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amatres · 8 years ago

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Atropos, The Great Water Dragon, Protector of Humankind and Goddess of the Seas and the Arts.

In modern day civilization of the Mortal Plain Nornir, Atropos is hailed as a goddess, worshiped as a protector of humans. Most of what they know is of accounts told by the humans who followed her; most on her role of aiding the humans in achieving freedom from the control of dragon rule. Yet anything substantial of her personality or most of her actions beyond this remains lost to time.

okay so i redid this and it took me like over a wee k. the picture was cut because of resizing stuff bc i may made this pic a lot bigger than i originally thought? oh well

Other Characters of the War of Twelve;

- (old) Sawsan

- (old) Atropos

- Himiko

- Many millennia before the War of Twelve, a prophecy was foretold by the Elders of the Seven Clans that the birth of a child born between clans would signal the end of dragonkind. This descent would be marked with a resurgence in degeneration, reducing what dragons who were not killed during the fall of the dragons' reign to be left naught but mindless beasts that would be rendered servants of the species that rose to take the dragons’ place.

-Fearful and desperate to prevent the prophecy from coming true, the seven dragon clans apart of the Council at the time adopted isolationist policies, forbidding mating or even interaction outside one's own clan beyond special occasions. Often, those who were still born between tribes met short, tragic lives, as they would be killed and their parents would be lucky if they were exiled, instead of executed themselves. Only every hundred years would the elders and chieftains of each clan meet on the Isle of Notre Sagesse during the Hundred Year Summit, and with every meeting their relationships growing further brittle. Eventually, the Dusk Clan was cast out of the Council after attempting to take complete control and banished to the swamps only they could inhabit.

- Atropos's mother was the favored daughter of the Water Clan chieftain's best friend, and was held in high regard by the chieftain and the Water Clan as a whole. She was eventually married to a soldier, the marriage arranged by their parents. However, her husband passed away soon after their marriage, being killed in battle, and Atropos was only born out of pure luck.

-Her mother later on fell in love with an Astral Dragon she had met at the Hundred Year Summit. The two began frequently meeting together in secret, until they were eventually caught meeting together. In the heat of the moment had to escape, leaving Atropos behind.

-Due to high profile of the scandal, the two were hunted down and, when she refused to abandon her lover, the two of them were killed. This scandal ruined her daughter's reputation, and while she was not treated cruelly, Atropos still was often isolated and kept away from others by her maternal grandfather in shame of the scandal. She grew up watching others and grew bitter of her lonely life and cynical of the very system that led her to living such a life.

-In her adulthood, she took the role as a guard of the clan, the same role her father once held. This position led her meeting her later on life-long companion, the person who is now only known as the Rainbow Sage.

-Being half-human, the Rainbow Sage wandered the world as he had no home among dragon clans, but outliving any of the human tribes he grew to knew. Eventually he wander too close to the settlement of the Water Clan and was taken in by suspicious guards. Atropos was assigned the duty of interrogating him and during the time she saw their shared skepticism and growing bitterness to the system. She released him, saying he was harmless, and he was allowed to remain as a guest and visitor. The two quickly developed a friendship together for better or for worse.

-Eventually, the two met more like minded individuals who were dissatisfied with the current society in one way or another. Their ideas fed off each other and a underground community was founded, one that planned to tear the society and it’s flaws down, no matter the costs.

-One fateful year, the Storm Clan experienced a two terrible tragedies, first a famine that drained them of financial resources and human tribe allies, then a plague that wiped out two thirds of their population. The Rainbow Sage pointed out the perfect opportunity to finally spark the fuse by leaving enough evidence to point any number of clans for a massacre. Their allies agreed.

-In the dead of the night, the Storm Clan and their few remaining human followers were slaughtered, barely given any chance to defend themselves before it was over. Weeks passed and when a neighboring Clan, the Wind Clan, realizing the silence they petitioned the Council to send someone to check up on them. Atropos and a select few others were sent to do the job.

-There they found only one survivor, a young Storm Dragon who was delirious and nearly incoherent. He mumbled something about the Dawn Clan, before fainting. While he survived, he was unable to recall anything about the day or the days preceding it and left with no other leads, the Council took the easy answer and declared the rogue Dawn Clan responsible for the massacre.

-Not recognized as a legitimate clan, the Dawn Clan had no chance of defending themselves, and the Council deemed them having been allowed to fester too long. In retribution for the perceived crime, the same crime would be done unto them. The Dawn Clan was massacred by a army of the Six Clan’s warriors. They stood no chance and in a day’s time, they were all murdered. All but one, a young dragon who had gone on her pilgrimage and in her absence had been able to survive.

