amberdrake: Umid Yuldashev (very put together)
2025-05-13 06:18 pm

[sticky entry] Sticky: NAV



I seize the moment to hear a story no one’s telling anymore
the world’s forgotten, the words forbidden


BASIC
NAME: Amberdrake k'Leshya
CANON: Heralds of Valdemar
AGE: late 40s
HEIGHT: 5'8"
SPECIES: Human
COURT: Summer
ROOM:
PLAYER: Aro
PLURK: [plurk.com profile] Aroihkin
APPEARANCE
VISUAL: Icons
HEIGHT: 5'8"
BUILD: Big and buff, usually wears layers to hide it.
HAIR: Thick, long, black.
EYES: Bright Blue
FEATURES: Radiates a constant, non-intrusive projection of Calm by default.
DRESS: Loose layers, beads, fringes, open robes patterned with feathers and made to drape like wings over distraught gryphons. Colorful in ways that would never work on anyone else, but compliments his skin tone perfectly, usually dark gemstone colors with bright pops of color here and there in beadwork.
PB: Official art, the model I'm completely convinced was the reference for him on the second book cover (Umid Yuldashev), and assorted other native men with clever cropping to look like the official art. Some art from shadowscapes.com as well.
PERMISSIONS
BACKTAGGING:
THREADHOPPING: ask
FOURTHWALLING:
ROMANCE:
MORE DETAILS: detailed post here


now I send back letters from the wasteland home
where I slow dance to this romance on my own


BACKGROUND

xxxxxI'll probably paste this in properly later. Please see his application for now.

PERSONALITY

xxxxxI'll probably paste this in properly later. Please see his application for now.

ABILITIES

xxxxxI'll probably paste this in properly later. Please see his detailed permissions and application for now.

EXTRA

xxxxxItem: Messenger birds:

xxxxxBook information. Basically finch-sized, extremely colorful, smart as a toddler, able to mimic voices and sounds, and responsive to things like Mind-Speech and the Empathic Gift.
amberdrake: (ze birbs - I am feel uncomfortable)
2025-05-25 04:35 pm

IC Contact

* Tell one of his birds what you want to tell Amberdrake (and that the message is for Drake), and they will go tell him. In your voice!

* Send a message via the leaf.

* Catch-all post for other things.
amberdrake: Umid Yuldashev (rip out the wings of a butterfly)
2025-05-13 06:46 pm

app for [community profile] pixieled

I'm home again, I won the war, and now I am behind your door
I tried so hard to obey the law, and see the meaning of this all
Remember me? Before the war? I'm the man who lived next door

Long ago... )
amberdrake: Umid Yuldashev (I follow the stars to my abode)
2020-11-09 07:28 pm
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an old application

I'm home again, I won the war, and now I am behind your door
I tried so hard to obey the law, and see the meaning of this all
Remember me? Before the war? I'm the man who lived next door

Long ago... )
amberdrake: (ze birbs - I am feel uncomfortable)
2016-06-19 11:55 pm
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[OOC] [Reference] Messenger Birds

Typed up from pages 301-305 of the kindle version of Black Gryphon

Read more... )
amberdrake: (I’m a replica I’m a replica)
2016-03-05 02:55 pm
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[OOC] Amberdrake's Soundtrack



Amberdrake's soundtrack, compiled here for my ease:

( I'd never remember to update it in more than one location! )

And here's the youtube playlist, barring anything youtube has deleted and I haven't caught yet.
amberdrake: Umid Yuldashev (it is what it is)
2012-08-17 01:46 pm
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[OOC] Things that remind me of Amberdrake.

Music, pictures, etc. A bird's nest built out of internet clutter.














( If you need to fall apart, I can mend a broken heart… )

(Fake cut goes to a tumblr specifically for this.)
amberdrake: shadowscapes art (who made up all the rules)
2012-08-16 05:31 pm
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[OOC] [Reference] The Silver Gryphon, snippet of still-a-worrier-even-in-his-50s Drake.

This takes place long after the point I'm taking him from for RP, but good to show that some things don't change.

It doesn't matter to my heart that this is peace time. )
amberdrake: 2nd book's cover art of Drake (Default)
2012-08-16 12:17 am
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[OOC] [Reference] The White Gryphon, on leadership.

This is the very end of White Gryphon. If you ever intend to read the book, you may want to skip this one because it's literally the last few pages.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die. That always seemed to be the choices facing Urtho's folk. )
amberdrake: shadowscapes art (if you need to fall apart)
2012-08-13 02:33 am
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[OOC] [Reference] The Black Gryphon, once upon a time...

Amberdrake's backstory, preceded by angry!Drake and followed by some brief sudden!kestra'chern!Drake.

There's other (small) stuff in little bits through the three books, but this is the part that has the most stated info on Drake's past.

Once on a time, there was a Kaled'a'in family, living far from the camps of their kin— )
amberdrake: 2nd book's cover art of Drake (Default)
2012-08-13 02:30 am
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[OOC] [Reference] The Black Gryphon, emergency War-Healer in action.

Drake operating as an emergency Healer, and the reason he didn't do this full time.

The Black Gryphon, pages 339--346.

I’d rather not look at meat just now—could look like someone I knew.... )
amberdrake: 2nd book's cover art of Drake (Default)
2012-08-13 02:23 am
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[OOC] [Reference] The White Gryphon, Amberdrake kidnapped!

Snarky Skandranon, Drake with a concussion, and a particular fake kestra’chern doing the villain-gloating-to-the-heroes thing while they’re both trussed up. And he gets called on it, no less.

Hadanelith posed as a kestra’chern in the new city White Gryphon, in order to have access to people to... well, pretty much break. The guy’s a sick bastard; his victims were so screwed up in the head when he was done that they didn’t even need to be tied down. We see his handiwork early on in the book White Gryphon, when Drake and co find him and kick him the hell out of the new city. Ideally to wander off and die.

They should have just killed him, but them’s the breaks.

This chunk of the book takes place in a different land, with which the people of White Gryphon need to either make a truce, or be tossed into another war. As two of the leaders of White Gryphon, Amberdrake and Skandranon (among others) go there to play diplomat, and are summarily drug into this rather nasty murder/framing plot which ends up with Amberdrake feigning madness and able to leave his rooms only under disguise. Yeah. It makes sense in the book.

Anyway, that’s your context. Skan gets kidnaped at one point, and we all know who can’t just sit back and let the fighters do all the rescuing and things, right? Right. Good thing, too.

I won’t say it’s a pleasure to see you again. I suppose you’ve come to gloat? That’s trite enough to be in your style. )
amberdrake: shadowscapes art (to hear a story no one’s telling anymore)
2012-08-13 02:14 am
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[OOC] [Reference] The Black Gryphon, chapters one and two.

Because you can't youtube books, I've hand-typed the first two chapters of the first book.

This will likely be friendslocked a few days after he gets into a game.

A fist was a sign superstitiously avoided among the Healers as being bad luck, but his mind was not on wards and omens. )