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{{Infobox NPC
|name = Avisk
|image=Avisk (Dreaming Stone).png|location = [[Dragonwilds:Dowdun Reach]]
|release = 15 April 2025
|update = RuneScape: Dragonwilds is out!
|race = Dragonkin
|gender = Male
|affiliation = The Cabal
}}
'''Avisk''' was an {{RSL|Aughra}} [[Dragonwilds:Dragonkin (race)|Dragonkin]]{{CiteJournal|journal=Lacrussa's Ravings|quote="as if he, an Aughra, has the slightest understanding of real science."}} with the elemental power of [[Dragonwilds:air]] who lived on [[Dragonwilds:Ashenfall]] and was part of a group of Dragonkin who broke away from their main kin in defiance of their traditions.{{CiteJournal|journal=Dragonkin Diary Page|quote=All of us stand in defiance of our kin's traditions. We forged our own path and found somewhere new.}} Among this group were [[Dragonwilds:Lacrussa]], [[Dragonwilds:Rasthin]], [[Dragonwilds:Viika]], and [[Dragonwilds:Brakka]], with Avisk serving as a calming presence during their early settlement of Ashenfall.{{CiteJournal|journal=Dragonkin Diary Page|quote=Rasthin urges patience, Avisk calls for calm, and Lacrussa ignores us, content to have her family returned to her.}}

He was known for his more thoughtful and philosophical nature compared to some of his kin, however, was driven by an obsession with consciousness, and mortal transcendence. He sought to enter the minds of other (lesser) beings, including [[Dragonwilds:Vault Guardians]], {{RSL|Ogres}}, humans, and [[Dragonwilds:Dragons]] and bent his efforts toward understanding and recreating the crystalline structures he found within them. He was known to have broken into Lacrussa's laboratory on multiple occasions in pursuit of knowledge he believed would allow him to surpass his physical limitations.{{CiteJournal|journal=Lacrussa's Memoir|quote=Avisk keeps trying to sneak into my laboratory, convinced that the secrets within will grant him the knowledge to transcend his mortal frame.}}

During the [[Dragonwilds:Dragon Rebellion]], Avisk preserved his soul in a prism, which became known as '''The Dreaming Stone.'''

By the time the Adventurer arrives at Dowdun Reach, Avisk's essence has been sealed within the Dreaming Stone for some time, though the stone itself has been shattered by Lord [[Dragonwilds:Black Knight Titan|Rasmodel]], who grew desperate as the affliction spread through his keep.{{CiteJournal|journal=Rasmodel's Diary|quote=The stone will be destroyed. I will see to it. I am done with its whispering and the madness it inspires in my once glorious fraternity.}} Its thirteen shards are scattered throughout the keep.

Once the Adventurer reassembles the stone, Avisk's consciousness is restored. He warns that Rasmodel has become something dangerous, a fusion of Avisk's essence, a cthonian demon, and considerable rage, and advises the Adventurer to give him a swift death.{{CiteNPC|npc=Dreaming Stone|loc=Dowdun Reach}} With the Gatekeeper defeated, Avisk lowers the barrier to the [[Dragonwilds:Umbral Sands]].{{CiteNPC|npc=Dreaming Stone|loc=Dowdun Reach}}

==History==
Avisk raised the question of whether the [[Dragonwilds:Vault Guardians|vault guardians]] possessed souls, pointing to what he saw as a creative quality in them that suggested something beyond simple animation.{{CiteJournal|journal=Vault Guardian Sentinel|quote=It was Avisk who raised the question of whether the vault guardians had souls. They weren't intelligent and were useful for little more than manual labour and defence. Yet, they possessed a spark of creativity that Avisk argued was a sign of something more profound.}}

His most dangerous experiment was performed on Viika. He subjected them to an apparatus involving rune essence that resulted in an explosion, leaving Viika with burns and severe wing damage. Lacrussa nearly killed Avisk in retaliation, only sparing him at Viika's request.{{CiteJournal|journal=Lacrussa's Diary|quote=He attached tubes, crystals and all sorts of nonsense to my sibling's head and attempted something with rune essence that caused a lot of explosions. Viika was hurt, burned across their temple and one of their wings is damaged enough that they might never fly again.}}

Avisk received an elemental gift from Rasthin: a device known as "Jas Moksha," which granted him the elemental power of air. Avisk, knowing that Rasthin could easily destroy him, feigned subjugation and accepted it, fearing that it might be a trap.{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Body|quote=Rasthin changed everything. She came to Avisk with a gift: 'Jas Moksha', in the tongue of the Kin. It was a device that imbued Avisk with the element of air. Avisk accepted the gift politely. Rasthin could have over-powered him with ease. He played supplicant and took the gift, hoping that it wasn't a trap or curse.}} However, the elemental gift proved useful and opened new possibilities for experimentation; it unlocked minds that he previously couldn't enter.{{CiteJournal|Journal=Blue Dragonhide Body|quote=once Avisk realised that the powers were not limited to the material realm. He could move with alacrity, purpose and strength in the minds of others. Minds that were once closed to him blossomed like a flower}}

