Andask, the Ruby-Red Dragon

## Andask

**Andask**, *the Ruby-Red Dragon* is an ancient Red Great Wyrm and the first dragon to hold the position as Tiamat's Red Consort. Andask was sent by Tiamat to destroy a small kingdom, but betrayed her and instead took the kingdom for himself. Later retribution would force him to flee, going into hiding and eventually marrying a dragonborn named Lygi. Andask and Lygi had many children, most notably Blarg Deaff. However Andask eventually disappeared, evidentially to prevent Tiamat's wrath from befalling them. This drove Lygi mad, setting in motion events that scar Blarg for life. Andask has since returned to some degree, trying to rekindle a relationship with his remaining son after ending Lygi's reign of violence, while still keeping mostly to the shadows.

## History

### Origin

Andask is well recorded to be among the most ancient of the Great Wyrms, having been alive prior to the death of Io, the One Dragon. He bears the mark of this stature, small gemstone-like scales similar to rubies are embedded across his body. These are a remnant of a time where the different stratifications of dragons did not exist and its prestigious mark is where Andask's epithet of *the Ruby-Red Dragon* comes from.

### Consort of Tiamat

During the Draco Holy Wars, Andask eventually sided with the Tiamat Dynasty. Such was his stature and might that Andask was chosen as Tiamat's Consort, representative of all Red Dragons. Andask's exact feats in Tiamat's name during the Draco Holy Wars are unknown.

### Kingdom of Liat

Andask would eventually betray Tiamat for unclear reasons, perhaps having a change of heart. He spared the Kingdom of Liat from the destruction he had been sent to wrought, instead becoming the King of the small kingdom. During this time Andask protected the kingdom from other dragons, even killing others of Tiamat's chosen. When Tiamat herself learned of this terrible indiscretion she sent a flock of dragons led by her new Red Consort to kill Andask. He was forced to flee, and Liat was destroyed.

### Lygi Deaff

Following the fall of Liat, Andask took on a more subdued persona and traveled the land in the guise of a human or dragonborn. He supposedly achieved many great feats in this form, but eventually met and settled down with a dragonborn woman named Lygi. The two built a home in the Serpentus Rift of The Iron Circle and had numerous children. However, Andask's past continued to haunt him. Fearing that Tiamat would learn of his new family and would target them, Andask suddenly vanished without warning. This had unintended consequences as it eventually drove the distraught Lygi into madness.

### The Dragonslayers

Lygi would go on to attempt to "entreat" Andask's return by transforming their children into worthy heirs. This process left all of the children dead save Blarg Deaff. Yet Blarg was so scarred by these events that he apparently killed Lygi and fled. Blarg would go on to rampage across the Iron Circle, becoming violently renowned. Lygi, however, had survived and began secretly assembling his victims into a vigilante force called the Dragonslayers. Finding new ways to torment Blarg with the Dragonslayers, she hoped to still cause him to awaken his father's bloodline and reattract Andask's attention. Her plan ultimately succeeded at Alton, where she drove Blarg to such lengths that Andask was forced to intercede. Seeing what his wife had become, their long awaited reunion was cut short when he killed her, conclusively this time.

### Reconnection with Blarg

Andask has since attempted to reestablish a relationship with Blarg, although the Ruby-Red Dragon remains in hiding from Tiamat. He mainly conversed with Blarg through setters sent from the Postal Guild. He also gifted Blarg the Crimson Cleaver as a sign of a "new beginning", replacing the Deaff Family Blade which Lygi had prized so much. Since the start of The Psion's Night, however, Andask has not sent any letters.

## Trivia

* Andask has a brother, known to Blarg as Uncle O'Terry. Uncle O'Terry's whereabouts and history are unknown.