Sabira Whimbleby

Eighteen

Female

Madam

Human

Mystic

Single

Bisexual

None

Elspeth Whimbleby

The Baker

The world has corrupted Sabira; a girl who was once carefree and joyful has become embittered and scathing. Those who come across the beggar cannot say much for her character – she yells at those who do not give her money and yells at those who do. On a wonderful sunny day, people avoid her corner to avoid the sarcastic quips and angered remarks that she makes upon her death bed. Sabira has become greedy and selfish, stealing from anyone she can, even children and the elderly. She cares not for their lives, but instead takes in order to extend her pathetic life for just a little bit longer. She lacks empathy, able to turn a dry eye to the saddest tale and is willing to do whatever to survive. Because she is a survivor – she will do whatever it takes in order to live from day to day. Her will is strong and she clings to her life with an iron grip; if she applied her strong will to other such things, Sabira would become a force to reckon with. Her temper is quick and hot, her frustration builds easily, but her frustration and temper only makes her more determined. She is a quick and diligent learner if she so deems the subject worthy of her attention. Among her hot-headed nature, her sarcastic wit, her cynicism, and her selfish greed, Sabira is loyal. Once her loyalty is earned, Sabira will protect you like a dog protects his bone.

Sabira grew up on the streets and as such there were several skills she had to attain in order to survive. First, she learned how to climb everything and anything in her path. Second, she learned to steal – from pockets, from hands, from stalls, from purses – and how to run fast when she was caught. Thirdly, Sabira learned the ways of the street. She learned how to interact with the common day thug and how to get what she wanted from such thugs. Her bartering skills and persuasion is her only defense as Sabira never learned how to fight. If any of her defenses failed, Sabira would be forced to run away and hide as fighting would lead to her death.

Sabira never knew her parents. All Sabira knew was the kind, smiling face of her older sister Elspeth. All Sabira knew was the sweet, soothing voice of Elspeth – speaking to her, guiding her, helping her. Sabira was born without her parents, without grandparents, but she had Elspeth and Elspeth was her world. Elspeth taught her about herbs and took care of her, despite being only seven years old, and protected Sabira from the dangers of the street. Sabira remembers the warmth of Elspeth’s hand, always holding her tightly as she guided her towards lightness and hope. Then, one day, Elspeth let go of Sabira’s hand and never touched it again. She was gone.

Sabira didn’t understand why Elspeth would leave her, she didn’t understand where Elspeth had gone. One day, she woke up and Elspeth was no longer by her side, holding her hand. The world that had once seem so warm to Sabira grew cold and desperate. The only thing keeping Sabira going was the thought of her sister coming back, the thought of the world being warm again. Soon, however, that faded and the only thing that kept her strong was her will, her will to survive and show Elspeth that she was not a liability, she was not a burden to be tossed on the side of the street. Sabira was determined to make it off the streets, to become something more, but first she had to survive.

Embittered by the world, Sabira relied on her thieving skills to make it through. However, once she moved to a different street in order to protect herself from the cold, a baker took pity on her. He fed her his leftover bread and gave her blankets when she was tired. He told her stories about the war, about the dangers of dragons, and Sabira became loyal to him. She would die to protect the baker. She adopted his view on dragons, she herself becoming a Mystic, and she did everything she could to impress him. She didn’t want him to leave her behind again. The Baker looked after her as if she were his child, though he could not let her stay with him due to his pregnant wife, but Sabira understood. So she stayed on the streets, in an alleyway next to the Baker, watching over him and his wife as well as their healthy son. She could feel herself slowly dying and the fringes of death crept closer to her heart. Yet, she stayed in the alleyway, even though better opportunities would be elsewhere, because she loved the Baker as if he were her father.

Pure white wind dragon

Dagfinn

Dagfinn is a large male dragon of Wind making. Despite his large size, his body is narrow and sleek with four limbs rippling with muscle. His body is pure white except for his crystalline claws that sparkle like diamonds and tinges of peach flesh that color the creases of his body. Horns decorate the back of his skull, straight and narrow, and grow from his chin as well. His face is ridge-less except for the single arched ridge over his small black eye. His mouth and tongue are gray with a cotton-like texture to it. His wings are their own appendages, separate from his forelimbs, and stretch impossibly far with jagged membrane connecting spines. His spine is patterned with dulled spikes that give him a fearsome appearance, like a skeleton with a spine made of bone. He has many teeth, all sharp and lined, and his body is longer than it is wide. His tail extends outwards with a magnificent flourish of a tail, having continued spikes along the length and an arrow ending at the thick tail.

