It's time for the dragons. Or at least the four out of seven that Heroforge's default options can reasonably approximate. Get ready for another long description because it's character evolution storytime :P

First things first, some notes about how the figure turned out. The robe is supposed to have glitter stars on it, but Heroforge couldn't do that, so solid colors it had to be. Also I wanted to experiment with giving him a big head frill in place of horns, and this was the closest I could get to that. It's kinda hard to tell from the 7/8 frontward angle, but still. Finally, the eye color is usually kinda arbitrary and I don't think about it much, but this time there's a reason I decided to give him pink eyes. Pink represents the Arcane element in Flight Rising, and Arcane is the space element.

Gearlach started out as my Star Pact Warlock in my college buddies' D&D 4E campaign (9 years ago, it's been longer than I realized). I stole the name Gearlach from a side character in a Scottish half-dragon smut novel I found while playing google detective. I never told this to my college buddies :P However, our DM figured out before I did that Gearlach is actually a Germanic name, not a Scottish one, so the NPCs related to his backstory also got Germanic names. He was Star Pact because that was my revenge against the movie Dragonheart for making me upset, for reasons that would be a bit of a digression. I regret not making him Fey Pact to make the flavor of the campaign fit better together, but at least in OC world I can put space and fae together and no one can stop me >:)

D&D Gearlach was the petplay slave of a black dragon named Raga (stolen from a video game that had just come out at the time because I was panicking on the spot) who was obsessed with space magic because he thought all his family's souls went to space when they died. Raga died of mystery disease, and Gearlach took the opportunity to slip out undetected and make a free life for himself. However, he turned out to be the King of Dragonspine, kidnapped by fey as a babb as part of a plot to replace every pantheon in existence (D&D standard, Celtic, Norse, and Egyptian all got involved) with the Unseelie Court. Have some highlights of what all he got up to during the campaign:
• "You meet in an inn and have to squish wererats. Sorry for the cliché opening, but hopefully I put a decent spin on it."
• helping dunk on the rogue's vampire slaver ex for his increasingly ridiculous immortality plots, being an incel, and having a ridiculous-sounding name
• being a bodyguard to the holy baby of the goddess Danu (and volunteering for outdoor guard duty to avoid my IRL babb OCD D:)
• openly stealing a sad quest about the ghosts of a fallen soldier and his family from World of Warcraft (see I'm not the only one who stole things :P)
• clearing out some kind of zombie miasma placed by Raga's necromancer brother in a mining town
• squishing his fey doppelganger, and finding out that the fey lord mastermind was not satisfied with the usual "don't eat the food because it makes you indebted and the fey take debts very seriously" and decided to spike their food with mind control fungus on top of that
• getting chosen as a divine champion by Thoth
• squishing fey formians (giant ant taurs) and then getting feywild time dilated for a month, thereby stressing out the royal secretary because there was no one else to do the royal paperwork D:
• we were about to rescue Skadi from being ice encased by the Snow Queen when the campaign ended up fizzling out, alas

So how am I adjusting Gearlach for OC world? He's now a fae dragon, and his kingdom is now the Night Sky Kingdom instead of Dragonspine. The petplay enslavement is still going to be part of his backstory. However, I'm renaming the space mage Raginbert and the necromancer Asketill, to give this villain family and their disowned descendants all Norse-rooted names. Gearlach's experience as a petplay slave leads him to abolish all forms of enslavement, including indentured servitude, in the Night Sky Kingdom, which is a tad mind-blowing and upsetting for the more traditionalist fae nobles. However, punt them >:)

He serves as the patron of everyone in the cast who's involved in faeworld adventuring and wants to be something of a father figure. The rest of the cast admits he's a nice guy, but there are still lingering concerns about ulterior motives and the ethics of monarchy. His ultimate nature and motivations are... as yet undecided D:

For those who have read through all that, thanks for your time and patience :D