Aura Ashcreek

Aura is an NPC introduced in Arc 1, and the fiancée and later wife of Amara Ashcreek. She is important again as an NPC for Arc 7.

## Description

As a dragon, Aura is a Gold Dragon, meaning she has golden scales.

When disguised as a Human, Aura is a 6 foot tall woman with medium brown skin and stick straight golden blond hair that reaches all the way down her back. She has big, dark eyes.

When she becomes focused on a task, sometimes she doesn't notice the things that happen around her anymore.

Since her engagement to Amara, she wears a bejewelled dagger at her hip that matches hers. It is a custom in the region around Summerview to exchange daggers instead of rings for an engagement.

She works as a librarian at the Grand Heritage Library in Summerview, and this library functions as her horde. SK-73 voluntarily helps her out there because he is certain that he is the most qualified for the job, and she is one of the few people who have some kind of authority over him. The two of them are also friends, and she likes to lightly tease him with his meticulous need to order the library.

In her long life, she has made a lot of friends, and most of them are very interesting people. Yet, many people from Summerview don't really know her that well, she is just someone who works at the library. With the birth of her son Arthur, she cannot really hide that she is a dragon anymore, further scaring people in her hometown away from getting to know her.

## Backstory

About 200 years before Arc 1, Aura went on adventures with Vastya, an ambitious woman that did not want to settle, so neither did Aura, until they separated.

Some years before Arc 1, Aura had heard rumours about a dragon egg. Then, just shortly before Arc 1, someone came to the library and alked about the crypt in Thymore. Because she knew that Amara had always wanted children, she went on her way there to find the egg, but did not tell her fiancée about it, so that she would not get her hopes up too soon.

In Thymore, she found and entered the Mausoleum, but was then trapped there: the Flameskull Damir Mortyss had popped up again after being killed by her, and she did not want to risk the safety of the egg by fighting him again, even if she could easily kill him. Because of that, she was away a lot longer than she had anticipated, and Amara got worried, sending the Arc 1 party to find her.

## Character Arc

### Arc 1

After killing Damir Mortyss, the Arc 1 party finds Aura in a small room filled with fire, protectively curled around her egg. As soon as she recognises SK-73, she relaxes, turns back into her human form, and leaves the Mausoleum together with the group after they tell her that the flameskull is dead for another hour again.

Amara is happy to have her back, and also to have her come home with an egg. They put it into the warmth of their fireplace, waiting for the baby dragon to hatch.

### Between Arc 1 and Arc 7

Somewhere between 131 AE and 133 AE, Aura and Amara get married. The wedding happens in a small circle, and only SK-73 attends.

In mid summer of 132 AE, the little dragon finally hatches, and the two of them decide to name their son Arthur. Arthur is a Gold Dragon as well, and soon learns to fly around a bit, but also to turn into a Human-looking baby (which deviates from official DnD lore). SK-73 essentially becomes Arthur's godfather, and gets used to carrying the baby around the library.

### Arc 7

For Arthur's first birthday, Aura and Amara decide to invite "a few friends" to Summerview, with Aura inviting a lot more than just a few friends: she invites about 400, approximately 100 of them respond, and most of them bring plus ones.

Quickly, she realises that there is some tension between the old friends of the Arc 7 party. She tries her best to get them to team up and become friends again, putting SK-73 on a mission to keeping Sir Mister at the party, and actively bringing Deb into the conversation.

As the town gets attacked, Aura immediately turns to defend her town, her family, and her horde, excited to be able to fight again and confident that she can win over the Dragon Turtle, which she manages to do after the Arc 7 party weakened it. However, during the fight, the Sahuagin that came to the town riding the turtle abduct a few children, including Arthur, and the Arc 7 party goes after them to get the children back and defeat whoever is responsible for the attack.

As they return with the children, they bring the notes they found in the dungeon and tell Aura about who and what they saw. Aura quickly concludes that Vastya, who she had thought wasn't "an issue" anymore, tries to take the crown of the Pirate King in Blue Haven and wanted to use Arthur for this purpose. With the information she found out and knowing that she cannot abandon her family, Aura asks the Arc 7 party to find and stop Vastya.

## Trivia

* Aura has a horse named Cherry.
* In both her Human form and her Dragon form, Aura can walk through fire.
* Aura is relatively rich.