#my random artificer dragonborn/dragonkin

[sad-deads-stories-dump]

Ighrix Garthyuxt Elywr Drinhps'xy or as he's commonly known: Ighi, is a Dragonkin from an ancient and obscure dragon lineage, known as Nakarkos, they are a species of sea squid dragons and thus Ighi spent most of his life at sea.

Ighi left his clan very young, the reason is unknown even to himself since he has mostly fuzzy memories of his time there, as far as he remembers, he has been living adrift and nomadic for a long time, learning to travel, to hunt, to fight, to survive and specially how to procure the means and ingredients necessary to cure his wounds and ailments, as is he had some previous knowledge of some of those ingredients, but he was certain that he never dabble in herbalism.

While drifting aimlessly in the sea, he was approached by an elderly couple of sea elves that were curious about seeing a creature involved in bones, he explained that it is kind of a habit for protecting himself, he sticks them around his body courtesy of the mucus that he secreted, creating some sort of exoskeleton (pun intended), after some time chatting and learning about him and his travels, the couple offered him to stay at their village for some time until he finds a place to stay.

At first the people of the village were skeptic about his presence, not that it was surprising since his kin has close to nonexistence in the world, the first years he hid his mouth using his tentacles and a mask made of bones of the creatures he hunted, since the folk on the village kept staring at it, and it was freaking out some of the young, he mostly helped the elderly couple and the leaders of the Carran Ebrathru (Dreamfriend) village, since his knowledge of herbs would prove most helpful for their transactions.

The village was quite famous for getting ingredients below and on the side of the islands, as such, in the surface there's an outpost for both trading and for tired sailors to rest a bit, Ighi helped with negotiating the prices since having knowledge of how rare they are and for what are they used for helps to find a fairer price, as he worked more and more with them, he stated learning a bit more of elvish through the continuous conversations with the villagers and some of the sailers, until he was as fluent as they were.

One day, after helping negotiate with a trader whose ship was full of crates, Ighi got curious about the ingredients they wanted since they all seemed like reagents for potions, the trader was impressed that he knew that so easily, and as such gave an old book teaching the ways of an artificer who dwells in alchemy, to say that he was intrigued was an understatement.

He spent the following years learning from that book learning about infusions, using magic through his tools, leaning how to make elixirs and dwell in the alchemical ways, creating simple cures for the folk around the village and even some antidotes and remedy for the people that came to the outpost needing help, this opened up a hole new way for the village to profit and grow, he started to take requests for specific potions and so became the local alchemist of the Ebrathru village.

On his 26th birthday, he was tasked by one of the head chiefs to gather some specific ingredients in some far away islands, when he got back the whole village was silent, no one insight until he heard the sound of a small boat horn and went to investigate, what he found on the docks of the outpost was the entire village together to celebrate his anniversary, the festivities divine, the young were playing with Ighi and the toys he made for them, the rest laughing, drinking eating and sometimes testing their might on barrel throw, Ighi was always terrible at that.

Later that day, a more melancholic tone took the festivities, since Ighi came to the village they grew so much both in reputation and riches, and so they felt in dept to him, as such they talked to that old alchemist he got the book from and bought his old small boat, and now it was his boat, docked at the outpost, Ighi did sometimes say that he wanted to explore more and become an even greater alchemist, but never expected that, it was a simple but effective boat, inside there was a living quarter, an alchemical station in a separate room and a kitchen, most of the storage was in waterproofed barrels floating on the side and behind the ship.

And so, the next morning, he packed all his stuff, give a heartfelt hug to everyone, a small and simple present (a small statute of the three together) to the old couple that helped him and went to his boat, after a tearful goodbye, he said: "When I come back, I'll bring marvelous gifts for everyone! In a bigger and better boat!" and sailed away.