<div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Character:</strong></span></div>Vainrence the Shadow, The One Who Wanders, "Hey, stop him!", "Thief!"<br/><br/><strong>Human:</strong>human  (http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af223/fredb008/johnny-depp.jpg)<br/><strong>Dragon:</strong>dragon  (http://i1010.photobucket.com/albums/af223/fredb008/dragon-violet-3702350aa1_zps9cc6ddee.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Vainrence<br/><strong>Species (Dragon type):</strong>Amethyst<br/><strong>Sex: </strong>Male<br/><strong>Age: (Dragons begin at a bare minimum of 180 yrs. Add 10 years per 1 human year)</strong>200<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Humanoid Appearance:</strong></span></div>Vain is of medium height and build for a Centos, since that is the form he takes more often then not.  Sure, it causes him to have to move around more what with their ridiculously fast aging and all, but they just 'feel' right compared to the elves.   Interestingly enough, Vain's age appears a little older than his human equivalent, but whether that it due to him being an 'old soul', or simply in an a attempt to be taken more seriously (for one reason at least), is open to speculation.<br/><br/>Dark of hair and eyes, Vain's coloring matches that of his dragon form for the most part, his skin almost always carrying the tan of one spending a good amount of time outdoors as he wanders from place to place.  Handsome in a well cultivated rakish sort of way, Vain is not the most stringent of souls when it comes to grooming, more often then not displaying a bit of scruff here or there, the dragon finding the need for humans constant upkeep to be more than a little cumbersome.  Luckily there are few things Vain likes more than a cool dip, so he is often well bathed, although his penchance for cold water often strikes people funny.<br/><br/><strong>Hair: </strong>Dark brown with scattered sun lightened bits<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Brown<br/><strong>Skin:</strong>Tanned<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>180lbs<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'8"<br/><strong>Other:</strong>none<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Centos<br/><br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Information:</span></strong><br/></div><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Vainrence is a rake, a rogue, a scoundrel and is utterly fascinated by the shocking abundance of these lesser races.  Oh sure, he enjoys his time among them, immensely so, but he has not (despite multiple accusations of such) lost fact that they pale in almost every way in comparison to his own kind.  Then again, so do flowers, but that doesn't mean he has to avoid them, or that they don't smell good, right?  Fairly curious and fairly adventurous, he does not really go in for doing things much past 'fairly', Vain has as it was stated above rather loves to wander about from place to place among the various peoples of the world, learning more about them and their strange, strange ways.   Not too much to learn about dragons, in his rarely humble opinion, as they guard their interesting secrets over all else, and that's the juicy bit.  Couple that with the freeness of the two'leggers in all<em>kinds</em>of ways, and well, Vain's choice was clear.<br/><br/>Vain has one true love, so far, and that is of music.  It is the one area he thinks his kind has been left completely behind, and as such he has vowed to master it.  This has, thus far, proven to be a difficult goal, but has given him both a worthy challenge and a reason to explain his near constant wanderings, not to mention a great reason for drinking too much, staying up too late, and finding oneself in the seediest of places more often than not.<br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Vain is member of a small clutch of Amethyst dragons, and surprisingly considering his proclivities, from a rather xenophobic and reclusive set of parents.  This began what would be a long series of difficult encounters with his parents and his few siblings as he was from a rather small clutch.   His early years were quite fine really, learning to fly was a snap, as was learning to shift to his human form.  Alas, Vain's breath weapon has ever been a source of trouble for him, and it was well after the rest of his nest mates had mastered it before he could end up not simply giving himself a mouth glued shut by sticky darkness.   Oh, he got it eventually, but the near constant mockery and teasing about it have caused him to use it very little, and was simply another reason to leave the nest as soon as his wings were dry, or so the saying goes.<br/><br/>For a decade or two after leaving, Vain had still not picked a lair, ate a single virgin, terrorized anyone, or really done much of anything other than eat, sleep and explore.  It was until one fateful day that the young dragon happened to have been sleeping in a quiet grove that his life took a turn for the far better.   Having curled up in a shrunken form to evade discovery as he was rather close to a city of some sort, Vain was awoken to the sound a women moving their voices in the most interesting of ways, accompanied by the gentle strings of a harp.  Instantly awake and even more curious, Vain wrapped a little concealing dark around him and went to investigate.<br/><br/>What the young dragon found was utterly fascinating!  Several women were singing in a glade while one plucked the strings of a wooden contraption, all forming the most beautiful of sounds.  Of course, the fact that they were naked and bathing at the time did not hurt either.   Shifting quickly to his human form, Vain moved out of the brush to greet them, and after the initial startlement (them) and the pelting of fruit and rocks (him), he managed to convince them that he meant no harm and thus began his learning about music (and a few other things as well).<br/><br/>Since that fateful day, Vain has wandered the world, mostly Centos cities, and almost exclusively in his human form (although he still flies from continent to continent as human contraptions can take too bloody long), learning music mostly, but all kind of things about their fascinating cultures as well.   He has not met a dragon in months, a fact that he does not lament much, as the last meeting went rather poorly.<br/><br/><br/><br/>OOC Ons and Offs:<strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 9pt;">Ons &amp; Offs</span></strong>(http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=79348.0)