Editing Rooney

{{Worldbuilders}}<blockquote>“For [[System Agnostic#Chapter Two: BR Era (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)|Karavox]], I give up my roots.” '''—Rooney'''</blockquote>{{Infobox_character|affilliation=[[Sardior#Ruby Court|Ruby Court]]|name={{PAGENAME}}|image=Rooney_and_Smaragdos.png|caption=|relatives=|languages=Aarakocra, Abyssal, Auran, Common, Draconic, Elvish, Infernal|alias=[[Sardior#PR Era|Harbinger of Durzibethinus the Emerald]]|marital=|birthPlace=[[Pteris]]|deathDate=|deathPlace=|species=[[Aarakocra]]|gender=Male (he/him)|height=5' 2"|weight=90 lbs|eyes=Emerald|field1=Class|value1=[[Ranger]]|playerName=[[User:Jeffbuterbaugh|Jeff]]|birthDate=236 [[BR]]}}'''{{PAGENAME}} '''is an [[Aarakocra]] [[Ranger]] who, in the year 245 [[BR]], played a vital role in ending the first [[The Infernal Emergence|Infernal Emergence]] by giving up his roots in exchange for the legendary battleaxe known as [[System Agnostic#Chapter Two: BR Era (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)|Karavox]]. This bargain left him unable to settle down in any single location for long, dooming him to fly from place to place across the realm in perpetuity until the year 826 [[PR]] when he touched an emerald egg in [[Isonhound]]. The egg hatched open, releasing an [[Drake (Companion)|Emerald Drake]] as well as a surge of draconic magic. The magic altered Rooney, imbuing him with essence from an [[Dragon#Gem Dragons|Emerald Dragon]] and creating a permanent bond with the [[Drake (Companion)|Drake]]. The psionic voice of [[Durzibethinus]] revealed that the [[Drake (Companion)|Drake's]] name was '''Smaragdos''' and that Rooney had been blessed with the power of an [[Sardior#PR Era|Emerald Harbinger]]. Long after giving up his place in the world, this new role filled the empty piece of him which he had relinquished to help save the realm all those years ago.

== History ==
Rooney's tribe initially avoided conflict with [[Devil|Devils]] for the first few decades of the [[The Infernal Emergence|Infernal Emergence]] by taking to the skies. Following the unlocking of [[Kiston]] in 207 [[BR]], however, [[Dragon|Dragons]] of [[Tiamat]] flooded the realm and began aggressively competing for airspace. Since the skies were no longer reliably safe, some [[Aarakocra]] preferred their odds with the [[Devil|Devils]] and reluctantly returned to the land to face these fiends head-on.

== Appearance ==
[[File:Rooney.png|thumb|Portrait of Rooney in the [[BR]] era.]]
Rooney resembles a red-tailed hawk with sharp eyes that were originally gold, but shifted into an emerald color after being imbued with essence from an [[Dragon#Gem Dragons|Emerald Dragon]]. He is short and lightweight with a wide wingspan, making him a natural flyer like most [[Aarakocra]]. While residing in [[Pteris]], he wore breathable clothing comprised of desert tones matching the continent's terrain. Upon relocating to [[Isonhound]], his garb became more regal and incorporated emerald hues suited to traversing forests as well as his role as a [[Sardior#PR Era|Harbinger of Durzibethinus the Emerald]]. His weapon of choice is a longbow overgrown with emerald geodes, which he keeps ready at his side to take down enemies from the skies.

== Smaragdos ==
<blockquote>"His name is kinda hard to remember, so I've just been calling him Mickey!" '''—Rooney''' </blockquote>Smaragdos is an [[Drake (Companion)|Emerald Drake]] hatched from a [[Dragon]] egg that had been corrupted by [[The Shadowfell|Shadowfell]] energy and later purified by [[Durzibethinus|Durian]] using a [[Moonflower]]. This purification cleansed the egg of any lingering energy, but the corruption caused the egg to hatch into an [[Drake (Companion)|Emerald Drake]] rather than a true [[Dragon]]. He has a powerful psionic bond with Rooney, obeying the [[Aarakocra|Aarakocra's]] commands without need for any verbiage between them. Rooney frequently gets confused by Smaragdos' name and makes a habit of inventing new names for him, which Smaragdos does not mind as their bond does not depend upon the spoken word.

== Trivia ==

* Rooney's greatest fear is [[Tiamat]] and one of his favored enemies is [[Dragon|Dragons]], ironic considering the close affiliation with [[Dragon#Gem Dragons|Gem Dragons]] that he would cultivate later on.
*Rooney also played a role in the second [[The Infernal Emergence|Infernal Emergence]], helping other [[Aarakocra]] with relocating displaced [[The Quelmar Realm|Quelmar]] inhabitants to refugee colonies such as [[Hilfe]] on the [[Elemental Plane of Air]]. Since he resided on an elemental plane throughout most of the conflict and the resulting "reboot" of [[The Quelmar Realm|Quelmar]] only impacted the [[The Quelmar Realm|Material Plane]], Rooney is technically one of the very few creatures in [[The Quelmar Realm|Quelmar]] to have any memory of this second [[The Infernal Emergence|Emergence]] (however, he is likely too birdbrained to grasp the event's significance).
*Before [[Durzibethinus]] transformed him into a [[Ranger|Drakewarden]], Rooney was originally a [[Ranger|Fey Wanderer]]. A fey deity had reincarnated him from the spirit of an animal companion named '''Ronin''', moved by the red-tailed hawk's loyalty after watching him spend his life at the grave of his owner [[Aranwe]].
*Rooney appears unaffected by natural death and aging as the result of a pact he made with an unknown entity—presumably one with some power over time and space—in order to obtain the head of [[System Agnostic#Chapter Two: BR Era (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)|Karavox]]. This could be because the pact required that he give up "the ability to put down roots in a single location" which, at least on a subconscious level, Rooney correlates with death due to [[Aranwe]] giving up his life to spend eternity with a [[Dryad]] woman amongst the roots of her tree.

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