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They're Done!! AAA!

I've been working on this for about a month now! Though, admittedly, most of that was me crying over colors not working the way I was imagining them.... *ahem* ANYWAY-

Meet Sahlux! A Legend Of Spyro oc originally spawned by re-playing Dawn Of The Dragon and further fueled by reading DragonOfIceAndFire 's awesome Destiny Intertwined comic!!

As such, a lot of their design 'rules' and story elements are heavily influenced and inspired by his stuff, so go check it out!!

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(this takes place like, hella before A New Beginning; Like, think about a thousand or so years)

  Sahlux was a Bit of an 'oopsie' egg; As in, a series of mishaps resulted in their biological parents taking home a completely different egg, while they were left unclaimed at the Nursery.
  No one knew who their parents were, and thus didn't know what element they could've had- the coloring on their shell hinted at Earth, but the lightning-like jagged line in the top diamond marking suggested Electric. One couldn't be sure until the hatchling inside grew old enough to manifest it.

They were raised entirely by the Nursery's workers, who loved them about as much as a teacher could love a student they've had for several years. While their caregivers were perfectly kind, other young dragons were... less so. Sahlux, according to a few of their peers' own observations, was "too soft" and "too weak" to be an Earth dragon, and yet they were somehow equally "too slow" and "too dumb" to be an Electric dragon.
  When they manifested their Element, for a whopping month they were like a small celebrity; Somehow, they had managed to manifest both Earth And Electricity- no dragon has ever manifested such different elements before. Water dragons may be able to heat or freeze their breath, but both can be explained by water being a derivation of Ice and Fire in the first place.
Soon, however, the glamor wore off, and the taunts just got worse.
Despite being a "wonder", Sahlux's magic was.... weak at best. Their lightning could barely cover their own scales, let alone zap someone else, and their earth was only useful for flattening the stone under their paws. A failure of an Earth And Electric dragon.
While the bullies were few, they were loud, and as such Sahlux kept almost entirely to themself, preferring to borrow plant identification books from libraries and see how many they could find in the public gardens. It was on one such excursion that they met the talk of the town- if not the talk of all dragonkind; The purple protégé himself, Malefor.

  Well... 'met' is a strong way to put it. It's more along the lines of him appearing, asking what they're doing, and them freaking out, making an excuse, and running away. As it turns out, socially stunted outcasts don't particularly like when near-worshipped strangers approach them out of nowhere.

Unfortunately for Sahlux, they had already caught his curiosity, and he wasn't going to leave them alone until it was satiated.

Several awkward meetings later, things settled down, and they began to get to know eachother as Sahlux and Malefor, rather than as the Failure and The Purple Dragon. For a while, things were great, and had settled into normal, two young dragons who, for as long as they were together, could ignore the City's fixation on your worth only being as high as your magic could take you.
Then Sahlux discovered the true extent of their magic.

They'd only been playing around- wanted to see if they could use their sparks to bake an earth sculpture in place, like clay- but a schoolmate had snuck up behind them and startled them. Rather than rocks flying, or lightning zapping, bright yellow crystals burst out of the ground around them, pointed outwards.
Sahlux could somehow grow crystals.
Despite them begging their schoolmate to not say anything, word got out that they could create Crystals, a dragon's life force, out of nothing. And with some experimentation upon request of their Teacher, it was found that the crystals they created worked just as well as naturally sourced ones; Though, to create any sort of inherently magical crystal, for Health or Mana, they'd drain their own energy to do so. Any non-magic crystal, such as diamond or the topaz they had made when startled, required significantly less.

Once again, Sahlux became a celebrity, yet this time it wasn't going away. And they hated it. No one cared before they could grow crystals, no one but Malefor.
At the very least, now he and they could hang out without Sahlux getting dirty looks.

