Mithras

Mithras is the son of a Vodros father and a Fae mother, making him a Vodros-Fae hybrid. He is between a teenager and an adult in age. His childhood was sheltered and his parents took a lot of time to give their three children attention and love, but also to provide them with a comprehensive education. Mithras is the middle of three children, an older brother and a younger sister, and was also the smartest. Because of this, his father had intended to train him as his successor. Mithras' father worked as an archivist in an important Draconian library. His mother was the healer of the small Fae clan she came from and doted on her children.

The members of this Fae clan did not think highly of their children, believing that mixing Fae and Vodros breeds corrupted blood. Around his teens he tried dragon meat, which he more than liked, which is why he continued to follow this diet and hunted other dragons. As a result, the Fae clan, with whom the family lived, captured him to protect others and held him captive with magical chains. His family was devastated.

A few years later he managed to escape, after which he joined his deeply revered god Diabolos and his clan, the Hunters.

## Description

Mithras has the appearance of a few months old Vodros cub, except that his wings are atypical. He has three pairs of dragonfly-like wings on his back that shimmer bluish-pink and are almost invisible when flying. Appropriate for a hatchling, he has large, expressive yellow-red eyes with a blue ring in the iris. What distinguishes him externally from a young animal are the longer white horns, which allow a reference to his true age. He has very filigree and sensitive hands, which he uses carefully and precisely in his work. Also, which is also uncharacteristic of a cub, he has dispel markings on its neck and wrists, as well as the areas around his eyes. There he was bound with magical chains when the fae realized that Mithras' posed an enormous danger to others. However, since this type of dragon is predominantly peaceful, they did not kill Mithras, but only imprisoned him and made sure that he could not use his magic to free himself.

### Scales

Most of Mithras' body is covered with dull, wine-red small scales, in some places the shade of red changes so that from a distance one could also think that short fur or down like velvet covers his body. On the underside, the shade of red is more reminiscent of decomposing flesh and pale to gray. Along his phalanges and forearm, beige scales cover these parts of the body like a kind of protective layer. On his forehead he wears a small blue carbuncle stone that can store and release magic. With this he controls the extent of his portals and can locate them via oscillations and vibrations, which the carbuncle stone absorbs and forwards, even if he does not have them in his field of vision. Spike-like turquoise quills run from the crown of its head down to the tip of its tail, which can raise and lower themselves in response to his temper. Only the tips of these quills have fanned out a bit and look a bit like feathers. His lower jaw is encircled by short red spikes and on his head, from eyebrow to back of the head, two long, snow-white horns on each side have developed, which are the only ones that indicate that Mithras must be older than he appears.

### Abilities

Mithras is highly intelligent and learned early on to use strategy to compensate for his small size. Most of the time he gets others to do necessary work for him and also in general he sees his size less as a defect and more as an advantage that he can use to manipulate and mislead others or blame someone else push. He often uses his youthful appearance to rouse the protective instinct in others and to shift guilt away from himself. Very few trust him in his true nature and his activities and simply see him as an innocent young animal worthy of protection. In addition to his manipulative skills and sharp mind, he also has the ability to create portals that lead to another dimension. Mithras uses this intermediate dimension as a warehouse for all kinds of utensils, documents, tools, but also supplies. He often uses the portals themselves as a kind of wormhole to transport or redirect something from one place to another. This technique is also his preferred defensive tactic. If he is attacked by an attack like a burst of fire, he blocks it with a portal and releases the blast of fire fired at him somewhere else with the second portal, usually at his opponent. He is a passive fighter who rarely attacks by himself, but mostly uses his opponents' weapons against them. The edges of its portals possess such a strong gravitational pull that they simply absorb matter they touch into the portal's interior. In this way, thinner limbs can be cut with an absolutely even cutting edge. Thus they are not cut off or sawed off, the matter that touches the few centimeters thick edge simply disappears through the portal into the intermediate dimension. This is also what Mithras uses when he goes on the offensive himself. Since he has full control over the movements of the portals, he can move them within a radius equal to his field of vision and shoot them with impressive speed.

A second ability is the ability to infiltrate the dreams of his sleeping victims, giving him more than just information. He has complete control over his victims' dreams and can also prevent them from waking up if he doesn't want them to.
When he has chosen a victim, he often lets it be plagued by nightmares until his victim refuses to get any more sleep. This weakens the individual and prepares the way for Mithras.
When his victim is too weak to resist sleep any longer and eventually succumbs to exhaustion, Mithras will trick his victim into sleepwalking, allowing him to do whatever Mithras wants.
He gets the opportunity to do this as soon as an individual looks him directly in the eye. From then on it is possible for Mithras to enter the sleep of another. However, this ability is only limited to the night. Nocturnal individuals who only sleep during the day are spared.

