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Name:
Lord Destrias
Kanan
Title:
Knight of the Crown,
Dragonrider of the Gold
Wing
Race:
Qualinesti/Kagonesti elf,
one-eighth silver dragon.
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Birthplace:
Khalkist Mountains, Krynn
Age:
97 (Human equivalent 19)
Occupation:
Knight, dragonrider, healer
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Physical
description:
Because of his time spent with
Relansa's mother and stepfather as a child
and the plentiful supply of food he had,
Destrias is taller and more robust than
his twin at 5'8, 140 lbs. He has long
auburn hair, strong angular wilder elf
features, and strangely metallic golden
eyes that hint of his silver dragon
ancestry. He most often wears his standard
of the Knights of the Crown over elven
chainmail, dark blue pants, and black
boots, his elven longsword with the
symbols of Kiri-Jolith and Paladine on the
hilt at his side. When expecting trouble
one can expect to see him in his full
mithral plate armor, an elaborate bit of
combative art presented to him by his
cousin, Porthios, and enough to make even
those Solamnic knights graced with
heritage armor feel tarnished.
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Personality:
Destrias is much quieter than
his older twin and mature beyond his
years, making him seem to be the oldest of
the three Kanan brothers much of the time.
He is full of self-criticism and insecure
about his place in the family, often going
to great lengths to try to prove himself
to his brothers. He is almost cripplingly
shy and is quite comfortable fading into
the background, but will move quickly to
defend those who are threatened by evil.
He lives by a strict code of honor as do
all Knights of the Crown, and his
loyalties to justice and good run deep, as
do his loyalties to family and friends.
Having lost his mother at birth, beloved
human adoptive father while he was still a
child, and been seperated from his twin
for much of his early life, he is somewhat
afraid to trust that love will last and
that he will not be left alone.
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Abilities:
Destrias has wanted to be a
knight since he was a young child and has
trained hard to become the able defender
of justice that he is. He is excellent in
longsword and two-handed sword fighting,
and is passable in all other forms of
knightly combat, always training to become
even better and advance to Knight of the
Rose, the highest order of Solamnic
knights. He is able to wield and use a
dragonlance with great skill and his holy
knight abilities are boosted by the magic
of his gold dragon partner, Aurelia. He
has a natural gift of uncanny aim with
throwing knives, a source of competitive
fire to his thief-trained twin. He worked
as a fisherman for a good part of his life
and has all the skills required for a life
spent near and on the ocean. He is a first
rate swimmer. He has studied healing arts
from a young age, and also is able to use
the powerful healing gift of his dragon
blood to regeneratively heal himself and
others. He is a talented artist, but is
reluctant to show his work to anyone,
thinking it to be amateur even though his
drawings are so detailed they almost seem
ready to spring to life.
Items:
Holy longsword (+5, additional
damage against evil), mithral platemail
armor, mithral chain armor, mithral
shield, fire dagger (+2, becomes fireball
when thrown), firebane cloak (protection
from flame, invisible to normal and
infrared vision), ring of cool breezes
(protection from heat).
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Family:
Miralas (half brother),
Estreael (twin brother), Relansa
(half-sister), Gilthanas (cousin)
Theme
Songs:
Learning to Fly, Pink Floyd /
Dreams, Van Halen
Actor:
Derek Brewer, one, because he's
a twin and so Keith can be Estreael, and
two because of those oh, so intense eyes
of his.
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Aurelia, Destrias' gold dragon
partner, in elfmaid form.
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Destrias with his twin brother
Estreael (back).
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Destrias
and his twin were conceived as a result of a rape
by their father, insane elven prince Arelas, on a
wilder elf servant in his household. The girl
escaped a few months later, struggling to find her
way back to the forests she was born in. Near to
giving birth and caught by storms in the dangerous
Khalkist mountains, she was captured by a mated
pair of red dragons. Seeing that she carried twins,
the dragons devised an evil scheme, ripping the
babes from her body and capturing their souls into
crystals in order to provide helpless slaves for
their twin hatchlings Myrlich and Krychys. The
younger twin was named Destrias, or baby bat, then
given to Krychys and separated from his brother
Estreael.
