Atara/Biography

OOC Notes

This information is written down not by Atara, but by an NPC oread priestess of Zokutou who befriended the dragoness when she first arrived, and has been slowly wheedling out this information since, finding it interesting and worth writing as part of an immigrant history collection of sorts. No one should consider themselves as having had access to these writings, it's simply written down here as a point of interest for others OOC'ly.

Writers Note: The dragoness is rather stubborn, even in the time I've known her I've had difficulty drawing most of this information out from her without a night of drinking after a day of hard work, and have only written down what I feel is appropriate, even if this is a part of my private collection.

A World Once Lived In

The world of Atara's origin is easily identifiable as an Alternate Earth, one where magic drastically altered the flow of history. A more primal, natural magic, the world was populated by numerous magical species, the world going through 'ages' where certain magics and species held greater sway. The 'Ancient Age' was the time of dinosaur and species called the 'Origin Races'; a cataclysmic shift in the flow of the worlds magic was the death knell for the dinosaur rather than an asteroid as it was on many Earths, the change in magic evolving many of those origin species into the races of the 'Modern World'.

The Modern World is defined by further smaller ages, each age coming to an end by yet another shift in the flow of magic, the 'ages' defined by color. The Ancient Age that passed first was defined by the color yellow, leading into the Age of Beasts, defined by red. The 'Beasts' as identified by this time included the intelligent creatures which held no humanoid, or very few humanoid traits, such as Dragons, Sphinx, Gryphon and Thunderbird. Though they did not die off or lose their abilities as their time faded, they lost the strength of numbers and power that was granted to them during their 'age'. As the Age of Beasts waned, it flowed into the Age of Fae, a time which glowed green. Fae were defined far beyond what most classifications of 'fae' are within other versions of earth; on Atara's world, the Fae were any magical creature with primarily humanoid features; two legs, arms, one head or sometimes two for the primary features. Faeries themselves, Troll, Orc, Djinn, Goblin and Giant to name a few, though the Fae species were many. A few species straddled the line between Beast and Fae, and as such were powerful in both ages, such as Minotaur, Werewolf, Yeti and the animal headed people who were worshiped in Egypt as gods. By the time that Atara had left her world, the green glowing age was fading and a time of blue, the Age of Humanity, was rapidly approaching.

When speaking of her world, Atara uses humanity as the point of reference to ease in understanding, despite the differences her world has with others, humans are at least often one constant between the alternate worlds.

The Dragons

Somewhat disgruntled by definitions such as 'western' or 'eastern', 'wyrm' or 'drake', Atara reluctantly uses them to describe the different dragon species, though is quick to note that they do not fit the common definitions that 'other worlds games' like to give them, and one would be wise to not assume her behavior to be described in some 'monster manual'. The dragons themselves define themselves by their color. All of the species communicated with each other, traveling occasionally into the regions the other dragons lived in simply to visit and explore out of curiosity and interest, though the white dragons often confined their travel to the winter months.

White Dragon: Atara is a member of this color of dragons, a semi-aquatic species which made it's home in the snowy, arctic regions of Europe and over the North Pole, not making their way entirely into North America or Asia. Their diet mostly consists of caribou and ocean fish, primarily squid, able to dive to extreme depths in their chase of the Giant Squid. Body shape is of a classic 'western' dragon, four legs and two wings, the Whites more stocky and muscular in form than other species. Mostly white in coloration as their name suggests, they often have various shades of blue as accent colors, a few even tending toward a light blue color overall rather than white. Not the strongest of flyers, the White dragons are most assuredly the strongest physically otherwise. White dragons possess a 'breath weapon' of the ability to breathe air so cold it freezes most anything on contact.

