RaptorMage

### Height

183 cm (6 feet)-224 cm (7 feet 4 inches). His height varies, but is most commonly in this range.

## Raptor OOC

Raptor is a trial moderator on the server, and is also the de facto elder of the ocsmp. Server members often claim that he is anywhere from 214 to several billion years old, a living fossil. He is also claimed by others to have shaken hands with William Shakespeare, adopted Obama, and met Jesus, amongst other grand stories. He will not confirm or deny any of this.

## Biological Traits and Appearances

Talirith's true form. Artist: Kustov.Talirith's two favorite forms. Artist: AlmightyDaniel.Talirith is a being of many appearances. He is a shapeshifter, a trait from his dragon father, and he can take on many forms. And he does so liberally, often changing forms on a whim to suit his fancy. Anyone he observes for a short amount of time, he can turn into. He can also create his own custom bodies, as is the case with his two favorite human forms. However his shapeshifting is limited to appearances; he cannot shift into another origin and gain their abilities. There are a few forms of his that are important to cover.

Talirith is a hybrid of a dragon and a siren, and this is most evident with his true form. The upper half of his body is that of a humanoid dragon, complete with purple scales, horns, red hair, and snout. He has aquatic fins on his head and on his elbows. The lower half of his body is a purple siren tail. Talirith virtually never adopts his true form in the presence of others, a symptom of his wariness of others and the persecution he has suffered for all his life.

Talirith is most commonly seen in a form that is more human, with two variations. Male, and female. Both variations have fair human skin, long red hair, glowing blue eyes, a purple siren tail, purple fins, purple horns, and purple scales. When he is on land he will shapeshift his tail into legs. Talirith uses both the male and female variations interchangeably, as he considers his gender to be fluid.

From his siren mother he inherited supernatural ability over his voice. He can mimic voices flawlessly to aid his shapeshifting, and change its sound composition easily (soundboard). However he did not inherit the magical ability to latch onto minds and take control, as only pure blooded sirens have this ability. One final gift from his mother was immunity to magical manipulation. Talirith cannot be mentally manipulated by any magical means, as sirens have fully mastered such abilities and are thus immune to them. (This is my way of saying that I won't consent to mind control plots, nothing more.) However he has no inherent immunity to being manipulated by mundane means.

## Backstory

### Childhood

Born to an aquatic dragon father and a siren mother, Talirith was an outcast from the very start. Many people, surface and ocean dwellers alike, despised dragons and sirens. As a hybrid of both, Talirith would find that he would receive hatred on account of his very existence. The event that truly made him realize this fact would happen when he was 16. A ship of cruel sailors stumbled upon his mother singing harmlessly into the night. This was no magical lure to a certain doom, just an innocent solo performance to the starry sky. The sailors did not care to know the difference, and proceeded to capture her, planning to execute her merely for being a siren.

Before they could carry out their plan, Talirith and his dad came to the rescue. His dad, being a large and powerful aquatic dragon, rammed into the ship from below and tore it to shreds as Talirith leapt on board and cut his mother loose. From there the family annihilated the entire crew for their cruelty, with his parents doing most of the work. After the bloodbath was over, Talirith had his realization. People would always hate him and his family for what they are, without a care for who they are.

### Early Adulthood

Once he became an adult, Talirith would alternate between traveling with his parents and travelling alone. He actively avoided all who weren’t sirens or dragons, fearing persecution. The few times he was unable to avoid contact with other people only fueled this fear, as he was either attacked or threatened by both sailors and merlings. That is, until the day he met the enderian known as Aiden.

Talirith had suffered life threatening injuries at the hand of a drowned ambush, and was floating on the surface unconscious. Aiden happened upon him while sailing and hauled him aboard. He healed Talirith’s injuries while he lay unconscious. Their first interaction was rather rocky as Talirith woke up and panicked at the sight of a crew full of strangers. However Aiden was able to calm him down enough for him to realize the truth. Aiden had saved his life. The first act of kindness he had ever experienced from an outsider. They became friends shortly afterwards. Talirith spent the next few years adventuring alongside the ship and sometimes helped Aiden out with random things. And on one stormy night when Aiden was thrown off the boat by terrible winds, Talirith came to his rescue and threw the enderian back onto the boat before the ocean could claim him. Aiden had saved his life in the past, and Talirith had finally returned the favor.

