Murakan

## Description

Murakan has long spicky black hair and black eyes. In his dragon form he has all black scales and horns that wrap around his head.

He has an abrasive and boisterous personality.

## History

1000 years ago, Murakan was the gaurdian dragon of the contractor of the god solderet, Temar Runcandel. He fought alongside Temar and his knights against the Zipple. Around this time, the Zipple were lead by Elona Zipple who possessed strength qual to half the force of the Zipple. Many of the dragons were also contracted with the Zipple(an estimated 300 dragons were in their posession at the time). Murakan in his prime was feared as the greatest asset in the sky at the time. He was feared by fellow dragons and possessed a short temper and killed many dragons. Shortly around this time, Temar passes away and Murakan went into a 1000 year slumber. The reason for the slumber has not yet been revealed but, there have been hints that Murakan's memory before his slumber may be distorted as he experiences pain when trying to recall his past memories but, he remembers his promise with the God Solderet to server the 1000 year contractor.

### Jin regression arc/ Beginning:

After the young Jin regressed into the present timeline. During a young age of 7, he came to the secret library of the Runcandel using the password shared by his brother Diphus in his past life. He came across murakan sealed in a tank. While the young runcandel was browsing the books, murakan awoke from his slumber after sensing shadow force. He came across the young contractor and was angered after he was greeted as the gaurdian dragon of the Runcandel. He was also shocked upon finding out that the young child in front of him was his new contractor. After venting out his anger at solderet, he transformed to his dragon form and swore to serve the young contractor with his every fibre. After this incident, he stayed hidden in the basement away from prying eyes and taught Jin the basics of shadow force, he was shocked to see Jin was already able to perform magic and used that base to improve his shadow force skills. During Luna's visit, he informed Jin that his sister likely detected his presence and praised his sister for giving Jin the amulet of the demon King which allows a user protection against spells upto 5-star magic.

After Jin turned age 10, he assured the contractor to go ahead and promised to catchup to him in disguise. After the failed assassination attempt by the fake knights disguised by Burbare Gaston, he found Jin in an Inn near the teleportation gate disguised as a black cat. After a failed landing, he was caught by Gilly Mcrolan, who almost attacked him due to suspicion. After Jin's intervention, the situation was dissipated before Murakan realizing the source behind his sweet treats during his time spent in the library at the storm's castle made a romantic introduction at Gilly referring to her as his "Strawberry Pie". While moving through the teleportation gate, Murakan was disguised as a black cat, a transformation skill unique to only black dragons and makes them almost indistinguishable from the form the adopt. He exhibited signs of motion sickness while going through transportation and was comforted by Gilly the whole time. After arriving to the garden of swords, he was introduced by Jin as a stray he met on his hourney and named him " Nabi/Butterfly Runcandel" much to the dismay of his siblings who opposed giving the name of Runcandel to stray animal. Chiron who was also unable to completely discern the identity of the cat asked Jin if he understood the weight of the Runcandel name to which he replies that anyone disrespecting the creature should be treated in kind.

### Garden of Swords arc:

After entering the garden of swords, Jin joined the cadet program and got his first mission. After Jin overused his shadow force during his battle against the white wolf tribe and went into overload, a furious murakan hit Jin and scolded him. He also informed Jin about the growth of his shadow force class and that only two people in history have ever came back alive after an overload. To Jin's surprise, he informed the other person was himself. After the events of the first mission, Jin's siblings tied Jin to a mission on the Kollon Ruins and his cadet colleagues were put on the orc subjugation mission ( a misssion reserved for more advanced knights) as revenge by Jin's siblings Myu and Anne. Murakan secretly joined the orc subjugation mission at the request of Jin. He went ahead of the team and used his presence to make the Orc's surrender and only attack the cadets one at a time and not move in groups. The cadets had a relatively easy mission handling only one Orc at a time and succeeded in their mission. While the Orc's survived the mighty dragon's wrath, only losing a few members. After the mission was completed, murakan came across a cemetry giant when the cadets were resting and setup a barrier with shadow force and took down the giant. He was surprised to come across something lost thought of as extinct and informed Jin of the events. The cadets received praise for their successful mission completion. After Jin reached 5 star swordsmanship, a banquet was hosted at the garden of swords inviting many great families. Murakan snuck into the banquet in his cat form despite Jin's warnings to stay hidden. He was spotted by Veradin and Siris Endorma and comforted by siris who thought he was a normal cat.

### **Spider hands Alu/ Underground auction house arc:**

After Jin was chosen to travel the lands to make a name for himself with a five year deadline. Murakan joined Jin and Gilly on his journey and they first headed to the arkin kingdom to get their hands on some useful artifacts through the underground auctions. After Jinmtook the crew to Jetu at the Inn, Murakan was the first to smell the poison that as present in the drink provided by Jetu and brutally attacked him before Jin intervened to make Jetu make amends by providing an introduction to the auction. At the auction, Murakan spotted the value in certain magical books and suggested Jin to buy them but, when Jin started a bid on a book disguised under a hidden name which he knew to belong to the Hister clan. A skeptic murakan questioned Jin but, after realizing the level of encryption behind the text in the magic book, he understood the value of the book. Murakan accompanied Jin after he introduced himself as Veradin Zipple to gain the auction house leader's trust and access to their books. After leaving the auction house, they were stopped by the gang of spiderhands Alu who realized his failure to spot the fake Zipple and surround Jin and crew. Murakan used his powers to handle most of the crew of the Alu in the battle while, Jin was solely focused on Alu. After Alu was defeated, he shared some words in his dying breath to the crew relating to Jin's curse.