Green Dragon: The Green dragons, for the length of the Age of Beasts, were the most populous of the dragon species, living within the forests of Europe and Eurasia and easily adapted to the grasslands of Southern Europe as well. Omnivorous, Green dragons eat anything from deer, rabbits and small birds to fruits, nuts and the roots of certain plants. Lithe and agile, the Green dragons also follow the 'western' dragon body form, the smallest of the dragons to better fit in their forest habitat. Agile flyers when young, Green dragons frequently would forgo or all out lose the ability to fly as they grew older, relying more on their running speed to chase their prey. Green in coloration, the Green dragons however showed the greatest variety in color tones, every shade of green to brown and black accents. Quick and quite deadly, the Green dragons did not have an actual breath weapon, but possessed quite a poisonous bite.

Red Dragon: Red dragons are some of the most rare of the dragon species, making their home within the southern mountains of Europe along the Mediterranean, tending toward the ranges which contain at least one volcano. Their rarity also relates to their stricter diet, feeding only upon mountain goat and sheep species, and upon migrating birds that fly over the mountains on their migration route. The best flyer of all of the dragon types, the Red dragons still ascribe to the 'western' body form, but seem a mix of it with the more serpentine 'eastern' style, their bodies long and snake like, legs short and in some cases near useless, but with long, thin wings. Their coloration is the most varied away from actual red, where their color 'name' is the primary color for the other species, the Red dragons only have red as a detail color (such as on horns or underbellies) and are instead mostly browns and tans in coloration. The Red dragons are also the only species to have the 'traditional' flame breath, though in truth it is more like a napalm than a pure flame.

Yellow Dragon: Yellow dragons are considered a 'border' species to the dragons which live primarily within Europe. Living quite strictly within the Middle East and Northern Africa within the desert, their contact with the other dragons is largely via the Red dragons and where they live a bit along the eastern edge of the Iberian Peninsula. Specializing in long distance and extremely high flight, the Yellow dragons have an omnivorous diet and eat pretty much anything they can find, getting the water they need from their prey and from the cactus fruits they eat. They will also scavenge or steal food from other animals. The least territorial of the dragons, they travel the longest distances in search of their food, barely visible in their flight so high in the sky. Keen of eyesight and sense of smell, Fae species within their range call them 'Vulture Dragons' for their opportunistic habits. The most consistent in coloration, Yellow dragons are mostly white on the underbelly and golden yellow above. Their 'breath weapon' is the most defensive in nature, a one time blast of sand and dust that the dragon stores in a special stomach and uses it like octopus use ink, needing to eat sand after using it to replenish.

Black Dragon: Black dragons lived within the swamp and inner waterways of Europe and Eurasia. Little is known about their habits, from territory to diet, and even less is known about their body type. When asked, Atara states that the Black dragons are the only ones which fit the 'damned game books' in their behavior, and when pressed for detail will suggest that they were killed off in competition with the Green and Red dragons, though there seems much more to it than that.

Leviathan: The Leviathan's were not dragons in the definition that the colored dragons gave themselves, but were considered the 'dragons of the seas'. Most often immense in size but varied in their shapes and forms, the Leviathans ruled the worlds oceans, and were both extremely intelligent and very wise, many of the land based dragon species seeking communication with them for their wisdom and ability to somewhat predict the long future. The Leviathan had the closet relationship with the White Dragons, convinced that the White Dragons were once a small Leviathan that simply returned to land and evolved wings from their fins.

Early Life

OOC Notes

Atara is largely willing to talk about her youth, but she will rarely mention having previously had a mate.

Atara was the only successful egg from her parents second clutch of eggs, born toward the end of the Age of Beasts, during early human history. Homo Sapiens had just begun moving out of Africa and into Europe, raising little attention among the Beasts or Fae. Her hatchling and whelpling years were uneventful, her parents successful hunters and having a productive territory, she had little need for anything. Her father was an elder dragon who had traveled quite extensively in years previous, and his stories were rather inspiring to the young dragoness. Once she was old enough, she began to travel about the northern lands, venturing into the northern forests and encountering her first Green dragon. The two struck up a friendship, the older Green traveling with her and showing Atara places that she had previously visited, acting as something of a tour guide for the White. During these travels Atara met many different kinds of Fae and all but the Black dragons, even having a short encounter with a rare Yellow. During her time away, her parents hatched and raised four other dragons in two separate broods, though by the time that she returned from her wanderings, they had largely left for their own journeys and seeking new territories, and she had no real encounters with any of them at any other point in her lifetime.

