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Costume? What costume? These are Bella's working clothes!


Name: Bellantine
Gender: Female
Tribe: SeaWing
Occupation: Necropolis undertaker, spirit guide
Age: Chronologically 30, but she ages at a slower rate than normal dragons, and is mentally and physically an adolescent.


TL;DR
Bellantine is a gifted necromancer, who can speak to ghosts and raise the bodies of the dead. She lives in the Necropolis under the SkyWing arena, and looks after the bodies and souls of all those who have perished there.


Abilities
A true deathtouched dragon is a tragic creature. Typically in the egg during acts of slaughter, these unborn dragonets experience so much grief and destruction that their life essence is corrupted. When a dragonet's soul feels its family departing for the afterlife, it is sometimes drawn to follow out of loneliness. As a result, the deathtouched are neither alive nor dead, and instead exist halfway between the physical and the ghostly realms. Deathtouched dragons can see, touch, and communicate with ghosts. 

Rarely during the course of history, a dragonet will be born that is both deathtouched and an animus. Like how a normal animus dragon has the ability to give movement to inanimate objects, a Deathtouched animus can reanimate dead bodies. Deathtouched animus dragons are extremely rare, and Bellantine is only the fourth or fifth to have existed in recent memory.

History
Bellantine can distantly trace her bloodline back to the SeaWing royal line, from whence she derives her animus gift. Born during the War of SandWing Succession, Bellantine's family belonged to a peaceful village of river SeaWings who were burned out by SkyWings during a raid. Bella was only an egg, hidden under her mother's wing during the massacre. Feeling her mother's soul leave her body forever, the unborn Bella tried to go with her, but could not. Instead, she found herself wandering between life and death as a deathtouched.

The sole survivor of her village, the baby Bella wandered the countryside for several days before she was taken in by a roving SkyWing patrol. She was sold into slavery at the Sky palace, where she served for several years before escaping with the aid of the resident ghosts. In a desperate midnight flight, she vanished down into the Necropolis below the SkyWing Arena. She hasn't been seen since, for she has come home.


The Necropolis
All bodies and souls that perish in the SkyWing Arena are brought below, into the Necropolis, the City of the Dead, the Kingdom of Ghosts. 
These catacombs are nearly as old as dragonkind itself, outdating both the SkyWing arena and even the palace above. More than five thousands years of draconic history are buried within its depths as empires have risen and fallen, the Necropolis serving as the final resting place of thousands. And yet it contains not just bodies - within its dark Precincts, it is home to hidden hoards of art and treasure, buried temples to forgotten gods, and ghastly monsters sleeping within the earth.

The Undertaker of the Necropolis is a Deathtouched dragon who resides deep within the underground labyrinth. Their primary duties involve administering the proper last rites to the bodies of arena victims brought in from above, and attending to the various needs of the thousands of ghosts who call the Necropolis home. Bellantine is the 250th and current Undertaker.


This is a fairly abridged version of the lore surrounding Bella and the Necropolis, but I didn't want to bore you! I really must do a full version soon.

Bellantine's name inspiration: Beltane (festival), Palatine (palace, hill of Rome), Bellum (Latin for "war")
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This is so cute! And you can draw feet! I bow down to youLlama Emoji-74 (My kawaii cheeks) [V4]