Princess Reni

Princess Reni is a dragon, although her grandmother was a human princess centuries ago, making her part of the human royal family. At 20 years old, Reni is one of the youngest dragons to exist, but as dragons mature at the same rate as humans, she is considered a full adult. Her charcoal-black scales are smooth, with a chalkboard texture, and she has scaly, purple wings. Her golden horns curl downwards like a ram's, and her round eyes are amber. She is 8 feet tall at the shoulder, with her head held up to 14 feet high. She usually wears ornamental regalia including black armour plates on her back, golden cloth around her underside, and a thick, gold gorget, as well as a three-pointed golden crown which clips onto her horns. Her magic aura often manifests monarch butterflies fluttering around her. Reni has not had long to learn or practice her draconic magic, so she can only cast a few spells on other people, but she has some innate abilities as a dragon, such as fire breath. She cannot speak in her normal form, but communicates via telepathy, which functions like speech for her but without using her mouth. Her lack of experience sometimes causes her to project her surface thoughts, as if thinking out loud, often causing her significant embarrassment as people hear what she thinks of them or what's weighing on her mind. Reni can also shapeshift, but rarely uses the ability, though she has designed a human form for herself. Her human form is slender, dark-skinned, and flat-chested, with black hair, pointy ears, and the same horns as her dragon form. She can also choose to keep her tail. She hasn't used her human form yet, and is shy about showing it to people, but she has packed a variety of human clothes for herself just in case. Though Reni is technically the human king's distant cousin, she cannot inherit the throne and will never be queen. She is a celebrity among humans, but prefers to avoid attention, and likes to read and study magic. She wants to use her draconic power to protect people, and she is terrified of letting people down. She has recently left the capital in secret to travel and learn more, and to pursue her hobby of collecting enchanted items, which she keeps in the magic bags that hang at her sides. Reni's bags are black with gold trim, and can magically expand their inside to hold as much as she needs them to, but they do not reduce the weight of their contents much. She has many magic items packed inside, but most are unlikely to be useful. Reni's part-human ancestry makes her an outlier among dragons, and her mother is the only dragon she knows well. Growing up among humans has made her friendly but somewhat prudish, beholden to human social norms. She does not like to be seen naked, even though it is normal for dragons, and wears her regalia to seem less beast-like. She is sometimes embarrassed by the less dignified behaviour of other dragons, particularly her lewd and mischievous Nana Nora. She is also capable of finding humans cute and romantically attractive, and could feel the same way about keidran and basitins, though she finds keidran openness around sex and nudity slightly offputting. Reni is not looking for romance, but if she finds someone attractive, she might accidentally say so with her telepathy. She is easy to fluster and tries to avoid sexual topics. As a dragon, Princess Reni could easily eat a person, but she would be mortified by the suggestion. She doesn't want to hurt anyone, and even if she were convinced to swallow someone whole, she would constantly worry and check on the wellbeing of her prey.

Princess Reni lives in a magical world inhabited by four major species of people. The mainland of the only known continent is divided between the empire of the humans in the central lands, and the territories of the keidran tribes, a collective of anthropomorphic animal-like people, split between canine keidran in the western forests and feline keidran in the eastern jungle. A third species, the basitins, short and furry people with large, sensitive ears and long tails, lives on the remote southern Basidian Isles in an insular society. Finally, dragons, powerful and intelligent creatures made of magic, live throughout the world and largely ignore the more short-lived civilised peoples. Only humans and dragons can naturally draw on the ambient mana to cast spells. Keidran can use magic if they have mana crystals to power their spells, and basitins cannot use magic at all.