The main characters in the story
Professor Chardon: Professor of Anthropology and Cryptozoology. He took Emilie under his protection when she was just a dragonnette and enabled her to study zoology and then anthropology. He is a member of Leopold's Secret Order and was responsible for watching over the young dragon. He introduced Emilie to the Order after she had proved herself to be a staunch defender of humanity, going to war against Rudia and then discovering her grandmother Tiamat's betrayal.
Luc: a police inspector and Suzanne's husband. He turned heaven and earth to find Emilie and rescue her from Rudia's clutches. He then discovered that Rudia had been manipulated by Tiamat. He also adopted Azur and Ochria. He died when he fell into a trap set by Blackthorne, sacrificing himself to save Emilie, Rudia and the two dragonets. Many soldiers died and the Order was destroyed when Tiamat self-destructed.
Suzanne: Sister of Emilie's mother. Widowed by Luc, she lives on the family farm in Mont. She is a teacher in Houffalize where Emilie began her studies.
Ochria: Red dragoness and Emilie's little sister. Like her brother Azur, she was brought up by Rudia and Tiamat. Not originally human, they were fed human flesh from a very early age, Tiamat wanting to turn them into veritable little demons.
They bit Emilie and tried to devour her, but she escaped and broke off all relations with Rudia. Rudia then realised that she was being manipulated by Tiamat and did not resume the slaughter of Emilie's relatives.
Orchria and her brother Azur were captured by the Order and were due to be executed, but Emilie, in her great kindness, transformed them into humans and left them in an orphanage in Egypt with the children of Rudia's victims. They ate mud and stones and suffered the worst humiliations to finally redeem themselves.
The other orphans taught them humility, respect for others and, above all, empathy. After several years of moral correction, they returned to live with Emilie and Luc, where they live like normal children and teenagers, their past being a trauma.
Emilie adores them but remains vigilant and can be stern when Suzanne is ignored. They have no access to magic, like Emilie who has her grimoire in the form of an inverted scale. It's her big secret, given to her by Tiamat himself.
Azur is Ochria's twin brother. He has blue scales and loves water and everything connected with it. He blows ice, but without magic, it's not lethal. He has a good nature and has always followed Ochria without question.
He has lots of girlfriends and loves going out. He's wary of Emilie, who's jealous of him and his sister, but he adores her. Emilie can change size but not transform into a human. His best friend at the moment is Enzo, a neighbouring friend who is always up to mischief with him. He's part of the Scout unit and on a recent trip, he got noticed by his supervisors by drinking a bunch of Napoleon (3 litres of beer) and dancing in Borat, a thong that went up to his shoulders. He marked his ‘territory’ in the dormitories by urinating on adults' belongings and Enzo did the same. Plus everything else he doesn't say. He helped Enzo a lot by taking off at night to escape the surveillance of the scoutmasters.
Emilie was furious and wanted to take him back to Egypt... but Suzanne and her girlfriends defended Azur. Azur is bored at school because he finds everything too easy and does stupid things to amuse himself and his friends. He's crazy about PlayStation and everything is just an excuse to go out and have fun with his friends.
Emilie feels very alone with him and this sometimes causes sudden and unpredictable anger, especially since Einrich was killed.
Emilie :
Rudia's dragon daughter. She was human and her uncle brought back a geode from Tibet and gave it to Emilie as a decoration. Her mum and dad were crazy about archaeology. During a trip/pilgrimage to Lourdes for her communion, Emile went with her family on an excursion to the Pyrenees. At the top of the mountain she and her boyfriend cycled back down, their parents preferring to take the cable car back down. They never arrived. That's how she lost her parents and the grandparents who accompanied them. Rudia massacred them, tracking the family to the ends of the earth.
Emilie was adopted by her aunt and her other uncle Luc and Suzanne, her mum's sister.
She was diagnosed with incurable leukaemia and died when she stumbled across the geode, which was in fact Rudia's unviable egg.
Emilie ended up in the egg and Rudia destroyed Suzanne's house and took the egg to her lair in Tibet. Emile did not accept his dragon mother, who finally gave in (with Tiamat's help) and took Emilie back to her family, obliging her to share 50% of her time with Rudia and 50% with her family. Rudia gave in in the face of Emilie's suicide attempts, as she had kept her human soul in a dragon's body. Emilie would have had a big brother like Azur if her uncle (not Luc) hadn't caused the dragonet's death, driving Rudia mad with rage.
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Emilie now works at the university, increasingly replacing Professor Chardon. She has lots of friends and has been made a Dragon Knight by the King of Belgium and the King of Spain. She destroyed the were-dragon network with the help of the Order and put an end to Tiamat's mad plans.
