Vorelia

Hunter Vorelia Mellowave (a.k.a. The Devourer)

Vorelia is one of the Azi Empire's hunters, an acquisition specialist and tracker. So with that description in mind, most people expect something more regal and stately that the pudgy strand dragon Vorelia, who habitually licks random items just to learn its taste. Yet as relaxed and slow as she appears, Vorelia didn't get a title out of pity. She is a skilled pursuit hunter, capable of tracking by land, air or sea as needed. She's incredibly tought, a trait empowered by her fusing with an Aeon Relic, and can thus survive blows that would knock other dragons straight to the ground. And she's very knowledgeable, whenever she can be bothered to remember it. All this makes her very skilled at her job and she is trusted by her peers, even if they also occasionally find themselves rolling their eyes and her antics.
Vorelia is a hedonist, who most of all enjoy food, but all other physical pleasures are close seconds. She thinks with her guts, both in the sense that she follows her instincts and that she tends to go where her hunger takes her. While this has occasionally lead her astray, such as when she decided swallowing an Aeon Relic was the best way to safeguard it, it has also seen her safely through numerous situation.
Vorelia rarely takes battles too seriously, as few beings can challenge her in any meaningful way. She uses her lure to pacify opponents or if that fails grabs them with her limbs. And then her foes' usual fate is to be shoved inside her like so much popcorn. As Vorelia has perfect control of her innards, this is not necessarily a death sentence, but this is probably little comfort to whomever finds themselves trapped in her bowels.

Physical Description

General Physical Condition

Vorelia is both strong and fast, as befitting a skilled and swift swimmer. She is also tough, both intenrally and externally, having proven on occasions that she can handle point blank cannon fire without issues.

Facial Features

Unique among her kind, Vorelia has a lure dangling from her forehead hat glows with a mystic, purple light.

Special abilities

Vorelia posesses an incredible control over her anatomy, allowing her to consciously control her internal organs. This allows her to use her stomach as a sort of inventory for items or jail for captured people without having to worry that she'll accidentally digest them, further helped by her innards being as tough as her exterior. The artefact that she swallowed has enhanced her in several ways and granted her powers abnormal to her kind, including but not limited to the ability to conjure fog, use the lure on her forehead to hypnotize people, recover speedily from wounds, produce a supernatural venom from her teeth as well as strengthening her body considerably.

Specialized Equipment

Ever since swallowing an ancient relic backfired, Vorelia has carried a magical bag that is bigger on the inside than the outside. This bag was given to her by her superiors and she was ordered to use it to hold any other objects. If she then wanted to swallow the bag, which is acid proof, then that was her prerogative.

Mental characteristics

Personal history

Vorelia was born in the Azi Empire in 2448 AIT to the Mellowave family, a lineage of strand dragons known for being excellent scouts and explorers. Already as a young kid, Vorelia took to exploring the areas around her parents den, investigating whatever plants, landmarks and animals caught her attention, usually followed by her attempting to eat them.
In 2457 AIT her parents enrolled her in a junior scouting program, where young dragons where trained in the basic arts of wilderness survival and at the same time helped keep taps on the Empire's territory.
In 2459 AIT, Vorelia underwent The Primal Awakening, like most dragons of the empire. Afterwards, she elected to continue in the scouting business.
As she grew older, Vorelia's skills for finding things and people became acknowledged by the elders, who granted her the title of Hunter in 2553 AIT. With this came her biggest job yet. Hunting down a Aeon Relic called the Light of Command in the wilderness far beyond the Azi Empire's reach and return it safely. She managed to find the relic after quite the long journey and promptly swallowed it, under the logic that it would be the safest place for it to be. By the time she returned, it had fused into her flesh, defying any attempts at dislodging it in a way that wouldn't also jeopardize her health. As Vorelia's body began changing from exposure to the ancient artefact, frustrated dragon sages concluded that the relic would remain in her until her death.
In 2985 AIT while hunting a fugitive, Vorelia found that her target was pursued by another, the Nodorealian pirate hunter Lena Spinello and her crew, servants of the noble house of Cozzolino. Vorelia found to her surprise that the elf and her crew could actually match her and, even though Vorelia ended up catching the fugitive first, it was only barely. Since then, she's found herself occasionally pursuing the same prize as Lena, something she's come to greatly enjoy. She doesn't always win and the elven pirate has snatched up her fair share of prizes, but for Vorelia, that is part of the fun. The two occasionally also meet under less competitive circumstances, where they have been known to share drinks and tales of whatever they've been up to lately.

Gender Identity

Vorelia identifies herself as female

Sexuality

Omnisexual. Like with food, Vorelia is all about trying out as many different things as possible. Her warped internal biology also allows her to consume and regurgitate partners without any harm to them, something she greatly enjoys doing and always try talking partners into trying.

Education

Vorelia is fairly well educated, having received the general tutoring available to citizens of the empire and then received more specialized training in not only wilderness survival, but tracking and history too.

Employment

Vorelia currently work as a hunter for the Azi Empire, meaning she specializes in acquiring things and people beyond the borders of the empire.

Accomplishments & Achievements

While it's recovery was a bit botched, Vorelia is really proud of her tracking down the Light of Command and subsequently gaining access to its power.
In 2991 AIT, Vorelia caught wind that the pirate captain Rosa Ballester had knowledge of a hidden pirate treasure. Gaining this information wasn't a challenge, as Rosa was a braggard without equal, but chasing her down over a period of five days certainly was, not helped by Lena Spinello being on the same case and trying to get her too. Vorelia managed to catch the pirate first and got the info from her, putting her on the track to find the treasure.

