Shadowscale

## Episode Appearances

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A few episodes

**Shadowscale** (or Shadow for short) is a Dragonborn who has joined the party for part of its journey.

## **Description**

### **Appearance**

Shadowscale's most striking feature might be their large golden eyes. Their rubbery scales are covered in a soft, almost velvetty layer that looks black in most circumstances, but if the light hits it just right it gets a green hue. Their horns and nails have a more prominent blue-green irridecense.

Shadowscale doesn't wear anything fancy, just some plain linen shirts and trousers, but they are dyed in bright colours. They do however wear a silver circlet with 5 Lapis lazuli stones. It is made to fit and wraps around their horns, which means it would have to be destroyed to take it off. It was a gift from a childhood friend and was the first piece of jewelry they made when they finished their apprenticeship.

Shadow always carries their walking stick (which also functions as a quarterstaff) with them. It has carvings in draconic runes in it, and icons of dragons. They also carry a large animal horn with a silver mouthpiece, which is a remnant of their job as military support. And finally they carry a book which contains any spells they learned, and a lot of loose pages with notes about local people, wildlife, shopping lists, etc.

### **Personality**

Shadowscale is Good with a capital G. But the only thing stronger than their sense of righteousness is their hate for dragons. They even despise the dragon god Bahamut, who is among most people considered a benevolent god. Like most dragonborn, Shadow has a great deal of respect for anyone, even enemies, and expects others to behave respectfully too.

Besides that, Shadow is also very curious. They are a scholar by nature and want to know how the world works. And they are more than happy to pass that information on to anyone interested.

## **Biography**

### **Background**

Shadowscale has served in a dragonborn army in the past in a support role. They've tended wounded soldiers and passed on messages with their warhorn.

Later they explored the world and ended in the Tower of Thaltash. There they studied the workings of the world, and how the Weave affects everything, and learned their first genuine spells. They now have an office in Thaltash where they work on more experiments with a small group of colleagues. It is also from there that they teach beginning wizards in the ways of magic.

Shadow has spent most of their time studying the passage of time, and has tried to find ways to affect it. This lead them to find their now signature spell, Haste. But recently their focus has shifted to Divination.

Recently they went on a trip to meet a renowned bard to learn more about how music affects the Weave, and picked up a few new tricks.

### On stream

Shadowscale met the party in jail. They had recieved intell that something interesting was going to happen there, and so they defaced a statue of Bahamut to get into jail. The first time meeting the party in combat, Shadow chose the side of the prison guards for the sheer brutality of the party.

Later, after having been released from prison, Shadow ended up meeting the party again, this time in the layer of an ancient black dragon. For Shadow, there was little doubt as to who to assist in this encounter. Dragons are evil, and black ones even more so. They assisted in wounding and driving away the dragon, and tagged along for a bit more of the party's journey. When they were getting close to the east coast, Shadowscale decided to head home to tell the city about the black dragon, but not before exchanging postal addresses with Dugluss.