Amuul

Professor Hydran - *Adoptive Son*

**Amuul** (ah-mool) is a void dragon held captive "for his own protection" by Dinante in the northeastern corner of the Northeastern Badlands, somewhere around the border between Nahashu and Hazarat. After being created by Amontiquette Theldirk, he was brought to his current home, where he at one point met and married the shipwrecked Rissa Phendara. He is the father of Rabi Phendara and (through word-of-mouth adoption) Professor Hydran.

As of the end of the year 905 ME, it appears that Amuul has been convinced to willingly subject himself to being petrified in gold at the hand of Haroun Ecru.

## Personality

Having spent the bulk of his life in a desert den tucked far away from any civilization, Amuul does not seem to be particularly good at socializing. He is very self-conscious of such, and therefore puts forth significant effort to make sure those who interact with him are happy and comfortable. He seems well read on the execution of said social interactions, but not so good at the execution. When he fails or disappoints others, he becomes immensely apologetic, perhaps even fearful, even if the subject expressing disappointment is far weaker or smaller than himself.

## Appearance

Being made of the lack of quintessence rather than the generation of it, Amuul's existence is truly an enigma. Regardless of his form, his eyes have a deep darkness to them, twinkling with bright evening stars for irises/pupils.

In his true form, he's a very slender dragon with a greyhound-like body. His head is crowned with two perfectly symmetrical horns, which connect at the top, housing some sort of celestial body between the tip of his horns and top of his head. These horns connect and form a ridge that covers his brow and extend as one piece of cartilage that leads to the tip of his canine-esque nose. His wings appear to be made of a similar substance, seemingly made of smoke or air colored in shades of blacks, blues, and purples dotted with stars that make them look identical to the night sky. He has fur that gradients from a purple-ish blue at the joints to a rusty brown across the bulk of the rest of his body, with a mane of soft white fur that connects his head and slender neck to his body.

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## Activity

Amuul was "born" in the distant past, presumably during the Insurrection as that was around the same time Amontiquette was "killed" by Dinante's decree. Through unknown means, he was released into the Badlands and quickly discovered by the local Dragon-God and his followers, the Cabal of the Brass Arrow. Acknowledging both his lack of autonomy in the say of his creation as well as the danger he could inflict upon his injury, death, or discovery by the wrong people, he was sealed into a den deep within dragon-only territory.

After Rabi Phendara's curse was broken and the seal was unleashed on his void blood, he began using a space known as the Void Cache. During a particularly dangerous outing, the Knights of Nadir chose to voluntarily "freeze" the bulk of their members, storing themselves in the cache and preserving their lives using a spell cast by Professor Hydran. It was during this time that Amuul discovered their bodies, and unaware of any such son or shared power he withdrew them into his den to heal them from their frozen state.

Panicking after finding their bodies missing, Rabi and Hydran entered the Void Cache and were able to meet the dragon face-to-face. They learned that he was in fact Rabi's father, and that Rabi had been raised under the false pretense of his aunt and uncle being his true parents. Rissa Phendara, Rabi's "aunt", had beached on Halintar's shore after their ship had sailed too close to the forbidden borders of the Badlands. Being the only survivor of the wreck, she met Amuul and the two soon fell in love and married in secret. Eventually, the human was discovered- but in an act of mercy, Dinante ordered the Cabal to simply return her to her place of origin in Ohwald rather than killing her for infiltrating a space she didn't mean to intrude upon. It is unknown if the deity or his followers knew of Rissa's pregnancy, but it's assumed that she died soon after giving birth to Rabi.

Though he was joyful at the reveal of having a child, Amuul was unable to break through Rabi's dragon-hating attitude. However, his fatherly wishes were granted by Professor Hydran, whom he quickly agreed to adopt on the spot. Soon after their arrival Nigenai discovered the party here, and forced them into a pact of secrecy regarding void dragons and their infiltration of this humanoid-prohibited space.

Since then, Amuul has left a small number of gifts and notes in the Void Cache for Rabi, many of which have been ignored or neglected.

## Gallery

Amuul's petrified golden body. LilgreenfoxVarious doodles/ideation leading up to Amuul's (and void dragons in general) design. Lilgreenfox