Her very early years were relatively normal for the dragoness, she winning a territory near to her parents for herself once back from her wandering, though it would take her quite some time to find and accept a suitor for her mate. During this time, a great deal of concern had begun to grow among the Beasts; humans were proving to be rather prolific, due in part to their short lives and young age of fertility. They also proved intelligent and quick to adapt, spreading easily across Europe and off into the rest of the world. Longer lived species such as the Dragons grew uneasy with humanity, and likewise the humans with the Beasts and Fae. Some of the Fae began to exploit their similarities to humans and to take advantage of the humans, and for some, the Were species in particular, humanity was something of a boon for their numbers. This resulted largely in the humans becoming wary of any of the magical beings, as they had not yet developed the ability to use magic themselves. The Dragons for the most part attempted to keep their distance, avoiding the human settlements and keeping away from them. The paranoia imbedded into the humans from the behavior of the other races, however, would lead to a period of great strife for the two species.

The Fall

OOC Notes

This section especially is largely unknown but to a very, very select few people. Theme for this era: 'Breaking Down' - Florence + The Machine

By the time Atara had finally chosen and accepted a mate, humanity had reached a point where the beings living nearest to her territory were those one could classify as the Nordic Bronze Age Proto-Germanic people. The climate was warm enough further north to allow humans to spread into what had previously been mostly a more arctic and frozen region, putting these people in direct competition with the White dragons for their primary food sources, fish and caribou. While the humans fished mainly upon the surface waters and the White dragons dove deeper for the fish, the competition for caribou caused humans to begin to see the dragons, already a member of those species the humans mistrusted, as a threat to their own existence, despite the dragons continued 'avoid and do not engage' behavior.

Atara was intensely wary of the humans, having inherited her fathers distrust, and earning more during her time of travel. Despite her worries of the humans nearing so close to her territory, and often visible in their boats at sea, her fears were set aside to instead focus on beginning a family with her mate. Being still relatively young, the pair were unsuccessful for several years, none of the eggs laid were successfully fertilized.

Finally, after about five years of trying, the pair produced a viable egg, keeping it safe until it hatched, assisted to a degree by Atara's mother, the elder dragon alone after Atara's father had passed, spending more time in Atara and her mate's territory for safety and companionship. The hatchling was a healthy female, and promptly consumed all of Atara and her mate's attention. This lack of awareness to much beyond their nest and cave left the pair oblivious to the continued and increased presence of humans in the area, leading to tragedy.

Two years after their daughter was hatched, Atara was out hunting for caribou, frustrated to find that they had moved further north than expected that spring, causing her to have to fly a greater distance, taking longer pauses to rest than usual. Returning home, she was instantly alerted that something terrible had happened; she found the remains of her mate, and tragically, her child as well. Humans had obviously attacked the pair within their cave, and though the male had defended his home and child fiercely, he felt to the humans weaponry, and their daughter was also killed. Atara's mother returned from her own hunt shortly after, finding the devastated dragoness.

The loss of her family effectively 'broke' the dragon, she embarking on a period that she would later come to refer to as 'The Red Storm'.

The Red Storm

OOC Notes

A period Atara is more likely to talk about, but odds are, she only tells people who she is trying to teach a lesson of some sort too. Theme for this era: 'Seven Devils' - Florence + The Machine

Initially after the death of her family, Atara sank into a depression, refusing to eat despite her mother's attempts to encourage her. The older dragoness attempted to coax her daughter to both eat, and to leave the area with her, trying to get her daughter to head further north into land more inhospitable to the humans, though at the same time it was harder to find food for them, as well. At some point, things in her mind switched from depression to anger, the young dragon unable to comprehend why the Humans had attacked her family when they and other dragons had gone out of their way to avoid confrontation up to that point.

