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Imp Dragon (+Brief Backstory)
A little experimentation that I wanted to try out on my character for a while. Got around it recently as a very rough sketch. Even wrote something short about this new strange species. Please, enjoy~
Imp Dragons as a species emerged from the experimentation of mages, beastmasters, tamers and poachers. Created as instruments of war at first, these half demon, half dragon spawn were hightly appraised as beasts of battle. Vicious and Effective. Yet as effective as they were in combat, they were hard to control, for they shared not only the traits of two uniquely powerful species, but also their ill tempter and vile retribution. Any mistreatment severe enough to irk even a few of them could easily result in the uprising of several of them at a time.
They ceased to be utilized for war as a result of this. At least until the nobles, drawn in by their desire of owning such a creature as a sign of social status, set their eyes on the strange hybrids. Bought in droves, then bred amongst eachother to conceive better guardians and obedient pets. Managing then to complete the work that their armies had failed to accomplish.
Thusly, Satiron was born.
Spawned of a pairing cut above average, the young dragonling was given as gift to the noble House Talvot. Under the tutelage of the aspiring mage, and house patriarch Hossifer Talvot.
Their relation was close, perhaps too close. At least enough for rumors to spread. Some, more innocently, whispered that the man liked treating his pet as more of a daughter than the servant that she was meant to be. Others, more vile, assumed that he better saw her as a potential concubine with whom he could concieve the son that he could never get out of his own wife.
Although the man paid no mind to the venomous words of his closest, the rest of the family was not as welcoming to his ease of brushing them off his shoulders, for it fell on them. Or mayhaps it was their inherent fear of his will having a most dreadful change of name to his will, and just where his belongings would go towards.
As time progressed, many were the concerning cases of nobles murdered under their own roof, and with the subsequent dissapearence of their supposed protectors ovenight, the worst was being feared for the Talvots. Many were the days that Hossifer’s own family pleaded to rid them of such a threat, living amongst them, as if it were part of their name. But even while slowly succumbing to disease in front of their eyes, he still defended the innocence of that small dragon.
However in death, he could not defend her any longer. Upon his last breath, the Talvots accused Satiron of being culprit of the death of her master.
Abandoned by the family, the dragon was sold to a dealer of many, an exotic beast master. He rented her services to many, be it for simple and temporal protection, hunting of big game, or else. Yet nobody seemed to be interested in applying her loyalties to a more permanent place.
At least no other place than to the beastmaster. She was unsure if his respect and humanity towards her was mere aprehension to not incite her anger towards him, or legitimate and honest but…
… This will do.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Dragon (Other)
Size 1280 x 853px
File Size 119.6 kB
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