Fremiss the Vibrant
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Fremiss was one of the four draconic founders of Swynfaredia. His direct descendants formed House Fremiss.
Fremiss had six known wives/lovers and eighteen known half-dragon children. The first born was born in 890 and the last one was born in 984. He disappeared with the other founding dragons in 1030.
Physical Description
Identifying Characteristics
Fremiss the Vibrant was most easily recognizable by his bright red scales.
Scarterran dragons run the gamut from powerful and compact lion-like bodies and long thin snake-like bodies. Fremiss was certainly on the lion-like side. On average, Fremiss, was shorter in length snout to tail than dragons of comparable age, but he had more obvious muscle tone and bulk.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
All four of the founding dragons of kingdom of Swynfaredia all agreed that dragons shepherd for their good and all four agreed that creating a large brood of half-dragon off-spring would be the best way to accomplish this ambition.
Fremiss the Vibrant is the only one of the four founding dragons to have sired half-dragon before the dragons came to their conclusion.
Fremiss enjoyed mating with human women, while the others (at least initially) acted solely for the purpooses of pragmatic procreation.
Fremiss also spent a lot more time in his human form than most dragons, experiencing as much of the human condition as he could, leaning heavily towards the hedonistic side.
He would often eat lots of human food until his human body was painfully full, then switch to dragon form to process the food, and resume human form again and start human scale gluttony again. He liked to dance and sing (not particularly well). He drank and ate a lot.
Accomplishments & Achievements
All the founding dragons wanted to help humans in their own way. Fremiss was generally more direct with his acts of support. He let children ride on his back, so they could experience flight. He helped human construction workers move boulders. He went after brigands personally.
Enduring Legacy
Fremiss wrote only one major tome, talking about his views on ethics and philosophy. This was far less than what the other Founding Dragons wrote, but he proudly stated that is book was easier and more enjoyable to read than the veritable libraries written by Kovenoth the Builder and Gorisonad the Wise.
Because he only wrote one book, centuries later almost every Swynfaredian Dragonblood, regardless of house or political affiliation. The other books penned by the Founding Dragons, mostly they only read what their parents forced them to read, and reluctantly at that. Fremiss' book certainly has the most copies. Since every literate Swynfaredian has read it, that means Fremiss is the Founding dragon who's academic work is the most quoted despite the fact that he was the least academic minded of his peers. If Fremiss were alive today, he would surely boast about this incessantly.
Failures & Embarrassments
Fremiss arguably helped more people than the other founding dragons but he also overstepped more often. His failures and foibles were often swept under the rug, but rumors followed him in life and death.
He switched back and forth between human and dragon form casually, and sometimes this violation of the Law of the Conservation of Mass from the size change would accidentally break things or injure people.
He is said to have accidentally set fire to the homes and villages of innocent humans with his fire breath while drunk.
He is rumored to have tasted the flesh of every common mortal (but only once each...out of curiosity). His many descendants vigorously deny this rumor as vicious slander.
When he went after bandits and criminals he often went too far, punished minor accomplices very harshly and caused lots of collateral damage in the process.
Depending on who you ask, in 1030, the four Founding Dragons all died, or all they went into quiet retirement, or they ascended and entered the afterlife without dying.
In any event, the original House Fremiss started as the largest and most powerful house, but it was the first of the major houses to eat itself with infighting. Infighting is all too common among all the Swynfaredian Dragonbloods, but House Fremiss has the highest rate of fratricide among the Swynfaredian houses.
Now the once mighty house is three houses, House Fremiss-Angharad, House Fremiss-Bryallan, and House Fremiss-Caedwin. Whether or not this is the fault of Fremiss the Vibrant himself is a subject of debate.
The three Fremiss houses still feud with each other constantly and they now have to play second fiddle to the other three original Houses.
Intellectual Characteristics
Of all the four Founding Dragons, Fremiss was the most biased towards action over contemplation. He was easily the least academic of the four, but that doesn't mean that he was dumb or illiterate.
He didn't write as much as his three peers but he still read everything they wrote and he liked to critique them, though most of his critiques were oral and never written down...much to the chagrin of many stickler Swynfaredian academics.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Fremiss wanted to helped humans, but he also wanted to enjoy life's simple pleasures and he tried to teach this his progeny.
His descendants took to Fremiss' hedonism more easily than they took to Fremiss' altruism. They kept his arrogance, but that is pretty universal for the descendants of all four Founding Dragons.
Virtues & Personality perks
For all his vices, Fremiss believed dragons had a moral responsibility to not abuse their power and to aid the lesser races as much as possible.
Vices & Personality flaws
Fremiss was a braggart and a hedonist and was unapologetic for it.
Social
Family Ties
Fremiss the Vibrant had six known human lovers and eighteen half-dragon children that all became lords and ladies of the fledgling Kingdom of Swynfaredia.
On average, Fremiss' children were more prolific than the average offspring of the other three Founding Dragons, so Fremiss had a lot of grandchildren.
Fremiss admitted to having sired two half-dragon children before the four Founding Dragons made their agreement, but he claimed that one was a still-born and the other died before reaching adulthood. He was very closed lipped when asked about his lost children or their mothers. Many believed Fremiss had other children he didn't talk about it at all.
None of the Founders claimed to have any any children who weren't half-human though it was widely rumored that some did. Since Fremiss was famously the most virile, it is widely assumed by many that Fremiss has a few full-dragon descendants flying around somewhere.
Relationships
Fremiss is NOT a D&D red dragon
Scarterran dragon can be any color. By a slim margin, red is probably the most common color scene. The fact that Fremiss is a red dragon does not mean that he is Chaotic Evil or any other aspects of D&D red dragons. Scarterran dragons can be as good or evil as they want, the color of their scales has nothing to do with it. Fremiss has good and evil traits aplenty and plenty of conflicting lawful and chaotic traits too. There is a vague tendency that bright colored dragons are more direct and less subtle than softer toned dragons. Fremiss the Vibrant was certainly vibrant in every sense of the word.
Species
Conditions
Life
350 CE
1030 CE
680 years old
Family
Spouses
Cadella the human
(spouse)
Glenda the human
(spouse)
Treasa the human
(spouse)
Owena the human
(spouse)
Iola the human
(spouse)
Lynette the human
(spouse)
Siblings
Children
- Lord Cenwyn Fremiss the Kinslayer
- Lady Armess Fremiss the Diviner
- Lady Braith Fremiss the Unfortunate
- Lord Tecwyn Fremiss the Eldest
- Lord Rhodri Fremiss the High
- Lady Rhoswen Fremiss the Brave
- Lord Mabon Fremiss the Tall
- Lord Maelog Fremiss the Strategist
- Lord Cawdy Fremiss the Red
- Lady Siniod Fremiss the Idealist
- Lady Gethine Fremiss the Sage
- Lady Lilbet Fremiss the Lost
- Lady Gwyn Fremiss of the Locks
- Lord Alun Fremiss the Unlucky
- Lady Rhian Fremiss the Promiscuous
- Lady Osian Fremiss the Shifter
- Lord Rabat the Hunter
- Lord Carwyn Fremiss the Merry
Sex
male
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
red and scaly
Quotes & Catchphrases
"Be the fire of life" became the motto of original House Fremiss.
Founded Settlements
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