It is best noted that while Dragons are creatures of magic and use minor levels of it just naturally (many of the 'breath weapons' have no biological explanation save for the Yellow, for example), they were never a species in the habit of casting, writing, and using spells. They could learn easily, and often become quite adept rather quickly, it is only when an individual dragon showed interest in magic that they'd go about using it more consciously. During her travels with the Green dragon around Europe, Atara had learned of some spells and their basic casting, but had never had a need or wish to use them. Thanks to her rather precise memory for some things, however, she could easily recall what she had learned from some Trolls and Hags.

Atara had decided upon a path of retribution. Her mind filled with fury, it still did not cloud her intelligence and cause her to dive into things recklessly, rather, she knew that if she simply crashed into a village of humans she'd surely die, and she was not suicidal. Tracking the humans who had attacked her family was easy, she simply had to find the village, and as they had taken her mate's horns as trophies and mounted them at the village well, it was easy for her to find as she flew above. She waited nearby for night to fall, and once assured that all of the villagers were within their homes, she called upon her memories of spells learned to cast a quick moving, very destructive fire spell upon each and every part of the settlement. As the blood red magical flames painted the night and clouds red, she simply sat and watched things burn. Once the flames had gone out, she would root through the ruins and kill any left alive, lurking nearby for several days to kill any members of the village that had been away on travel.

This became her modus operandi for the next several months, accented with an illusionary decoy spell. Controlling a decoy she would send it into the next village she intended to attack, sowing fear among the villagers by claiming to have been the only survivor of the last village burned. She'd tell tales of terror and fear, painting the dragon culprit as massive and unassailable, frightening the villagers while a scout party would travel to the previous village to see if the stories were true. The decoy would always 'die' a short bit before the scouting party would return, adding to the fears and uncertainty. Not once did any of the humans ever suggest fleeing, they always chose to stand their ground, to form patrols and defend their homes. Sometimes she would attack a patrol if she felt they were one she could easily take on, but often she left them afraid and uncertain. Only once the fear began to die down would she then burn the village to the ground and kill all survivors, before moving on to the next.

Atara does not say how long she continued this, but she has hinted that some legend within Northern Europe is tied to what she had done. She is also unwilling to talk about what had caused her to finally stop, but is quick to note that if any people had actually abandoned their village or spoke of fleeing and leaving, instead of trying to fight, she would leave those villages unharmed. What she will say is that finally the fire of retribution flamed out, leaving her emotionally empty, and uncertain of what she should do.

The Quiet Times

OOC Notes

A time not quite as likely to be spoken of in great detail by Atara. Theme for this era: 'Shake It Out' - Florence + The Machine

After her period of destruction, Atara settled into a life of largely hiding. She didn't return to her arctic home, finding it easier to hide among the thicker, older forests of Northern Europe even with her white coloration, using a similar illusion to what she had used to confuse the villagers to disguise her coloration and hide herself. She went from harassing and killing the humans to watching them to try to better understand, having realized to a degree that while she and her kind had avoided the humans out of discontent with their behavior, she and the others didn't really truly have an understanding of what human's thought. Something toward the end of that Red Storm had caused her to realize that like the dragons themselves, humans did not all behave in the same sort of fashion.

Using the illusionary decoy, she began to engage traveling caravans, visiting camps along the trade route near her hiding place, and eventually working up the courage to start to get involved in the nearby village, presenting herself as a traveler, finding that the humans took her awkwardness as a sign of her being a member of some holy order, she played this up to her advantage to get to know the flow of things better. Venturing out from the area she had secluded in, she began to travel in search of a specific Hag that she had so long ago encountered on her first journey with the Green. Her reasons for searching out the Hag were varied, but primary among them was to try to find a solution to the growing urge to interact with the humans with something that wasn't an illusion, wanting a more face to face interaction that was more 'real'. In short, she wanted a human body, knowing that there were spells available, though dangerous, and often 'dark'. The Hag had taught her the illusion spell, and she was confident that she would know the way for the dragon to get what she wanted.

