Zanna Nackle

Zanna is tiny, with mobile pointed ears and a long tufted tail, and all in shades of brown and gold. Her skin is warm brown, broken with patches of golden scales on her face and shoulders and arms, and each time she gets a new scar, it grows back not with skin, but with more scales. The worst of these is covered most of the time, a long slash of scales from her shoulder, past her collarbone, and down to her stomach. Her eyes are also warm, dark brown, and her hair is long, wavy, and the same dark brown. She dresses practically, in vests and pants with many many pockets, and carries a large unworked orange topaz as her arcane focus.

Zanna is arrogant, and condescending, and convinced of her invulnerability all out of proportion to her size. She walks alone into a room of hostile cultists and calmly tells them to surrender, fully expecting it to happen... and honestly seems surprised and perturbed when they laugh at her. She's a terrier of a person, seemingly unaware of how small she is, convinced she has the power to take on anyone in the world. She tries to be patient. She tries to be kind. She still kind of sounds like she's talking down to everyone she speaks to, and she's prone to getting what she wants through magic rather than any conventional methods - look, it's not her fault if no one around her wants to be reasonable about things.

She is cursed with being the one lawful good person in a party full of chaotic assholes. She wants to talk, negotiate, avoid violence... and all they want to do is stab. She is eternally exasperated, and tired, often projecting the air of an exhausted babysitter shepherding a pack of sugar-high toddlers, but she can't deal with these crazy dragon cultists by herself, so she's stuck with them.

• Gold dragons spend most of their time shapeshifted into humanoid or beast forms, and often take a particularly non-threatening form to put people at ease.
• Gold dragons believe strongly in the greater good and rule of order, but are often arrogant and dismissive toward lesser creatures.
• Gold dragons prefer to speak to an enemy before fighting them, often preferring to avoid a fight altogether unless absolutely necessary.
• In a fight, gold dragons have a strong preference for fire-based damage spells and deterrent, crowd-controlling spells.
• Gold dragons are fierce opponents of true evil, and when they find it, the only acceptable outcome is that they destroy it entirely.
• The dragon god, Bahamut, may punish a dragon for an extreme excess of pride by trapping them in a humanoid form until they learn humility.