Nameless One

**Spoiler warning in the biography section: *THE PRIORY OF THE ORANGE TREE***

The **Nameless One** is a fearsome western dragon, the first of its kind, and emerged from through Dreadmount from were he was shaped in the Womb of Fire during BCE 2. He settled outside the then Lasian capital of Yikala, to where he carried the draconic plague. To not destroy the city, he first demanded the city's livestock sent to him, for him to eat. When he wasn't satiated by mere animals he started craving the flesh of humans. The king of Yikala, Selinu the Oathkeeper, then arranged a lottery with each citizens name, the chosen one having to sacrifice their life to the dragon, to appease him. After 120 days of sacrificed people, the Crown Princess of Lasia, Cleolind Onjenyu was chosen to give her life to the Nameless One. The story behind his later vanquishment from Yikala is the foundation of both the religion of Six Virtues and that of the people of the Priory of the Orange Tree.

Driven by the need of chaos, eternal rage and loathing for humankind, his ultimate goal is rule the world and make it a second Womb of Fire.

## Physical description

Its scales are red, smoldering with wyrmfire, and its eyes and teeth black as night. The beast is of massive size, its wingspan described as being the length of two Lacustrine longship, perhaps about 600 feet. It could be assumed it shares many features of the High Westerns.

## Biography

The Nameless One was made in the core of the world, the result of a great imbalance between siden and sterren. When he started lusting for the world above, he broke out of the Womb of Fire through the Dreadmount, drowning the city below the mountain, Gulthaga, in lava. His emerging caused black smoke to hide the sun and red lightning to strike.

The stories about how the Namless One was vanquished differs between Virtudom and the South. According to western and northern tradition, the beast was defeated by Galian Berethnet, an Inyscan knight, with the help of the sterren-infused sword Ascalon, all to save Princess Cleolind Onjenyu in exchange for her people converting to his new religion, Six Virtues and her hand in marriage. In a fight that damaged both dragon and man, the knight finally managed to injure the dragon by thrusting his sword into it, whereafter it fled back into the Womb of Fire.

The southerners, especially the people of the Priory, believes that Princess Cleolind, a skilled and brave warrior, were the one to vanquish the Nameless One. Galian had came to Lasia with his conditions and enchanted sword, but Cleolind asked her father to banish him, as to not make her people bow to a foreign king no matter the circumstances. When she wandered to the lair of the Nameless One, the knight followed her and took up arms against the beast. Though, the smoke and fire overcame him and the princess took up his sword. She fought the dragon for a day and a night, following it into the Lasian Basin until she found its lair, where she also found the Orange tree. When the Nameless managed to set her on fire, she hid beneath the tree, who would not burn. It yielded its fruit to her in her last moments and when she ate of it, she was granted the fiery power of siden. With that, she finally managed to pierce the dragon with Ascalon.

After the vanquishment, it is hinted that the three Firstbloods, Princess Cleolind along with Queen Neporo of Komoridu and Kalyba of Nurtha, sealed the Nameless One in the Abyss with the help of the Celestial Jewels. A thousand years after the sealing he woke up yet again, CE 1005, and was defeated yet again and killed in a great fight by the combined efforts of all the known world.

## References

1. ↑ The Priory of the Orange Tree, 773.
2. ↑ A Day of Fallen Night, page 73.
3. ↑ The Priory of the Orange tree, page 68.
4. ↑ A Day of Fallen Night, pages 74-75.