Fantasy RPG Forum - Standing Trials

OK, so idea one...

This is just a brain dump type of write up to demonstrate the concept. I'm not entirely happy with it, but the concept is some kind of smake dragon. They might be spirits I suppose? But could simply be heavily magical and capable of taking smoke form(s).


Blurb

Have you ever seen shapes in the smoke of a fire? A hand, a face, a serpent ... There is every chance, in the depths of night, as you dozed off to the burning of the campfire, that out of the corner of your eye, the whisps of smoke that you lay and watched were watching you back.

This dragon is evasive to the extreme and drawn to intrigue. It gathers secrets and fools the unwary across Idalos for little reason beyond 'because it can'.

Rumoured to be involved with Audrae, gathering secrets from the deepest darkest corners of idalos, it trades on these secrets, usually for the life and/or safety of the individual with said secret. It is a rare individual that gets a deal out of Fumus that truly falls in their own favour.

Powers

Powers based on Smoke, Illusion, Subterfuge, Mirrors, etc.

Can take phisicle form at will.

Can change size at will (from anything between it's larges and smallest forms, whatever it was most appropriate for these to be).

Meitriazh is a meddlesome and morally gray character. On the one hand, she believes in free-exchange of ideas and information. Even ideas and information that can cause damage. To her, there's no greater pursuit than the Truth for the truth's sake, and communicating it for all to hear. On the other hand, she believes that nobody has a right to privacy, and will gladly share information that is held as privileged.

Some may see her as a villain, sharing state secrets with those who would seek to exploit it. Others may see her as a hero, exposing corruption where it dwells.

Meitriazh sees herself as simply one who values the Truth as the Light reveals it. She almost has no opinion of the secrets she exposes.

Danaokh had a special relationship with Fei, and was privy to many of her experiments in the waters of Pyke. When Fei fractured, and Chrien lost her mind, Danaokh turned her eyes away from the land within the barriers, and swam beyond them, far from the interference and wars of the Immortals.

Danaokh was said to have birthed the Leviathans that many Mer now follow. However, none have had a chance to ask Danaokh herself.

Lithraldr doesn't typically involve himself in the affairs and doings of mortals insofar as the structure of things isn't upset or shaped in a way that goes askew of his designs. It has lain in slumber for many centuries and eras, and will probably remain so until something occurs to upset the very bones of the inner world.