Darkling Dawn giveaway
Scaled Dragons
updated from sanger-scaled1.htm on alabaster/sangers 2025
Currently residing on the same world with several other four-footers,
unnamed, but has both humans and sentient 'others'

Name: Iszavaan Eshander (eez sah VAWN)
Gender: Male
Colour: Brown; body is shining brown sugar, wingsails sepia, and dorsal ridges and tail spade dark charcoal brown; horns and claws white, eyes rich blue
Size: large, varies *18' s / 56' l / 66' ws

Abilities: Winged Flight, quick and agile in the air
Nexus portals, knows of many places to visit, doesn't limit himself to just this one unnamed dimension!
Verbal Speech, extremely well spoken, with a low and smooth voice that can sing and scream with equal passion; knows all the big words, including specific medical terms
Healing (self, others), this is where Iszavaan shines, truly. He loves to help people, but also loves to experiment? So he will take volunteers to have specific injuries, in order to instruct on health care...He can use information that his partner below offers, figuring out an ailment that may have a genetic base cause but triggered by physical means, and gently urging the subject to 'fix itself' of that issue
*Size Shifting (from 10% to 200%), can be as small as a mountain lion, or literally the size of a 'jet plane', while he doesn't use this ability often, it does come in handy and he practices every few weeks to make sure he hasn't lost the skill
Fire breath, he has this ability like all of his breed, wherever they all got to, though he doesn't use it often and rarely with any ill will. He'd rather use it to cook those little humans a big meal than, y'know, 'cook those humans into a meal'

Personality: patient, but with a temper that is undenyable. He wants to help people, human, dragon or otherwise. A skilled healer, his paws can handle duties that even some human hands cannot. He permits people to ride on him in emergencies, and loves to host quiet intimate gatherings. (Sometimes those intimate gatherings do turn a little.... um, too intimate?) He's not frugal in the slightest, and spares no expense in any way. Only the best for him, and his friends. He's been hurt before, by human hunters and by other things less easily described, but he has no specific 'nemesis' like other Sangers do.

He likes flying fast, basking in the sun, and being looked at. He isn't much for big crowds, preferring smaller groups and single encounters. Because of his size, he's often mistaken for a more evil dragon, but he is pretty far from evil. In fact every piece of his hoarded shiny stuff was earned by doing one thing or another for the people he has met. Iszavaan, like all other Sangers, is quite fond of himself.

His appearance is shining and rarely disheveled, no matter what he's been doing, except when he's being all medical-dragony. And like other Sangers, if you cross him the wrong way, he'll snap first, and bite shortly after. He has few points of contention, one would have to be those 'knights in shining armor' that try rescuing someone from his 'clutches'. Ignoring the fact that usually those clutches are soft, gentle embraces, or medicinal at least. He isn't sure what to think of all the other versions of himself out there, but he is relieved that at least a few of them are like himself, draconic.

 

Name: Lucya Kalkasz
Gender: female
Colour: marked yellow-cream-brown; body is mostly pale yellow with cream white under jaw, neck, body, and at paw and wing tips, all spotted liberally with small medium-brown markings with stripes around tail; wingsails buttery cream yellow with faded brown spots, dorsal crest and tail spade dark brown; claws and horns white, eyes rich blue
Size: large, shifts* 16' s / 50' l / 52' ws

Abilities: Winged Flight, impressively fast and maneuverable in the air, even for one her size
N
exus portals, has not mastered this but can recognize where they are by the way the portal 'feels', and can return to any location found through them unerringly
Speed, on all four paws or with wings in the air, Lucya is incredibly fast for short bursts like a cheetah. She can break the sound barrier in flight, and very nearly so on the ground if there's enough unimpeeded flat space to run. Lucya is able to turn without killing herself, but don't put money on any creature surviving such a thing - a straight path is one thing, but introducing 10-G turns into the mix...
Verbal Speech, not 'chatty' but when you get her going about her chosen fields of genetics and plant matter she is never gonna shut up. Knows techincal terms as well as collecting local names for plants or effects
Size shift (to 10' long only), she can hold this size for quite a while, even though it's not variable like her mate's. It allows her to walk freely among human sized creatures, in hallways that are designed for them, wings tucked and head sometimes low, but she can certainly do it easily to fit in classrooms, emergency rooms, surgical and experimental chambers, and greenhouses alike
Plant manipulation (poisons, toxins, and hallucinogens), with a specialty in those dangerous things, Lucya can identify, sprout and maintain plants, grow them from spores or seeds into a mature plant in days, and even change their effects or potency, though this is per-plant or per-sample, not 'all the plants around her'. She must focus her energy on them and not be distracted. Do not distract the snippy dragon
Genetic sense, this is more of an 'automatic' ability when a non-plant is involved, but she can still use it on vegetable matter consciously. She can detect and get a 'feel' for what background genetics exist in a creature such as its longevity, hidden disorders, mutations, and if she has a comparison point, who parentage might be or what would the results be between individuals. This power works at close range, and she can only manipulate plant matter not other tissues so she would 'suggest' breeding or medical procedures to aid people and dragons

Personality: Observant and judgemental, snippy, but absolutely self-assured. Where others hide their anger, Lucya displays it often violently. But she simmers for a while before hand - learn to recognize her moods and avoid conflict at all costs. She can be vicious, but also she is fiercely protective and almost singleminded when it comes to helping with births or younglings. She has been known to separate parents from young if they aren't doing what she considers a good enough job...

Imagine her surprise. That there were other people claiming to be just like her - how can they be like her? She's a dragon! They ride dragons! And yet, she couldn't deny their names and appearances were close to her own. As a group they would descend on individuals like herself, and take them into their fold. Which was where she met an oddly familiar but quite different draconic version of her, Iszavaan. She knew immediately that they were going to be together, her genetic senses pinged so loudly it was a wonder she didn't spring into a mating frenzy right then and there. Given that the Sangers have done so in the past, she's to be commended for holding back as long as she has...

She freely admits that she's just like Baeris when it comes to certain things. They can in fact share stories as well as materials, for Lucya's ability to grow and create plants with certain toxins in them compliments Baeris' extensive knowledge of such poisons and their uses. Don't expect Lucya to let anyone ride her, unless it's an absolute emergency. But now that they know where to find an interdimensional 'emergency room' it is likely she'll start getting friendlier with humanoids that are injured in her area, instead of just letting the carniverous plants get em.