### **Tikan Arc:**

Jin and crew left for Tikan and the Severn colored peacock as their next stop to gather more information on the hints provided by Alu. Upon arrival, Murakan transformed from his cat to human form in the city despite Jin's warnings. He was spotted by a young girl named Euria(Julia). Despite convincing the young girl that what she saw was mistake, they dropped the lost girl to the Tikan city defense guards. But, the girl turned out to be daughter of the leader of the Tikan, Sir Kashimir, who approached the crew at their Inn. When Gilly went to procure some ice cream from the city, she was confronted by Kashimir and an enraged murakan showed intense bloodlust against a poor introduction by Sir Kashimir. Jin stopped Murakan from making any wrong moves But, after calming down, they were informed that the girl was the contractor of the god of destiny, Az Mill. A relieved murakan informed Jin that their meeting today was inevitable as Az mill was a god that can look into the future. After Kashimir explains his reason for apporaching them is to help his young daughter find her guardian dragon(Latree), murakan offers to help. After procuring a lost of dragons in the area nearby using the seven peacock alliance's network, he flies to a nearby area and released his shadow force in hopes of getting some dragons attention to gather information. But, his spiritual presence is sensed by the silver dragon, Quinkantel who arrives and immedately attacked the shadow dragon. After a tense battle, using the guise of the shadow release hiding the presence of the Jin, he was able to calm the Silver dragon and gather information from her. Quinkantel, was revealed to be his ex-girlfriend before his slumber whom he dumped sue to anger issues. He was able to discern that the dragon of Azmill, Latree was taken by the wind dragon, Vyuretta to be trained in the dragon tongue over a year ago. After calming down, the silver dragon left to her hideout, a house in the middle of the woods in the Bimenth Empire. The house reminded murakan of his time with Temar and Quinkantel but, this caused his some headache trying to recall his memories. After arranging a meeting with Vyturetta, the silver dragon informed Jin that Murakan is nowhere near his prime and would pose a liability if they engage in a battle with Vyuretta. After Vyuretta broke the deal of the meeting by bringing her contractor Andrei Zipple, Murakan and Jin tried to join the battle but, were unable to make any contributions with Jin summoning Luna to help his quest. Andre revealed the devil stone/ origin stone after losing the battle with Luna. Murakan expains the origins of the origin stone and the links to the divine powers of the gods saying it was a dangerous power capable of destroying the living world. After the defeat of Andre and Vyuretta, he transforms and leaves with Jin, Luna and Quinkantel back to Tikan.

### **Kolon Ruins/ Kolon natives rescue arc:**

When Euria the contractor of Azmill started to experience shock after reading the map of the Kolon ruins retrieved by Jin in his cadet days. Murakan calmed her and immediately ordered Kashimir to bring her guardian dragon. After Latree the guardian dragon of Euria informed about the presence of a strange object from his images of the map, the seven colored peacock informed Jin of the presence of survivor of the Kolon ruins. Murakan and Jin came across the man and were introduced to Lady Laosa, Murakan and Jin immediately noticed the presence of divine powers from her. They agreed to help the Kolon natives after lady laosa offered to help Jin establish contact with Solderet with her powers. Murakan, Jin and Kashimir infiltrated the Kolon ruins and came across Dino Jaglun, who informed them of the suffering of the natives and about Myuron Zipple. After Dino introduced Jin and crew to Myuron during their drinking meeting. Myuron recognized Jin and attacked the crew, he also revealed he knew why Dino was poking around the ruins and enacted punishment on the natives who spoke to Dino. An enraged Murakan and Jin attacked Myuron after witnessing the horror enacted on the natives who interacted with Dino. After a stern battle, Murakan and Jin were able to take down Myuron but, not before he sent an emergency signal to the Zipple magic tower.

## Powers and Abilities

### Transformation:

Dark dragons are the only known species who can do a perfect transformation. It is almost perfect transformation but, few can make them out. Even Chiron Runcandel could not be certain about the transformation when he first came across the stray cat that entered the Garden of Swords.

### **Dragon Form:**

Murakan in dragon form was one of the most formidable creatures to fly across the continent 1000 years ago. His stature resembled like most dragons an intimidating black scaled creatures with Blue shadow flames across his head and back. He is capable of using immense shadow abilities in this form. But, in the present timeline due to events from 1000 years ago and his slumber, he is only able to a small percentage of his original abilities. During the Blue islands arc, he was able to amass a large amount of shadow energy from Jin and use close to 50% of his original power putting up a dominant fight against Peitel, the current god of Thunder who manifested in Yulian. He was able to create a shadow realm which nullified Peitel's lighting and take down the manifestation. He was eventually able to recover about 40% of his original power after getting help from his sister, Misha.

Now, he possesses enough power to be a powerful ally to Jin displaying his power on many occasions namely, the fights against the Kinzelo at the Holy Kingdom arc and the battle against Sarah Runcandel in the Second Tomb of Temar.

## Relationships

### Temar Runcandel

Temar was Murakan's contractee around 1000 years in the past.

### **Gilly**

Murakan has a self proclaimed love for Gilly. Since she's Jin's nanny, much of her snacks were brought to Murakan. As a result he fell for her cooking, even nicknaming her his "strawberry pie". Murakan has on many occasions tried to ask Gilly out on a date only to be quietly turned down into a friendly date. He has developed an affection for Gilly during Jin's time as reserve flagbearer and on many occasions lost his temper at the slightest provocation/threat to Gilly as evidenced by him almost launching an attack on Kashmir when they first encountered. Gilly has also consoled the dark dragon on many occasions when he was unable to perform his duties or due to his struggles with recalling his memories before his slumber. What is one piece