Xylorhiza

**Xylorhiza** is a SandWing dragoness and also the current headmaster of Jade Mountain Academy. Dedicated to her job and protective of her students, Xylorhiza seems to be a solid headmaster, and that that's all she'll ever be to her students. However, it seems as if Xylorhiza has her own secrets hidden from her students...

Xylorhiza is currently portrayed by seraphdove.

## Appearance

Xylorhiza is a tall, lithe, and visibly aged SandWing dragoness with pinkish-brown and reddish-brown scales. Her eyes are a deep, dark brown in color and her well-groomed sail is a vibrant shade of red, and she has red markings beneath her eyes and on her stinger. She also wears a skyfire bracelet around her left wrist.

## Personality

Xylorhiza certainly seems like a fun, brash dragoness, often carrying a sense of utter confidence and style with her. With quick wit and a sharp, hearty laugh, it seems quite easy to talk to Xylorhiza, setting aside any initial apparent eccentricity to her. Regardless of what your first impression of her may be, Xylorhiza is truly passionate about learning and giving a good education to the students at Jade Mountain.

Although Xylorhiza may come across as a bit snarky at first, she is often direct and honest with other dragons and would tell them how she sees it. Xylorhiza isn’t one to give subtle, cryptic hints to her students, and would give them direct advice she thinks that they need in order to figure themselves and their own issues out. She is not the kind of dragon who would really waste time and doesn’t like it when others waste her time either.

Despite her generally being kind to her students and absolutely wanting to bring the best out of all of them, Xylorhiza does understand where boundaries need to be drawn. She is a much older dragon after all, one who is in a position of authority over them, and as such doesn’t make it a habit to make friends with her students. She could express her care for them and their future, certainly, but when offered to be friends with a student, Xylorhiza does tend to reject it more often than not.

It’s not that Xylorhiza really hates the idea of being friends with her students. It’s more so that she believes that having such relationships with them would keep her from being fair with all of them, leading to bias that would ultimately work to their detriment. As such, Xylorhiza seems to be both an active participant in the academic lives of her students while also being distant to them personally, and she doesn’t tend to make friends with members of her staff either.

Perhaps there is an aura of secrecy around Xylorhiza, and she purposefully makes sure that no one can dig around to find them with her skyfire bracelet. She seems to guard that thing with her life, and is even harsher toward any dragon who attempts to steal it for any reason.

So what is she hiding?

## History

### Early Years

Xylorhiza hatched in the tough, guarded town of Dunewind. Perhaps it had always been in Xylorhiza's blood to be so guarded, to know how to keep her secrets well, as much of her early life is still shrouded in history despite her relative youth. There are a few things for certain, however: she used to be a troublemaker, she attended Jade Mountain Academy before, and it was there that she first befriended a RainWing named Coati, who would later go on to become the queen of the rainforest.

*More to be revealed...*

## Relationships

### Queen Coati

Queen Coati was Xylorhiza's former friend.

Not much is currently known about their relationship, however Coati is still affable with Xylorhiza. It's known that they were old friends, having met each other during a troubled time during both their lives, however at some point they had a falling out for reasons currently unknown. Xylorhiza harbors bitter resentment against Coati and does not like thinking about her, and dislikes talking to her even more.

It's perhaps because of this old relationship that Xylorhiza is rather brazen when speaking to Coati, despite Coati's status as queen, to the point where Xylorhiza, in a letter addressed to Coati, tells her that Xylorhiza hopes she dies.

### Troubleseeker

Xylorhiza is wary of Troubleseeker, knowing of his record and background, however allowed him to attend the academy in the hopes that the experience would help make him better. They briefly interacted during the first day of school, after he approached Xylorhiza to ask why his bag was taken away from him. Due to the bag containing school contraband such as knives, Xylorhiza firmly shut him and down and told him that he will not have the bag returned to him, before sending him away.

Xylorhiza is not exactly fond of Troubleseeker, however hopes that she was not wrong to give him a chance and that she will see him change for the better over the course of the year.

## Trivia

* The base used for Xylorhiza's reference was made by PlasmaWolf2016 on Deviantart, and she was designed by seraphdove.
* Xylorhiza is biromantic and asexual.
* Xylorhiza was named after the Xylorhiza genus of plants.