Name: Flame
Formal Name: Guard Flame
Gender: male
Age: 27
Height: 16'8"
Mastery: Fire Potent (class 8)
Occupation: guard/ trainee
Status: Alive
Orientation: Straight
Social status: mated (dating)
Family: Igerus (father) Solyne (mother) Elder Guardian Solstice (auntie)
Mate: Ember

Backstory:

Born to the clan Solar Strike, at first glance one would see a stoic dragon exuding nobility and self-confidence, coming off as arrogance to many low and middle born dragons. Yet if one really got to know him would see a combination of cheeky, mischievousness and cockiness. Needing to keep his appearance around his father, Igerus, a stern and strict dragon towards those below him even among his peers and fellow Commanders. Bearing a scar across his muzzle from his father after responding to a commander with a facetious, goofy comment, drawing the ire of his father seeing it as un-beffitting for a dragon in the clan of an Elder Guardian. After that Flame has resented his father, refusing to absolve and pardon him for all the heartache and torment he places upon others and his Family. Yet his relationship with his mother, Solyne was positive as she would let him be the carefree and joyful dragon he was at heart. Bringing the light needed to his family when his father would leave, they were pleased each time he had to go to war, with Flame secretly begging the ancestors to have him killed, knowing how often he had raped his mother.

When his father was away, he and his mother would visit the Ancestral Temple and visit it aunty when she wasn’t busy dealing with both the guards and the army trying to defeat the apes around the mainland. During his visits, Flame studied under his aunties gaze, learning tricks for his element most students wouldn’t learn till much later in their sessions. Solstice trained him by setting up many training sessions as games, smiling as she watched him advance through them, when not training Flame enjoyed reading. Excelling in his private training Solstice believed Flame could be a wonderful guard one day, seeing him admire the guards when they came to speak with her.

Over the years Flame learned the roles of his clan from his mother and aunty, but each time he looked at his scar he clammed up and spoke when spoken too and spoke with elegance not to earn another scar from his father, but would take the beating when his father dared to beat any of his siblings. During the night of eternal darkness, Solstice had her family sheltered in the tunnels under the Ancestral Temple, telling Solyne that she feared a worst threat was coming for the city. When the darkness shrouded the lands, the apes vanished and peace came to the land…until Malefor arrived.

At age 14, during the siege of Warfang, Flame and the others listened as the battle for the city began, listening to the constant bombardments to the walls and even felt the temple itself rattle. In months, the Elder Guardians had made those in the tunnels evacuate as Malefor reclaimed the temple for his own malicious fortress, believing it would break the spirit of the city…it didn’t for the guardians still lived. Exposed to the war outside the walls, Flame noticed a small group of dragons around his age helping the guards and soldiers defend the city with a purple dragon among them. Believing the siege was over until he saw Malefor’s last attempt to destroy the city, the golem, watching as it swatted away soldiers, guards even his own father out the sky, even Ignitus, horrified the young fire dragon, yet he followed as the small group of dragons fended it off with the aid of the eldest guardian, Allan, he wondered why these dragons, not much older than him could fight while he was forced to run and hide.

With the golem defeated, Flame now desired to train so he may never need to run from any fight and over the next few months he trained…and trained and trained with his father, and auntie as they now occupied the army’s fort, two districts from the temple. Learning about Spyro and those that follow him were under the tutelage of the guardians of Titan Field and Spyro was destined to bring balance back to the world. Yet before he could offer his service all were horrified as the Destroyer emerged from under War’s Peak under Malefor’s control. Many guards and soldiers, even his own father, ventured out to meet with the others in an attempt to stop the force of nature while he was to return underground.

As survivors came down he noticed a pink dragoness that seemed broken, mentally and emotionally, wishing to see if he can help her but she pushed him aside, having no desire to be near a male for a while. Respecting her wishes he kept watch over her through the ordeal. He watched as she barely ate and snarled as would-be partners fled from her aggressive behaviour…wondering if she had a bad break-up with another. Once declared safe they emerged from the tunnels to see a new world. Over time Flame would continue seeking the pink dragoness until she finally broke and unburdened herself from her grief, with time she warmed up to him being a friend. Hearing of his father’s suicide chase after the Destroyer surprised him, unsure of how to feel for a while but his family was free from his wrath and he could begin a new journey hoping Ember would be by his side.