Ender

*"You're not the Riftwyrm!" Yelled the either extremely brave or extremely stupid guard accusatorily up at the dragon. "You're not even a god, are you?"*

*The imposter grinned, mouth full of fangs sharper than shattered glass. "Wowowow, look at the observational skills on this guy. No, I'm not a fucking worm. I don't know how it's taken you nutjobs this long to realize that."*

*It took a step forward, landing a massive set of claws right by the guard, deliberately shaking the ground and causing them to stumble. As it spread its wings, they blocked out the sun. "But who are you to question my godhood? I could turn an entire city into rubble and ash in less than a day."*

*-Conversation between Ender and some random Ishani citizen*

Ender is not, in fact, a god, despite how hard she tries to convince people she is. Ender is a very old and very chaotic dragon shifter who rules over Ishan through luck(hers, not theirs) and fear. After she attempted to burn down New Ishan for fun, their local cult mistook her for their deity, the Riftwyrm, returned. Despite not actually being who they meant to worship, Ender is extremely egotistical and loved the attention, and so spared them.

## **Appearance**

### Human form

Ender is tall and angular, and a sickly gray shade of pale, with dark circles and inky spirals under her eyes. She has vertically slit pupils and violet irises that glow fuchsia when she uses magic. Her hair appears to be black in most lighting, but is actually a very dark gray. It hasn't been brushed in millennia, and was only "washed" once when Ender fell in a river.

She has sharp teeth that seem to be too big to fit in her mouth correctly, and they are always visible. She is almost always smiling, but it is rarely a happy one. Usually, it resembles an animal baring its teeth more than any human expression.

Her fingers are often bruised black like her blood, she has the ability to lengthen and sharpen the bones in them to extend the tips out like claws. She sometimes has large black bruises on her back for a similar reason, when her wings and tail grow they rip through the skin and flesh and after she shifts back, her human form is mangled and takes time to heal properly. Inky swirls that match the ones on her cheeks cover her shoulders and back as well.

She is never seen without her crystal necklace, which also glows fuchsia while using magic. She usually wears a black, gold trimmed turtleneck, dark leggings, and black heeled boots, also with golden trim.

### Dragon form

Ender is a massive dragon with pure black scales and sharp ivory horns, claws and teeth. Her teeth resemble a t-rex's, but are more even in size and there are two rows of them. Her eyes are fuchsia and glow at all times while in dragon form. Under them are spiral grooves in her scales, as well as on her shoulders, which glow fuchsia when breathing fire. Along the top of her head, neck, lower back, and tail, there are sharp spines, also black. Her face, neck, and tail are snake-like, and the rest of her body is built like a very lanky cat. In dragon form, the crystal from her necklace becomes embedded in the scales on her chest.

## Personality

Ender is arrogant, self-centered, and attention seeking. She is restless, and always moving. Her favorite hobby is harassing people to see their reactions. She hates being alone, and gets very anxious and increasingly unstable if she is ignored or can't find someone to torment.

She is both very chaotic, and very predictable. She is volatile, with almost a complete lack of morals, but it is easy to gain her favor through flattery, being useful, or being interesting. She is more likely to kill someone who was innocent but boring and she thought their death might be funny than she is to kill someone who outright attempts to provoke her, because a challenger is amusing.

She is easily distracted, and pacified through gifts, especially new ones such as a fruit she hasn't seen before or even a catchy song she hasn't heard. She also does not appear to be capable of distinguishing genuine praise from outright lying, so all flattery is equally effective.

Ender does not partake in any monetary system, meaning she steals anything and everything she happens to want. Oftentimes, she will immediately get bored of it and leave it somewhere. She has simply killed most people who have tried to stop her.

## Abilities

Ender gets all of her power through her crystal. It was enchanted to strengthen a dragon's magic, and due to the trace amounts of dragon blood that Ender was born with, it gave her abilities she would not have otherwise. When she first obtained it, the crystal only sensed her dragon blood and created more, thinking she was bleeding out because she had so little. This pushed out her human blood and killed her mostly human body and is still trying to. She is kept alive by the crystal's regeneration powers, if it were to break, she would perish immediately. The crystal only works on dragons and their descendants.

### •Immortality

Most dragon species cannot die of old age, and after touching the crystal, the dragon in Ender's blood was reawakened.

### •Sunfire

Ender's fuchsia fire can get hot enough to incinerate most things on contact, but it takes a while for the crystal to generate enough magic for maximum heat. Usually, she uses harmless, almost room temperature flames for show, or flames just hot enough to hurt.

### •Shapeshifting

Ender can shift into what she would be if she were born a full dragon. She cannot control her size, her dragon form grows with age. Any injuries sustained in one form are retained after shifting. Occasionally, she shapeshifts only partially, so that she is mostly human but with horns, wings, a tail, and scattered scales. She does not do this often due to it being immensely painful. Usually, she does it to show off or intimidate someone without destroying the surroundings with her dragon form.

### •Fireproof

When ender picked up the crystal, her skin and hair shed and grew back fireproof.

### •Regeneration

The crystal was originally meant to be worn by a leader, many years ago. Of course, they would want their leader to be harder for hostile dragons to kill. Small injuries heal extremely fast, and even bodily trauma not generally survivable can be healed, albeit slower. For example, she can regrow a lost tooth, limb, organ with time. Due to her blood also regenerating as fast as she can lose it, she does not bleed out.