Alteztli

Alteztli crawled out of his egg on a small island in the West. And he was alone; there were no other Dragon Kings around, he wasn't even sure  how his egg had successfully hatched — had his mother died scant hours or days before he broke out? This was a question he would ask himself, but only after over two decades of hunting as a savage beast. Once his sapience returned, he still hunted; indeed, he hunted harder — caught between the Coral Protectorates and the Raksha of the Nacre Whirlpool, it was only his regular and carefully planned attacks on incoming vessels that stopped his island being investigated or worse, settled. He knew of no other Dragon Kings around him, thus he considered that he *must* survive in order that his species would go on, at which point he had to protect himself, and where he lived. As he aged, he ranged further, he ventured onto passing boats (generally killing all those upon them), and attempted to learn of the world. He learned much, but still heard nothing of others of his kind.

He might have stayed there until the world broke, and the wyld rushed into consume him, had he not chose to attack a particular boat. Altezli was on edge; the Fair folk had been stepping up their attacks (what he didn't know was that one of them had finally decided that the tale of fighting the dragon in its lair would be a grand one, and would raise his standing in the court. The boat had but a single passenger, who seemed to be searching the area. Worried his territory might be found, Alteztli attacked. And was almost effortlessly defeated, for the one he attacked was Nazri, the Sidereal best known as the leader of the Independent 'faction'.

Recognising Altezli as a Mosok, Nazri didn't kill him. Indeed, they discussed things at length. Nazri was investigating the upsurge of activity from the Nacre Whirlpool; what Altezli hadn't realised was that his slowly widening attacks had actually driven people away from the area, allowing the wyld to take a stronger hold. Nazri offered him a deal; if he would work with the Sidereal to weaken the Raksha here, then Nazri would take him to meet others of his kind. Altezli lived up to his side of the deal, both assasinating a few key members of the Fae court, and manipulating the locals into coming to the area more by guiding some of them to the money he'd gathered from his kills.

Leaving the area behind him, he went with Nazri to Yu Shan, where he met others of his kind. And yet… still he was not at home, not satisfied. His kin were too bound into their obsession with personal honour and their passionate way of life. Whilst he had memories of previous lives when such things were more important to him, in truth in all his incarnation he'd been less concerned by such things than most of his kind. That, and decades of survival focus had left their mark. He was particularly irritated by the other Yu Shan Dragon Kings' lack of serious attempts to rescue and raise to sentience their Creation living kin.

Nazri convinced him to continue working for him; by protecting the survival of Creation, he would be protecting his species, and by building up the network of favours and influence he could gain in the Bureau of Destiny, he could start to act to help Dragon Kings in Creation. Over time he became a valued agent of Nazri, to the point where the Sidereal gifted him with a custom made Armour of the Unseen Assasin. Not long after that, Nazri introduced him to a Western Goddess he'd worked with on several occasions before, teaming the pair up to deal with a particularly subtle group of Raksha that had infiltrated several Western communities. He liked this goddess, she had a similar passion for protecting Creation, and similar lack of time for unnecessary politicking