Nyadnar

Nyadnar was a powerful mage living in Zazesspur in the mid-14 century DR. Although living in disguise among humans, she was in fact an amethyst dragon.

Description
In her humanoid form, Nyadnar was of average high and extremely thin, built much like an elf. Her skin was very pale and had no wrinkles. She had long, straight black hair with a widow's peak. Her face was roughly heart-shaped, with high, slanted cheekbones and with a thin nose and lips. Her eyes were the color of dark blue sapphires. She was awesomely beautiful, more so than even an elf, yet she was never seen to smile. She dressed in a velvet robe the color of eyes.

In her true form, as an amethyst dragon, Nyadnar had purple scales and boasted a massive wingspan.

Relationships
Nyadnar had several times employed Zaranda Star's services as an adventuress, but neither woman considered the other a friend.

Nyadnar was the mother of Chenowyn, the apprentice of Zaranda Star.

History
Around the 4 century DR, Nyadnar sat on the council of wyrms while it was discussing what to do about humans. While some members thought it best to annihilate humans, Nyadnar thought instead to somehow join the two races into one, as a way to preserve both races, which inevitably would come into conflict.

So, Nyadnar began many hundreds of years of magical experimentation. The end result was that she figured out a way to impregnate herself while in human form, carried her child for nine months, and gave birth to a daughter, Chenowyn, who&mdash;Nyadnar claimed&mdash;was an entirely new species, an entity simultaneously human and dragon. Nyadnar called her new creation a "ruby dragon".

After ensuring that her child would survive, she dropped the baby off at a Sunite orphanage in Zazesspur, and Chenowyn grew up with no idea that she was even a dragon.