Emrys Sanders/Sandscale

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*This page documents Emrys Sanders's feral forms.*

### Also known as

The Desert's Shadow, The Snake, Serpent Kid (Tilan), ~~Sandy~~ (Tilan and the rest of apof), Do not call him sandy (Tilan), Snando (Tilan and the rest of apof), SNAAANNNDOOO (Tilan and the rest of apof), Fox Botherer (Tilan)

### Pastimes

Achieving more power and basically terrifying everyone else in a quiet way

### Fighting style

Absolutely op

> I have heard that the smallest detail of error could lead to a monarch's downfall. We certainly would not prefer that to happen, would we?
>
> - Sandscale, commenting on the intentional breach of etiquette during his diplomatic meeting with a leader of a Feathered tribe, in a perfectly friendly tone

Sandscale, also known as the Desert's Shadow or the Snake, is a lenix set as a part of the canon lore in Ecapeht. He was the first and only creature to conquer the whole of the Darkling Forest and the plains beyond, and to unite it into a single nation that functioned supremely well during his reign, but almost immediately collapsed back into chaos after his disappearance. The kingdom he built, however, still remains to the modern day as the largest lenix tribe in the Darkling Forest, the Swallows.

It is said that he vanished at 36 stelluars of age from his throne (35 in human years), declaring an abdication and promptly traveling away under the covers of the night. The major theory is that he went off into the desert, but whatever the case, he has not been seen ever again.

Tilan believes that he is immortal, and he now exists across Tilan's universes as a concept of being. Though she loves putting him in as a cameo in her work, she knows enough to understand that any story with Sandscale would experience a major power shift in its political system and would probably ruin the whole plot.

## Appearance

### Lenix

*Sandscale's original design, and his canon shape in Ecapeht.*

From afar, Sandscale, rather like most things when viewed from a distance, is nothing but a small black dot on the horizon. As you get close enough to see his features, however, he remains near-dark, the colour being second only to pure white in sense of rarity in the lenix species. His fur is unnaturally short and hard, sticking close to his side rather than with the usual tufts at the head and neck.

He stands erect on the plain, his head held high in surveillance, his body still as that of a statue. His tail, short and thin, hangs down stiffly, and there is a certain woodenness to his posture and joints; when he stands still, he can be as still as the land. Even though he is shorter and thinner than the average lenix, his wiry muscles are as hard as steel, and there is a feeling of a tightly wound spring in his pose.

He seems not to notice you as you approach, despite the fact that both of you are on an open plain. His head faces a direction about ten degrees to your left, and he was staring at it with such intent that you cannot help but turn to look at what he was looking at. Only the bleak horizon greets your eyes, and you turn back again, vaguely unsettled.

And then you see his eyes.

His irises are pale and of an indistinguishable colour, grey-yellowish-green radiating with a hardened core. They seem to be staring at everything at once, never focusing on one spot at a time; and unlike normal eyes that flit and shift in rapid movements, his pupils stay the same deadly stillness as a rock in the storm. He swivels his head around in a sharp arc, now directly facing you, and as you look you can feel his gaze being fixed on the back of your skull. It is not a pleasant stare.

Sandscale's movements resemble that of a snake - quick, rapid snaps and dashes followed by long periods of absolute immobility, and there is a succinct feel of a heavy-bladed weapon to his form.

### Ecapehtean Desert Snake

*Secondary Ecapehtean design.*

The desert snakes of Ecapeht are more of a rough category of snakes rather than a whole species, with their sizes ranging from two to seven feet, and their colours spanning nearly the whole wide length of the spectrum. Sandscale in this form is about five feet long, with the same dusty black scales and pale yellowish eyes. The colours do not exactly make sense, but then again the serpents are a fairly magical species and could moderately do without camouflage. And anyway, Sandscale here is nocturnal, and his colouration makes a lot of sense during nighttime.

He gives off the feel of a black mamba, only much more devious and malicious.

### Cat

Sandscale, as a cat, comes across as rather short, bordering in that weird zone which could not be described as "normal", and yet which is also neither lean nor stocky. His tail, something that tends to remind the watcher of a cobra, tends to swing circles in the air as he talks, tracing indistinguishable patterns that were always slightly off-beat to his words, creating a vastly unsettling effect to his audience.

## Personality

Sandscale is, at best, an extremely complicated person.

As observed by many, he has a lust for politics - not exactly power or superior reign, but for the simple exhilaration of *the battle for power*. He takes a quiet enjoyment (and perhaps amusement) at balancing dangerous relationships, the long slippery climb uphill, and the even more perilous act of attempting to keep power. This has, consequently, become both his passion and his profession.

He deals widely in manipulation, addressing both the emotional and logical fields, and is famous for his ability to get the board set exactly as he wants it. Ruthless in achieving his goal, he nevertheless avoids killing and bloodshed, and he is not particularly evil, not as such. He does care about his friends, though the way he expresses it, a method that often involves sharp pointy things, is not one of the most traditional.

Once securely in power he immediately loses interest, as was the case when he unified the whole of the lenixes in the Darkling Forest, Ecapeht - after a few years, the boredom got to him and he ran away, leaving his empire to collapse into the mess it had been (and still is). Rather irresponsible, but there you go.