Name: Thaulian

Gender: Female

Age/DOB: 19

Origin/Species: Alskyr, Paniya, human

Family: Parents, Uncle Dez, aunt and family including gryphon riders

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Enhancements or Augmentations: extremely good with creatures, including flits and alisgryphs, but also highly attuned to plants and farming-related nature

Image Credits: lethe

Events or History: Iron Chef story here

avalen and Thaulian managed to keep themselves quite busy at the Aerie. Both of them had to get over their fears, first.

Thaulian was difficult to teach - she was quite jumpy, because every time one of the few resident Gryphons would 'sneak up' on her, she'd jump out of her skin. But slowly, they convinced her that her aunt and her bond had been correct. She truly did belong in the sky.

Not dangling from a gryphon's talons, of course. Riding upon the gryph's shoulders, where she belonged.

Javalen kept himself busy in the kitchens, and apparently people really liked his breakfast dishes. He was made to work on his studies, about gryphon behavior, magick and tactics, and everyone knew his head was still in the spice rack.

Eventually, not long after their arrival, the pair were called in very privately to the Aerie where the nest mother stood guard over her eggs. No one else was present, while they were allowed to view the hatching.

The thrill of even being there over-rode any fears that either had. They were out on a ledge, practically falling off the cliffs... But neither cared. The eggs broke open one at a time. The first was a lovely copper and black, just like his father. Two eggs broke open shortly, revealing a lovely black and white hatchling who strode up to Thaulian.

She was so graceful, one might think she'd have been practicing for this moment! But Thaulian knew that the gryphlet had never been outside her shell. I am Garessasss, she announced. Do you like my feathers?

"I do, oh - I so do like them," Thaulian said. She was crying - here was her gryphon - no other. She left the nest thinking of nothing more than this.

***

Garessasss opened her wide white wings, and Thaulian's heart nearly exploded.

"Garess," she said, clutching her chest, "don't do that. Your wings aren't fully feathered!"

"I will be able to fly soon!" Garessasss announced. Her sharp wings were growing, but they were truly not quite big enough to soar into the sky yet. That might come shortly, and it would still be at the expense of Thaulian's panicky sanity.

***

The pair of huge feathered gryphons swept through the air in a race. Their riders stood below them, hardly willing to brave that kind of pressure. The rest of the Aerie watched eagerly to see who would win. Neither Thaulian nor Javalen felt like betting on the race. Over the year and a half they'd spent together, they were far too close friends to waste their time competing directly with one another.

I would love her, too, but she's too skinny! Those feathers are ready to moult!

Don't say such things! My feathers are in pristine condition! Bellowed Garessasss back at her companion. And besides, you are my clutch mate, and I will not have you for a partner!

That will not stop them, they are not siblings. Watch out for that tree!

There is no tree that can withstand my wrath! Garessasss snarled, and lept onto the nearby pine. She bowled it over, it bowed with her weight, and she bit off part of the top of it. See!

Laughing, the riders merely gathered their belongings. They were going to try finding the others now. They weren't sure if dragons grew more slowly than gryphons, but that seemed to be the case.

Bond

Name: Garessasss
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Large, 15' s / 60' l / 70' ws
Colors: White and Black, feline parts midnight black, feathers and tuft snowy white with mottling
Breed: Xidaver Gryphon
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Powers: Supposedly they have 'magick' but... yah nah since they didn't get any information with this it's not part of them any longer.
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Origin: Xidaver, Elpress Aerie
Art By: Kless
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