The Dragon
unknown (a.k.a. The Dragon, Marek's Dragon)
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Painfully little is known for certain about the nature of the entity Marek and his family refer to as “the dragon.” When Marek was sixteen, he experienced a severe depressive episode during which he turned to self-injury as a release of internal tension and stress. The emotional output of this self-injury attracted the attention of a non-corporeal entity, which latched onto his consciousness. The effect of this was similar to being fed on by a psychic vampire, though there were no external signs of where his energy was going. Even his mother and several other talented Vala were unable to pinpoint the problem.
The only one who really figured out the problem was Steve Petit. Steve recognized the harmful nature of what Marek had been doing to himself and that the self-injury was allowing the dragon to manipulate his mind and psychic energy. He falsified material to make Marek appear over 18 and brought him down to a tattoo parlor with a sensitive artist. The artist, Dinesh Jain, refused to work on Marek, as he was clearly under-age. His sixteen-year-old, Aparna—known to Steve and Marek as Surya and male—agreed to do both the art and a spell to protect him and seal away the entity attacking him. At the time, Surya didn’t have the talent to do a large tattoo and they settled on a simple knife blade high on his shoulder.
Almost ten years later, Marek encountered Maria Davis, a psychic vampire who enthralled him. While Maria fed on him, the spell binding the dragon became weak enough for the dragon to break free and act through Marek. Not content with simply feeding on him, it began reaching out to ensnare other sources of energy. Marek husked nearly a dozen people under the direction of the dragon, most of whom killed themselves in the following years. It took Marek’s mother and grandmother working to subdue Maria and Surya and Dinesh’s intervention to ward and seal the dragon again with a new tattoo. This time, the dragon left its own marks on Marek’s body in the form of two large claw-like scars across his ribs.
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The Dragon considers Steve as a host before choosing Marek. In later years, Steve and the Dragon have several face-offs regarding this, usually when the Dragon has overwhelmed Marek.
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Surya and the Dragon have a viciously antagonistic relationship. The Dragon seeks to destroy Surya, hoping that the spells sealing him away will die with their caster. Surya sees the Dragon as a parasite living on the psyche of one of his best friends.
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