Carvahn
Musician, Inventor of the electric violin.
Carvahn has believed in the power of music ever since his awakening, when he heard Empress Hira's singing for the first time. She had been instructed by the dragon storyteller Kella'Vel in how to sing while she waited for her siblings to awaken, and when he awoke to hear the beautiful, welcoming melody of her song, he would chase that sound for as long as he may live. If you were to ask him about his greatest songs he would tell you that they weren't good enough. At first, he spent his time learning how to sing, as his fellow kobolds began to hatch and build a community, a society, and eventually a flourishing advanced culture. As they developed new and exciting machines and technologies, he devised new and exciting ways to create music.
His first creation was a stringed musical instrument that had four strings and a rounded wooden body, narrowed at the middle and with two f-shaped sound holes, which was played with a stick that also had strings that he called a bow. He loved his creation and spent many long hours learning how to get it to make the sounds he wanted. He went on to continue making music and inventing things for many years, such as the piano and steel drums. As there were only a few thousand kobolds, and they did not have the ability to reproduce, many of them were unique, and had skills that gave them more of a reputation than others.
Carvahn was one such kobold, becoming extremely popular during the war, as many needed his songs to keep their spirits up in the face of certain destruction. When they were initially chased into reality, he went into a depressive slump, suffering from a severe case of writer's block, due to the loss of his home. For many years not a word was heard of his music, until one day after they had migrated to the titan, Incontinence, he held a grandiose concert in celebration of their newfound safety that both explained what he had been dealing with the past many years and encouraged those who remained that they had made it this far.
It spoke of the trauma of nearly being killed during the escape from Chandra (The Realm of Dragons). After his narrow survival, he found love in his Sou'lah Gloria in their newfound haven, the city of New Chandra. It spoke of how, for many years, he had only made music for her to hear, and they had been happy. But disaster is never far behind, and when Gotok'jhi's forces finally found their hidden utopian city in reality, they caused such devastation that every kobold who survived lost someone. In a single day a population of several thousand was culled to a few hundred. Carvahn lost Gloria that day, when she was crushed by the debris of a crumbling building before his eyes. He tried to take his own life that day but luckily, he failed, and when he awoke, he was on the giant back of one of the kobolds' closest allies, one of the Last Dragons named Dor'Abu. The Empress herself had saved his life, and implored him to make music again, for all those who had lost someone. He made her a promise and since that day, has been known throughout the city as a maestro of insurmountable musical talent.
See Kobolds for a deeper dive into their history.
His first creation was a stringed musical instrument that had four strings and a rounded wooden body, narrowed at the middle and with two f-shaped sound holes, which was played with a stick that also had strings that he called a bow. He loved his creation and spent many long hours learning how to get it to make the sounds he wanted. He went on to continue making music and inventing things for many years, such as the piano and steel drums. As there were only a few thousand kobolds, and they did not have the ability to reproduce, many of them were unique, and had skills that gave them more of a reputation than others.
Carvahn was one such kobold, becoming extremely popular during the war, as many needed his songs to keep their spirits up in the face of certain destruction. When they were initially chased into reality, he went into a depressive slump, suffering from a severe case of writer's block, due to the loss of his home. For many years not a word was heard of his music, until one day after they had migrated to the titan, Incontinence, he held a grandiose concert in celebration of their newfound safety that both explained what he had been dealing with the past many years and encouraged those who remained that they had made it this far.
It spoke of the trauma of nearly being killed during the escape from Chandra (The Realm of Dragons). After his narrow survival, he found love in his Sou'lah Gloria in their newfound haven, the city of New Chandra. It spoke of how, for many years, he had only made music for her to hear, and they had been happy. But disaster is never far behind, and when Gotok'jhi's forces finally found their hidden utopian city in reality, they caused such devastation that every kobold who survived lost someone. In a single day a population of several thousand was culled to a few hundred. Carvahn lost Gloria that day, when she was crushed by the debris of a crumbling building before his eyes. He tried to take his own life that day but luckily, he failed, and when he awoke, he was on the giant back of one of the kobolds' closest allies, one of the Last Dragons named Dor'Abu. The Empress herself had saved his life, and implored him to make music again, for all those who had lost someone. He made her a promise and since that day, has been known throughout the city as a maestro of insurmountable musical talent.
See Kobolds for a deeper dive into their history.
Nice read and pretty interesting character. It is great that the empress prevented his death and caused him to become even greater through adveristy. I wonder however how old he actually is? He seems to have been around since the start of the kobolds?
Yes. The kobolds are all actually around the same age, as they all hatched from their eggs at the same time, some just hatched before others.