Drac

### Linguistics

✨✨✨ Autumn Court Language, the Fostering Tongue, Provençal, Occitan, Latin, Winter Court Language

## Advantages

### Daytime Cantrips

Leaves of Gold, Luminous Splendor, Summer's Glamour

### Nighttime Cantrips

Salmon's Breath, Weariness, Midnight's Domain

### Background 1

Allies ✨✨ (Aucassin, his changeling "child")

### Background 2

Holdings (Night; Size ✨✨✨, Defense ✨✨, Magical Effects ✨ undiscoverable location)

## Other Traits

### Flaws

Apostate ✨✨ (used to be Winter), Echo Intolerant ✨✨, Feared ✨, Unseasonal ✨✨

### Experience Spent

24

Local legend in Beaucaire tells of a cruel sorcerer dragon, the ancient Drac (which simply means “dragon” in Occitan), who preys on the river-folk of the Rhone, luring mothers and young children to his lair beneath the waters. A notably crafty creature, the elusive river serpent is claimed to be responsible for the deaths of over three thousand knights and villagers, having escaped several campaigns to hunt it down over the centuries. Its magical powers allowed the beast to walk amongst the townsfolk unseen when it desired.

As the story does not mention anyone ever slaying the elder dragon, it is believed to have died of old age, but a decade ago a spate of disappearances in or around Beaucaire has been attributed to the return of the creature. No further disappearances have been reported for the last few years and the townsfolk are beginning to forget the incidents, but one of the wells in the marketplace of Beaucaire is rumored to be still linked to the creature’s lair.

## The Truth

Drac often assumes the human form and comes early into the public marketplace without any one being thereby disturbed. Some years ago, he was doing exactly as such, when in the shade of the plane trees in the middle of the fish baskets, with a pale, cold glance, he observed the women chattering with the merchants and, with a swift claw, sharp-edged, removed a child whose parents had, for a moment, neglected to supervise. He often refers to the resultant changeling, Aucassin, as his very own son.

It was not long thereafter that he renounced the ways of the Winter Court for those of the Autumn.

He has his abode in a cavern of the Rhone River. Occasionally, he uses Leaves of Gold to float along the stream the effluvia of plants in the form of gold rings or cups to entice women or boys who are bathing on the banks of the river. While they endeavor to grasp what they see, they are suddenly seized and dragged down to the bottom; he prefers to do this to none more than to suckling women, whom he causes to serve as nurse to his own child, a changeling. After they have spent seven years there, Drac returns them to the human world.

These women say that they lived with Drac in an ample palace, a crystal cave beyond whose translucent, opalescent walls undulated several long algae, as if rocked by the breeze, as fish slipped by in the grasses. In the dim green light of their crystal prison, they claim to have feasted with their captor on human flesh and nursed his child, looking after said child with all the tenderness of a mother.

## Appearance

Drac's scaled, worm-like limbs, like his body generally, are long and sinuous, supported by webbed legs like a flamingo. Vestigial growths sprout from his shoulder blades, either fins or wings, you can't tell, but they are blue and lacy. His eyes are brilliant, but not inhumanly, emerald-green, and his voice has the resonance of a gong.