterns woven across her hands and brow. They wear a simple armour piece of brass scales, accented by a necklace of warm-hued gemstones.

## Personality

Avoles delights in conversation, seeking out interesting individuals that have novel tales of significance to tell, while demanding payment in the form of interesting things - items of storied history, curious enchantments and the like - in exchange for their own knowledge. After all, they have spent a great deal of time cultivating the information, engaging in conversation with thousands of creatures, and then cross-referenced their understanding to ensure its accuracy. It is this lattermost detail that Avoles seems to be particularly specific about, freely and boldly interrupting speakers to correct them, before citing evidence of their own correctness in a meandering manner. Despite this, Avoles has stated they do not like arguments - which is suspected to instead be individuals questioning their accuracy and correctness. For this reason, they have started to send representatives on their behalf to the Myriad Market to save encountering any unsavoury attitudes.

Avoles seems actively in conversation with many objects in their collection, including the statues on either side of the doorway entering the Platinum & Palaver - Borzil & Klurzan - as well as a bust of Gilbert III Goldlor set at their dining table.

## History

Avoles is famed throughout the history books of Ahlus for consorting with dao, djinni, efreeti and marids from across the Elemental Sphere, and is considered by many to be an immeasurable source of knowledge to all things elemental in nature. They were also known to some scholars for possessing a sentient weapon said to contain the spirit of Andvett the Advehent, a legendary warrior of Ysgard, having carried it with them on their travels for many years.

### *Ódóvir's Visit in Otealt-Greencrown 134WD*

To this purpose, Avoles was sought out by Ódóvir Jotunsson in 134WD, seeking more information on both. After asking around to their whereabouts, the paladin managed to track the dragon to the city of Oxresh, bidding at the Myriad Market for a complete collection of the Astedian Cyclopedia to buy their time and attention.

The subsequent conversation would present a number of complicating factors for Odovir. Firstly, it was quickly established that they had sold to a collector in Rydoon, placing it aboard a ship bound for the city over one hundred years prior, citing that Andvett's spirit had run out of conversation topics after being placed into a blade for many centuries. Inquiring to how Andvett could be both in the axe and the individual encountered at Blarakkerihaugr, Avoles introduced Odovir and Moxzi to the idea of *The* *Soma & The Soul*, remarking that the *Soul* of Andvett is most likely in the axe, while the individual released from the casket was the *Soma*, a creature of mortal flesh divorced from their true form by the wrenching of *Soul* and spirit from it. Clarifying that the *Soma* would be unaware of its existence as such, sustained on fractured echoes of memory held by the *Soul,* speculation turned to talk of reunification of the two as the natural state of being, something seemingly being exploited. Citing himself as a peer, whether in history, or seemed significance given their appearance alongside each other amongst the statues of Blarakkerihaugr, Avoles was then to quick to remark that he was undoubtedly a *Soma* too, likewise divorced from his *Soul*, a comment seemingly supported by Ódóvir's patchy memory of his former life.

Back peddling and otherwise sceptically incredulous at the idea that he was lacking in a soul within him, Avoles simply asked him of what proof he had, adding that if something had latched onto his soul when he was slain during the battles after Aita's First Gift, Ódóvir's mere presence as a *Soma* would act like a magnet for it as *Soma* and *Soul* draw themselves close together. Subsequently, it would appear that he could act in the same way to the Primordial Fragments, which act as a bait for the Primordial Elemental Princes. Avoles confirmed the Princes were a creation of the Elder Elemental Eye, though made a point to distinguish them from the demons, they being creations of ravenous and destructive evil chaos, the Princes that of natural process incarnate - and the chaos it could bring. By coincidence, Moxzi then found some semblance of answer to the presence of her recurrent dreams of vast storms filled with black chains that bound her in place and cause her to surge into unstable red flame - many features amongst it hallmarks of the Elder Elemental Eye's activity - although of uncertain meaning thus far.