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Melina Frostdawn — Description
Race: Bronze Dragon (true name of her species is unknown)
Height: 14’2" (horns included)
Weight: Unknown
Length: 23’ (from nose to tail)
Wingspan: 21' 6"
DoB / PoB: May 1328 / Somewhere in Scotland

ABILITIES

Heightened Senses: Melina has hightened senses of smell, sight and hearing, beyond those of normal humans. Her sense of smell can be compared to that of a shark, capable of detecting the slightest scent up to a mile away. She is capable of seeing in the dark, but not through fog or most stealth powers. However, her other senses can help her spot enemies at a relatively close range. Despite not having visible ears, her sensitive hearing allows her to detect a larger array of frequencies than must humans and animals, and it is amplified so she is capable of hearing across great distances. As every dragon, she posses a 'blind sense', allowing her to spot individuals she cannot detect with her other senses, perhaps via vibrations, making her very hard to catch unawares. Melina can also sense nature itself in her immediate surroundings. She has "hunches" on the status of the soil, plants and overall environment around her in a 20-foot radius.

Resistance: Melina's scales provide a tough hide that serve as a body armor, head-to-toe and muzzle-to-tail. Minor projectiles and low caliber bullets would simply bounce off her scales. Piercing rounds and higher caliber projectiles would likely harm her, however. The only exception would be the membranes of her wings, which are treated like leathery skin. She has been known to deflect energy attacks, especially electrical based ones (see below). She has shown remarkable resistance to the elements, especially to hot weather. Her scales have proven to be quite resilient to corrosive substances as well, but she can't bathe in acid without getting harmed. Melina is capable of resisting relatively extreme heat temperatures, being able to withstand a range from 0 ºF to roughly 175 ºF without needing protection, and she can withstand underwater presures beyond other dragons.

Dragon Physiology: Melina's physical structure and training make her capable of lifting up to 8 tons with her bare hands, standing still and supported by her two hind legs and her tail. It has been theorized that she could possibly affect more weight if she rather pushes or drags objects, perhaps three times as much. Melina seems to move a lot like a cat, and her reflexes rival with those of one, making it seem like her reaction times are instantaneous. Melina is also capable of moving in both bipedal and quadrupedal motion, preferring the latter one to travel long distances by land. While galloping down on all fours, she can reach a maximum speed of 65 mph. Her strong legs can propel her up to 2 stories vertically or 60 yards forward with a single leap, and fall roughly twice as much, sustaining minimal damage if any. Her wings allow her to perform rapid flights and take offs, with a maximum speed of 200 mph by taking advantage of air currents that soar in the same direction she flies, and 500 mph when diving like a falcon would, and amazing maneuverability in mid-air. She's barely affected by the alterations of altitude and she can reach the higher layers of our stratosphere when she flies up. Solar radiation doesn't affect her at these heights. However, she can be forced to descend when oxygen is in short supplies. Melina is an excellent swimmer, propelling herself by making short wingflaps and weaving her long tail to the sides like a crocodile, and she can reach speeds of 80 mph when in calm waters. She also has the ability to breath while underwater for an undefinite amount of time. Melina's tail is slightly longer than she is actually tall, which she can use as a weapon (see below), and it weaves casually behind her when she's standing or walking (as both bipedal or on all fours), and it never touches the ground unless she is exhausted or depressed, in which cases she drags it. Her lungs' capacity allows her to hold her breath for up to 12 minutes before she risks choking. She has the innate, uncounscious ability to regenerate wounds at a faster-than-normal rate, almost lizard-like. However, she cannot regenerate lost limbs without the aid of strong healing magic.

Breath Weapon - Acid: Melina's breath weapon is an acidic substance, like all dragons of her variety, and she can spill a cloud of noxious gas at her foes within a cone 50 feet ahead of her, or spit a line as far as 100 feet away.

Training: Melina was trained in several martial arts styles, making her a formidable combatant at close range. She's versed in the following styles: Shotokan (forward and backward stances), Kempo, Jujitsu and Tai Chi Chuan. She learned how to properly use thrown weapons, especially boomerangs and chakrams. Melina is skilled enough to actually have these weapons return to her if no obstacles are in the way, and she has been known to deflect incoming similar weapons in mid-air by throwing her own at them and altering their trajectory. Melina has developed minor resistance to psionics through training and meditation, even if it does not provide complete protection against these type of attacks. Her own willpower allows her to shrug off mental manipulation, but it does not block mind reading.

Magics: Melina was trained in arcane and divine magic and in must schools, except for Necromancy, which was (and still is) forbidden within the Silver Talon Clan. She is skilled in the schools of Enchantment, Evocation, Transmutation and a few Conjuration spells of medium and high complexity. However, Melina chose to specialize in Natural magic, which gives her almost unlimited power over the weather, as well as controlling the very ground she stands on and whatever vegetation, existing or potentially, within a very large range, believed to reach as far as her line of sight. Melina is easily the most powerful mage within the New Silver Talon. She has been able to control both Earthly and extraterrestrial ecosystems. She can modify the temperature of the environment, control all forms of precipitation, humidity and moisture, generate lightning and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena, and has demonstrated excellent control over atmospheric pressure. She can incite all forms of meteorological tempests, such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards, and hurricanes, as well as mist. She can dissipate such weather to form clear skies as well. Additionally, Melina can also control the earth around her, and she can actually create localized or wide ranged earthquakes, grow spikes from the ground, dig holes, rise pilars and walls of stone, create a fissure on the ground as well as closing it and create quicksands. She can also immobilize a foe by warping the earth at their feet and securing them onto the ground. She has also been witnessed to mold golems of Earth and control them to do her bidding, but she has to concentrate to keep up them going. Melina is also capable of manipulating plants, some of the effects include accelerating the growth of vegetation, animating vines, bushes and even trees, growing barbs around existing vegetation, and controlling carnivore plants, ents and other plant creatures. Finally, Melina can cast spells that mimic certain characteristics of animals and plants to add to her own (leaping, striding, stealthing, immobability, strength, agility, stamina, etc.), as well as comunicating with them, and sometimes, controllig them. She also has a limited control over fire and lightning.

