Phoenicious

Phoenicious was an elemental dragon associated with the element of fire. He was the teacher of Draco Taller when Draco became a pyrokinetic Dragon heir.

 Characteristics 

Race: Dragon

Abilities: Pyrokinesis, Flight, Teleportation, Time Travel, Shapeshifting, Memory Erasure and Restoration, Dimension Creation, Power Bestowal

Gender: Male

Appearance

When in dragon form: A burnt-orange dragon about fifteen feet tall with a wingspan of about thirty feet.

When in humanoid form: A dark-skinned man with an orange beard and hair, whose skin seems to glow.

 Personal Information 

Born: 986 AD

Died: 2026 AD

Alignment: Good

Relationships

Draco Taller: student

Gust, Aquinta, Terro: comrades

History

Phoenicious was born three hundred years before the Dragon War, when all but him and three other dragons were wiped out by the humans. Phoenicious, along with Terro, Gust, and Aquinta, fled to underpopulated areas of the world, and created the Elemental Realms to save themselves and their species. After hiding in his specific realm, the fire realm, for a few hundred years, Phoenicious discovered his ability to time travel. He also discovered his ability to shapeshift and created his humanoid form so he could walk among humans and observe if they had changed during the aftermath of the war. Phoenicious found that not all humans were vicious, hateful creatures, and met with the other three dragons about revealing themselves to the humans. Aquinta outright rejected this, but agreed on creating a hidden alliance, by bringing one human to one of their realms every hundred years. This human would become the student of one of the dragons, learn their ways, and eventually would be gifted supernatural abilities and would return to the human world. The title for this human is the Dragon Heir.

The only known dragon heir selected by Phoenicious is Draco Taller.

The Scorion King

Because Phoenicious felt it was the duty of him and his students to protect the human world from external threats, so when the Scorion King began rising to power in Frentwee, he grew concerned. When the Scorion King declared his plan to attack Belle Riviere, Phoenicious traveled directly Frentwee and attempted to stop him. Phoenicious lost, and was severely injured. He returned to the Fire Realm to nurse his injuries, and healed himself successfully, but remained too weak to teleport out of the F and focused his attention on his former student Draco Taller, whose memory of the Fire Realm had been wiped. Phoenicous spoke to Draco in a dream, and returned his memories. Later, when Draco encountered a decoy of The Scorion King, he summoned Phoenicious, and together, along with Aveleen, Frank, and Layla, they fought the decoy. Upon discovering it was not the real Scorion King, Phoenicious decided the only way to stop the King was to send Draco and Layla's consciousnesses backwards in time, into the bodies of their younger selves, to destroy the King's egg as a baby. However, Layla decided she couldn't bring herself to destroy the egg, and instead left it to die in the forest. Unfortunately, this plan backfired. The egg still hatched, and, forced to survive on its own, the Scorion King became stronger than ever before. This led to an alternate timeline in which, instead of merely injuring Phoenicious in the battle at Frentwee, the Scrion King killed him. The Scorion King then journeyed to Belle Rivier, much faster than he had been able to before, and took over the city. When Layla, Draco, and Phoenicious returned to the present, they disovered a post-apocalyptic Belle Rever, filled with alternate versions of people they had known. Phoenicious died shortly after returning to the present, uttering the final words "he still lives", and dissolving into a pile of ash.

As an elemental fire dragon native to Europe, Phoenicious' abilities aligned with what European dragons are generally thought of doing; he could fly and breathe fire. Like most other dragons, he was also a shapeshifter, and had a humanoid form he used sometimes when interacting with humans.

Unique among the Elemental dragons (as opposed to other subspecies of dragon), Phoenicious also possessed the ability to create elemental pocket dimensions into which he could retreat, as well as bringing other beings into them. Inside the Fire Realm, Phoenicious had full control over

Phoenicious' most powerful ability was a technique reserved for only a select few beings throughout history with the strongest connections to the Astral Plane. He was able to transmit the consciousness of himself and other beings backwards and forwards in time across the astral plane, into the bodies of their younger and older selves. To be able to use this ability, a certain state of mind is required that eliminates all selfish and malicious desires, so if he even thought of using this power for something not intended by the universe itself, he would instantly lose it. Thus, Phoenicious never used this ability to reverse the outcome of the Dragon War, because he believed that the invalidation of all history that had happened since the end of the war was a selfish desire. He also believed that the war was inevitable, and that there was nothing his past self could've done to prevent it.

Phoenicious only used this technique once in his life, when he sent Draco and Layla back in time to destroy the Scorion King's egg. He believed this was a necessary change in history, because it would save countless human and scorions from their demis. While the outcome of this change initially seemed to make things worse, it ultimately allowed for the defeat of the Scorion King and thus served its purpose. It was also the opposite of a selfish desire, as the change resulted in Phoenicious' death.