During this time Talirith made a second friend, a merling by the name of Laiken. Laiken was a charming and shady character. He had a penchant for getting into dealings with unsavory people and ending up in tight binds. Talirith had befriended him after he found Laiken being pursued by a group of felines and helped him escape. Talirith would later learn that Laiken had cheated the felines of money, but by then their friendship was well established and Talirith looked the other way. Laiken cheated and swindled many people, but he never once did so to Talirith.

When Talirith was 24 Laiken disappeared without a trace. Talirith searched everywhere he could think of for his friend, but found no sign of him. With a heavy heart Talirith concluded that Laiken must have finally cheated the wrong person and had gotten killed for it. He moved on.

### Fatherhood

Talirith, now aged 27, was exploring the ocean floor when he discovered a well hidden and sealed cave entrance. Following the cave downwards he discovered an ancient subterranean coral reef with magma running in veins through the floor. He also discovered a powerful eldritch being magically locked away in the coral reef, waking it from a deep slumber. Strangely enough, Talirith was not killed on sight for his intrusion. Normally such beings considered individuals like Talirith to be far beneath them. However the being had been trapped for thousands of years, sleeping for much of it to pass the time, and the years changed her. She had grown lonely. She welcomed the company of Talirith, and over time the two wound up growing close, developing a genuine love for each other. Her name was approximately Og’thakith, and before the end of the year they had a daughter together, Sakana.

Tragically, they discovered that they could not be together as a family. After three months Sakana started experiencing abnormal pain, and her health deteriorated over the next two months. The ancient seal trapping Og'thakith in her tomb was attempting to adjust to trap Sakana as well, as she shared her mother's nature and features. Talirith and Og'thakith both became increasingly distressed as their infant daughter was suffering. When Sakana's left eye turned color and lost most of its sight, Og'thakith could no longer bear it. She did not want to watch her daughter suffer, and she didn't want Sakana to be stuck in the subterranean coral reef as she was. She asked Talirith to take her to the surface and raise her there. There was no other choice. Talirith honored her wish with tears in his eyes and took Sakana with him, looking back at his wife until they left the cave, leaving her behind. The look of sorrow on his wife's face would never stop haunting him.

Sakana has never seen her mother since, and has no memories of her.

### The Village by the Sea

Talirith took his daughter to a village by the sea and raised her there. The prospect of living among strangers terrified him, but he wanted his daughter to grow up in a normal social environment.

His fears were entirely realized. While the village adored his daughter, they absolutely despised him. It didn't matter which form he took, how human he looked. It didn't matter how polite he was to the other villagers, how much he did for them. All they saw was a dragon/siren hybrid, a monster, a potential threat to their wellbeing and an affront to nature. Talirith received constant glares, veiled threats, insults, and was generally shunned. He was absolutely miserable, but his daughter was being treated well and she was happy. So he bore it all, for her. He wasn't entirely alone during this time though, as his parents would occasionally visit to help him raise Sakana. They always showed up in disguise however, as a dragon and a siren visiting in true form would upset the village greatly.

Starting when Sakana was ten, Talirith would leave her with his parents and travel the long distance to Og'thakith's prison once a year. During these visits he would update her on Sakana's life and spend precious time with his beloved wife. When he inevitably had to leave, Oh'thakith would give Talirith a bouquet of special sea flowers for Sakana, a gift to her daughter. The only way she could ever connect with her.

However throughout the years Talirith could tell that Sakana was starting to resent the village for their treatment of him. He tried telling her that it was okay, that as long as she was treated well everything was okay. But it was clear to him that this didn't work. And shortly after her 16th birthday Sakana's resentment finally boiled over. One final slight against him set off the brewing storm, and Sakana took on her true eldritch form, bursting the ear drums of everyone in the village with her scream of rage and terrifying them all.

