For ages past, the people of the Rysis Mountains have lived among great flying reptiles call dragons. The first interaction between man and dragon was of female’s swooping down and snatching up young men and women. This prompted armed parties of men to search the mountains for their missing kin, only to find nothing. Months later, the young people returned, a newly hatched dragonet in tow. For some strange reason, a female dragon about to lay her egg(s), will have a great need to seek out a human caretaker for their young and lacking the tongues of men, turned to stealing young humans as caretakers.
After many years, both men and dragons had discovered an answer to this issue of miscommutation. Many of the female dragons had taken to nesting high on Storm Peak, in caves with soft sand floors. As one young man was stolen and bought to the red female dragon’s nest, her tail smashed into the wall, braking off the stone face. Behind the rock was great number of gems, of strange shapes. When the boy picked up one of the gems, he found that he could understand the female and other dragons in the cave system. So began a much more peaceful relationship between the two species. Each caretaker would select a gem from the caves and wearing it as a necklace.
Not all is well however, a plague as come among the dragons of the Rysis Mountains, causing the dragons to waste away and die. Only the newest generation of dragons, soon to be hatched, remained unaffected. News of a similar disaster befallen dragons as reached the mountains and of a cure. But to find the cure, those who go must cross the desert, the realm of the Wyverns and the savages that worked with them.
Alright, this rp will be about a band of newly chosen caretakers, who, without permission, head off to find the cure.
Dragons
They only grow to be a little larger then (in torso size) a draft horse, with a long neck and tail, large wings and lean legs. Their feet are tipped with four sharp talons , between six and seven inches long. Scales cover their bodies, in a wide range of colors, most have two colors on their bodies, a darker shade on their backs and side with a lighter color on their bellies. Dragons are more intelligent then any other domesticated animal and some have almost matched humans. Like the dragon's of lore from earth, they do breath fire, poison, ice or lighting but not all of them do.
Character profile
Name:
Age (teenage please):
Gender:
Appearance:
Gem:
Gear/weapons (if any):
Dragonet
Name:
Gender:
Scales:
Breathe Weapon (if any):
Mine
Name: Leel Swiftarrow
Age (teenage please): 16
Gender: male
Appearance: A rawboned youth of a sharp angler face, with long black hair pulled back into a ponytail and piercing blue eyes. Though short, his lifetime out tending his family's sheep as left his skin nicely tanned and hands callused from the use of the bow to drive away wolves and wild cats. He dresses in very loose red woolen trousers, leather boots and a green woolen tunic.
Gem: a twisting crystal of ruby
Gear/weapons (if any): a short bow, quiver of arrows, and a long steel knife
Dragonet
Name: Rerequm
Gender: female
Scales: Deep blue with a lighter underbelly
Breathe Weapon (if any): lighting

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