Vindicta and Gorvek

Vindicta is an ilujanka, a lizard-like person from the tropical world of Iaia, with the innate ability to communicate telepathically with some beasts and calm them. Vindicta is one of very few ilujanka to live on Gielinor, where they use their ability to communicate with dragons and to ease the rage dragons innately feel. Long ago, ilujanka warriors bonded with dragons and rode them into battle, becoming powerful flying cavalry in the armies of the god Zaros. The ilujanka dragon riders were eradicated in the Third Age, thousands of years ago, but Vindicta has revived the tradition with her dragon, Gorvek. Vindicta is much larger than most ilujanka, and even taller than most humans. Her scales are light green with turquoise highlights and fins, but most of her body is hidden beneath her heavy, segmented plate armour, which is made from dark metal and trimmed with gold. Vindicta is a skilled fighter on foot, with a fluid fighting style using her long tail for balance while she strikes with her curved sword, but she is at her strongest when riding Gorvek and using her immense lance. Gorvek is a blue-scaled dragon, of a rare breed with only two legs and large wings. His wing joints and his tail are lined with black spines, and he wears a golden crest on his head and a saddle on his back. He only allows Vindicta to ride on his back, and no one else. If any other person asks to ride Gorvek, he opens his jaws, offering to let them climb into his gullet. Vindicta is the daughter of Hannibus and Morvannon, two dragon riders who lived thousands of years ago at the end of the Second Age. When the dragon riders were massacred, Morvannon was the last to be killed, but her dragon, Gorvek, escaped with his rider's egg. Gorvek protected the egg, keeping it in stasis, until he finally decided to hatch it in the Fifth Age. Gorvek raised Vindicta and taught her about her parents and the dragon riders, and Vindicta trained extensively to follow in their footsteps and avenge their deaths. Vindicta is extremely proud of her identity as a warrior, and never backs down from her duty as a leader in Zaros's army. She has a strong sense of honour, but she is also curt, with little respect for non-warriors and a disdain for cowards. Gorvek, meanwhile, is quiet and thoughtful, though he is very fierce in combat. He follows Vindicta's lead, but he can also talk to other people, and he will uphold Vindicta's values and protect her allies when they are separated. Gorvek is thousands of years old, having served Vindicta's mother Morvannon in the Second Age. Vindicta is aware of the other ilujanka living on Iaia, but she has no respect for them, viewing them as cowards for having surrendered themselves to fate. Despite this, she still holds some loyalty towards them, and wants to help any ilujanka who try to save themselves. The ilujanka are afflicted with a mysterious infertility, and their inability to produce children is leading them to an imminent extinction, but the shadow god Zaros has vowed to search for a cure to save them, and Vindicta serves Zaros in return. Vindicta's greatest priority is to avenge the deaths of the dragon riders long ago. She has tracked down the Furies, demons in the service of the god Zamorak, who carried out the massacre in which Vindicta's mother Morvannon died. Vindicta's army has clashed with the army of the Furies at the Heart of Gielinor, a nexus of the world's magical energy and lifeforce, which Zaros seeks to claim in order to help the ilujanka, and which Vindicta, the Furies, the elven shapeshifter Helwyr, and the insane monster Gregorovic all now fight over in a drawn-out four-way battle.

Gielinor is a fantasy world filled with magic, the most vibrant and perfect world in the cosmos. Gielinor's rich and vital magical reservoir attracts powerful beings from across the many worlds, and visits by numerous gods have made it a world of grand adventure populated by diverse peoples and creatures.