Avisk first turned his abilities toward ogres, then when he was satisfied moved onto humans{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Body|quote=He dabbled with ogres, and then moved on to blue dragons.}} He found them easy to dominate, as their narcissistic nature mirrored his. He was able to reshape their thoughts to center entirely around himself.{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Coif|quote=Avisk initially had no use for them. His focus was on lower species, humans and the like. He saw room within human minds to crawl and make them his own. Their consciousness was a hall of prisms, and he could turn them all so that they focused on him. The human mind reflected back his narcissism.}} During this period, he had little interest in Lacrussa's [[Dragonwilds:Blue Dragon|blue dragons]] and kept them penned to prevent them from interfering with his work and killing his subjects.{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Coif|quote=To Avisk, the blue dragons were nuisances, liable to kill his test subjects while he was distracted. He penned them and forgot about them, cursing Lacrussa for letting them stray into his domain.}}

Avisk conducted further experiments on Lacrussa's dragon brood, attempting to use rune essence to link multiple dragon minds into a shared consciousness. Nearly all the subjects perished. One survived: a dragon with multiple heads that functioned under a single unified mind, displaying unexpected traits such as curiosity and reasoning. (Kuldra){{CiteJournal|journal=Lacrussa's Ravings|quote=He's already messed with some of the brood, tried to use that strange rune essence in ways that would cause energy to flow in certain ways... All of them, of course, died. All but one, and she's turned out strangely.}}

When Avisk eventually explored the minds of the blue dragons, he discovered a crystalline structure—a prism—that was suppressing their thoughts and potential. He aimed to make them sapient, surpassing Lacrussa's work.{{CiteJournal|Journal=Blue Dragonhide Body|quote=With his new powers, he could solve a problem that had hounded Lacrussa for centuries.}} Their feral behavior was caused by the prism, which would redirect their thoughts in random directions.{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Body|quote=Within the minds of blue dragons, he found a secret. There was a blockage - a multi-faceted prism - that kept their potential at bay. It redirected their thoughts in wild directions, made them unruly.}} His attempts to realign the crystal from the outside failed entirely, and breaking pieces of it only weakened its properties.{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Chaps|quote="Avisk maneuvered the multi-faceted prism within the blue dragon's mind. He observed it using his mastery of air, but no permutation would focus the blue dragon's thoughts, no orientation would align the chaos." - "He resolved to break parts of that giant stone, but its power was diminished with each snap and shatter. "}}

It was only when he entered the prism, as if it were a living mind, that everything changed. Once inside, he discovered a second layer of the dragons' consciousness that he couldn't fully comprehend. This experience transformed him; he no longer desired to grant the dragons sapience. Instead, he yearned to create a prism for himself.{{CiteJournal|journal=Blue Dragonhide Chaps|quote=Against all his expectations, he was able to step into the stone itself, as if it itself had a consciousness. There was a second layer to the blue dragon's mind. It is impossible to comprehend what Avisk saw there. But he was forever changed. He no longer cared for healing the blue dragons of their crystalline blockage, of restoring them to sapient thought. Instead, he wished to recreate the prism, the crystal, in the corporeal world.}}

===The Dreaming Stone===
Avisk managed to recreate the prism he found within the Dragons' minds. This prism became known as the Dreaming Stone. During the Dragon Rebellion, Avisk preserved his soul within this stone.

Avisk, now sealed away within the prism, came into the possession of the [[Dragonwilds:Black Knights|Shadow Knights]] (Black Knights) at [[Dragonwilds:Dowdun Reach]], where it became a source of both power and corruption. Archmage [[Dragonwilds:Alric]] and his Zamorakian magi redistributed the stone's energy throughout the keep.{{CiteJournal|journal=Zamorak Mage Robes|quote=Where the Dreaming Stone's energy-flows were once arterial, they were now like capillaries. The energy spread everywhere, a webbing throughout the Reach.}} Prolonged exposure to this energy network caused widespread affliction throughout the keep. dreams were rare, and nightmares became common, people began to hear whispers.{{CiteJournal|journal=Zamorak Mage Robe Legs|quote=Before the re-routing of the Dreaming Stone's energy-flows, people weren't exposed to the energy tethers for long. But now that Dowdun Reach was a lattice of Dreaming Stone energy, that changed. The flows ran through people's rooms as they slept. People began to change. Dreams became rarities; nightmares the commonplace. People heard whispers in quiet moments.}}

They went mad and became almost catatonic; however, whenever Lord Rasmodel would walk by, they would become lucid once again, begging him to surrender to the stone. He refused and destroyed the Dreaming Stone, but this only worsened conditions within the keep.{{CiteJournal|journal=Black Shield|quote=He couldn't hide his relationship to the epidemic anymore. When he walked past the afflicted, they would move from incoherent to coherent. They would sit up and speak to him. The message was the same: "submit to the Dreaming Stone". There were variations on that theme: use the Dreaming Stone; spread its energy; offer your mind to it.}}

==See also==
* [[Dragonwilds:Dragonkin (race)|Dragonkin]]
* [[Dragonwilds:Lacrussa]]
* [[Dragonwilds:Viika]]
* [[Dragonwilds:Rasthin]]
* [[Dragonwilds:Brakka]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Dragonkin]]

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