### Wings

Mithras has very striking and also unusually beautiful wings. They present themselves as three pairs of dragonfly-like translucent wings that shimmer blue and pink. When he flaps them, they visually blur into a blue-pink flicker. He does not like to show his wings to others, so he avoids flying in front of others unless it can be avoided otherwise. When he's not using them to fly, the wings lie flat against his body.

The physiology of this type of wing allows him to fly agilely and very quietly.

## Personality

Mithras is a perceptive, knowledge-hungry, and manipulative character who is also poor in empathy.
Inflicting pain on other dragons, in his view, is like drawing the suffering and pain out of their bodies and souls, arming them against it, and preparing them for the afterlife.
He has a dual personality and an almost affectionate relationship with his own shadow/alternate, which is likely a result of his imprisonment with the Fae.
He knows how to articulate himself charmingly and gallantly and, regardless of his worldview and background, one can have very long philosophical, scientific and political conversations with Mithras and he demonstrates a high level of knowledge and logic in these areas.
He is rarely disturbed because this would cloud his rational view of what is happening. He also loves to nail others to their moral beliefs and to engage in mental duels with his opponents. He loves to have his superiority confirmed and to see his opponents collapse because it reinforces his worldview. He does not fear death, on the contrary he longs for the day when he will become one with his god of death, although he also sees himself called upon to pave the way for his god on earth. His greatest fear is imprisonment and the resulting inability to do whatever he wants, when he wants.

Mithras is a bon vivant and always takes his time with things he enjoys. No matter how hungry he is, he takes great care in the preparation of his food, in conversations, whether with ally or enemy, he always strives to present a respectful and sophisticated articulation.

He always shows his respect to living beings. He hates waste, disrespectful behavior when he is rudely interrupted in any of his activities, and arrogance. He often thinks it is justified that he mostly appears arrogant himself.

## Kin

*Mithras is the second child of a Vodros father and a Fae mother. Both had formed a bond out of love for one another and had decided to start a family. The couple didn't have it easy. They lived on the fringes of a fae community in their territory. Mithras' mother had been a healer who was often visited by sick or injured parishioners.*

*The members of her community have accepted this connection to a Vodros with little goodwill. Their community was vegetarian. They valued nature and subsisted on nectar, water and plant parts that the plant gave up voluntarily. For example, from falling fruit or falling flowers and leaves in autumn. Vodros were largely carnivorous and generally possessed a different mentality than the peaceful fae. They believed that the union of such opposites would create divided blood and a confused being.*

## Relationships

**Family:** He honored and respected his family for caring about him, loving him, and always trying to make sure he was okay and wanting, even though he was never really able to reciprocate those feelings. He also valued his father's knowledge and his mother's knowledge and skills, for which he also respected them. Due to the fact that Mithras was important to them, he had always tried not to bring shame to them in order to express his gratitude. He enjoyed spending time with his brother and had also taken good care of his little sister, for whom he had felt responsible. But he had never really felt real love for any of his family members.

**Diabolos:** For Mithras, Diabolos was the only true god. Dying and the resurgence of life from decay had always fascinated him. For him, death was the only just thing in the world, the only thing that would remain after the end of all days, and the thought that out of the death of everything would arise a pristine world without pain, without suffering, and without inequality began to take shape in his mind to accept He worshiped Diabolos from the bottom of his heart as the one who would cleanse the world. Diabolos' word was Mithra's law and anyone who disobeyed it was a traitor and unworthy. After Diabolos was killed by Essix, Mithras refused to accept that Winalagalis had sprung from Diabolos. For Mithras, Diabolos had simply stripped off his mortal shell, for death could not die. Now Mithras saw himself called upon to prepare the way for his god on earth.

**The Hunters:** Although a member of the Hunters clan, Mithras never had respect or appreciation, let alone affection, for any of that clan. For him they were all traitors and the unworthy who would renounce the belief in Diabolos as soon as it came to their advantage. Be it for mundane urges like females or reproduction or, in the case of captivity, they would betray their allegiance and allegiance just to save their own lives. To the fae hybrid they were all just pathetic and he hadn't given a damn about them. He would have loved to have caught them in the moment when they succumbed to their weaknesses and sacrificed them to Diabolos, making them atone for their disloyalty and worldly weaknesses that forbade them from experiencing the true glory of a sublime deity and the joys of it scorned to serve.

