Eldenser

Eldenser, called "the Lurker" and "the Worm Who Hides in Blades", was a great wyrm amethyst dragon known for his magical ability to "jump" his sentience from blade to blade, which he used to travel Faerûn while his body lay magically preserved and protected in a crypt within the City of the Dead below Waterdeep.

Description
Few witnesses had ever actually seen Eldenser in his true dragon form, but all reports agreed that he was male and, by the mid-to-late 14 century DR, he appeared absolutely ancient, even decrepit, with a body that seemed emaciated, frail, and moving wearily. His scales had paled nearly to white and his wings had become not much more than shreds dangling between their fingers. He had an array of white spines on his chin, giving the impression of a beard, and similar white spines over his eyes resembling tufted eyebrows. He had extra-large eyes, described to be both very wise and " twinkling with inner amusement".

Personality
Eldenser was a loner, preferring to avoid the company of other dragons. He was wanderer, rarely staying in one place, even before he gained the power to separate his mind from his body. He was free-spirited, friendly, easily amused, and ever-curious about the world around him. His favorite things to observe were things of beauty and the effect of love on people. He preferred to avoid combat, yet was a formidable foe if provoked. He had a great love of riddles and puzzles.

Eldenser enjoyed meat from the great cats but would settle for cattle. He also enjoyed human delicacies, such as cheese and wine. Strangely, he could even gain nourishment from blood on the blades he inhabited.

Abilities
Eldenser had all of the powers and psionic abilities of an amethyst dragon, but his most memorable ability was his magical means of transport. He had learned a spell that could transport his mind into the blade of any metal slashing weapon. From within the blade, he could see, hear, taste, and even speak&mdash;though he was most often a silent observer.

Eldenser had also mastered a few other rare spells. As one example, he knew a spell to surround himself with a bright and deadly ring of blue-white energy.

Activities
In his younger days, before learning his steelsteal spell, Eldenser was a wanderer, traveling around the Sword Coast North seemingly without aim. In truth, he was learning everything he could about life.

His fascination with life changed over time into a fascination with learning how to extend it. He was a seeker of Ossavitor's Way, a secret to eternal life said to have been discovered by the dragon Ossavitor. While apparently un-rushed and leisurely, Eldenser had been actively seeking the magical components for the procedure that would allow him to live forever in three separate dragon bodies.

Relationships
Eldenser was said to have had alliances with the Simbul, Syluné, and Dove Falconhand.

It was believed that he had never taken a lover, being a loner all his life, though he traveled with many female human and elven adventuresses over his life and formed many friendships, but outlived all of them.

History
A personal history of Eldenser the dragon was unknown; rather, he was a figure of bard tales, little-known legends, and historical records appearing all around the North and dating back to at least the 8 century DR. Much of this seemed due to his habit of staying hidden and occupying blades, and only showing himself when he wished it.

Nevertheless, Eldenser was known to be a lone wanderer in his younger days, traveling around Faerûn and especially the Sword Coast North seemingly without purpose or pattern. In truth, as became clear from his later habits, he was simply doing what he loved: learning everything he could about life. The earliest sighting described the dragon as aged and frail even then.

Once, Eldenser trespassed into the territory of Lorragauth, a very old black dragon who'd decided to devastate his own domain when he felt death approaching. Spying the Lurker, Lorragauth swooped to attack. However, as he spread his wings to arrest his descent and reorient himself for a deadly pounce, Eldenser either calmly beat his wings once, rolled and rose abruptly under his foe's right wing  or veered away in the final instant. Either way, the action ripped Lorragauth's right wing almost completely off, and the screaming dragon crashed to his death in the Neverwinter Wood,  or "cartwheeling across the rocks and sky, to a broken and splintered death against a mountainside some way off to the south" in the account of three women of the house of the nomad lord Tharnor of the North, who'd witnessed the battle.

In another great dragon duel, Eldenser flew from a gigantic red, but snatched a fishing boat right out of the water without even slowing. He then twisted about and used its mast as makeshift spear, plunging it into the red dragon's eye, killing him before he could react, let alone slow down or avoid it.

However, the majority of actions attributed to him were in his role as the Worm Who Hides in Blades. Countless similar stories featured magic erupting unexpectedly from certain blades; twenty or so of these were attributed to Eldenser by later sages and bards of the mid-1300s DR, but he was likely the source of many more. In one confirmed case, the infamous mage Arnaglym of Arrabar hurled a fireball at one sword's wielder, only for Eldenser to reflect it back. It ignited vast, old, and very dry tapestries hanging from a huge hammerbeam ceiling under which Arnaglym was standing at the time, leading to his death in a raging fire.

During the Dracorage of the Year of Rogue Dragons, 1373 DR, Eldenser evaded its effects by shifting his body into the Elemental Plane of Earth. He presumably returned once it had passed.

Rumors
There were unsubstantiated rumors that Eldenser was in fact the servant of one of the gods.