Years pass, they both grow up, with Sahlux being brought up to an almost healer or wiseman role in the community, while Malefor is trained for leadership. Despite this, both are still rather isolated and still prefer eachother's company over others'.
However, at one point Malefor comes to them as the sun sets, and confesses that he's running away. He explains it as being "suffocating"; He just wants to find his own way, his own path, without the Council's overbearing expectations and rules. Sahlux can understand that- the nearby Ape clans are getting more and more adventurous, and thus Sahlux is being pushed to create more and more magical crystals (by this point they've done it so many times that a few hardly drain them, but having to make dozens upon dozens would make anyone exausted). So, they slip him a few, and say nothing as he slips away in the night.
They say nothing about it when the Council asks, and they continue to say nothing even as he visits "when the winds guide his way back to their doorstep".

  Things slowly get worse, however, as the Ape clans seem to be getting stronger and stronger by the day, organizing into larger forces and somehow knowing weak spots in several smaller dragon fortresses; As such, the dragons begin gearing up more and more for a full-out war, more people need to be healed and Sahlux is almost constantly working to make more crystals, natural veins of them not replenishing quickly enough to keep up with demand.
  Malefor, whenever he stops by, helps where he can, organizing things and tidying up for them so they can get some rest; When he leaves, it's with a promise that he'll stay safe and will see if he can get any information on the Apes' forces for them to then feed to the Council and Generals.
  Curiously, when he leaves, their Crystal stores are smaller than they usually are, but it's not uncommon for them to misremember things these days, with how they're starting to blur together.

Sooner than anyone liked, the Apes congealed into one Army and it exploded into a full war. Sahlux was constantly busy, making crystal after crystal and healing the injured- even worse, some dragons were beginning to defect to the other side, and there's word of a traitor in their midst; The Apes are getting information they shouldn't have any way of knowing, Info that only the highest ranking officers and the elders should have access to.
Now more than ever, people are clamoring for Malefor to come back, to swoop in from wherever he's disappeared to and help, to save the day as every past purple dragon has done. But he doesn't. He still visits Sahlux, still feeds them info that they then pass off as being from an informant of their own, but he never reveals himself to the Council or the public.

  One night, Sahlux makes their way into the Nursery, doing one last nightly check; Eggs and hatchlings are fragile, and a sickness has began to sweep through the city, thus they often check to make sure everything is all as it should be.
  There, they find several Ape soldiers, stealing eggs from their nests and hatchlings from their cradles.

Sahlux has never been a fighter, but no living thing can survive being impaled with diamond and then electrified from the inside out.

  They call in guards and have them sweep the area, do checks to ensure that no more Apes are around and that no young is left unaccounted for. Once the all clear is given, the Nursery is moved to a completely different and hidden area of the City; No one knows what the Apes were going to do with the nearly-stolen young, and no one wants to find out.

  A few days later, Malefor visits, and notes that they're even more tired than before; He makes small talk with them while helping, and at one point they mention that the Apes are getting more and more bold with their attacks, leaving more wounded. He snorts from his place counting crystals into sacks, and remarks that yeah, he can't believe they'd go after the young, and how savage and unhinged they must be for going after eggs and newborns.

Sahlux stills, paws still hovering over the mana crystal they'd been growing, and slowly turn to him.

They never mentioned the Nursery.

They never mentioned the Attack.

Only the Council and the guards who had been there should know about the Attack.

  Needless to say, they confront him about how he knew, and at first he tried saying he'd heard it from a passing patrol while he was on the road (no normal soldier would know), then that one of the patrol members must've been a general (not even the generals know, only the Council members), then that he heard it from a Council member (the Council never left the city, and if he'd seen one they would've seen him, and they'd never shut up about it.)
  All through his babbling, they're stalking closer and closer, and he's backing up more and more, backing his way out of their cottage before he could get cornered. They lunge, and he dodges, but their claws still catch on his bag and rip it open, causing crystals of all colors and sizes to spill out. All magical, and all of them, stolen.

  At that point, they explode, cursing him out and attacking him outright, screaming at him for daring to play nice and pretend to be their friend when he's just been using them, stealing from them and laughing at them once their back is turned for daring to think they could ever deserve kindness-
They have no patience for his desperate pleas, refusing to listen to more lies even as he begs and swears that it wasn't like that, that he really did care about them.

  Malefor may be the purple dragon of legend, but even he cannot fight against the forest of dark, life-sapping crystals that spring out around him. With one last desperate glance at Sahlux, he flees.

