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Drayco, 'Were-Dragon'

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Because LadyKayoss got me interested in Werewolf: The Apocalypse, I decided to "reincarnate" Drayco into that setting. I made a sketch of the character - I'll have the colored version soon.

Name: Drayco (haven't thought much past that yet)
Breed Form: Homid
Auspice: Theruge
Tribe: Uktena

Description:
Drayco is technically only half werewolf.
He was born into the Uktena tribe, a widespread, mysterious tribe that posesses great knowledge of magic and legend. His mother was a werewolf, a powerful Theruge. It was assumed that he was a Garou, and he was trained as such.
He was born under the crescent moon (like his mother), and took to the art of magic instantly. He prefers fire and ice element magic, and is a fearsome foe when wielding it.
But magic isn't his only strength. He also is a skilled swordsman. His weapon of choice resembles a katana, though the blade is slightly longer and much less curved than the normal japanese katana. He prefers to use magic, though.

When it finally came time for him to "release his inner werewolf" (I guess there's a certain point when a werewolf first gets the ability to change forms - probably sometime in his teenage years), it was not what he expected. Instead of becoming a lupine hybrid, he became a, well, "were-dragon".
This came at a horrific shock to the other members of the tribe, as dragons are a common enemy of their tribe. They did not have any idea how this could have happened, and they viewed him as being corrupted, somehow. He was badly afflicted with a dragon's poisonous magic, and most think this is the cause - including Drayco. (though it really wasn't, but since nobody besides his dragon father know otherwise...)
Drayco (with a little help from his mother) managed to convince the tribe not to kill him, at least. Being the swift talker that he is, he argued that the Wyrm was once a creature of balance, before the Weaver trapped him and he went insane and became corrupted. The Elder of the tribe stepped in and agreed, and he was allowed to live among them - though most other members of the tribe don't trust him and view him as an outcast, despite the Elder's judgement. That, and the fact that he's a good fighter, and some are jealous of his abilities...


And now for the backstory...
The man who is Drayco's biological father isn't really a man at all. He was actually a powerful dragon who had learned how to take a human form. He was using this form to infiltrate the tribe in order to more effectively destroy them. He pretended to fall in love with one of the more important members of the tribe (Drayco's mother), and used this to learn about them - their movements, their strategies, and their weaknesses. A few months later, the mysterious man vanished without a trace.

This information was used to plan an attack on the tribe years later. The tribe survived the attack, killing one of the two dragons that had attacked seemingly without warning, though they suffered severe losses. (One of those dragons was Drayco's biological father, but the tribe didn't know that. At this point, I also haven't decided which dragon was his father - the one that died, or the one that escaped...) In this attack, the infant/child Drayco was badly poisoned by a spell of one of the dragons, and did not recover for months. This left him with a deep fear of poison, which would never be erased.


Now back to Drayco...
Instead of the standard Crinos form, Drayco has a dragon hybrid form (though it does have a few wolf charecteristics). This form is essentially is a 7-foot tall, red-scaled, winged, sharp-clawed, fire-breathing fighting machine. Oddly enough, he still has his hair (the hair on his head, at least) when in the hybrid form. Blame that on the werewolf half. He also has the keen senses of a wolf, regardless of what form he's in.
He prefers to fight in his human form, because he can't use his magic effectively in the hybrid form (and he likes using his sword instead of his natural weapons). However, he knows that the strength and resilience of that form is also a powerful weapon, and does not hesitate to use it when he needs to.

He may also have a full dragon form, but I haven't worked that out yet. It will probably be a "travel" form anyway, as he can fight much better in his Human and Hybrid forms.


And that's about it.
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LadyKayoss's avatar
I've been looking through my sourcebooks to find information to find how likely this is, and I've found... nothing. There is one sourcebook about dragons, but just one certain evil type (one member of which can, indeed, shapeshift). However, it seems likely that there are other types of dragons, too, that are more benevolent. :) So I found nothing that actually conflicts with your idea of Drayco as a weredragon.

And I shall have to use this pic as a reference for when I finally get time to finally draw Drayco for you.