#ursae

Mars is the leader of a large herd. Having grown up in a small nomadic family that spent most of their time fleeing predation, his goal as an adult is to maintain a territory free from all carnivores. He will kill any creature that eats meat, even those that pose no threat to the herd itself.

Mars is very tall and lean. He is considered by most to have perfectly proportioned horns, evoking the shape of the crescent moon.

His mate is Eris.

Ursae is a young adult, the strongest syrsin in Mars’ herd and a member of the loyal subgroup that travels with Mars to hunt down the largest predators. Ursae’s father was a backwards-horned adoptee to the herd and instilled a strong sense of loyalty in Ursae. Despite the herd’s creed, Ursae sometimes allows the carnivores he hunts to escape execution, chasing them out of the herd’s territory instead.

Ursae is very tall and about as muscular as any syrsin can get.

Eris is the lone survivor of an attack by an adolescent fire choro on her herd. In an act of fury and desperation she killed the bird, and is still the only known Syrsin to ever do so singlehandedly. She would do anything to prevent the same fate from befalling her new family.

Eris is stocky and muscular, with large horns for a doe. She has many bare patches in her coat as well as a burn on her leg from the fight with the choro.

Her mate is Mars.

Sol is an adolescent buck who holds no important rank or responsibility in the herd. He struggles with what syrsin might call unhealthy emotional outbursts. That is to say, he laughs and speaks louder and more often than most syrsin find pleasant to be around. He is avoided by many of his peers because of his open and expressive nature. When they are adolescents Sol meets and forms a friendship with Rook.

Emrys, Mari, and Irisi: 

They live together in a small house, one of those floating castles, with one of those teleport swirls like in Triton Avenue, only it takes them outside of the general dorms at Ravenwood. They turned off their teleport station, though! 

Irisi, the only one who cooks, tries in vain to get Mari to learn how to make anything other than her favorite veggie wraps/sandwiches. Emrys ends up learning though, and is very good with the preciseness of baking!! He gets the finer details on decorating better than Irisi, who’s not the best with artistic touches, preferring practicality. 

Also Mari breaks out the cards and tries to hustle them at poker. She fails and ends up watching Emrys and Irisi pick up the game too quickly and become too good at it. 

Haley and Noah:

They have a small shared home, which I’ve kinda just Assumed is a castle plot like the in game wizards can get, on the outskirts of Wizard City. Neither of them are accomplished cooks, and they kinda end up just living on soup, stir fry, and the breakfast foods they actually can cook. 

Haley gets BORED. She probably ends up cleaning the house top to bottom and going through her projects (mostly attempts at making clockwork creatures) and probably finding about 15 tools she borrowed from the storm school and lost.

Noah is the type to seclude himself in his room, but he’d probably go to check on Haley and also work on his own runes projects or read in the same room she’s in.

Morelle, Morae, Ianthe, and Leo: 

Morelle is used to it, because she has a tendency to hide out anyway, cannot be seen in public in Wizard City. Now she just gets to relax a bit more at home and spend time with her wife Morae.

Morae has decided to continue making the more basic breads and such in her bakery, and has set up a system so their daughter Ianthe and her partner Leo can deliver them around Wizard City, so people can have food. They do have to shut down their bakery. Morae tries and fails to teach her wife how to make macarons (again). 

Leo turns out to be very good with macarons. Bonus points for future child-in-law, I suppose. 

Serpentine King/Quyen Jade:

In the canon main timeline, he’s probably revamping his garden’s design, and worrying over his children, because he’s in Mooshu far away.

In his origin timeline, where I had a completely wack kingdom au, by the end he and that timeline’s Mari would be probably live off by themselves in the middle of nowhere or in a completely different kingdom in hiding, along with that timeline’s Noah, Haley, and Emrys. They’d probably rehash old stories, a lot of SK’s stories about his late husband and his four other children that Mari grew up with.

Elissa Silvertusk:

She’s not developed enough, I don’t have much planned for her aside from relationships with NPCs. Probably in Khrysalis or Zafaria.

Fledge (in their own timeline):

Probably with their adoptive family, Iridian and Corry! Now without school to deal with, they’re a lot more stress free, because they’re used to being on their own now after their awful trauma. They probably spend time having to confront that though, because they’re not used to being so restless and ‘useless’. 

Ursae (Fledge’s timeline again):

As a mermaid she would have her own tank and probably just not surface. She has her own stock of crystals that contain information (like in Dragonspyre) and could go through those, but also, she has lil’ fish friends to interact with as well, and can sign with Fledge through glass.

Rust/Rusty (Pirate): 

Would be with her group, an all female/NB vigilante gang in Cool Ranch. They’d all stay at HQ, probably getting everyone’s Sad Backstories after a bunch of family bonding and card games and shit. Rusty would probably get a little tipsy in order to bear it. Also maybe having to go out just a few times to make sure people aren’t being jackasses and making necessities cost more. That’s more fun, because they’re threatening people lol. 

Darling Alexander Dove (Pirate):

Ursae sighed heavily, leaning against the glass. Small bubbles trailed from the corners of her mouth, her lungs still burning from where she had inhaled the air, something she can do if acclimated, but not as suddenly as she did. She tucked her head on her shoulder, trying as best as she could to settle comfortably with her braids pressing against her skull.

Staring straight ahead, she watched the hub of activity that the strange furred creatures made. They were odd, but entertaining to watch until Ursae realized they worked on a routine, mapped out that routine, and got bored of it. They were weird too, always making sharp, angry sounds and looking at her curiously, writing everything down. 

They even wrapped a strange cloth around her chest while she was asleep, though she couldn’t determine any sane reason why. They still studied her, and in retaliation for being trapped in a far too small glass room, she did nothing.

Even when they offered things for food, dead fish (gross), live fish (friends), and kelp (actually edible), she just stared blankly and didn’t move unless to get more comfortable so she could actually sleep. 

Now she stared past the big dome, through the layers of glass, and out into the Celestian ocean, a light blue that her eyes usually were, unless of course Ursae was casting magic. 

Her eyes glazed over, and she stared off into the distance listlessly, only temporarily snapping out of it every once in a while when one of her long braids floated past her field of view. 

That is, until a giant, unidentifiable shape began to shadow over the dome. It was still light out, but the darkness made it seem like night was falling rapidly. Some of the creatures in the dome began to shriek, all of them pointing upwards or running or just staring. 

Ursae gave in, and finally looked up. 

A gigantic whale swam peacefully above the dome, singing in a way that seemed to shake the dome, some parts coming loose and leaking water, causing more panic and hysteria among the people inside. 

Ursae moved, swimming to the top of her box and putting her hands against the glass, staring up. Summoning what she had of her magic in her weak state, she cast an aura on the whale for just a flash, trying to get her attention. 

Please, free me. She sent through the magical link.

The borders of the glass began glowing, making a high pitched sound that hurt Ursae, and she flinched, floating slowly back down to the bottom with her hands over her ears. 

Some of the dogs began yelling and pointing at her now, running over and examining the glass. 

It was then that Ursae realized they had made some ward that would make her automatically fizzle any spell. She realized she was truly trapped.