Aterian the Midnight Scale - Ancient Black Dragon

When Mindoriel was defeated, the dragons who had pledged loyalty to her in exchange for immortality scattered like rats fleeing from flame. Aterian was one of them, burrowing into the depths of Mindoriel’s severed arm, slumbering in a cave deep beneath the ridge where the two bodies of Tharador and Mindoriel collided. For millennia, he has dwelt there, forgotten by time, free from the persecution of the Tharameni. Yet now, something stirs that awakes the beast, and Aterian has roused from their slumber of aeons, ready to unleash her wickedness unto the world again. She has brokered a bargain with the Ilgritharm, the Orcs, creations of Mindoriel who many ages ago were used as tools in her war against Tharador. Now Aterian aims to continue that war, enthralling one of the chieftains of the local tribe, promising them an existence far beyond the meagre one granted to them out of pity by the Tharameni after the war had ended. With the help of the Tharm, Aterian aims to bring a cataclysm to the people of Baldur, and Tharador at large. Those from the Goltragga tribe are her chosen, and will be her fodder in the war to come.