Scarlet Mountain

A small warren of critters based out of the Setsawl mountains, a range not unlike the American Rockies. Laying low a universe away, but we're happy to reach out in this one!

A kobold is someone who takes responsibility for the dragon they follow. A dragon is someone who takes responsibility for the kobolds that follow them.

A western-style purple dragon, sporting spiraling horns, a thick wolflike mane, pawpads, and a glowing blush between the wing fingers.

Porphyria AKA Phy, Phyr (ona, any/all) - Old Dragon Guardian

One of the youngest of Atheria's Old Dragons. Commonly seen as the purest forms of the draconic god Adrakki, Old Dragons are highly magical and quite varied in appearance. Along with possessing what one might call "breath powers", Old Dragons are blessed with typical low-shapeshifting—that is, they can take on the shape of a common-sized biped.

Phy spent much of their early life studying Old magics in the branches and valleys of the Setsawls, from settled steppes to the west, to the impassable spires towards the east. Magic based on ritual and warding, magic that ferments rather than dissipating like more modern spells. Magic that weaves through worldlines that modern engineers couldn't fathom to scratch. Magic that has been invaluable in keeping the precise location of Scarlet Mountain hidden.

A confident draconic kobold. He is missing a tail and lacks horns, with large ears in their place. The left side of her scales are yellow, while the right is pink, an even split down the center. Likewise, her left eye is blue and her right eye is green. A set of vivid bite mark scars passes from his left shoulder to his right hip.

Sherbet (she/he) - Wanderer Cosmologist / Head Kobold

Typical Atherian kobolds can drop and regrow their tails. With vibrant scarring also being a common trait, early kobolds adopted bite scars as marks of dominance, and this has remained in modern kobold culture. A tail full of overlapping, warped and varied bite marks indicates a storied career, but a stable one. An unmarred tail on an adult kobold indicates a recent departure from a warren. So what then can a kobold that never grew a tail in the first place do? Porphyria's tooth marks across Sherbet's otherwise unmarked chest and back represents a complete and undying loyalty, a pledge of her life—even a scarred arm can be amputated.

The Setsawls proved a perfect location to test sensitive, carefully calibrated equipment to press a limb beyond Atheria's edge. A clarity of magic and reality that had already been taken advantage of—but not yet in this way. With the help of a true engineer, the machine's eventual success was all but guaranteed.

A normal stoat in winter fur, curled in holographic candy wrapper plastic.

eli (it/its) - Nuisance

This is, by most accounts, a normal stoat. Cute, dangerous, easy to kill. It is, in a sense, cursed. Beyond its "awakened" status, to put it simply, the death of eli causes a new living eli to manifest. This curse reaches further and deeper into Æa than even Porphyria has been able to detect, and while not immutable it appears to be effectively undecaying and nearly impossible to dispel. It has used this power to heedlessly bother many powerful Atherians while facing few true consequences, and amassing a considerable amount of (re)stolen goods.

The origins of eli's curse are a close personal secret, but of relevance is the slew of magical engineering certifications it holds and has continued to hold throughout its many, many lives.

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