Tag: kuros

OOC : I actually really liked how the doodle came out, so after finishing the flats for a commission, I decided to give this pic a shading job. The Queen’s described Kruta already, but I went ahead and made a little character description for him ^u^ enjoy!

Name : Kruta Bur’vok
Age : 87 (at time of death)
Breed : Yinvaht Kuros, “Feathered Kuros”
Family : Youngest son of King Burdohk and Queen Athrenna
Ideal Voice Actor : BD Wong, “Shang from Mulan”
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Abilities : Wind. Kruta’s abilities were sandstorms, or dust storms. Using his wings to create gusts of wind that consisted of stinging sand, or blinding dust. While he was formidable in combat, Kruta preferred his studies than actual fighting.

Personality : Calm and collected, but easily agitated. Kruta was known to be a book-worm, studying war tactics with dreams of becoming a professor. While being the son of the King and Queen, Kruta was not known to boast about his bloodline. He was respectful unless his intelligence was demeaned. 

History : Kruta was born in a large clutch to Queen Athrenna and King Burdohk. He was the youngest male to hatch, and was often picked on by his older siblings. So much so, that his eldest sister got too rough during a skirmish and bit off his toe… and ate it. However, Kruta didn’t allow the bullying to bother him, and as he grew he learned to use his smarts to benefit his people. 

As he enters the colleges, he ends up meeting Feuriah, a female Kuros bent on becoming the next Queen. Quickly, the two became friends, as he grew to respect that she wished to learn how to be the best Queen by going the hardest route; decades of schooling and training, instead of simply trying to grow stronger to kill the Queen and take her place. The two work together to study, often found sparring and testing each other. 

But, the fateful day came when Kruta and Feuriah are recruited into their first real battle. The two were put in the same squad, even flying beside each other, when Kruta was struck by a missile from the enemy, decapitating him.

Facts 

  • Kruta was not the romantic type openly (of course, true romance as described in other cultures was not the same as Kurosian romance); however, his guilty pleasure was reading romance novels
  • Kruta had a heavy dislike of the Silverwings, mostly assuming that they were more meat-heads than intelligent warriors. While he was friends with Raigur’Ja, the two fought more than were friends
  • Kruta was very close with his mother, often telling her of Feuriah’s progress 
  • If love was more acceptable in Kurosian culture, Feuriah and Kruta would have fallen in love, and possibly would have become mates. Instead, the two become Mjol and Mjia, the Kurosian equivalent of a boyfriend and girlfriend.
  • Kruta’s speech was very articulate
  • Favorite food was the same as Feuriah’s, which was seafood. Crawfish in particular
  • Kruta didn’t care for children. He was willing to have some as per tradition in the culture, but did not want any part of raising children. He didn’t dislike them, he simply had little interest. Instead, he enjoyed educating adult Kuros.
  • Kruta was deathly afraid of Uka, Kuros-eating bat creatures that lived in the mountains surrounding their city. In turn, he was also fearful of bats.
  • For the life of him, Kruta could not tell jokes. He’d always mess up the delivery

Lost Queen : Yes… yes, we did. But it was one that I, personally, did not believe in.

As the centuries flew by, more and more of our people were killed. Some out of fear, others for our rare metal bones. Nonetheless, my people grew more nervous about our own end.

We were the legendary Kuros, black dragons born from the purest of darkness to serve the high purpose of keeping the eternal balance of good and evil intact. And yet, we were slowly being eliminated. 

Eventually, only the great city of Kurosin’Laidirlon was left. 

It made my people scared, to say the least. We grew desperate, begging our gods to help. They listened, and all protected our great and powerful city. They promised us a savior, a dragon of purple, to save the Kuros from extinction. 

We were aware of the purple dragons of legend, and so, our people prophisized that a purple dragon will oen day come to us, and save us. Not just save us, but they would lead us to victory over those who had killed us, and immerse their land into eternal darkness for their crimes agains’t the balance.

By the time I joined my people as a child, this prophecy was already three centuries old. Growing up, this prophecy… felt odd to me. It had an eerie ring to it, a bad feeling that nobody else seemed to feel would make my very bones grow cold. But, I kept this to myself. 

Then, the day came when he appeared.

I was Queen, and I was with my first clutch when that damned purple bastard appeared from the Veil. Oh how my city rejoiced, our savior of legend was here to deliver us from certain death. Nobody was as taken with him than my King, Kurogh. He welcomed him to our city and praised him as a God, and our people worshipped him. All, but me.

Right from the start, I knew his true intentions. He did not care for my people. We were a means to an end, tools for his own goals. He was not sent by our gods, but our gods were… eerily silent about him. Almost as if they could do nothing about him. So I took it upon myself to save my people from his wrath.

that bastard, that honorless, selfish demon…

was Malefor.