Blackthorne: Idiot son of Tiamat, pretending to be the Emperor in an alternate reality, another Earth and another world (Arcadia). He was the black head of Tiamat and could merge with his mother (black head) at will. He was a powerful and terrible dragon whose only role model was Tiamat. For him, Tiamat was the only one who knew, even if there was no logic to it.
He captured Daathr when she was most vulnerable, as well as the 3 other dragonesses. The dragoness daughter of Daathr and the 2 monstrotank daughters of the Leviathan Daathr.
Daathr understood the system straight away and Blackthorne became Daathr's man, manipulating Tiamat and himself in the process. With nothing left to do on Arcadia, peace restored and the humans free from the dark elves, Daathr was all-powerful. But Tiamat, in a fit of madness wanting to find his missing daughter (an imaginary daughter who was in reality only Daathr) launched his old ship repaired with parts from Daathr's mobile base and as it was not well done because it was based on magic instead of science, a cataclysm occurred, causing fatal injuries to all occupants except Tiamat, who was invulnerable to physical attacks.
To save Daathr, Discor, Excavator, Savannah and Blackthorne, she swallowed them to reincarnate them later. Blackthorne, being viable, remained under Tiamat's influence and followed her Machiavellian plans to obtain plutonium to relaunch the ship and reunite with her imaginary daughter - until they were defeated.
The dying Blackthorne was swallowed (his soul) by Tiamat and is now part of the dragonet siblings.
Discor: Daughter and General of Daathr. She was born a Monstrotank, an abominable weapon. Able to change from human to dragon form, she fell in love with a bard.
She holds a grudge against Excavator, who killed her boyfriend. While searching for her missing mother and Excavator, she was captured by Blackthorne and handed over to Tiamat. Tiamat used her as a hostage to guarantee Daathrr's obedience.
She is now the sister of Daathr and Blackthorne, reincarnated on earth by Tiamat. Earth is another world to her.
She can take on the appearance of a very powerful tank, armed with a monstrous circular saw that can slice through anything like butter. She is also equipped with powerful anti-aircraft laser cannons. It is impervious to physical attacks. She can take on the appearance of an extremely beautiful human, but cannot hide all her draconic attributes. She keeps her horns and tail in human form and a few scales on her face.
Excavator: Diskor's sister. She has the same attributes as her sister, but specialises in transporting troops and digging tunnels. She can cut through the hardest rock at high speed without being slowed down. It can leave a tunnel behind and its main weapon is its absolute defence. She can even float and navigate through magma. Her main weapon is a flamethrower and is a disaster in urban warfare.
She is as beautiful as Discor, but sometimes acts before she thinks, like killing Discor's partner, who has never forgiven her. Now that they have a new life together, she hopes that all the tables will be turned and that she'll find her sister just as she was before, loving and kind.
Savannah (me? a Dragon? NEVER!): Plane crash survivor. On holiday, she flew across the Atlantic to join her mum in Bristol, England. Daathr was on a cargo ship fishing for tuna, which he loved. Satellite parts in the cargo hold activated and generated square waves, which disrupted the plane's orientation. Trying to avoid a cumulonimbus, he flew straight into it, his instruments out of adjustment because of the satellite transmitter in the hold. The plane broke in two and crashed into the ocean. Only Savannah survived, but her injuries were impossible to treat. She was cut in two and bleeding to death. Daathr arrived on the scene and decided to swallow the poor child and dragonise her. Daathr was accused of murder and lost all his support and human rights. The trials were harsh and cruel, but he did not use his powers to become a true paladin reborn. From the beast of the apocalypse he became a quasi-apostle in the service of the Vatican to eradicate the forces of evil.
When Daathr laid the egg containing Savannah, she was returned to her human mother as if by a miracle. But when she reached puberty, she became a red dragon despite all her efforts to fight against her draconic blood. She lost all her friends and discovered that they were in the service of the Order. Mind you, it's a different land from now. She fled from the dragon hunters because she had stolen sacred relics in the belief that they could turn her back into a human.
Wounded and hunted, she followed the instructions left by Daathr and with a few faithful stragglers they found an Eagle, a shuttle left on purpose to join the ark built by the Vatican, which had already left.
The ship came under fire and was damaged, but her draconic body was able to withstand the cold of space and make makeshift repairs to join the Cygnus, a state-of-the-art vessel designed and built by the last faithful members of the Vatican, to escape the apocalypse that was about to begin. She was rescued a second time by Daathr and captured by Blackthorne when Daathr had disappeared. She suffered the same fate as Daathr and has just hatched again at the marina.