The journey to find the Hag was far from short, she finding that the creature had left her original territory and moved on, requiring Atara to pause in her search as summer came and it became more difficult for her to travel due to the heat of the weather. During this time, there was another connection with a human village, this encounter something else that Atara won't talk of, though she indicates that it is a positive time. Within the next two years, Atara was able to find the Hag, and apparently find what she needed, but finding it more difficult than she had expected. The magic was indeed of a darker sort, another roadblock the dragoness had to overcome to gain what she wanted, she determined to not use magic that even the Fae considered 'evil' and dark.

The Fae

OOC Notes

While more willing to speak of this time, it requires a special sort of mood to draw it out. And probably a lot of alcohol. Theme for this era: 'Lover To Lover' - Florence + The Machine for majority of this rather long era, 'No Light, No Light' - Florence + The Machine for the end period

There is a lack of clarity as to the length of time between the time where Atara had found the Hag and switched her focus in contact from the human villages to the Fae. What is clear is that the Hag's spell was successful, Atara having found a satisfactory way to have cast the spell required to gain a human form. It was during this time as well that she found an affinity to metal shaping, though it was quite minor at the time, and her focus was on perfecting and refining the shapeshifting magic she had learned to cast, settling finally upon three primary appearances; her natural dragon form, a humanoid form which still retained wings, horns and a tail, and a fully human form with no 'unnatural' features to cause the humans any real concern when she interacted with them. Through her interactions with humans after gaining the shifting abilities, she found and formed what was at first simply a connection with the Faerie courts, they gaining interest in her after discovering her 'hidden' among the humans. During this time period as well, Atara states that many of the Dragon races had retreated to different lands as far from the humans they could get, while others had left the world entirely via dimensional traveling magic that she says was learned from the Levithans. She was fairly certain that the Red dragons had been killed off, either by humans or clashes with Giants as the Giants retreated from the lower elevations, but the rest she believes survived and made their way away from Europe.

The Fae people had a loose sort of council formed among themselves, a general accord decided upon to generally assist the others against the over populous humans, but certain factions held the greatest sway; the Faerie and their cousins, Sprites and Gremlins, had discovered subtle ways to manipulate the humans, and thus were the main 'protection' for the rest of the species. Atara had discovered these subtle manipulations while within the human villages, and it formed an initial neutral and slightly negative impression of the Faerie. The Hags and Ogres largely kept to themselves as they were a relatively solitary people in the first place, Atara often finding them to be rather decent company, if not somewhat odorous. The Giants had largely retreated from the world at large into their cloud and mountain kingdoms, while the Trolls and Orcs formed roving tribes that for the most part left the humans alone, and the humans likewise; they understood the pure destructive power that the Trolls and Orcs could call upon if disturbed, leaving the tribes to their nomadic hunting ways. Atara respected them for their power as well, having had a few small clashes and skirmishes with them when defending a human settlement that had somehow gained their wrath.

It was the Faerie she was to form the deepest connection with, despite the first impressions, however. Their intense curiosity at the 'dragon who actually likes humans', as she was first widely known as, lead quite a few to seek her out to simply talk, the exasperated dragoness enduring their eccentricities and conversations, as she had by this point largely moved on from staying settled in any one human village, taking up a nomadic life of her own, assuming the identity of a traveling 'holy woman' again to keep suspicions from the humans who would be curious of a lone woman wandering around, down. As human society moved away from tribal or clan based and more into Kingdoms and Empires, Atara felt herself drawn away from them and let herself integrate into Faerie society, joining the court which claimed southwestern Europe as their own, based in France.

