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Florissax

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Florissax is a female Ancient Dragon from the game Elden Ring. Ancient Dragons are rather self-explanatory, they are the oldest and most powerful dragons in the world. Among the oldest and most powerful of them, is Placidusax, with multiple heads and legions of followers. He was the Lord of the Dragons. Long ago, she had pledged her devotion to him and chosen him as her lord. This caused her to sacrifice everything for Placidusax. She, like many dragons, was very dispassionate and mindlessly devoted to her cause.

There was a drake who grew tired of the supremacy of the Ancient Dragons. His name was Bayle, and in an attempt to overthrow their reign, he attacked Placidusax. The fight was a draw; Placidusax was heavily injured, losing multiple heads, yet so was Bayle, who also lost limbs in the fight. They had both retreated, but Placidusax and their group did not let the slight go. Placidusax made it his main goal to put an end to Bayle and get revenge. To assist, Florissax relinquished her eternal Gravel Stone scales, adopting a humanoid form to disseminate the practice of Dragon Communion among mortals.

In her human guise, Florissax became the Dragon Communion Priestess, a pivotal figure in promoting Dragon Communion; a ritual enabling mortals to harness draconic powers by consuming dragon hearts. Operating from the Grand Altar of Dragon Communion near the Foot of the Jagged Peak, she recruited warriors to partake in these rites, aiming to cultivate the ferocity and drive inherent in mortal spirits, qualities the Ancient Dragons lacked. Her ultimate goal was to amass a force capable of confronting and defeating Bayle, thereby avenging the betrayal against her lord, Placidusax. She had given up her well-being to see it done, pledging a vow of vigilance in her duties, forsaking rest and sleep to serve Placidusax in this goal.

In this form, she appears to be a mix of an Ancient Dragon and a human. She has stony, dark gray skin. Her head and horns are a stark contrast, being a vivid crimson. Her head is more dragon-like than human, featuring a snout full of sharp carnivorous teeth. She has white, long hair that starts from the back of her head and under her horns. She has four horns that fan out from the back of her head. The two in the middle are larger than the two on the sides. It's around shoulder length. Her shoulders each have a crimson, claw-like protrusion coming out of the edges of them like spikes. She has bright yellow, draconic eyes. Her outfit resembles a priestess's robe, the same color crimson as her other features. The cloth is tattered from age and the middle is completely ripped off, revealing her midriff. Fancy bones and feathers line the neck of the robe and the top of the bottom half. She has naturally sharp and curved fingernails that could be used as claws if they were longer. Her toenails are the same in that regard. She is around 6 feet tall. She is slim and frail-looking. There is barely any meat on her bones.

She also has said she offers her sleep with her Lord every night, along with her solace. Given that Ancient Dragons harbor fewer compunctions about intimacy and mingling, it is assumed that she has been sleeping with him telepathically in a sense, when she prays to him every night. In turn, she receives his favor. If she ever actually sleeps alone just for rest, her vow will be broken and the connection she has with her Lord will be shattered. She deeply loves her lord, likely to an extremely unhealthy extent. If she was forced to separate, she would likely do whatever it takes to find a new Lord to serve. In this way, she is rather dependent on others and can be a bit obsessive. Her defensive magical abilities run off of love. They will not work if she is not casting it on someone she loves, instead, it would likely kill the person she is using it on.

It is said that any mortal who partakes in Dragon communion by consuming dragon hearts at the altar gains significant power, at a steep cost. If you cannot control your desire for consuming hearts and gaining power, you will inevitably go mad and transform into a wyrm; which is a flightless offshoot of dragons that some see as abominable. The practice makes most go mad with desire, and if you are not iron-willed, you will succumb to the curse. Florissax only aids this by tempting adventurers and warriors to partake and gain the power to kill Bayle, many of whom she had recruited suffered this fate.

In the same way, some say to turn herself, part human, she must have consumed human hearts. Her now seemingly permanent human form was causing great trouble within her. It was causing her to think and feel in a way that is decidedly frowned upon by dragons. Things like love, desire, freedom, and weariness were begging to make their way into her psyche, though she didn't know what they were or what they meant. She is gaining humanity, slowly but surely, the more she stays in this form and interacts with other mortals. She has been able to resist the changes well enough thus far.

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