- 139 HP
MAX 187 HP
- 61 EN
MAX 156 EN
- 16 STK
Dissonance
Location: Firelands
-10 HP from Firelands
The huntress smirked as the core flew off into the distance and shook out her hand to bring feeling back to her busted knuckles. She lifted the other to swipe at the fire beginning to take purchase on her armor, but tensed at the sight of another creature that joined near the fight. The strange avian seemed far more interested in sifting through the ashes with its dully glowing beak that fighting them like the fire elementals were. It also lacked the corruption's grip. For now.
Gwyn moved away from the group, casting them a sideways look before she hissed out a low noise to catch its attention. It looked up immediately with an irritated honk, the large wingspan spreading as it flapped at her. As if to shoo her away? Territorial then, despite witnessing them tearing through the elementals but some feet away. Prideful.
The rest of its flock mingled about further away, lacking either the courage to come close enough or the same amount of sheer disregard it felt toward the players. She didn't want it near the remains of the portal or the barely standing fire elementals that still boasted the black flames of Titanius' influence. She hissed another low noise to the creature that it answered in turn. Whatever magical elements or meaty tidbits it had found in the ash meant little compared to the threat Gwyn supposedly represented. It beat its wings a few more times in a threat display and the beast tamer scowled back. Did it want to end up some corrupted abomination? Fine. No more gentle prodding.
Answering it, Gwyn stood to her full height and snapped her arms out to her sides, fingers spread. She rattled a low warning hiss to mimic its own and the two mirrored each other for the moment. She was glad she'd ignored the fire crawling up her armor and suffered through the faint burning. It made her match the burning of its feathers. They were at a draw, each moving faintly forward and tensing further as they stretched to their limits.
But she was taller. But it was meaner. But she was tried and true and tested and had felled creatures worse than it. The bird flew at her in a blur of motion, pecking once at the scar over her brow before she felt the webbed and clawed feet of the swan dig into the armor of her shoulder.
"What? No, I want you to get away from the corruption, not closer to it!" Peck. "Ow, the fuck is wrong with you? I'm trying to help-" Peck. "Fucking quit that!" Peck. "I'm going to pluck you bald if you don't-" Peck. "Motherfucker!"
Irene
(Fire Swan - Medium) A large bird with a
fowl temper who is quick to
fly off the handle. Her white feathers have long been
terned black by the soot she produces. With each ruffle or flap of her wide wingspan, the flames that flicker from where the quills pierce
Irene's flesh leap up to greedily consume oxygen and leave
plumes of smoke in their wake. Like her master,
Irene refuses to
quail in the face of a threat.
Irene was tamed in
Titanius Rift V after Gwyn and other players resonated with the rifts the boss opened as a final
swansong. This particular one leading to the avian's home in The Firelands where she lost her place in the
pecking order to Gwyn after a Fire Elemental got its
goose cooked.
I really
egret writing this, but I hope you enjoyed your
gander at it, Asch.