Limited Camouflage: Like every member of her race of dragons, Melina can blend with her surroundings and may remain unseen if she doesn't move. She can't become completely invisible, however.

Inherent Draconic Empathy: Melina is capable of communicating with other dragons (and anyone part dragon) telepathically. This ability is known to work even across great distances and fairly good across dimensions. However, Melina is limited to projecting speech and surface emotions. She cannot, for example, project what he is currently seeing or hearing. She can "turn off" this ability at will, and she may not be reachable by mental scrying unless said psychic is powerful enough to do so.

Natural Weapons: Melina has sharp claws (on both wings and hands), talons and teeth with which she fights, all of them capable of piercing metal. She could easily dig her claws and talons into concrete to help her climb vertical surfaces or even rip large chunks of asphalt or rock from the ground. Her jaws' strength limits have not really been measured, but eye-witnesses have stated that Melina has pulverized solid rock before. Melina's 14' long prehensile tail funtions as a very versatile limb, capable of performing very punctual and delicate tasks, like pressing buttons, as well as delivering powerful blows that could bring a concrete wall down. She can wrap her tail around objects with a minimum sectional area of approximately 4" in diameter and it can presumably lift as much the weight she could lift using her hands with it, but possibly crush more. She also uses her tail for balance while walking and running, and it serves as a rudder while flying, swimming and running (all fours or bipedal). Her wings have limited combat capability, mostly used to block certain type of attacks or push individuals away from her. Her head plate and horns don't really have combat functions, but they protect her skull.

PERSONALITY

Melina is quite extroverted, very sweet and tender with those she cares about, and those who approach her properly. She is also extroverted with those she knows, and sometimes forward and teasing with them, especially with males she considers physically appealing. That includes flirting with Allastor and Talon until they become tongue tight. Melina is a master in the art of seduction, but she only gets so far when flirting with others.

Melina is an easy going dragon, hard to provoke, but quite witty when threatened or mocked at. However, she becomes very unstable when under stressful situations, and she is very prone to deep depressions or uncontrollable bursts of rage, in which cases, she is very dangerous.

Melina is a true free spirit, enemy to boundaries of almost all sorts, and she has developed a very close bond with nature, which means she would preserve it at all cost. She becomes bored with tradition, even those taught to her and encouraged to teach to the younger generations, and she is always open for a new adventure, whatever it might mean unless there is a dark threat behind it. However, she would never put another clanmate or herself in peril when engaging into her wild adventures.

Melina doesn't like humans much, reason why she stays away from human populated areas. However, when it comes to defending her kind, she treats them as any other threat.

TRIVIA

- Melina is very confident about her figure, and she is actually very shapely and beautiful. She knows she is an attractive female, and is often the subject of looks, from both genders. Unlike Tavah, Melina does enjoy showing off her figure.
- Melina loves to read, one of the many common traits she has with Allastor. She loves to read books with contents versed with Arcana and the Occult, as well as a good tale (for as long it doesn't include killing a dragon).
- Melina would normally avoid being touched or teased on her tail, although she does use it to tease others. Grabbing and pulling it would make her upset by defaul, although it depends on the trust he has on the one grabbing/pulling it. Talon is usually an exception to it.
- Melina normally shows both animalistic and humane behaviors. She's prone to emitting animalistic growls, grunts, grumbles, gurggles, moans, whimpers and various other sounds, depending on her mood. She normally walks on her two hind legs, but she can also be seen walking on all fours. In both cases, she has a very characteristic swinging of her hips as she walks/crawls, which makes her tail also swing to the sides.
- Melina speaks English with a slight British accent, and Draconic at times. She can also speaks Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Sweden and Latin, as well as a few forgotten tongues, like Sylvan (language of Fae and the creatures of nature), Elvish, Dwarven, Drow, and a little Celestial (language of angels). Melna is a specialist in Runes and Glyphs, knowing Elder, Younger and Medieval Futhark (Runic alphabets), Egyptian heiroglyphics and other symbolic languages.
- Dragons are said to normally experience emotions as a human does, tenfold. Melina is specially suceptable to intense emotions, namely anger and sadness. Melina's emotions, more noticably anger, would make her eyes glow intensely in a yellow hue, each capable of emitting as much light as a lantern. When she is under an uncontrollable rage, her eyes glow in red instead.
- Melina's mind can be read by psychics, but her disciplined mind makes her harder to read. Her thoughts are usually versed in Draconic, her home language. Moreover, her mind is saturated with knowledge and information that perhaps only dragons may be able to understand on a first attempt.
- Melina possesses an irrational fear to harlequins and clowns, due to an event during her childhood.
- Melina believes in Bahamut's dogma and she worships him as a patron deity, Tamara's dogma on mercy and goodness, and Aasterinian for her love to travelling. She also respects other gods within the Draconic Pantheon. She highly respects Chronepsis and Io, for they are supreme over other dragon deities. Melina loves music and stories, promoted by Hlal, and she values Lendys' ideals on balance and justice. She cares little about Sardior or Astilabor, and she both fears and repudiates (but still respects) Tiamat, Faluzure and Garyx.

VOICE: Emmanuelle Chriqui. ( www.behindthevoiceactors.com/E… )
POSSIBLE JAPANESE VOICE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyBFnO…

THEME SONG:
(W.I.P.)

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