Swelter

Overview

Swelter
Fullbody drawing of Swelter as done by PhenTheFireGirl/DazzlingPhoenix
Created by	PhenTheFireGirl / DazzlingPhoenix
In-universe information
Tribe	Sand, Mud, and Sky tribrid
Gender	Cisgender Male
Title	Prince, Apparent Heir of the Scorching Sands
Occupation	SandWing Heir, Overseer of Possibility
Affiliation	The Kingdom of Sand
Family	Mudpot (father, estranged), Coarse (mother, deceased), Sear (sister, deceased), Scorch (sister, deceased) Bontebok (uncle, deceased), Sagebrush (cousin, estranged), Cholla (cousin, estranged)
Year of hatching	8,102 A.S.
Place of hatching	Possibility

Swelter is a stern and bold tribrid who is unafraid to speak his mind around others. He is currently the Apparent Heir of The Kingdom of Sand, a position he worked for after the death of his uncle Bontebok. While new to royalty, Swelter is determined to better the SandWing Kingdom the best he can, starting with the town of Possibility.

Description

Swelter is a robust dragon with dark red scales that give way to a more tan brown, a stripe of orange separating the two tones. His underbelly is a light cream, and his sail is light orange that fades to a darker orange. It is also striped intermittently with white. His horns and claws are a dark, dull brown, matching his barbed stinger. His inner wings are a light orange with a light yellow edge. His eyes have black scleras and yellow irises. Two circular bone earrings hang from his left ear.

Personality

Swelter is a stern dragon with a strong sense of justice. If he deems a dragon to have done something wrong, he will make sure they “pay the price”. However, he is caring to young dragons, as well as those who he thinks deserve his kindness. He puts others before himself, having led the town of Possibility through the Glasscough Plague. During this, Swelter made sure everyone had food and clean water, as well as ensuring the safety of the town with a quarantine. He is known to speak his mind, especially in situations where the truth needs to be made clear.

Biography

Life Before Royalty

Swelter's childhood was rough, but not at first. He lived peacefully with his MudWing-SkyWing father Mudpot, his SandWing mother, Coarse, and his two sisters Sear and Scorch in the town of Possibility. After an altercation he has since refused to elaborate on, he was taken in by his uncle on his mother's side, Bontebok, and lived in Scorpion Den with him and his two cousins, Sagebrush and Cholla, and Bontebok's mate, Mulga. Swelter was bullied and looked down on in his time there, being a tribrid in a family of pure SandWings.

After being old enough to go out on his own, Swelter picked up odd jobs in Scorpion Den as a mercenary. He would be hired as a temporary bodyguard or assistant for nobility, or contracted rarely to assassinate another dragon. He would accept these jobs, though only if he deemed the victim was deserving of death. If they weren't, he would kill the dragon attempting to hire him for the job. He didn't like it, though he deemed the punishment fit the crime.

It was when he went to a party hosted by a low noble, and saw Bontebok get murdered, that Swelter decided to make a change in the kingdom and climb the royalty ladder.

Life as Royalty

Swelter tries to not let his new positions of power to change his livelihood. He moved out from the home in Scorpion Den he had lived in with Bontebok and his cousins and moved into Possibility, where he still resides. He occasionally utilizes in the Royalty Stones, discouraging arguing and insult throwing in favor of more diplomatic talk.

When Glasscough hit the SandWing Kingdom, Swelter took immediate action and quarantined Possibility. He assisted Heiress Cassiope and Ruler Riptide during the plague, as it had affected SeaWings alongside SandWings. He was noticeably displeased with Cassiope's decisions during the epidemic, and conversed with Riptide as well as Celestial Silentseer about aid towards Possibility, where he met Admiral Nettle, Archduke Talentmaker, and Duchess Slush.

Quotes

• "Some of you need to pull yourselves together and start helping the dragons around you. The dragons you rule over look up to you for answers. Give them something." - Written on the Royalty Stones during the Red Sky situation.
• "I will speak my mind as I see fit. You may be my superior, but this is a place of open discussion. You have no right to silence my opinions." - to Cassiope, during the border meeting with Silentseer.
• "Despite your flaws you are still the regent. Now GO!" - to Cassiope at the border meeting, as a creature erupted from the ground.
• "I see problems in [Cassiope's] decisions. No doubt she is actively trying, though her personality and history have made her attempts sour the mouths of others." - to Riptide, during a private meeting.

• '"I will not betray my kingdom. While I disagree with Cassiope, her death or demise will not bode well with the future of the kingdom." - to Riptide, during their private meeting.
• "Well, we can play after we ask your mom and-or dad. Or your guardian. Or guardians. Plural." - to five young SeaWing dragonets, after being begged to play.

Trivia

• Swelter was originally going to advocate for laws to be made about what can be sent on the Royalty Stones until the original animus changed them himself.
• Swelter's family tree goes back 3 generations.
• Swelter has two uncles and an aunt he doesn't know about on his father's side; Lark, Bittern, and Copper.
• Swelter is Phen's 3rd character in Pretarsian royalty.
• Phen still dearly misses the SkyWings, so she made Swelter 1/4th SkyWing.