Dragon-girl-Airgid:
Summary: Airgid is a silver dragon, usually in the form of a young woman, who has resigned herself to the requirements and self-punishment of duty and shame.
Motivation: Airgid wants to be carefree and happy. She has lived all of her life serving “duty” and has never done what makes her happy. She is angry at the silver dragons for punishing and exiling her, but refuses to admit to this anger and the desire to prove herself.
Goal: Airgid wants to be allowed back into the silver dragons.
Conflict: Airgid was raised to always bow to her duties. Because of her time living as an orc, the silver dragons ceremonially executed her and she is now dead to them. Airgid can’t imagine ignoring this strong cultural action or even fighting to prove herself. She is dead and dead dragons can’t do this. Airgid doesn’t know anything except duty.
Epiphany: Airgid fights to save dragonkind and in the process learns there is more to life than just duty. She falls in love with Tobann, develops a strong friendship with Béasa and the dwarves, lives adventures and does things that are more than requirements of duty. She realizes that the silver dragons were unjust and that duty can be balanced with love and mercy.
Airgid came from an ancient and extremely well respected dragon family. Her parents were considered among the ancients and she was the last wyrm they had. Airgid was a great leader among the silver dragons, as much as they have leaders. She had distinguished herself in her learning of other races and her abilities to negotiate, which is valued among silver dragons. A century before, the orcs had attacked the silver dragons and a cannonball (maybe magical) struck her down out of the sky and behind enemy lines. For some reason when she fell, she shape changed (maybe due to a spell?) into an orc. Disoriented, confused and with amnesia, she fought and lived as an orc for a number of years before her silver-dragon band found and rescued her. However, what they saw disgusted them. Living as an orc meant being as savage, barbaric and cruel as an orc. Thinking she was an orc, she fought the dragons to stay in the orc caves and killed one of them. When they brought Airgid back to the dragon lands, it took months and a lot of magic to recover her memories and to convince her she was a dragon, getting her to shape change back. The death of another silver dragon results in execution; however because of the circumstances, the dragonkind allowed a ceremonial execution-the death ceremony. The death ceremony is the ritual exiling of a dragon out of the silver dragon world and making her dead to the clans. Airgid can come and go as she pleases, but she now is a ghost, which the dragon people don’t see (they ignore her presence). She can only communicate through the silver-dragon “shaman” in a sham séance.
Airgid is high on conscientiousness. She humbly knows her duty and that is all she knows. She doesn’t understand rebellion or fighting against what one’s society decides. It is her duty to uphold her culture. This has left her without a sense of fun or adventure, and it has also left her bored, icy and ready to snap.
Airgid doesn’t trust Béasa. She’s had interactions with Drows before and believes they are all evil and Béasa must have an ulterior motive. She wants to convince Tobann of this, but he trusts Béasa implicitly.
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