Terra Nightflier

**Terra Nightflier** (Vichnist'av: *Tera Nytflara*) is a demi-dragon from the Diamond Unity of Eco in *Animals at Heart*, as well as Sydan's Elemental of Earth. In the first timeline, he becomes an Overseer after a tragic event in Year 29.

## Profile

### Personality

Since childhood, Terra has been timid with a hardworking attitude. His routines in Eco usually consisted of him clawing into rocks to retrieve geodes, which gave him great strength in his hands.

### Appearance

Terra has jet-black hair styled in a bob cut, and his complexion is slightly tan. Protruding from his head are two beige horns. For clothing, Terra wears many purple robes with buckles in various places, a sack full of jewels, and tattered violet mittens. His choice of footwear is leather boots looped with several belts.

Before his death, Terra had large purple dragon wings, but they have since became translucent and feathered.

## Powers and abilities

* Mineral compression
* Geokinesis
* Extraordinary strength

## Biography

Born in Year 18 to Obsidian Kries Nightflier and Topaz Wogend Nightflier, Terra spent most of his childhood learning to work in sync with the world around him. He learned to draw magic energy from Eco's crystals from a young age, using it to haul minerals across the continent of Verenigde. A lot of Terra's knowledge was passed onto him from Obsidian, who frequently visited Ecclesion's king Mars and asked him of the universe's secrets. Terra's understanding of reality and magic made him more adept in using his nation's crystals.

In Year 29, Terra was chosen to bear Fysi, Verenigde's artifact of Earth. The night after he was given this title, word spread that a demi-wolf from Silent had massacred every demi-wolf in the nation. When Obsidian went to Ecclesion the next morning, he learned through Queen Cypress that the murderer was Kamots Triste-Gris, the future bearer of Silent's Amulet. However, Cypress realized that a dark presence lingered in his heart, so she formed a lunar barrier around his sanctuary on Sydan to keep the dark presence, Deathwish, contained. Six month later during a Blood Moon, Kamots's sanctuary was struck by a lightning bolt channeled from the universe's edge, allowing Deathwish to escape and murder Terra in cold blood. The Elementals were too late to stop Deathwish, watching in horror as the entire Eco province sank beneath the ocean.

With Terra's soul freed from his physical body, he ascended to the gates of Paradise and encountered Sanku, the fabled progenitor of life on Verenigde. Lost and afriad, Terra begged Sanku for answers regarding his untimely death. Sanku proceeded to guide Terra through Balance, the boundary between planes in their universe, soon arriving at the universe's edge where they met Rye. Terra nearly mistook Rye for Kamots, and as they talked, Sanku explained that Deathwish was actually one half of Rye's essence. An expectedly confused Terra asked Sanku if they could bring Rye back to Paradise, though Sanku reluctantly revealed that since Rye's soul was bound to the universe's edge, he was not free to travel the universe of his own volition. Suddenly, the physical half of Rye that became Deathwish merged into the universe's edge, having planeshifted from Verenigde to make Rye whole again. Rye assured Terra and Sanku that he would be okay at the universe's edge by himself, as during the reunification of his physical and spiritual bodies, he foresaw a rewritten timeline where Kamots ensured that Verenigde was seen to its very end. Terra understood that there was still time left before Kamots willed this prevised timeline in reality, so until then, he ventured across the universe as a benevolent Overseer.

## Trivia

* magic\_windsock designed Terra in 2013 as a purple winged cat named Skyflight, which later became Skyspark. Unfortunately, drawings of this early design cannot be found.

## Gallery

*Main article: Terra Nightflier/Gallery*

Kamots
Cypress
Phoenix
Terra
Blue
Rye
File:Flax portrait.pngFlax
Deathwish
File:Barley portrait.pngBarley
File:Maize portrait.pngMaize
File:Trixie portrait.pngTrixie
File:Junebug portrait.pngJunebug
File:Sanku portrait.pngSanku
File:Frost portrait.pngFrost
File:Nameless portrait.pngNameless
File:Shinki portrait.pngShinki