Arxilatath (Bronze Dragon)
Location: Wandering in to the Drunken Wench
Taverns were interesting places to be, usually a traveler's first stop before finding a place to sleep if the tavern itself didn't offer one attached, the aging man thought. His head tilted up and he absently read off, "The Drunken Wench," and wondered faintly just as to why the place was named as it was.
He reached for the door with an ink-stained hand, the tips of the fingers permanently marked with the carbon and iron that the typical dye consisted of. They were strong hands, the hands of a warrior with the nicks and minor scars that implied, someone who had been in several fights and survived. The rest of him gave that same contrast between scholar and soldier, the wrinkles of a furrowed brow from squinting at a book in low light for too long, the white lines and sun-weathered face that indicated long hours in campaign.
He was dressed in a long, leather duster the color of tarnished bronze, green and grey and brown, loose leather with large pockets and strange shoulders, a muted glint of polished golden-bronze from the buttons on one side, the coat open and revealing a simple dusty white cotton shirt and leather pants a shade more brown, a shade more golden. Mahogany brown boots tapped almost silently against the wooden floor as he padded in, hands hanging easily at his sides away from the sword he wore with the confidence of a swordsman.
To someone sensitive to magic, Arxilatath, as the man's name was, was practically drowning in it. Everything, from the leather duster to the simple "cotton" shirt was imbued with magic of a myriad types. He himself stank of magic, something large folded into the space of a human, the faint traces of something even older than the visage he wore there. Only the sword was conspicuously absent of all but the simplest of magics.
Sharp, metallic bronze eyes a bit more green and gold than his coat and gleaming with the shine of metal rove over the tavern, picking out the dragon displaying his race blatantly in the building. Sirius Volante, known as the Dragon King. The current king of the Esclair kingdom. The bodyguard. The man with the visage of a retired knight-scholar strode over with measured, slow steps. Better pay his respects to the dragon leader, though he didn't originate from anywhere in the area.
"Your Majesties," he said softly with a bow, voice low enough that it wasn't going to be easily heard outside of the table.