NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="seasong" data-source="post: 794094" data-attributes="member: 5137">Vignette: UripedasSince Greppa has been summoning him so much, I thought I'd flesh out what y'all know of him <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.Allas' Realm overlooks a vast and craggy mountain range, covered in steamy rain forest and eternally lit by a brilliant noonday sun. Night comes only in the form of the monsoons that wash through the realm, providing succor from the light.Uripedas, a sunhawk weighing a half ton and measuring tens of feet from wingtip to wingtip, flies perpetually above it all. Here, in this land, he is immensely powerful. He feeds on the sunlight above, taking it into his golden feathers and providing brief passes of shadow below, and glides among the sunbeams themselves.Swift and certain, he makes seemingly impossible banks, pulling out only long enough to regain altitude before he crashes into unforgiving rock. He is Allas' servant, and it is enough that She loves him and gives him Purpose. He is centuries old, but young in the ways of the world, and has rarely left Allas' realm for the mortal world.Recently, that has changed.The small, dark-skinned ellini, son of a great grandchild of Dianas, encountered him several years ago. When the then-child had opened his first portal and, face serious and arms in elementary casting stance, Uripedas had felt an urge, given by Allas it seemed, and had dove for the portal, compressing his powers so as to not overwhelm the fragile conjuring.He had emerged on the other side, not powerful, but still glorious. The ellini child, favored by Allas, and Uripedas then spoke for many nights, and Uripedas has come to love the child, now grown in the way of mortals, and powerful enough to summon Uripedas in his true size (if not his true power).He has also come to love the mortal world. It is violent and clashing and exciting. Mortal combat against infernal spiders! Spitting Allas' light into the eyes of orcs! Diving for the jugular of giants!Uripedas liked excitement before, but he had not known how exciting things could be. Here, as he sailed gently upon a lifting wind, there were no fights, no mortal combats, no dodging spears or last minute saves.Feathers ruffled as goosebumps ran along his wingskin, and he screamed a lilting note of challenge to any who would take on himself and Greppa as a team.He felt the call, and dove for the conjuring circle appearing far below. It was time to have some fun.</blockquote>

Verification