At first, the court still treated her like a curiosity, though she held a level of respect for being a Dragon, they considered themselves equal to her as a species, a view Atara didn't entirely share on the same level. An outsider among them, it took her a significant amount of time to reach a point where she felt comfortable among their court and where she'd be largely left alone, settling into her now usual stance of observing those she was around to best 'fit in'. There were several significant relationships formed during this time, friend and foe, but few closer than friend. She became adept at the French language, having spoken it to a degree earlier, but better now, the Nordic language fading into the back of her mind. Despite the other places she's traveled to and languages she's learned, she still prefers French to this day and often speaks it to herself, and a French accent will make itself known when she's tired, stressed or drunk.

With how intricately tied into human affairs the Faerie were, Atara was able to keep up contact with them while also continue her observance of their society, dismayed at how prone to warring with each other they were, but somewhat pleased that they kept the fighting to themselves as their evolution continued. The Faerie were quick to adapt and use human art and food, and often introduced new things to human culture, fascinated with how the different regions of human culture would adapt it as their own, changing it dramatically from it's root. As an outsider, Atara found it quietly amusing how the faerie and humans developed so similarly...while the faerie thought that they were the ones influencing the humans, there were many, many subtle ways that the humans affected the faerie, mostly through music and the visual arts.

Atara was drawn to the humans music, finding their creativity with creating and using different instruments beyond a simple drum and flute to be rather intriguing, and finding those who practiced music to be the ones she was most drawn to, writers and artists a secondary interest. The invention of the harpsichord was something of a turning point for the dragoness, she describing the first time hearing one as igniting a fire within her, hitting a nerve and a part of her mind and soul she never quite imagined was one that existed. Pouring herself into learning the instrument, she became one of the premier players in the faerie courts, and when the harpsichord evolved into the piano, she followed to learn that instrument as well. It was the piano which started to lead her away from the faerie courts and back into human society again, she drawn like a moth to a flame to the composers and players of the keyed instrument. If one were to name a prominent piano composer in human history from the invention of the piano to the 1950's, Atara can likely state of a time that she either met with, or got to see a performance by them, she traveling about Europe extensively to immerse herself into the world of musical arts. A close friend of Claude Debussy, she became well versed in his work, though she never performed for a public audience, she gaining a somewhat 'underground' reputation among the piano composers as an ideal person to test their new work thanks to Debussy's correspondence with others within the field.

This close engagement to the humans caused a rift to form between her and the faerie courts, they saw her as ignoring their 'authority', she seeing them as nothing but egotistic puppetmasters playing a game best left alone. Infuriated at the reasoning behind what's known on most earths as World War I (though she states that the reasons for the war are undoubtedly different), she finally left the faerie court once and for all, walking away from Europe and into the ocean, returning to her draconic form and simply beginning to swim.

America

Author's Note: Atara states that at this point, beyond the magic and creatures of her world, this nation is where her world deviates from most standard Earth's. Further details will be collected elsewhere, but this is the basic rundown of differences, significant enough I feel it prudent to give it it's own section within this writing, further detail may come elsewhere.

During the colonization of the America's by the European powers, South America was discovered and focused upon first, the Spanish ravaging the landscape. The natives of the southern continent communicated with their northern counterparts; something which Atara believes didn't happen very well in other worlds. The stories spread from the south spurred the northern native people to be much more reluctant to allow settlers upon their shores, the British and French able to settle in North America, the British in the south and the French in what is Canada, simply because they weren't as violent about their landings as the Spanish were in the south. The French were preceded by a group of Norsemen, but those same Norse were fine with the French moving more inland. The further west that the other people traveled, however, the greater the resistance from the natives grew. Toward the end of the Napoleonic Wars between the British and the French, the British were so embroiled in war with the Natives while fighting off a growing revolution within the colonies that they easily gave up the Canadian territories fully to the French, who were in something of a battle with the natives of the north. Where the British were in a war of weaponry, the French were more in a war of words with the natives. Eventually, the American Colonies turned against the British controllers and rejected and refused to fight against the natives, bringing an abrupt end and a new alliance between the colonies and the natives against the British. The combined forces of their unruly former colonists and the natives proved too much for the British, they forming a treaty of peace and giving the colonies their freedom, effectively ending British colonization in North America.