  From there, it becomes obvious that they are on opposing sides.
  They tell the Council of his defection, of how he's been visiting and siphoning information from them, and they are moved to a different, more secure location, unsure of how he'd react now that he no longer has to play nice. Considering how their lovely little cottage was torn apart in search of,,,, something not even a few weeks after their move, they think they made the right choice.

  As the war rages on, Malefor steps into the role of the Dark Forces' king and leader, sending many of the dragon cities into despair as they realise their savior has become their doom.
  Even as Sahlux helps with the war efforts, it seems like he isn't done with them, to the point that they're having to change locations quite often to get him to leave them alone- how he keeps getting their address, they don't know, but the letters he leaves are getting more and more demented, seemingly trying to beg for forgiveness, denounce the Council as conniving and controlling madmen, and even attempting to sway them to the other side all at once.

Malefor, for all he doesn't show it, genuinely does care for them, and he does believe he's doing good-
But madness comes when you least expect it, and by the time you realise it's ensnared you, you've committed atrocities beyond forgiveness.

  Such as setting up an elaborate trap to kidnap your childhood friend and try to force them over onto your side via a mix of isolative torture and mind control-

  The kidnapping, of course, backfires horribly. Rather than endearing him to them, it further grows the gap between the two. With every visit to their cell, they say less and less to him, but the few words they do speak- well. Malefor tells himself that they don't mean it, that it's that cursed Council's mindtricks making them say such horrible things.

  Almost a month after their capture, the fortress Sahlux was imprisoned in becomes overrun with dark crystals overnight, killing every Ape inside and setting Sahlux free. They quickly make a run for it, thanking the stars that no general had been in the Fortress (they weren't sure if they would've been able to escape, then), before fleeing into the night, barely having enough energy to get to the nearest dragon base before crash landing a few feet from the walls and not even having the strength to hold their head upright as soldiers swarm them.
  From there, they're escorted to Summergate, a city a small ways away from the Dragon Temple, and were put into the medbay to heal and recover.
  But, they just,,,, don't. Their injuries heal just fine, but the fatigue never leaves, and they can hardly flap their wings strong enough to fly around the city, let alone long distances.

  Of course, it would probably help them recover if they could stop making hundreds of crystals a week, but in the month or so they were kidnapped or out of commission, the storage supply had almost completely run out.

  Eventually, Summergate itself comes under siege by Malefor's forces, presumably looking for them, and Sahlux doesn't have the strength nor the will to evacuate with the civilians.

  While the guards and soldiers are escorting the civilians to safety, Sahlux carefully slips away, down into the cave systems beneath the city, descending as far down as the caves will allow and then using what little earth magic they have to dig farther. Soon, the caves begin to warm and lose the chill the higher tunnels had, and as their tunnel opens into an magma pool cavern, they build themself a nest of crystal, so very similar to the one they'd been placed in as a hatchling.
  Curling up in it's gentle embrace, cradled by the stones and warmed by the magma, they sleep soundly for the first time in years, unaware of the Apes tearing buildings apart in search of them and unaware of the crystal creeping up around them, encasing their body and filling the cavern with sharp spikes.

-=-

No one knows what becomes of Sahlux, the Great Healer. Their whereabouts unknown, they fade into legend.

  Some say they fell in the Summergate siege, fighting valiantly on the front lines, or even slain in cold blood, 'wingless' and unable to flee.
  Others say they gave their life to create the crystal that would later become Malefor's prison, to boost the growth of natural crystal deposits.

No one knows what happened to them.

At least... not until a millennia later. A young purple dragon with a firefly companion flees a collapsing reality, prioritizing the unconscious black dragon on his back even as the prison behind him shatters and frees its only captive.

Thousands of miles away, buried deep within the earth in a long-cooled magma deposit, a large orb of crystal begins to glow, and crack, as a tiny white wind dragon watches in panic and awe.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

That turned out,,,,, a Lot longer than I thought it would! Oh well. If you've read this far, good for you!

Lemme know what you think in the comments below, about the design, character, and the story!