Lost Queen : Kruta! Ah yes Kruta, he was one of my closest friends when I was in training. I mentioned him before, but I can happily speak more of him.

He and I got along very, very well. He wanted to become a Professor, which put him in my advanced training unit as myself. I took as many courses possible to gain as much experience as I could, and this put me in a special course that the Queen’s very son was taking part in.

We were both very determined dragons, of course it was expected of him to strive to be the best given that his parents were the King and Queen. I became friends with Raigur’Ja shortly after meeting Kruta, and the two couldn’t be any more different. Kruta and I were often study/training buddies, so we spent a LOT of time together. He was very smart, cunning, but very quick to anger. We didn’t argue much, but when we did, it always resorted to a sparring match. No matter who won, we’d usually go out to a treat shop afterwards, haha xD

I mentioned before that Kruta and Raigur were different… and very much so. Both were very proud dragons, we all hung out from time to time but the two would bicker like mad. Raigur would often try to persuade me from studying to be Queen and to instead become a Silverwing, which would anger Kruta since he mostly thought Silverwings were just arrogant, un-educated meatheads. I can’t tell you how many times they’d fight -n-’

Kruta was my first real Mjol, or ‘boyfriend’, we just got along so well that I ended up truly enjoying the times we spent together. Love was of course heavily frowned upon, but if it hadn’t been, I’m very sure Kruta would have been my first love. 

But sadly… at our very first real battle with a legion of air pirates, Kruta was hit by a missile that blew his head clean off his shoulders. I remember nodding to him, then looking away just as the missile flew by my helmet. It had missed me by a talon, but struck Kruta instead.

For years, I kept one of his feathers as a bookmark for my studybooks. I used it as a reminder to never forget him, to keep going to be the best damn Queen Kurosia ever had. He believed I could do it, he never let up on me when I doubted myself. Even after his death, if I questioned my will, I’d always hear his voice in the back of my mind to never give up. He was my inner training coach, I suppose. Heh, the day I became Queen, I could swear I felt him watching me from the Veil, smiling with pride. 

I found a book during the time Cynder was staying with me that had Kruta’s feather in it. I didn’t tell her, or show her; our relationship was still too fresh for me to share such a tender memory, but oh the joy and happiness I felt when I found it. Sadly, though… the book went missing shortly after, actually quite a few books did. I just believe that I had imagined finding his feather…

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I’ve been wanting to ask this for MONTHS! If all the Kuros are dead (more or less), where is Hysteria going to get her traditional bone jewelry? Grave robbing, or something else? Does Havok get Kurosian jewelry too?

Lost Queen : I had personal reserves of it that I guess Malefor and his apes didn’t find and steal. When I returned to Kurosia, I assumed Malefor took as many bodies with him to use, or he let the apes have them (a horrible fate… no wonder those souls are so lost). I have enough to use for my family, but eventually, they will run out. There might be more in the city for all I know, or in the catacombs, but I dare not look. Havok used to find random bones around the castle as a child, Hiss seems less interested in exploring. So far, I’ve been smart with what I have. The most I’ve used was for Havok’s tails.

Lost Queen : Well there was Talv, but he was the only one I knew of. Very, very mellow dragon from what I remember, worked in the blacksmithing forge down in the city. Beautiful horns, but he didn’t seem to thrilled about them…er, or anything. His family came from a cave-dwelling tribe deep in the Kurosian mountains rumored to have been slain by a pack of Uka, but he, like many who come from slain clans, didn’t speak about it. He seemed to have a sense of humor though, he was really good at telling jokes with a straight face.

I know your people have stories about where the Kurosians came from, but do you have any myths about the origins of dragonkind overall?

Lost Queen : All dragons were born from the will of the cosmos, created by magic. Each has their own take on how their species were born, but we Kuros believed that the original two species were born from darkness and light, to balance the universe between good and evil. Those born to keep the balance for good mastered elements to control, and same for evil. 

Is it possible for a Kuros to be multicolour? Or have different colours of horns/spikes?

Lost Queen : As long as our main scales are black, we have bones of metal, and the Darkness naturally pulses within us; yes. We have many secondary colors; I’ll be honest, I felt quite unique with my fuchsia secondaries. There were plenty of black and red Kuros, or even pink, but purple wasn’t common. 

As for horns; yes to that as well. Different horn colors, and textures, are usually a sign that the Kuros is from a different region of Kurosia. Kuros have many different breeds, the ones I’ve listed are just the most common in Kurosia during the time of my rule. Most Kuros were silver/grey horned, but that was because Kurosia was the main hub while other cities and villages home to the other breeds were eventually wiped out.

Here’s some more info on different bone/horn coloration and texture ((Click Here))