The colonies organized themselves into the States of America, and per their agreement with the natives, settled into their lands, bordered by the Atlantic on the East and the Mississippi River to the West, reaching North to the Great Lakes and South to the Gulf of Mexico. Native tribes within this territory largely agreed to become citizens of the States, men and women on equal grounds as those who came from Europe, many tribal leaders becoming governors and other local leaders in the early years thanks to their knowledge of the land, but as years passed and the people mingled and intermarried, the 'tribes' faded and all became Statesmen. The French had settled their own differences more peacefully with the people of the north, Canada being formed in a similar way to the States of America, their Western border no further west than the country to the south, and reaching north into the snowy lands south of the North Pole.

The native people of North America who did not join the States or Canada themselves joined into a massive united tribe, keeping their own identities and territories as they were set at the time of the formation of the two other nations, the tribes yielding lands to those who did not agree to join the fledgling countries, this causing some small tensions within the united tribes that would eventually fade. Their nation had no real name, but the people of Canada and the States called them the United Tribes of America, they years later taking that as their formal name. Their lands consisted of all of what is Mexico and Central America in most worlds, all the way up to what is Alaska in most versions of Earth.

The nations of North America, including the Norsemen of Newfoundland, a small nation consisting of the Eastern islands bordering Canada, formed a tight, quick bond against the rest of the world, forming agreements and treaty to protect and aid each other against the imperialistic tendencies of the nations of Europe. The colonization of the rest of the world happened fairly similar to what Atara knows of most Earth's, but she notes that thanks to the battles within North America, the British and French were much kinder and open to the native people of the places they strove to bring into their empire, very little actual warring to take over territory occurring and the 'empires' forming more from treaty and unification of local tribes and people into a solid, stronger nation. By the time Atara traveled to North America, it was a time analogous to 1890 in most Earth's, the States of America numbering ten, the islands of the Caribbean their own nations free of Spanish rule and allied with the north, while South America was still largely under Spanish rule, but the individual nations as found on most Earths were formed into their own colonies under Spanish control.

The Tribe

OOC Notes

Atara is fairly open to talking about this time should one find a way to ask her about it, not being very secretive about it at all. Theme for this era: 'All This and Heaven Too' - Florence + The Machine

Spending near a half a year within the waters of the Atlantic after leaving Europe, her form well suited to such significant time in the water, Atara communicated with the Levithans while simply swimming and feeding, only coming to the European shore perhaps once a month to sleep in the shallows. Eventually, with the encouragement of the Levithians she had befrended, she made her way west to the shores of the States of America. While Atara found the Statesmen to be a rather agreeable group of mostly humans with a few Fae mingled in, and had a bit of fondness for the French-like familiarity of Canada, she chose instead to travel through this largely 'mortal' oriented world of cities and towns spaced apart with vast farmland and countryside, opting to travel to what was basically called the UTA and try to live among the tribal people there, overall preferring the more peaceful mindset of North America overall to the inner-political chaos of the nations of Europe. She spent time in the northwestern corner of the States in the state of Wisconsin near the Canadian border, an area where French was a common language spoken and she could easily communicate without needing to use a spell to translate, having always hated that particular method. Learning the common language of the UTA, and following advice from some traders, Atara made her way to one of the larger social gatherings one of the particular tribes held, a tribe that she says has no apparent counterpart on most Earth's she's read about, but Atara will admit that she hasn't been able to find much detail on Native American history outside of what she knows about her world. (Author Note: While Atara would say the native word for the people, I personally found it difficult to write, complicated by the fact that Atara says there was no written counterpart to the spoken language. The rough translation of the name was 'The People of the Dream', their name tying into their belief system, one which appealed to the dragoness as it had no deity, simply spirits of varying levels of power.) Further following the advice of the traders and finding a village that would allow her to live with them to learn about them and their ways in exchange for her assistance with various duties about the village, her ability with throwing axes (learned from the Scotsmen of Britain) and ease of learning other hunting implements impressing a village elder present at the gathering enough to earn her place.