Ophiuchia

**Ophicuhia** is the legendry dragon of the stars and the queen of the Zodia dragons. Some believe that she might be the bases for the Ophiuchus myth.

## History

While there is a lot of debate about her origin, many scholars believe that she might have been a normal wingless and flightless dragon that gained a magical pair of wings from an unknown force. While she happily flies, she decided to fly as high as she could until she reached outer space, where she lost her wings and almost died without air. But instead of dying, another miracle has happened. An unknown force (possible the same force that gave her wings) transformed her into an immortal entity and gave her sovereignty over the stars. While she freely traveled the stars she encountered 12 celestial dragons and led them to the Surface. When she arrived several humans witnessed her and the other 12 dragons and believed that they were some sort of gods. Those humans builded an entire civilization around those dragons. they named themselves the Zodians, they named the 12 dragons the Zodia dragons and they named the wingless dragoness "Ophicuhia" and worshipped her as their supreme goddess.

However, after while Ophicuhia felt like something was not right with those humans. Some of them sacrificed humans and sometimes other dragons to appease her for some reason and they started a war in her name without her will and used dragons as war machines. The final straw came when she sensed that a great disaster was about to come and destroy all life on the surface. She opened a massive rift in the sky and took the Zodia dragons with her to a place far away from the incoming catastrophe. When she left the Zodians, they felt and resentment toward her, so they demolished all her temples and portrayed her as an evil and destructive entity and renamed her "Ophiuchus". Slowly but surely the Zodian civilization crumbled by their own arrogance until the cataclysm destroyed them all.

Millenniums later, when the magic of the cataclysm faded from the surface, Ophicuhia sensed that humans became more friendly toward dragons, so slowly she sanded each one of the Zodia dragons until she finally decide to go down herself. When she arrived, she was happily surprised to see the humans coexist with dragons without any will to use them as weapons or sacrifice.

## Description

The Zodia Scrolls tell the story of twelve dragons extracted from the cosmos but there is a thirtheenth:

A hatchling once observed it didn't have wings while other dragons did. During the day it started at the clouds and at night it gazed at the stars. One morning, this dragon awoke to a gift beyond its dreams. Two wings as large as waterfalls had sprouted from its back.

The dragon's delight yielded to determination. Every waking moment, this dragon practiced flying until it had mastered the skill. On a particularly clear night, the dragon became entrance by the stars and took flight. It rocketed straight up with eyes set on the twinkling lights.

It broke through to the dark space above and became weightless. It could not breathe and it could not fly. As stark reality set in, a glowing blue orb became visible. It seemed far from the dragon, but it grew. The asteroid was on a collision course with the helpless creature but it whizzed by without contact.

Blue radiation blanketed the cringing dragon and its wings disintegrated. It let out a roar that echoed for eternity but realized it could breathe again. It could even fly with the absence of wings.

As it cruise around with glee, it incidentally made contact with many stars. Circling back, it saw twelve dragons floating in front of bright, bold constellations. Having created celestial life, the mother dragon remained among the stars to guide it to the safety of the Surface.

Lorebrarians named these dragons after their cosmic counterparts and bestowed the mother dragon with the name Ophiuchia.

## Power

Ophiuchia can create life from stars.

1. ↑ https://dragonvaleworld.fandom.com/wiki/Ophiuchia\_Dragon