Severac¶
"Is everything OK Magister Uita?" — Severac to his assistant, in the dreams of Inwe (S031)
Severac was a wizard of the Fifth Age who found a way to bring dragon eggs to maturity without a Primal Dragon. His device, the Dracius Cradle, bred several silver and platinum dragons, among them Ithcaricotyl, the platinum dragon now allied with Proturas. He died in the Hollantine Hills, among the followers of Arya who fought the red Primal Vixseranyol. Everything known of him comes from the dreams of the ascendant Inwe.
Also called: Severuc (S040, which uses both spellings).
The dragon-egg treatment¶
Severac "has been working on a way for dragon eggs to develop without a Primal. It's an alchemically prepared magical treatment for drake eggs which will allow them to develop into full dragons" (S031, S071). He kept a small laboratory at the top of "a wide set of spiral stairs". Inwe served him in disguise, as a young woman in a blue robe whom he knew as Magister Uita, and fetched his reagents. One of them was a bone he could not account for: "extraordinarily it appears to be a titan fragment." She already knew he needed it, and he said "it will almost certainly be an improvement, but he can't fathom where you found it." She answered that "finding things which are impossible to find is your specialty." Before she left she laid a suggestion on him "which impels Severac to bathe off the free energy from the concoction before doing anything else" (S031).
The finished work was the Cradle, called in the notes "Severuc's Dracius Cradle". Severac described it to Inwe as "a conduit and amplifier for the energies of primal dragons." Given "a small sample of primal dragon essence and another elemental power source (such as from the titan fragment) it is able to focus and amplify the primal dragon energy to the point where Severuc believes the egg will develop into a dragon." He tested it first on a platinum dragon egg (S040).
Inwe asked whether the corrupted dragons could be kept from using it. Severac said they could not: he "has no way of differentiating between primal dragon energies, which means it can work on any primal dragon energy, including the corrupted dragons." Inwe judged the risk worth taking and promised to found an order of Aryic knights to guard the Cradle, its eggs and the dragons they produced: the Knights of the Dragon Lotus, whose symbol is "a silver colored LOTUS with a golden center shaped like dragon" (S040).
The treatment worked: "He does eventually succeed and it is used to breed several Silver and Platinum dragons" (S031, S071). The Cradle outlived him. In the present of the Proturan campaign it has been modified by the warlock Valtor for the Circle of Eternity; its later history is on the Cradle's own page.
Death¶
Severac was at the counterattack on Vixseranyol in the Hollantine Hills during the Hollowing. Inwe woke on "the crest of a blackened hill" among "the charred and burning corpses of your fallen allies: priests and priestesses, paladins of the Raven, even the wizard, Severac did not survive" (S031, S071). The battle itself is told on the Hollowing page.
Ithcaricotyl¶
Ithcaricotyl is one of the dragons bred by Severac's method: "One of these dragons, Ithcaricotyl, is now an adult Platinum dragon allied with Proturas" (S031, S071). The Proturas page counts it as one of the two dragons that shape the city's fortunes, with Vixseranyol's corpse beneath the city.
Gap
Nothing more is said of Ithcaricotyl: not whether it hatched from the platinum egg that was the Cradle's first test, nor its age, its lair, its rider or patron, or what its alliance with Proturas involves.
Gap
The sources give no date for Severac's work, his people or origin, where his laboratory was, or why he joined the war against Vixseranyol. A planned dream titled "The Hunt - stolen dragon-egg formula" is listed in S031 but was never written, so how the formula or the Cradle left Arya's keeping is unknown.