STATS

STR – 8 | RES – 8 | WIS – 8 | CHA – 8 | DEX – 8

TRAITS

Ears: E | Tails: E | Fangs: UC | Size: E | Eyes: L | Horns: E | Wings: L

MUTATIONS

Melanistic

SPECIAL BASES

N/A

PERSONALITY

Balerion has quite the temper, but he doesn't like when it comes out. He can be cold-hearted and is so very stuck in the traditional ways of how things are done that sometimes he doesn't undestand when he upsets others with his words. That being said, when he does realize it, he will often try to make amends.

HISTORY

Balerion was created from Maia's kindness toward her creations. She wanted to give a way for the mortals to learn to heal themselves, and thus the God of Healing and Herbs was born. Balerion was created as a helper to Tempest not too long after Derketo merged and lived as the god he was until the Furor, when he was captured. See, despite his massive size and bulk made for grans with much more battle experience, Balerion was captured. Humans had set a trap for him, blindsiding him when he was growing some herbs for some cubs and elderly grans. While his escape attempts allowed the mortal grans to escape, he himself was taken to a ritual area where he was cursed and corrupted. Balerion didn't know this at first, and so kept trying to do what he was created to once he escaped. What he discovered caused him to go mad with grief. Instead of healing the grans he was trying to heal, he killed them. They died violent deaths that had ties to nightshade and other deadly poisons. He tried again and again, wondering if it were just a fluke, but nothing worked. By the time Maia stepped in it was too late, Balerion had already killed the entirety of three packs of grans trying to figure out how to get control back of his abilities. Those who escaped the plague that he accidentally unleashed started calling Balerion "The Black Dread," causing Balerion to grow angry and bitter. It wasn't his fault. Maia stepped in before he could do anything more drastic however, stripping him of his abilitles and making him a mortal. Balerion understood why she did this, but still felt betrayed by the mother goddess for allowing this to happen to him at all.

It wasn't long before the Veil closed. Balerion only noticed because he knew what signs to look for. The thrax was surprised that Maia took some of her creations but not all with her, but chose not to pay much mind to it. Chaos erupted throughout the lands. Balerion witnessed the murder of two polarthrow moments before their three cubs disappeared from the humans chasing them. He then ate the humans in question. The black male wandered and wandered, eventually finding a place that gave him some hope. He felt tired going into the crack in the earth, eventually falling asleep right next to a rift int he Veil. When Balerion woke up, he was exactly where he had fallen asleep, but when he emerged from the tunnels, the Black Dread noticed the world had changed in the matter of one sleep. Still not knowing when or if the gods would re-emerge, Balerion set out to try to forget his past transgressions. He even went as far as to fly to a nearby island out in the ocean. The island was huge, already having a couple of populations of granthrax thriving on it. One such clan was the Vu'Kuun clan. It didn't take long for Balerion to fall in love with the eldest cub of the head of the family, making him the next family head himself. He had been surprised that they hadn't heard of him, or if they had, they certainly were keeping that to themselves. Balerion wasn't sure he was capable of loving until his beloved mate, but there she was, proving him wrong as per usual. It wasn't long before they had their firstborn, a son they named Eragon.

A year after Eragon was born was when Balerion's second cub, a daughter, came along. They named her Britvulom, and a plan hatched in Balerion's head. The Strun family on the Northern side of the island had been terrorizing the local granthrow population for far too long. And they had a son a month or two older than Brit was. It took a good few months, but a deal was struck. Brit was to marry Pell'Nar'Thax when they grew old enough to breed in order to bring the two great clans of granthrax together. Balerion's plan, however, was that Brit would train the cubs she produces with Pell into the Vu'Kuun way, not the Strun. The heir to the Strun line would then have similar ideals to the Vu'Kuuns, which would protect the non granthrax species on the island as well as potentially the rest of Arilyan.

MALE CUBS

• Eragon
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FEMALE CUBS

• Britvulom
• Miraxys
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PREVIOUS BREEDINGS

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FUTURE BREEDINGS

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