Description
They're Done!! AAA!

I've been working on this for about a month now! Though, admittedly, most of that was me crying over colors not working the way I was imagining them.... *ahem* ANYWAY-

Meet Sahlux! A Legend Of Spyro oc originally spawned by re-playing Dawn Of The Dragon and further fueled by reading DragonOfIceAndFire 's awesome Destiny Intertwined comic!!

As such, a lot of their design 'rules' and story elements are heavily influenced and inspired by his stuff, so go check it out!!

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
(this takes place like, hella before A New Beginning; Like, think about a thousand or so years)

  Sahlux was a Bit of an 'oopsie' egg; As in, a series of mishaps resulted in their biological parents taking home a completely different egg, while they were left unclaimed at the Nursery.
  No one knew who their parents were, and thus didn't know what element they could've had- the coloring on their shell hinted at Earth, but the lightning-like jagged line in the top diamond marking suggested Electric. One couldn't be sure until the hatchling inside grew old enough to manifest it.

They were raised entirely by the Nursery's workers, who loved them about as much as a teacher could love a student they've had for several years. While their caregivers were perfectly kind, other young dragons were... less so. Sahlux, according to a few of their peers' own observations, was "too soft" and "too weak" to be an Earth dragon, and yet they were somehow equally "too slow" and "too dumb" to be an Electric dragon.
  When they manifested their Element, for a whopping month they were like a small celebrity; Somehow, they had managed to manifest both Earth And Electricity- no dragon has ever manifested such different elements before. Water dragons may be able to heat or freeze their breath, but both can be explained by water being a derivation of Ice and Fire in the first place.
Soon, however, the glamor wore off, and the taunts just got worse.
Despite being a "wonder", Sahlux's magic was.... weak at best. Their lightning could barely cover their own scales, let alone zap someone else, and their earth was only useful for flattening the stone under their paws. A failure of an Earth And Electric dragon.
While the bullies were few, they were loud, and as such Sahlux kept almost entirely to themself, preferring to borrow plant identification books from libraries and see how many they could find in the public gardens. It was on one such excursion that they met the talk of the town- if not the talk of all dragonkind; The purple protégé himself, Malefor.

  Well... 'met' is a strong way to put it. It's more along the lines of him appearing, asking what they're doing, and them freaking out, making an excuse, and running away. As it turns out, socially stunted outcasts don't particularly like when near-worshipped strangers approach them out of nowhere.

Unfortunately for Sahlux, they had already caught his curiosity, and he wasn't going to leave them alone until it was satiated.

Several awkward meetings later, things settled down, and they began to get to know eachother as Sahlux and Malefor, rather than as the Failure and The Purple Dragon. For a while, things were great, and had settled into normal, two young dragons who, for as long as they were together, could ignore the City's fixation on your worth only being as high as your magic could take you.
Then Sahlux discovered the true extent of their magic.

They'd only been playing around- wanted to see if they could use their sparks to bake an earth sculpture in place, like clay- but a schoolmate had snuck up behind them and startled them. Rather than rocks flying, or lightning zapping, bright yellow crystals burst out of the ground around them, pointed outwards.
Sahlux could somehow grow crystals.
Despite them begging their schoolmate to not say anything, word got out that they could create Crystals, a dragon's life force, out of nothing. And with some experimentation upon request of their Teacher, it was found that the crystals they created worked just as well as naturally sourced ones; Though, to create any sort of inherently magical crystal, for Health or Mana, they'd drain their own energy to do so. Any non-magic crystal, such as diamond or the topaz they had made when startled, required significantly less.

Once again, Sahlux became a celebrity, yet this time it wasn't going away. And they hated it. No one cared before they could grow crystals, no one but Malefor.
At the very least, now he and they could hang out without Sahlux getting dirty looks.

