#((primarily using “dragon eggs hatch when they're ready and not before because Magic”))

[springvaletales]

((Welp. This mantra didn't work.))

Thoughts about a long-dead NPC who wasn't plot relevant until he got stuck in my head, GO!:

His egg was the last of his clutch to hatch and was the smallest of his siblings when he did, and his parents were worried he wouldn't survive the flight back to a mainland continent; they left him in the care of a friend of theirs (Velenna) for a few more decades while they led their other offspring over the ocean.

They were not seen again, and whenever Vekrom asked Velenna if she knew where they were, she would only give him a sad look.

Vekrom had a dream since his wyrmlinghood of a place where all races could live together and coexist.

He got these ideas from growing up on the Dragon's Eye archipelago; an isolated series of islands in the middle of the ocean where dragons of all colors came to lay their eggs in relative safety and lived under a (very fragile) truce to not cause each other harm.

Vekrom had a very intense interest in learning about other cultures and always badgered other dragons returning to the islands from hunting trips for any information he could get about the other peoples who lived there (he rarely got much).

Though he never called her 'mother', and relied on her more as a good friend and mentor, Vekrom was fascinated by the way the sunrise would flare and filter light through the crystalline structures of Velenna's true form, and would later use this inspiration in the design of the iconography for his future kingdom.

When Vekrom finally decided that he was going to stop waiting for his parents and fly across the ocean to pursue his coexistence dream, he asked Velenna to come with him.

He had ADHD but no-one on Skaadan had met a Brass dragon before and just assumed they were all Like That.

He was a vegetarian until he fell to corruption because he found it too easy to imagine the conversations he could hold with the sheep/cow/hare/etc., and would lose his appetite every time.

He once befriended a Dragonborn mercenary who was sent by a rival to kill him by talking about butterflies for six hours.

Following this, he and Senn-Dugaal would often have intense debates on which of their preferred butterfly species was superior (Senn-Dugaal's beloved Aadi's Eye or Vekrom's favorite Dawnbringer).

He had a ravenous taste for fusion cuisine, and anonymously funded nearly every eatery in his budding kingdom that served such (he'd have done it openly, but Velenna always convinced him to keep it low-key and not make a scene).

((I don't need to develop Vekrom's personality because he's dead. I don't need to develop Vekrom's personality because he's dead. I don't need to develop Vekrom's personality because he's dead. I don't-))