Kyllia Hyygdrev anDrakath Yungr

## Overview

### Occupation

Court Musician to Thystrum Risalf (2137 4E-2142)Queen of Tevirmond (2143 4E-32 5E)

## Familial Information

### Children

Isbeil MyriadisRûvarian MyriadisHelore (Myriadis) Hyygdrev (i)

## Physical Description

### Weight

Human Form: ~130 or 140Kylliphicyon Form: ~1200 lbs

### Eye Color

light blue, likeness to the Rhovehki Greatwolf

## Appearances

### Appears in

The Trials of Deliverance The Wrath of Ice

The Bells of Saint Kellion

History of Edwyna

Annals of the Kyllifaelgi

Kyllia Hyygdrev *anDrakath Yungr,* last of the house Hyygdrev, is considered to be one of the most influential people at the end of the Fourth Era. She was the single child of Eddinon (i) and Kallana Hyygdrev, born on the 2nd of Aranûr to the Sûrmathian Upper Class. As she would discover on her own, when she turned sixteen, she was the *Anfr onBlûdth*, the Inheritor by Blood.

Kyllia was born in Ekraawell, but curiously enough carries the birth-title of a Kyllistidani. When she made a name for herself, and learned more and more about her namesake, Kyllia *Elri*, she adopted the birth-title of Drakath where she spent the majority of her childhood.

## Early Life

### Childhood

Kyllia was given her name because the day she was born, she already had an uncanny resemblance to her ancestor of the same name. Kyllia Hyygdrev *anDrakath Elri* (i), or the Great Poet, lived 1300 years before Kyllia *Yungr* was born. Kyllia *Elri* wrote lyrics and poems of both the Sûrmathian, and Kyllistidani, cultures.

On a trip to the Kyllistidane when she was twelve, her parents insisted on seeing their last remaining relative, Ankeras Hyygdrev *anDrakath.* The arrived in the small port town of New Nadthriri on the 15th of Alkheld, they all met with what was left of their family. In that room alone, only five Hyygdrevs remained, and would soon fall to two. Ankeras' wife would pass away due to heart failure in the following year. The following morning, Kyllia and her parents went north to the City of Drakath to meet with Akerri Bragaar-Nas, King of the Islands.

As they passed through the Old King's Tunnel and began their ride north along the Mytyyg Road, Kyllia could hear faint weeping from the woods around them. As it seemed to get louder the horses spooked and broke free of their harnesses, leaving the Hyygdrev wagon stranded. Immediately they dismounted, grabbed what provisions they could, and continued on foot to the City of Drakath. When night fell, whatever luck they might have held left with the fading of the day. As we know, there are two creatures of the night that roam the rural places of the Kyllistidane: the Nôttsidhe and the Calahyn. The Night Wraith is what spooked the horses, stranding them, leaving them to the mercy of night- to the mercy of the Calahyn. Ill-fated, neither Valhyyra, nor Balvinda, shone their silver moon-light upon the islands (for the Calahyn cannot live within sunlight, even reflected off the twin moons). A Calahyn approached their campsite and struck down Eddinon and Kallana leaving the small Kyllia to fend it off with her small, silver knife. It swung its clawed hand at her and left a small (two and a half inch) scar below her left eye. In turn, Kyllia rushed the shadow and drove her silver knife (silver being the only thing that can kill the Calahyn) into its heart.

She buried her parents and began north to the City of Drakath once more. Unfortunately, she became lost in the wilds, and could not find her way to the city walls for a further two months. As she wandered, the animals came to her, the deer would regard her as their own, and even the mountain lions saw her as one of the pack. And, of the night creatures, they would not come upon her- for they found her far more terrible than the dawn. At last she reached the City of Drakath where she would live orphaned in the streets for many months.

### Later childhood

When she first arrived in the City of Drakath, Kyllia went immediately to the city guard for help. They cast her back into the streets believing she was just another street rat (the Hyygdrevs were believed to be killed on the road). As she wandered the many streets, she came across a street performer with his kythuera (lyre). She watched as he played, and people dropped coins into his bucket in front of him. It was here that her mentality changed. She remembered her affinity for music, and became a street performer. First, singing old poems the Kyllia *Elri* had written, putting them to music; then writing her own to perform. By the age of fourteen, she became the most prolific performer in Drakath, calling herself "the Bear" as no one would believe her real name. Even though she still lived on the streets, she had clothes, food, and her own kythuera. The summer before her fifteenth birthday, her life would finally change for the better. Kyllia was approached by the president of the Kyllistid University (Thystrum Risalf, who later ascends to the throne of Ekraawell), offering her an audition to join the school. When she auditioned several of her pieces, the university board gave her full scholarship for their distinguished music program. It was here when she started using her real name again (although it was not believed to be true for another year), and stopped going by the Bear.

Her name and birthright would not be realized for the next year and a half. The night of her sixteenth birthday the Beast-blood began its transformation in her body, and she became an Inheritor, or the *Anfr onBlûdth.* As it happens to all of the bloodline who turn sixteen, her eyes changed overnight from their poignant green to the light blue of the Rhovehki Greatwolf. When she awoke in the middle of the night to these changes, a voice in her mind told her to leave the walls of Drakath and travel into the wilds immediately. When she arrived at a glad a few miles from the city, deep in the woods, the Beast-blood became fully realized within her, and she transformed into the likeness of the Kylliphicyon, towering within the branches of the trees. When she transformed back she rushed back to the city and spoke of what happened to no one. For two weeks she attempted to figure out what had happened to her, until she realized she had forgotten about her father's cousin, Ankeras, in New Nadthiri. When the semester had ended, she borrowed a horse from the university and rode south to New Nadthiri.

When she came to her cousin's house, she was unsure whether to knock. When she finally got the courage to, she was greeted by the familiar sight of the aging man. At first Ankeras did not recognize her, but once he saw her eyes, he knew her, and brought her into his house. Kyllia told him of everything that she had gone through, and in turn, he told her about the *Anfr onBlûdth,* and her birthright. The *Anfr onBlûdth* gave its wielder the right to rule the North from the throne of Kyllithia (which was torn asunder at the turn of the Fourth Era). He instructed her that she could transform at will between her human form and her Bear-Wolf form. Ankeras also informed her that she should never tell anyone, and not to transform in front of a living person. For the Beast-blood has remained a secret for 2500 years (after the First Continental War), passed down, and protected, by the Hyygdrevs after the Risalf's squandered it, using it to do evil, rather than good.