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The one thing that makes the Temnokt unique from other dragons is their mastery of the Dark Arts. No one really knows how they first acquired it, but an old Krussian legends says that the first Temnokt that ever existed, a young drake named Burning Moonlight, encountered dark magic books and was instantly enhanced by them. Judging by the old legend, the black magic is what gave the Temnokt their characteristic dark color and hair. All Temnokt Clans have the characteristical sickly green sclera and purple mist flowing from their eyes, as well as the aura surrounding their main pair of horns wherever they're using dark magic. On a few occasions, their pupils turn red.

The use of the dark magic varies from Clan to Clan.

Newly-hatched infants tend to have 'strange magic surges that come and go', often involving telekinesis to grab something far out of their reach. Other types of magic are rare, but some hatchlings have been seen using dark magic by accident when playing with pets, which has made elder Temnokt recommend not to have a hatchling in the same household as a pet until they have reached the 'yearling' state and they have been taught how to properly use their magic.

The Shadowbite clan especializes in illusionary spells, and some of them claim 'playing with minds of humans is much more fun than simply torture them physically; they're famous for their 'Night Terror' spell, in which they show their victim their worst fear for their amusement. However, this spell is actually a defense method; if they feel threatened or cornered by a mob of angry humans, the Temnokt would use this spell to show them what they fear the most, and escaped while the humans attempt to 'escape'. Also, they have developed spells to take a human guise; they freely walk around a human town while radiating dark magic from their scales in order to trick people into thinking they're a normal human. However, they magic does not extend to their shadows, which remains the same.

Whiphunts are rather passive, and their magic is exclusively for natural purposes. They're the most famous Temnokt animal breeders, using their dark magic to enhance the pets they breed physically, mentally and emotionally to then ship them to the other Clans, giving birth to the rumor they are able to speak the Animal Tongue. The Whiphunts can also control plant life at will, being able to aid withering plants back to life, feel the 'pain' of a tree whose branches have been broken by the use of aura reading, and conjuring thorny plants to defend themselves. Whiphunts are also famous for their impenetrable protection spells, but the catch is that they must be constantly keeping it functioning, to the point they cannot even sleep.

Windstalker magic is often based on hydrokinesis, and the clarity of the element has given them the ability to see through a person's soul like a pond of water, and they can detect when a person has good intentions or not. Their healing spells have no comparison, begin based on hydrokinesis as well, and it consists on using the properties of water (which they 'bend' unto the wound using their dark magic)to heal a wound in a matter of seconds (or minutes, depending on the severity of the wound). However, this only works on physical wounds, not illnesses (that especialty is for the Whiphunt Clan).

Temnokt fire has been called a 'cold fire that burns away life' by humans. It is, in fact, cold eat human touch, but it does not burn life away unless the used desires. In the most harmless cases, it doesn't feel like actual fire, but more like an illusion created by the Temnokt. IT can be dangerous, however, since when the user is defending himself, the dark fire will have no limits in burning everything in its path to ashes.

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According to the Temnokt themselves, the dark magic 'sentient', sometimes coming to their aid when they have not even summoned it (Eg. If an human archer fires an arrow at an unaware Temnokt, the dark magic will create a protective barrier of Obsidian crystal to protect its host). Also, the dark magic has been insider the Temnokt's system for so much time that it would be impossible to drive it out from their system, since the dark magic would get possession of its host's body to attack anyone wielding white magic nearby, and get to safety before receding and allowing its hosts consciousness to return (since Temnokt had to be heavily sedated in order to attempt the purification).

Description
The one thing that makes the Temnokt unique from other dragons is their mastery of the Dark Arts. No one really knows how they first acquired it, but an old Krussian legends says that the first Temnokt that ever existed, a young drake named Burning Moonlight, encountered dark magic books and was instantly enhanced by them. Judging by the old legend, the black magic is what gave the Temnokt their characteristic dark color and hair. All Temnokt Clans have the characteristical sickly green sclera and purple mist flowing from their eyes, as well as the aura surrounding their main pair of horns wherever they're using dark magic. On a few occasions, their pupils turn red.

The use of the dark magic varies from Clan to Clan.

Newly-hatched infants tend to have 'strange magic surges that come and go', often involving telekinesis to grab something far out of their reach. Other types of magic are rare, but some hatchlings have been seen using dark magic by accident when playing with pets, which has made elder Temnokt recommend not to have a hatchling in the same household as a pet until they have reached the 'yearling' state and they have been taught how to properly use their magic.

The Shadowbite clan especializes in illusionary spells, and some of them claim 'playing with minds of humans is much more fun than simply torture them physically; they're famous for their 'Night Terror' spell, in which they show their victim their worst fear for their amusement. However, this spell is actually a defense method; if they feel threatened or cornered by a mob of angry humans, the Temnokt would use this spell to show them what they fear the most, and escaped while the humans attempt to 'escape'. Also, they have developed spells to take a human guise; they freely walk around a human town while radiating dark magic from their scales in order to trick people into thinking they're a normal human. However, they magic does not extend to their shadows, which remains the same.

Whiphunts are rather passive, and their magic is exclusively for natural purposes. They're the most famous Temnokt animal breeders, using their dark magic to enhance the pets they breed physically, mentally and emotionally to then ship them to the other Clans, giving birth to the rumor they are able to speak the Animal Tongue. The Whiphunts can also control plant life at will, being able to aid withering plants back to life, feel the 'pain' of a tree whose branches have been broken by the use of aura reading, and conjuring thorny plants to defend themselves. Whiphunts are also famous for their impenetrable protection spells, but the catch is that they must be constantly keeping it functioning, to the point they cannot even sleep.

Windstalker magic is often based on hydrokinesis, and the clarity of the element has given them the ability to see through a person's soul like a pond of water, and they can detect when a person has good intentions or not. Their healing spells have no comparison, begin based on hydrokinesis as well, and it consists on using the properties of water (which they 'bend' unto the wound using their dark magic)to heal a wound in a matter of seconds (or minutes, depending on the severity of the wound). However, this only works on physical wounds, not illnesses (that especialty is for the Whiphunt Clan).

Temnokt fire has been called a 'cold fire that burns away life' by humans. It is, in fact, cold eat human touch, but it does not burn life away unless the used desires. In the most harmless cases, it doesn't feel like actual fire, but more like an illusion created by the Temnokt. IT can be dangerous, however, since when the user is defending himself, the dark fire will have no limits in burning everything in its path to ashes.

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According to the Temnokt themselves, the dark magic 'sentient', sometimes coming to their aid when they have not even summoned it (Eg. If an human archer fires an arrow at an unaware Temnokt, the dark magic will create a protective barrier of Obsidian crystal to protect its host). Also, the dark magic has been insider the Temnokt's system for so much time that it would be impossible to drive it out from their system, since the dark magic would get possession of its host's body to attack anyone wielding white magic nearby, and get to safety before receding and allowing its hosts consciousness to return (since Temnokt had to be heavily sedated in order to attempt the purification).