#vyrka

Portrait by Myself (MoonHybrid), https://www.furaffinity.net/user/moonhybrid One of my newest characters for the fantasy world I'm building!

In my world, humans use names like Dragons, Wyverns, Wyrms, Drakes, and many others to describe these creatures.

In reality, they all originate from another realm known as Vyrkia.

My setting is divided into three overlapping realms:

Vyrkia – The realm of the skies and the homeland of the Vyrka.

The Human Realm – The physical world where ordinary humans live.

The Noctis Veil – A hidden realm that overlaps the Human Realm, inhabited by vampires, witches, werewolves, cryptids, mythical creatures, and other supernatural beings.

To those living in the Noctis Veil, all dragons, wyverns, wyrms, drakes, and their relatives are collectively known as Vyrka. Among themselves, however, they use a different word:

Scaleborn. ------------------- Refsheet (which I will remake later) was made by Artist Bemar on Furaffinity. <3 https://www.furaffinity.net/user/artistbemar/

Elowen Antares was born into a wandering coven of witches in the Noctis Veil. Their way of life is nomadic, traveling in caravans across the realm much like historical Romani caravans, preserving ancient magic, traditions, and knowledge.

Unknown to everyone at the time of her birth, Elowen entered the world with two souls.

The first was her own.

The second was a Heartfire Essence—the soul of a Vyrka.

When an Elder or older Vyrka reaches the end of its natural life, it doesn't truly die immediately. Instead, it enters a final, peaceful sleep. During this brief transition, if the boundaries between Vyrkia and the other realms weaken and overlap, the departing Heartfire Essence may drift across the veil and become bound to a child at the very moment they are born.

This cannot happen before birth or afterward—it must occur during that single instant when one life ends and another begins.

A child born this way gains more than an extended lifespan. Hidden deep within them is the potential to awaken a second, entirely natural form: that of the Vyrka whose Heartfire now shares their soul.

However, this gift isn't something that can be forced.

For some, it never awakens at all.

For others, it lies dormant until adolescence or young adulthood, when instinct, emotion, or circumstance finally calls it forth. Elowen's awakening came earlier than most.

As a curious child, she wandered farther than she probably should have and stumbled upon an adult High Elder wyvern named Hūrax Arghurys.

Rather than attacking the small witch, Hūrax found herself amused by the fearless little girl who treated her more like a fascinating discovery than a monster.

Through Hūrax, Elowen discovered something extraordinary.

She could understand and speak the language of the Vyrka as naturally as if she'd known it her entire life.

As she grew older, those instincts only became stronger.