Years pass, they both grow up, with Sahlux being brought up to an almost healer or wiseman role in the community, while Malefor is trained for leadership. Despite this, both are still rather isolated and still prefer eachother's company over others'.
However, at one point Malefor comes to them as the sun sets, and confesses that he's running away. He explains it as being "suffocating"; He just wants to find his own way, his own path, without the Council's overbearing expectations and rules. Sahlux can understand that- the nearby Ape clans are getting more and more adventurous, and thus Sahlux is being pushed to create more and more magical crystals (by this point they've done it so many times that a few hardly drain them, but having to make dozens upon dozens would make anyone exausted). So, they slip him a few, and say nothing as he slips away in the night.
They say nothing about it when the Council asks, and they continue to say nothing even as he visits "when the winds guide his way back to their doorstep".

  Things slowly get worse, however, as the Ape clans seem to be getting stronger and stronger by the day, organizing into larger forces and somehow knowing weak spots in several smaller dragon fortresses; As such, the dragons begin gearing up more and more for a full-out war, more people need to be healed and Sahlux is almost constantly working to make more crystals, natural veins of them not replenishing quickly enough to keep up with demand.
  Malefor, whenever he stops by, helps where he can, organizing things and tidying up for them so they can get some rest; When he leaves, it's with a promise that he'll stay safe and will see if he can get any information on the Apes' forces for them to then feed to the Council and Generals.
  Curiously, when he leaves, their Crystal stores are smaller than they usually are, but it's not uncommon for them to misremember things these days, with how they're starting to blur together.

Sooner than anyone liked, the Apes congealed into one Army and it exploded into a full war. Sahlux was constantly busy, making crystal after crystal and healing the injured- even worse, some dragons were beginning to defect to the other side, and there's word of a traitor in their midst; The Apes are getting information they shouldn't have any way of knowing, Info that only the highest ranking officers and the elders should have access to.
Now more than ever, people are clamoring for Malefor to come back, to swoop in from wherever he's disappeared to and help, to save the day as every past purple dragon has done. But he doesn't. He still visits Sahlux, still feeds them info that they then pass off as being from an informant of their own, but he never reveals himself to the Council or the public.

  One night, Sahlux makes their way into the Nursery, doing one last nightly check; Eggs and hatchlings are fragile, and a sickness has began to sweep through the city, thus they often check to make sure everything is all as it should be.
  There, they find several Ape soldiers, stealing eggs from their nests and hatchlings from their cradles.

Sahlux has never been a fighter, but no living thing can survive being impaled with diamond and then electrified from the inside out.

  They call in guards and have them sweep the area, do checks to ensure that no more Apes are around and that no young is left unaccounted for. Once the all clear is given, the Nursery is moved to a completely different and hidden area of the City; No one knows what the Apes were going to do with the nearly-stolen young, and no one wants to find out.

  A few days later, Malefor visits, and notes that they're even more tired than before; He makes small talk with them while helping, and at one point they mention that the Apes are getting more and more bold with their attacks, leaving more wounded. He snorts from his place counting crystals into sacks, and remarks that yeah, he can't believe they'd go after the young, and how savage and unhinged they must be for going after eggs and newborns.

Sahlux stills, paws still hovering over the mana crystal they'd been growing, and slowly turn to him.

They never mentioned the Nursery.

They never mentioned the Attack.

Only the Council and the guards who had been there should know about the Attack.

  Needless to say, they confront him about how he knew, and at first he tried saying he'd heard it from a passing patrol while he was on the road (no normal soldier would know), then that one of the patrol members must've been a general (not even the generals know, only the Council members), then that he heard it from a Council member (the Council never left the city, and if he'd seen one they would've seen him, and they'd never shut up about it.)
  All through his babbling, they're stalking closer and closer, and he's backing up more and more, backing his way out of their cottage before he could get cornered. They lunge, and he dodges, but their claws still catch on his bag and rip it open, causing crystals of all colors and sizes to spill out. All magical, and all of them, stolen.

  At that point, they explode, cursing him out and attacking him outright, screaming at him for daring to play nice and pretend to be their friend when he's just been using them, stealing from them and laughing at them once their back is turned for daring to think they could ever deserve kindness-
They have no patience for his desperate pleas, refusing to listen to more lies even as he begs and swears that it wasn't like that, that he really did care about them.

  Malefor may be the purple dragon of legend, but even he cannot fight against the forest of dark, life-sapping crystals that spring out around him. With one last desperate glance at Sahlux, he flees.