**Skoph:** The decaying dragon lady had fascinated Mithras from the moment they first met. The constantly decomposing and constantly regenerating body of Skoph was the representation of his worldview. The little maggots that covered Skoph's entire body and ate her alive were the embodiment of naturalness for the little dragon. They aspired no more, they did their job, contributed to the balance and the health of the balance, and were as they were created. They subsisted on the ever-decaying and regenerating flesh of Skoph, so that it represented a minimalist image of the ideal world. Life arose from decay and life was content with its nature and its natural way of life. In addition, the diminutive fairy hybrid and the self-representing carcass dragoness shared some traits, making them complementary in many ways and soon forming an alliance that shared a common goal, built on mutual respect and admiration. Sometimes he even enjoys spending time with his partner. A privilege never before enjoyed by anyone Mithras had inevitably associated with.

## History

*The first child of Mithras` parents was a son. He had the physique and later the height of his father. His fae blood was only reminiscent of a gossamer iridescent membrane on his wings and a few feathers along his neck. He was a kind-hearted young dragon who, due to his size, was happy to help the much smaller Fae and had inherited a lot of their friendly and peaceful mentality in general.*

*Mithras was born a few years later. He also had his father's physique, but inherited far more physical fae from his mother than his older brother. He often looked after his younger brother and had a loving relationship with him, even if he often couldn't understand the thoughts of his highly intelligent little brother. Mithras' father recognized his son's talent very early on and tried to encourage him in this and to enable an appropriate education.*

*Mithras adopted some of the Fae culture, such as cooking and blending flavors to make the most of what nature gave them. However, his father soon realized that Mithras needed meat and could not get by with a purely vegan diet alone. So they both ate meat far outside of Fae territory. After a basic education, which every child in this community receives until their skills and talents have been developed, his father often took Mithras to work, where the young dragon was mostly occupied reading old books and cleaning delicate instruments and to use and copy fonts. He also read in a book that there were tribes and species that ate their enemies or family members after their death in order to absorb certain properties. However, Mithras did not believe in it.*

*A few years later the third child was born. A daughter. She was slightly shorter than her father but slightly taller than her mother. She was considered a beauty because her fae traits harmonized perfectly with her Vodros traits. Like Mithras, she also had fae wings, feathers on her head from which small horns grew, and sky-blue scales. Her large, dark blue eyes had no pupils and she was as graceful as a leaf in the wind. Mithras' little sister quickly became a favorite of the small Fae community, as she was also very warm-hearted and was the most Fae-like of all three children. A few years later, Mithras became bored with the food he was served within his family and community. Eventually, at a market where his parents had once taken him, he tasted the flesh of a lindworm and the possibilities of combining different flavors with this flesh convinced Mithras, which is why over the next few years he increasingly bought the flesh of other dragons , until this was recognized by the fae.They recognized the dangerous tendencies in the little dragon and decided to lock him up to protect others.*

*His parents initially didn't want to believe it and tried to protect their son, who didn't even deny the charges. In his eyes he saw no reason for it and stood by it.*

*His siblings were deeply shaken and had still hoped that Mithras could change and had simply slipped into a kind of phase out of pure curiosity. He didn't even understand his siblings' dismay. He didn't hate her, but he didn't love her either. They were part of his family and his life back then, but nothing more. They were just there, so he couldn't understand or reciprocate her feelings towards him.*

*After three years of imprisonment, Mithras managed to escape through the carelessness of a guard, whereupon he joined Diabolos and the cannibals.*

## Trivia

* He is an outstandingly good cook who likes to experiment with flavors and ingredients.
* His favorite dish is dragon embryos stewed in their eggshell in their own juices in a spiced wine sauce.
* He hates raw meat.
* He has actually never killed a dragon. In the Hunters clan, he merely brought his victims across the territorial border through dream-induced sleepwalking, and other clan members did the rest.
* Even in old age, he will continue to look like a hatchling.
* He hates dirt and stench on him.
* Besides cooking and reading, torture is his hobby.
* He is predominantly sadistic, that masochistic he has trained himself forcibly, so that torture shows no effect on him. Now he enjoys it.
* He has cut flesh from his own body before and consumed it.
* He is asexual
* His name was inspired by "Midas" and also describes a greedy and power-hungry king in a story of this world. Mithras should mean something like: "The shining one."