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Ahrashace (pronounced arr-uh-shaw-see,) or Shace, is a sky dragon. While his exact age in number of years is open to interpretation, looking at his features and relative age reveals that this is a young adult--he is fully mature, but he can't have been so for very long. He is somewhat lithe for a non-anthro dragon; he is by no means lacking in definition, but he is significantly less burly than most other dragons he has seen.

All sky dragons, including Shace, have the peculiar race trait of a shared, persistent dream world. All sky dragons' dreams are always fully lucid, fully aware, and fully remembered, and all take place in the same shared space, wherein all sky dragons present are fully capable of permanently interacting with the environment and with each other. They have built this realm into a grand civilization, which they call the dream kingdom. Being a persistent world, it bears all the lasting signs of their civilization, including grand architectural structures others have built before them, and libraries overflowing with the wisdom of their ancestors.

Sky dragons are scholarly by nature, and Shace is no exception. Sky dragons in the waking world tend to scatter, living either completely isolated lives or living among other species, and bringing what they learn of their surroundings from all corners of the world back to the dream kingdom. Shace is single-mindedly studious even by sky dragon standards, and frequently busy with his various studies and apprenticeships, and his social growth is therefore somewhat stunted within the dream kingdom. (In other words, think "overworked shut-in grad student" and apply it to a lucid-dreaming dragon.) However, he is more or less off-duty in the waking world, and thus, he is much more openly friendly and sociable to other species than he is to his own kind.

His mannerisms are extremely formal and polite, to the point of seeming archaic by other species' standards. He will stand the instant anyone enters the room and refuse to be sit again until everyone else does, or until he is explicitly ordered to. He greets people with a full head-to-ground bow, and always adds the title "Lord" or "Lady" to every instance of someone's name whenever he speaks to or about them. He can be brought down to a more casual level of conversation after knowing someone for long enough, but even in casual mode, he is still polite and articulate. Even his accessories--the hanging tabard on his front and the metal tail cap--are ceremonial, and worn primarily on formal occasions, when meeting company, or otherwise whenever he feels the need to "dress up."

Curiously, he is not above adopting nicknames for people once the level of casualness naturally reaches that point, but will still affix the proper titles to them under all circumstances. For example, the first time he met Kjorteo "Teo" Kalante, he referred to him as "Lord Kalante." After enough socializing and familiarity, he changed it to "Lord Teo."

Because of the nature of the dream kingdom, Shace's perception of public socialization vs. private alone-time is inverted; sleep is for being with the rest of his kind and for working on his studies, and his waking hours are where he finds his privacy and relaxation. His favorite activity in the waking world is to fly in circles or other various for-fun patterns over the sea. He finds the view of the open sky over the open sea to be beautiful, especially as a refreshing contrast to the dream kingdom, which is in a sort of fluffy kingdom-in-the-clouds setting which lacks open bodies of water. He considers his sea flights to be the most personal and intimate thing he can do, the one activity above all others in either world in which he truly has time to himself to relax and organize his thoughts.