-Her situation garnered the sympathy and vitriol of many other fringe clans, human tribes, and even other shapeshifters. Soon enough, the surviving Dawn Dragon had an army rallied behind her large enough to challenge the might of the council.

-The six clans at first rallied together to fight against the army, but their millennia apart had rotted the trust between the clans. Soon infighting broke out, and corrupt officials all saw their chances in attempting to seize absolute control of the Council. The Six Clans fractured and turned against each other, the true meaning of the war lost. So began the War of Twelve, named after the twelve prominent draconic leaders during the end of the war emerged.

-Atropos herself managed to turn dissent against the clans chieftain, making them believe it was he who had drug the clan into the war in the first place instead of upholding their millennia long relative solitude. Gathering her supporters, she overthrew the chieftain and his supporters and gained the clan’s absolute trust and hope. This leadership would not last long, as soon her clan members began to be taken by the dragon madness, as prophesied.

-This did not bother Atropos any, however, as she had turned her hope of a better future from her own people onto the race of humans that followed them. She convinced the Rainbow Sage to stand by her in aiding the humans gain control, and so a new plan was born.

-Using their own human followers, they slowly spread to the human tribes who had at this point been born into the time of the war and knew nothing else, that Atropos and the Rainbow Sage promised to help them. Many humans had already began to question why they fought for beings who were mentally deteriorating into madness, and decided to send people to what become Notre Sagesse to hear the two out.

-There the two told of a way to gain an upper hand on the dragons and put an end to the war. All the humans needed to do was bring their dragon leaders’ dragonstones to the Rainbow Sage, and he would craft weapons that easily fell any being even as mighty as a dragon.

-Atropos herself noticed a young man who was unsure of what to do, not wanting to strike down the dragon he had come to consider as family and so she told the group of another way if the so wished, instead of killing them they could use the weapons as focal points to seal the dragons away so they would no longer be a threat.

-The humans left and four tribes returned, bringing forth the stones of their dragons and the four sacred weapons were crafted. Longafter this faithful moment, another weapon was forged this time from the remains of the stones, the blade Yato, that could only be wielded by one possessing the blood of dragon’s themself.

-As her fellow dragons fell either to the human’s or to their own insanity, Atropos remained undeterred. With her and her companion’s aid, the humans had gained the upper hand and soon took the place of the dragons. Yet, Atropos was not able to relish in her chosen blood bonded champion’s victory, as one dragon yer remained, the Storm Dragon.

-Having learned of her treachery from his dying friend the Wind Dragon, he sought out Atropos for vengeance. The two battle and while Atropos emerged victorious, it was not without a victory of the Storm Dragon’s own. He had managed to land a fatal blow on Atropos and she was left dying as well. In her final moments, she gathered her bleeding and broken body and wandered into the sea, never to be seen again.

-The only one left remaining after the war was the humans she championed and her companion, the Rainbow Sage. The human Cleo from the bloodline that Atropos bonded with wrote down the chronicles of the War of Twelve and founded the Cult of Atropos and the nation of Nestra in Atropos’s memory.

-The Rainbow Sage afterwards isolated himself onto the island of Notre Sagesse, and when asked on the matter of Atropos never answers.

Atropos’s appearance was inspired by the caryatid statues, especially this one that i used for reference for her hair and the folding of her clothing in this picture which should be.... pretty obvious.... This is a good ref to get a good idea of what her hair is styled as.The back of her head would more or less resemble this. The dragon form on the vase is based on depictions such as this and this. Anyway, I just wanted to add this here so I could credit my resources since i relied on them rather heavily in this picture.

Please tell me if i used a word incorrectly or wrote a sentence wrong and such. Also feel free to ask about her or any of my ocs if you wish, I don’t mind.

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#amas ocs #atropos (oc)#ama arts #ama doodles #War of Twelve Lore #lilith au #fe14 #fire emblem #fire emblem fates #since this... pertains to that stuff...#look at me trying to use big words almost all which i spelled wrong initially lmao #sorry if the writing is weird or smth i tried to go over but my own difficulty focusing wouldn't let m e do it so in depth #which should be a sign tbh but lmao #also if any info here contradicts whats on the past entry take whats on this one as canon unless i otherwise state #rlly the thought process was 'but what if naga was just a horrible person and was romanticized by her human followers?' and here she is #or maybe more accurately shes just dragon zephiel? maybe? zephiel and naga rolled into a horrible combination??#blood //#cartoon blood //#just... in case...#lots of text #like no joke its a lot of text i am incapable of writing a short description sorry my dudes

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