Elspeth Whimbleby

Twenty-two

Female

Madam

Human

Dragonia

Single

Heterosexual

None

Sabira Whimbleby

The Man (Erik)

Elspeth, much like her sister, has been tainted by the world that has robber her of her life. Elspeth, as a child, was light and friendly, optimistic and naive. However, upon the age of seven, Elspeth's life took a turn and her personality did as well. Forced to make a hard decision, Elspeth's lightness was convoluted until she became cold and ruthless. She lived day to day with no purpose, but instead lived where time never moved for her. Life bored her, but death terrified her. Elspeth became manipulative and cunning, playing with the minds of people in order to get what she wanted. She was selfish and disloyal, only serving her means and always choosing herself over others because of her deep-seated fear of death. However, she is intelligent and reasonable and a powerful ally to have on your side. Despite her barren personality, she retains a small amount of optimism from her childhood.

Elspeth is a skilled assassin, well-versed in poisons and lying. However, she lacks in hand-to-hand combat and is horrible at sword fighting. But her most important skill is Elspeth's ability to manipulate others to do what she wishes and her ability at lying through her teeth. When she needs to, Elspeth can become anyone she wants through her persuasive lies.

Elspeth Whimbleby does not remember much of her mother, but she does remember her golden hair and beautiful eyes and her crying. Elspeth Whimbleby didn’t understand it then, but she was born an illegitimate child. Her father was a married noble who had seduced her mother and when her mother was pregnant, he paid her to keep quiet. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, Elspeth’s mother accepted the money from him and stayed quietly with Elspeth. Three years after Elspeth’s birth, she met a man and became pregnant with Sabira. His identity is unknown. However, at some point, the girls’ mother became unsatisfied with her life and attempted to make Elspeth’s father take responsibility for his daughter. She wanted him to adopt her, acknowledging her as his daughter, in order to give Elspeth the life she couldn’t give him. When he refused, Elspeth’s mother threatened to expose him to his wife. As a noble, he could not have that and so he hired an assassin and on a dark, rainy night, Elspeth and Sabira became orphans.

Elspeth tried her best to take care of Sabira, stealing to sustain the younger girl and playing on people’s pity in order to provide for them. She became manipulative and a lying thief in order to protect Sabira. However, when Sabira became violently ill, Elspeth felt herself powerless to save Sabira. No medicine that she stole helped Sabira or lessened the three year old’s pain. Elspeth, afraid of watching her sister die and fade away, left her in the middle of the night, believing that Sabira would leave in her sleep. Having abandoned her sister like that, Elspeth was put onto a dark path and as such, her personality became dim and dark, cold and dank; sacrificing her sister paid its toll on Elspeth's personality. Elspeth traveled to a different city in which she made a living through nefarious means, thieving and beating people up to the best abilities a ten year old can. Guilt weighed heavily on her shoulders for leaving Sabira until Elspeth learned to ignore it, pretending that she didn’t care about anyone or anything.

Eventually, a man took notice of Elspeth’s infamy and took her under his wing, training her in the art of assassination. Elspeth failed in many aspects, especially hand-to-hand and swordsmanship, but she showed a prowess in poisons and subterfuge. The man used her as a diversion, mostly, distracting nobles as he killed people of importance – though, sometimes, Elspeth herself had to do the killing by slipping poison into drinks.

Crimson fire dragon

Brynja

Brynja is a fiercely loyal fire dragon covered in rough, shiny crimson scales. Her face possesses ridges and spikes protrude from her jaw as well as her cheekbones. Two horns curve backwards from her head with three small stubs poking out inbetween. Her yellow, amber eyes are perpetually angry and look relatively small on her medium sized body. Her wings stretch out, powerful and strong, but possessing tears in it from fights. Her strong four limbs have spikes on the shoulder and elbow joints as well as blunt talons. Her spine is lined by tall, thick spikes that travel to the tip of her tail, diminishing in height. Her teeth are small, but needle-like and sharp as well as numerous.