With his soul trapped in the crystal and subject
to instantaneous and cruel punishment, Destry was a
compliant slave to the dragon, who became a scholar
as he grew older. Krychys demanded absolute silence
from the tiny elven boy, forcing a spell upon him
that would cause instant soulstrike should he utter
the smallest sound. The only comfort afforded the
boy was the yearly visit to his master's twin's
lair, when he was able to see, although not talk
with, Estreael, their only form of communication a
hand sign they devised to say "I love you." By
bizarre circumstances, Miralas, the elder
half-brother of the twins, travelled back in time,
having met the twins as they were in a seperte
timeline having spent their entire lives under the
dragons, irreperably crushed in spirit. With the
grace of the gods he was able to free the twins and
destroy their persecutors. The twins were then
turned over to the care of their siblings in their
timeline, Estreael going to the young Miralas,
living on the streets of Garnet, and Destry taken
to Miralas' sister Relansa, living with her mother,
stepfather, and half-sister in a human fishing
village on Southern Ergoth. None of the children
knew of their true relationships. To free their
souls from the crystals, they were sent through the
souls of their guardian siblings, forever forging a
deep soul-bond.
In spite of his new home with caring family, the
traumitized boy was still broken in spirit. Over
the years the young Relansa's love for her
'adopted' brother, along with the paternal love
given him by her step-father, was able to break
through his fear enough for him to speak, although
it never broke through his natural shyness.
Withdrawn and introspective, Destry learned to
express himself through his drawings and to find
friendship in precious books his new family
struggled to provide for him, dreaming of someday
being able to heal pain and protect those who were
oppressed. When Relansa went to study magic, Destry
followed, and later accompanied her to the Tower of
the Suns when Relansa was discovered by the House
Royal to be the daughter of Arelas and therefore a
princess. Because of his wilder elf blood, Destrias
was forced to act as Relansa's servant rather than
her adopted brother, but he was content so long as
he was near her, the two comforting each other
through the separation from their family back home
in Ergoth. While in the Tower they learned of the
death of their human father. It came as a crushing
blow to Destrias, who had adored the man who had
been the only father he'd ever known.
As Relansa became more knowledgable in magic,
she began to wonder about the fate of the older
brother her mother had told her about, and so cast
a spell that would reveal blood kinship. To her
surprise, not only did she learn that her older
brother was alive and in Solamnia, but that
Destrias and the twin he occassionally whispered
about were her younger half-brothers by Arelas. She
and Destrias set off on a perilous journey to find
their brothers and bring them back to the Tower of
the Suns, travelling to Garnet where both Miralas
and Estreael were living on the rough streets of
the dwarven city. With all four of Arelas' children
reunited, life in the elven court became slightly
more bearable.
As the twins grew and their features began to
show their bloodline, their cousin Porthios,
Speaker of the Suns, realized that these two
servants were in fact members of his family and the
illegitimate sons of his uncle. The Speaker chose
to overcome the risk of court scandal by
acknowledging them and giving them the protection
of House Royal, in spite of past cruelty on his
part towards them. Destrias was quick to forgive
Porthios, and the Speaker learned to respect the
quiet and wise youth. Impressed by the intellect
and fighting powess of the boy, Porthios
recommended his admission to the Solamnic knights.
Destrias soon proved his worth to the knights,
spending less than a year as a squire before being
admitted to their ranks as a full knight.
Chancing to meet a rare gold dragon in his
journeys, Destrias revealed to her the secret of
his silver dragon bloodline. The gold, Aurelia,
found in him the purity and strength that convinced
her to take up a rider for the first time since the
dragonwars. The two became a powerful pair, able to
defeat larger foes through intellect and strategy,
and forged a deep trust and kinship with each other
that began to draw the youg knight from his shell
of shyness and give him the confidence he needed to
represent both the Solamnic knighthood and House
Royal of Qualinost.
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Destrias
is my serious character, he does serious things,
yet it is his shyness and his self-doubt that
appeals to me. He and Estrie are twins, yet their
separate life experiences cause them to react to
things in such different ways. Destry attempts to
overcome the victimization of his childhood by
protecting others, but he crumbles if he is made to
feel helpless, just as he was helpless to protect
himself from the dragons as a child.
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