« Yes. Yes, Oriecorth is death. Be wary. » -Swyrrth

Theme Inspiration

In a clutch themed with Destination Getaways, Oriecorth is inspired by the Dobšinská Ice Cave in Dobšiná, Slovakia.

Description Inspiration

This pale whip of a dragon, small for being full grown, shows a slender elegance and even delicacy which belies a keen mind and harsh bearing. Her general hue is the frosted sea-green of sunlight through ice; a hyperborean shade made even chillier by patches of near-white and dull slate-gray along her underside. Her crisply faceted eyes, rarely the placid shades of a contented dragon, bug out a little from her narrow head. There's a tense energy about her when she's still, but more often she paces like a caged wild animal.

Name Inspiration

From Oriencor, the name of the White Witch in Meredith Anne Pierce's Darkangel trilogy.

Mindvoice

What you might expect. On good days it's a quiet blanket of snow or light crackling coating of ice like freezing rain on leaves, but more often it's a chill biting wind, the sharp points of icicles, a blizzard.

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Physicalities

Oriecorth is long and thin, serpentine and predatory in her movements. Her coloration looks uneasy and oily in tropical sunlight; it only really shines against a wintry backdrop. The green is physically uncomfortable in heat, as much as a dragon realistically can be, and craves ice and snow.

Personality

She's a nasty bit of work sometimes. Orie's greatest desire is not to be bothered, so she tends to stay out of chatter and play. She's very much on her dignity, and critical of those who aren't on theirs. She has quick temper and is prone to lash out in anger if provoked, whether by playful overtures of her siblings or some sort of failure on someone else's part. There's almost always some angry orange in her eyes and a snarly curl to her lip. She's not all bite though; Oriecorth can and will form attachments to those she respects, but she'll never be warm and fuzzy.

Francis' relationship with Oriecorth is complex; despite some differences of temperament the pair share a genuinely affectionate bond, though it might not appear so to outsiders. Both are hard workers and perfectionists with high, sometimes overly high, expectations of others. The pair were not much alike at Impression, but Oriecorth played no small part in dragging her rider through an extended recovery from a knife attack and served as Francis' rock during some traumatic times. Now, it might be speculated that this experience tempered some of Francis' fiercer personality traits.

Flights

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'Proddiness' amounts to a couple of days of hibernatory behavior, easy to spot since both dragon and rider tend to sleep through much of it. Flights are as long as Orie can make them, all business, and there's always bite/claw risk.
Also, they'll never be on cam 'cause I don't like doing them.

Thread

Oriecorth's a born fighter. With Thread she is all cold calculation and precision, and little can interrupt her laser focus while she's on the job. She stays in her own mind for a long time after a Fall, freezing Francis out of her mindspace while she comes off the adrenaline high.

Clutchmates:
Ozzeth - The best of the bunch!! <= D'ean wrote this.