  From there, it becomes obvious that they are on opposing sides.
  They tell the Council of his defection, of how he's been visiting and siphoning information from them, and they are moved to a different, more secure location, unsure of how he'd react now that he no longer has to play nice. Considering how their lovely little cottage was torn apart in search of,,,, something not even a few weeks after their move, they think they made the right choice.

  As the war rages on, Malefor steps into the role of the Dark Forces' king and leader, sending many of the dragon cities into despair as they realise their savior has become their doom.
  Even as Sahlux helps with the war efforts, it seems like he isn't done with them, to the point that they're having to change locations quite often to get him to leave them alone- how he keeps getting their address, they don't know, but the letters he leaves are getting more and more demented, seemingly trying to beg for forgiveness, denounce the Council as conniving and controlling madmen, and even attempting to sway them to the other side all at once.

Malefor, for all he doesn't show it, genuinely does care for them, and he does believe he's doing good-
But madness comes when you least expect it, and by the time you realise it's ensnared you, you've committed atrocities beyond forgiveness.

  Such as setting up an elaborate trap to kidnap your childhood friend and try to force them over onto your side via a mix of isolative torture and mind control-

  The kidnapping, of course, backfires horribly. Rather than endearing him to them, it further grows the gap between the two. With every visit to their cell, they say less and less to him, but the few words they do speak- well. Malefor tells himself that they don't mean it, that it's that cursed Council's mindtricks making them say such horrible things.

  Almost a month after their capture, the fortress Sahlux was imprisoned in becomes overrun with dark crystals overnight, killing every Ape inside and setting Sahlux free. They quickly make a run for it, thanking the stars that no general had been in the Fortress (they weren't sure if they would've been able to escape, then), before fleeing into the night, barely having enough energy to get to the nearest dragon base before crash landing a few feet from the walls and not even having the strength to hold their head upright as soldiers swarm them.
  From there, they're escorted to Summergate, a city a small ways away from the Dragon Temple, and were put into the medbay to heal and recover.
  But, they just,,,, don't. Their injuries heal just fine, but the fatigue never leaves, and they can hardly flap their wings strong enough to fly around the city, let alone long distances.

  Of course, it would probably help them recover if they could stop making hundreds of crystals a week, but in the month or so they were kidnapped or out of commission, the storage supply had almost completely run out.

  Eventually, Summergate itself comes under siege by Malefor's forces, presumably looking for them, and Sahlux doesn't have the strength nor the will to evacuate with the civilians.

  While the guards and soldiers are escorting the civilians to safety, Sahlux carefully slips away, down into the cave systems beneath the city, descending as far down as the caves will allow and then using what little earth magic they have to dig farther. Soon, the caves begin to warm and lose the chill the higher tunnels had, and as their tunnel opens into an magma pool cavern, they build themself a nest of crystal, so very similar to the one they'd been placed in as a hatchling.
  Curling up in it's gentle embrace, cradled by the stones and warmed by the magma, they sleep soundly for the first time in years, unaware of the Apes tearing buildings apart in search of them and unaware of the crystal creeping up around them, encasing their body and filling the cavern with sharp spikes.

-=-

No one knows what becomes of Sahlux, the Great Healer. Their whereabouts unknown, they fade into legend.

  Some say they fell in the Summergate siege, fighting valiantly on the front lines, or even slain in cold blood, 'wingless' and unable to flee.
  Others say they gave their life to create the crystal that would later become Malefor's prison, to boost the growth of natural crystal deposits.

No one knows what happened to them.

At least... not until a millennia later. A young purple dragon with a firefly companion flees a collapsing reality, prioritizing the unconscious black dragon on his back even as the prison behind him shatters and frees its only captive.

Thousands of miles away, buried deep within the earth in a long-cooled magma deposit, a large orb of crystal begins to glow, and crack, as a tiny white wind dragon watches in panic and awe.

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

That turned out,,,,, a Lot longer than I thought it would! Oh well. If you've read this far, good for you!

Lemme know what you think in the comments below, about the design, character, and the story!