Ula

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Since I Left You - The Avalanches

"*Get a drink, have a good time now*

*Welcome to paradise*"

* Aquatic Western-styled dragon. Has large fins instead of wings alongside some extra betta fish-like fins. Not a sea serpent, however, has four limbs.
* No human sense of gender or orientation, doesn’t care about it and doesn’t refer to itself by any labels like “female”, “male”, or anything like that. Sexless, possibly created by the ocean itself. No desire for a partner.
	+ Doesn’t care for pronouns so you can refer to it by anything (it/her is the most common among spellcasters but he/him is also used on occasion, no pronouns at all is ok as well).
* Lives in a pre-modern age, probably around the Age of Exploration. Has been around for far longer, however, thousands of years old. It is rumored that it was birthed from the sea after creation although it has never confirmed nor denied this.
* Ula (meaning “sea jewel”) isn’t actually the name it chose out for itself, it’s just what the magical community called it due to its beautiful ocean-based appearance. Accepts the name but doesn’t really use it itself, feel free to just call it “the dragon” or fancy titles like “the ocean’s splendor” or “sea child” since they’re pretty common “names” for it as well.
* Lives in a cove on an island in the middle of the ocean. It’s super pretty with a waterfall and it has a beautiful beach with stunning tropical plants/flowers surrounding it. The perfect paradise.
* Behind the waterfall is a cave where Ula lives. However, the splendor of this “paradise” was artificially created by this dragon and its magic in order to lure human ships searching for serenity into its clutches. It’s magic hides the clusters of rocks around the cove and therefore ships don’t notice the dangers while sailing in, leading to their doom.
	+ Humans are drawn to it regardless if they’re actually searching for it or not thanks to the dragon’s magic.
* The dragon steals the human’s treasure and hides it in their cave. The island is still rather beautiful, but in a terrifying way, without the spell and the dragon itself is like that. Like those poisonous tree frogs.
* However, Ula has been known to befriend those who willingly search it (as in the dragon and not the island) out and give it an offering of jewels. It can be very relaxed and calm and has a lot of wisdom/advice regarding the world. The only people who know about it are mages and whatnot who hide from normal humans n stuff though so the dragon itself has still gone unnoticed by the general public.
	+ In fact: the spellcasters of the world are the only reason why the normal human population knows about the island, the humans who “discover” it normally perish far away from home and never tell the tale. Thanks to them, there have been many willing explorers who have sailed into Ula’s grasp. The humans blame their disappearances on getting lost at sea or getting caught in a storm which is there is still ships out looking for it despite the disappearances. Paradise *can’t* be dangerous, right?
* Likes being mysterious just for fun, refuses to respond to some people’s questions about it no matter how many jewels they offer it just to keep up an aura of mysteriousness.
* Very vain and greedy but not outwardly aggressive. Let’s the island do the killing, never gets it’s claws dirty.
* Loves the beauty of nature as well as materialistic things, it’s favorite type of treasure is anything gold with blue/green gems. Decorates itself with local flora but doesn’t wear much jewelry due to the only ones it owns being human-sizes.
* Feels a kinship towards fish and birds, only eats the mammals found on the island. Let’s the fish feed on the bodies of humans.

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