Finley Ray

Finley Ray was a powerful sorceress who lived on the Lowland Plains during the second-half of the Second Chaotic Period. Very little is known about her, but she was believed to be over 150 years old at the time of her death, and to have traveled extensively in her youth.

Early Life

Finley was most likely born Atayan, although no record of her in Ataya exists(this is common for most people at the time, Uther himself had no birth-records). She probably lived in one of the minor outlying villages who's name and location are now lost.

She must have traveled extensively in her youth, as she told stories of Rowen clear down to the Erum Range, and even claimed to be an honorary member of the Kepakemapa Tribe. Though her credibility was many times called into question, historians agree she was likely truthful about most of her journies. Uther himself even vouched for her, claiming she was there at the forging of Excalibur.

If her great age is to be believed, Finley was probably born sometime around B.G.A. 140, or in roughly the middle of the Second Chaotic Period.

Throughout the early part of her life, Finley traveled widely and became a powerful mage. A Sorceress, to be precise. because while she alter lived in a tower, she never practiced tower-magic.

The Lonely Mountain

By around 100 B.G.A., Finley had settled in to a little tower to call her own. She did not practice tower-magic and used the tower as a home. From her vantage point, she used powerful Anomancy to gain control of hundreds of feral dragons which did her bidding.

Finley used her dragons to protect a large area from incursion by the various groups then trying to take control of the region. She protected dozens of small villages that no doubt otherwise would have had their populations enslaved. And she did it all in near-secrecy.

The Lonely Mountain Flight

For much of the last century of the Age of Mages, a fearsome dragonflight romed the norther end of the Lowland Plains region, known as the Lonely Mountain Flight. Their eerie was, of course, located on Lonely Mountain. The flight was ruthless, territorial, and considered fiercely intelligent.

For nearly a century, the dragons of Lonely Mountain defended their territory against all comers, allowing only a handful of sparsely-populated villages to remain unharmed.

But the flight had a secret: it was not a dragon flight at all. Rather, a collection of feral dragons, gathered from all over the continent, and controlled through magic.