Failures & Embarrassments

In 2989 AIT, Vorelia tracked a Aeon Artefact to Marcalido, only to find an ancient treasure trove sans treasure. She managed to track down the pirates responsible, a ship lead by Admiral Oliver "Octupus" Rey, at a nearby harbor town. The pirate immediately surrendered and offered to give the relic to Vorelia, something she was rather unsurprised by, as humans in her homesphere tend to be very deferential to dragons. He offered her that she could partake in his crew's victory feast, as a gesture of goodwill now that they had taken the treasure Vorelia had her eyes on. She was presented with a delicious buffet table and, being prone to thinking with her stomach, agreed. Ten minutes later, the enchantments on the piles of cardboard boxes faded and a furious Vorelia immediately set off to catch the admiral. She never did manage to track him down and she's been nursing a grudge against the pirates of New Pezi ever since.

Intellectual Characteristics

Despite her education and intelligence, Vorelia prefers to rely on her instincts and gut feelings. Those are, however, sharp enough to see her through things most of the time. She's highly charismatic and can be very charming, endearing people with her behavior and mannerisms. Or attracting them with the same, depending on individual preferences.

Morality & Philosophy

Vorelia prefers to keep things simple and don't worry too much about the future. She sees the world as composed of thousands of individually unique moments to be enjoyed and feels that too much concern about the future is just unhealthy. She's also very relaxed and encourages people to try out new experiences to find new things about life to enjoy. Her draconic nature shows in her more predatory side and she has no compunctions about treating other sapient beings as prey if she feels it is appropiate.

Taboos

Vorelia doesn't care much about high-brow philosophy, but she does see pointless destruction as a waste and a annoying one at that.

Personality Characteristics

Motivation

Vorelia wants to experience as much of lfie as possible, with a focus on trying as many types of food as possible.

Savvies & Ineptitudes

Vorelia is skilled in many things as part of her job. Physically, she's both athletic and acrobatic, both traits that help her move about the terrain. Her charm and magic allows her to spin tales capable of fooling just about anyone and an iron focus, though both these qualities tend to go out the window whenever good food is waved around her nose. Despite her size, she handles small items with great care, a useful quality for one who is employed to retrieve things that may be quite fragile. She's been educated in matters of society and artifice. And she is also surprisingly very stealthy. Her mastery of survival in forests and oceans alike are second to none and she has mastered every weapon her body has to offer.

Likes & Dislikes

Likes food, her family and friends, nature, swimming and sex.
Dislikes Borring and tasteless food, people who spoil nature

Virtues & Personality perks

She's relaxed, nurturing, charitable, protective and cares for the enviroment

Vices & Personality flaws

She's gluttonous, arrogant, feral, impulsive and can be kinda lazy.

Personality Quirks

Habitually licks anything and anyone new she meets, to check their taste.

Hygiene

Spends a lot of time in water and enjoys getting thoroughly scrubbed down by her servants, so she tends to be pretty clean.

Social

Contacts & Relations

Emperor Iraynjadry "Babyace" Dragoncrown: As a high ranking agent of the Azi Empire, Vorelia has gotten some of her most important mission from her Emperor and his co-ruler.
Empress Gyrvolorsirth "The Shepherd" Dragoncrown: As a high ranking agent of the Azi Empire, Vorelia has gotten some of her most important mission from her Empress and her co-ruler.

Family Ties

Mondyremotarreis "Megamaw" Mellowave: Vorelia's father and a famed Hunter himself.
Noveilamruth "Soulsong" Mellowave: Vorelia's mother. A druid and a scout who helps keep balance between the animals of the wild and the less hardy denizens with the empire.

Religious Views

Vorelia is a casual worshipper of Tiamat and Deius. From the former, she gets her view on letting the world take its course and from the latter a drive to be gentle towards the weaker races.

Social Aptitude

Vorelia is friendly, if impulsive. She's very chummy with people, which can sometimes be off putting to some. Her direct, occasionally blunt way of interact can either come off as refreshing honesty or a complete absence of manners depending on the company.

Hobbies & Pets

Her love of food let Vorelia to take an interest in cooking. She also likes building sand sculptures, even as a group activity.

Wealth & Financial state

Vorelia earns a fairly sizeable amount of money from her job, though a lot of it gets spent on various indulgences or given out as gifts to her friends, family or servants.

Species

Dragon

Honorary & Occupational Titles

Hunter: Designation by the Azi Empire that she's an agent skilled in the acquisition of targets that require tracking, especially beyond imperial borders.

Year of Birth

2448 AIT 545 Years old

Pronouns

She/Her

Gender

Female

Eyes

Light violet with slitted pupils

Skin Tone/Pigmentation

Sand-yellow scales

Height

8,2 meters long

Weight

12.24 tons

Belief/Deity

Tiamat and Deius

Known Languages

Artesian: The Azi Empire has many connections with the nations of Nodoreal and Vorelia has often operated there, therefore learning some of its languages.
Booden: By necessity she's learnt this language, as the pirates of New Pezi are a good source of info if one can shake it out of them.
Derkomai: Born with this primordial language, Vorelia has mastered most aspects of it over her career.
Lalusia: Given she spends much time in Marcalido, she is also one of the Azi Empire's representatives to the Luz de Guia, even if her mastery of their language leaves much to be desired.
Poky: Vastiaria is full of wonders for her to find and she's picked up enough of the local tongue to communicate.
Sporkane: Much like she learned a smattering of the high tongue, she's also learned bits of the low tongue of Nodoreal.
Street Cant: Heavy connections to Megatropolis meant Vorelia had to learn enough to give and receive friendly greetins.
Undaline: Vorelia has visited Arnyekfold and felt most at home along its coasts, even if they too were fraught with dangers. She picked up some of the tongue of the local fishers.