After this the village despised her too, and subjected her to equally bad, if not worse prejudice. For the next few months they tried to stick it out, but there was no repairing their reputation. It didn't help that Talirith constantly came to the defense of his daughter, for he could bear all the torment in the world himself, but would tolerate none against her. Finally Talirith gave up, as the villagers were beginning to show signs of even further escalation in their hateful actions. He knew they had to leave the village. He set out into the ocean once more to find a new home.

### A New Home

A few days into his search, Talirith ran into his old friend Aiden once again on the high seas. While swapping stories and getting reacquainted, Aiden told Talirith of some old ruins on an island he had discovered. He told Talirith that something was drawing him to the island, and that he was going to settle down there with his husband Raven and their adopted son Tert. There would be others living there as well. He invited Talirith to come and live at the island himself.

Talirith didn't need much convincing. He needed somewhere for him and his daughter to go, and he trusted Aiden. And though he wouldn’t admit it out loud, Talirith was being drawn to this island himself, despite not having ever laid eyes upon it. Together father and daughter left the barbaric village they used to call home, and as of present time they have both arrived at Blobbin Keep. A new life awaits.

## Personality

Talirith is a kind and compassionate person to those he is close to. He enjoys getting into silly situations, helping out his friends, pulling the occasional prank, and generally is a good guy. He also has no inclinations to manipulation, despite the ample opportunities shapeshifting would provide him. As such he never seeks to impersonate others seriously for any kind of gain, only for pranks and comedy imitations. Talirith's shapeshifting is a form of expression, and a means to have fun. He never uses it for deception except for dire emergencies.

Additonally, he cannot mimic human behavior and mannerisms to any real degree. He was removed from society for the first half of his life, and he has never desired to learn this skill. As a result he cannot impersonate a person for very long, as anyone familiar with the person he's trying to impersonate will quickly realize that something isn't right. This will be especially true if Talirith needs to speak a lot while impersonating, for while he can perfectly mimic the sound of their voice, he can't mimic speech patterns and vocabulary.

Talirith's attitude towards strangers is complex. After a life of persecution for being a siren/dragon hybrid he has sworn to not do the same to others. That same persecution has made him wary of strangers as well. So while he will not make sweeping judgements based on appearances and origin, he will be wary and slow to trust.

Talirith is also prone to spite and can be very unforgiving. If someone he placed trust in betrays that trust, he will be extremely unforgiving towards them. Those that betray him are dead to him, and removed from his life. Another consequence of the way he has been treated by most in life. In some ways Talirith has always been an outcast, and this has shaped his personality and behavior in more ways than one.

And buried deep beneath all of this, Talirith is stricken with sorrow and regret. He sees his wife every year, but he always misses her in the gap of time between visits. He believes that there is nothing he can ever do to free his wife from her prison, and he hates how helpless he is. But most of all, he is saddened by the fact that Sakana, the daughter he cares for so much, has never seen her mother since she was five months old. If only there was some way to release her, so that his family could finally be whole...

## Server Lore

### Nature's Siren

As Talirith has settled into his new home at Blobbin Keep, he has allowed himself to sing freely for the first time in awhile. He has begun to notice that aquatic wildlife flocks to his base in droves, and the area has been slowly transforming from an unremarkable gravel shoal into a sandy, thriving coral reef. He does not understand this new phenomenon well, but believes that his song and extended presence must be causing nature to thrive. Perhaps he should test this out in other locations...

## Important Note

Although I have mentioned Og'thakith here for sake of clarity, in canon her existence is not known by anyone on the server. Additionally, her being the wife of Talirith and the mother of Sakana is also a secret to all. And no, you aren't an exception unless I explicitly tell you otherwise.

## Relations

Sakana: Talirith's one and only daughter. Talirith loves her a great deal and endeavors to be the best father possible.

Aiden: Talirith's oldest and most trusted friend.

Tert: For a person with wings, he sure hits the ground a lot.

SP: Talirith's new neighbor. Seems cool so far. Asked Talirith for some flowers, which he provided.

Morrie: Kills turtles a lot, which is a bit odd but otherwise Talirith doesn't care, and likes to make turtle soup out of them.

TBD