Fyrwal

**Fyrwal** is a 7-headed Hydra and one of Valeron's four companions who founded the Griffon Kingdom. She is a master of all elements and laid the foundations for the Battle Mage and War Mage specializations. She is also Faluel's mother.

## Appearance

The Elder Hydra has rainbow-colored hair and is renowned for her beauty. She has seven heads as well, but unlike her daughter she stands over 25 meters (82 feet) tall. It isn't the color of the scales covering her body that reveal the elemental affinity of each has but their eyes.

## Background

Fyrwal doesn't care for humans, considering them filthy and greedy mongrels, but she considered Valeron a friend and followed him to make sure his good heart wouldn't be his downfall. Even after the Griffon Kingdom's unification, humans who knew her real nature treated her either as a monster or as a tool in the shed, even going so far as to propose severing Fyrwal's heads to use as ingredients just because she could grow more. They questioned her decisions, claiming that a beast can't understand the needs of humans. Only when they messed up, be it with some crazy magical experiment or by triggering a conflict with the other races, did they remember that she was in charge and treated her with respect.

She is one of the only two still living members of Valeron's party and seeing any of the places that they visited or built together always reminds her of her friends and of everything that time has taken away from her. She has never gotten along with the Royal Court nor with any of Valeron's heirs. She fulfilled her role as one of the founding pillars of the Kingdom only until Valeron's death, after which she refused to obey monarchs she considered unworthy of her loyalty or become an accomplice of what she considered a corrupted system. Fyrwal was so proud of the Kingdom Valeron built with her help that she became disgusted by what it became, leading her to move to the Gorgon Empire.

When Valeron's descendant Arthan Griffon was exposed for sacrificing millions in Forbidden Magic experiments and subsequently executed, Valeron ceased to use his breathing technique. Several decades later Valeron died, and Oghrom killed himself the same day after failing to change Valeron's mind. Before his death, Oghrom asked Fyrwal to never Awaken someone like him, as he knew from personal experience that without a moral compass such as Valeron that Oghrom had, another Awakened Oghrom would prove to be too dangerous.

Fyrwal built her home inside Mount Elm in the Gorgon Empire, a place as luxurious as a noble manor and big enough to allow her to move comfortably in her real form. Most of the Elm mountain is now empty, replaced by halls, corridors, and rooms whose ceiling is at least 30 meters (100 feet) high. Every piece of furniture is crafted to suit the physiology of Hydras instead of humanoid creatures. The chairs have a hole instead of legs to accommodate the tail while the doors have no handle, able to be opened simply by pushing them and locked by pressing metal bolts with the stumpy legs typical of the Hydra bloodline. Moving around Fyrwal's house requires either magic or for one to be the size of an Emperor Beast. Otherwise simply going from the front door to the guest room would take hours.

Her daughter Faluel visits her in the Empire, bringing along her apprentice Protector and his family. Fyrwal expresses her opinion of humans to Protector's wife Selia and explains why she left the Kingdom, leading the Fastarrows to debate amongst themselves the best path to take for their children's future magic education. Meanwhile, Faluel, Fyrwal, and Jiza Gernoff actively begin preparing countermeasures due to the increasing threat of the Balkor copycat after they invade Lutia and survive an encounter with Tezka. Jiza shares her information on the copycat and requests they help protect Jirni using their relationship with Lith as a cover.

## Quotes

* *"Never forget that humans have no interest in silly things like protecting their own unless it hurts their profits."* (Fyrwal to Selia, Chapter 1616)

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 1390: High-Master (Part 2)
2. ↑ Chapter 1451: Endless Training (Part 1)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 1615: Parents and Children (Part 1)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 1616: Parents and Children (Part 2)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 1614: Chaos and Flames (Part 2)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 1618: Down Memory Lane (Part 2)