“His spine is the mountain. His tongue is the comet. His bones are still burning.”
🩸 Keywords: The Laughing Flame • Dragonfather of Madness • Patron of Prophecy and Rebellion
🩸 Aspect: Primordial Dragon · Fallen Angel · Divine Madman · Founder of Bloodlines
🩸 Drawn Upright: Visionary fire, chosen madness, divine rebellion, creator of legacies
🩸 Drawn Reversed: Cosmic instability, cruel mirth, betrayal by kin, uncontrollable prophecy
🩸 Void · Light · Sliver — all three, all at once
Aspect: The First Dragon King · Patron of Rebellion · Divine Madman
Origin: Fallen angel, reforged in the Void after betrayal by Michael
Form: Shifts between bone serpent, horned jester-king, and prophet-flame
Affinities: Void · Light · Sliver
Habitat & Territory: Exists metaphysically throughout the world’s spine
Temperament: Chaotic-Neutral / Purposefully unreadable
Abilities:
Weaknesses: None known—but laughter may disrupt his binding
Notable Behavior: Speaks in paradox. Grants favors or curses based on amusement.
Kaelvyrn was once the firstborn of the Light, a radiant angel whose laughter disrupted sermons and whose love defied law. Cast down by his brother Michael for consorting with mortals and demons, he fell—not into death, but into the Void. There, he was reforged by contradiction. He emerged not broken, but laughing—serpent-winged and flame-tongued, the first dragon to coil around prophecy and bite the neck of fate. His body became the world’s spine. His fire became its war-song. His name: Kaelvyrn.
“If I cannot save the world, I will entertain it as it dies.”
❖ The First Laugh
Michael struck him down with a blade made from Light itself. Kaelvyrn bled fire—and laughed.
They say the echo of that laugh cracked the sky, and every dragon born since carries a shard of that sound in their bones. Michael never spoke to him again.
❖ The Meal That Sang
Zeranthine once cooked Kaelvyrn a final meal—seven beasts, one god’s tongue, a ghost of salt.
When Kaelvyrn ate it, the table ignited. He wept. Then sang back the flavor so vividly that three bystanders died from synesthesia.
❖ The Follower
He followed Ourea for three years. Never spoke. Just trailed her across oceans, mountaintops, and dive bars.
When she finally asked him why, he shrugged and said, “Your chaos is louder than mine. I was curious.”
❖ The Fire Sermon
In the Ashwake Era, he appeared before a crowd mid-execution and offered the condemned man a crown of bone.
The man refused. Kaelvyrn clapped—and every soldier's torch turned into a screaming child.
The execution was never rescheduled.
❖ The Kiss Beneath the World
They say he kissed Maesa once. Not in a temple, not in battle, but deep underground—where gods go to die.
He whispered, “If you kill me, I’ll come back. If you love me, I’ll stay gone.”
She kissed him anyway.
Stance: Spiral (Mad Step)
Emotion Trigger: Delight in chaos
Effects: Dual-voiced speech, predictive hallucinations, compelled laughter
Card Compatibility:
“Madness was never the sickness. It was the inheritance.”
“He does not rule. He reappears.”
His relics—like the Crown of Ash, the Ember Throne, and his vanished war-mask—are said to whisper in tongues when burned.