Spyro the Dragon - Cynder by Zigwolf on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

A reimaging of Cynder from The Legend of Spyro trilogy.

To say that Cynder's life was horrible would be an understatement. Her father was the devious, tyrannical former Purple Dragon of Legend, Malefor. Ever since his fall from grace and into the shadows, he's been trying to control who the next purple dragon was for the last century. Using his own body and the magic bestowed to him by his previous Purple Dragon status, he got to working so that one of his own children would become the new dragon of myth. Failure after failure led to Malefor to seeking help from outside means, namely a gnorc named Gnasty. With his alchemic sciences, Gnasty made the best attempt as a purple dragon, but timing was not on Malefor's side as just before his daughter hatched, Spyro beat her by just three minutes, becoming the next natural purple dragon, while Cynder was a black dragon turned blackish purple.

Cynder's life was filled with disappointment from her father, harsh training to make her a strong warrior, and cold nights being mostly alone. The only friend that Cynder had in the world was one of Gnasty Gnorc's bird forces, a basic soldier by the name of Sarge. He was the only one that Cynder could even remotely call a friend. The times with him were a light in Cynder's dark life and it ended when Sarge was caught and taken away by a pair of gross Gnorcs and Cynder's life got much worse from that point on. She was enhanced with dark magic markings on her body and imprisoned with enchanted shackles meant to keep her following Malefor's and Gnasty's orders.

After Gnasty sent out his curse to crystalize all dragons in the realms, it was found out that there were some survivors who weren't effected by the curse in their own ways. When these young dragons proved too much for gnorc soldiers, Cynder was dispatched to spy on them and find out what kept them from being cursed. Cynder is later found out and comes up with a false story of her being from the Shadowlands Realm, where Gnasty's domain is, and how there were some dragons living there and were effected by Gnasty's curse, so she fled to find help. The dragons, Spyro, Flame, Ember, Whirlwynd, and Camoe seemed to believe her story but Flame and Whirlwynd still seemed suspicious of Cynder. Along this journey, Cynder will learn true friendship and loyalty and become conflicted on how she should handle this situation since Gnasty and Malefor still hold her reins and might exert control over her, something they've threatened but never followed through with.

Cynder will know exactly what to do when she reunites with Sarge and hears the crazy tale of how he escaped with surprise explosives and ran into the night formulating a plan to rescue his friend and free his avian brethren. When he discovered that Cynder escaped, he followed her trail until he met up with her again and now that he sees Cynder being among a team of capable dragons, he can now go back to freeing the bird soldiers and Cynder will fight against the Gnorcs, defeat Gnasty, and break the hold her father has over her.

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