Dragonwilds:Imaru

Template:HasStrategy Template:Multi Infobox Imaru the Soul-Eater is an Dragonwilds:undead blue dragon infused with the wild anima of Dragonwilds:Ashenfall and the energy of the Template:RSL by drinking from the Template:RSLTemplate:CiteVideo. She was one of Dragonwilds:Kuldra's generals, who rules over Dragonwilds:Fellhollow, a boss monster who was introduced with the 0.10 update.

Her lair is located within the Dragonwilds:Hope's Fall region of Dragonwilds:Fellhollow and is magically sealed. For the player to enter her lair, they have to find three curse fragments and use them to dispel the barrier that prevents entry. If you have faced Imaru (and defeated her), you will need to re-collect all of the curse fragments to unlock the magical seal. Unlike Dragonwilds:Velgar's world events, Imaru only attacks the player out in the world if they are soul-rifting for too long.

History

Early life

Like all other dragons in Ashenfall, Imaru was created by the dragonkin. Imaru was a water dragon, infused with water magic by the dragonkin who created her. Though the rage characteristic of her kind burned within her, her elemental nature tempered it, granting her the reason and clarity that would define her disposition.Template:CiteJournal The dragonkin's experiments had denied her the ability to bear offspring, the one thing she desired above all else.Template:CiteJournal

She and her mate, Dragonwilds:Xikotal, settled within the region of Fellhollow. When human settlers found their way to the region, it was Imaru who persuaded Xikotal that they should take the settlers under their protection, seeing in the fragile humans the children she could never have.Template:CiteJournal The two dragons at first kept their distance from the settlers,Template:CiteJournal but later befriended them.Template:CiteJournal Imaru and Xikotal helped their new friends build cities, farmland, and control the weather.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal Those whom she and Xikotal protected were given a blessing, an enchantment woven over each of the settlers.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal She also appointed guards to protect her and Xikotal when they went into long torpors.Template:CiteJournal

After the Dragonwilds:Dragon Rebellion, Kuldra had issued an extermination order against the human settlements in Ashenfall, minus a few. She took notice of Imaru's and Xikotal's mercy. Finding this a betrayal, she descended onto the region to handle it herself.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal Imaru and Xikotal denied Kuldra, rejecting her demands and rising against her, and the humans rose with them.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal But even with numbers on their side, Kuldra proved too powerful. Imaru witnessed her mate's heart ripped from his chest and devoured by Kuldra.Template:CiteJournal Instead of killing Imaru, Kuldra left her to her grief, considering this punishment enough for disobeying her.

Imaru sought out Dragonwilds:Ravanna, a sorcerer who had practised in the magical arts, including necromancy.Template:CiteJournal She begged for her beloved back, but Ravanna declined, as she was not powerful enough to reanimate things to that degree.Template:CiteJournal Instead, she offered a different solution: a curse to allow Imaru to take vengeance on Kuldra.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal Ravanna bestowed a curse that would turn Imaru's grief into power, a blade intended for the Godeater.Template:CiteJournal

Armed with the curse, Imaru attacked Kuldra a second time. Witnesses described a battle of catastrophic force, the land itself weaponised as the two dragons tore at one another.Template:CiteJournal The curse had changed her; her grief and rage had been forged into something that shook even Kuldra's armour.Template:CiteJournal As Imaru pressed the attack, the Blessing began drawing strength from the villagers themselves, leaving those who bore it weakened.Template:CiteJournal Despite everything, Kuldra proved too powerful and killed her.Template:CiteJournal However, due to the very curse put on her, Imaru did not give up. She instead wedged herself, preventing herself from moving on drinking from the River Noumenon and clawed her way out of the underworld, resurrecting herself to continue her vengeance, though that came with a cost: corruption.<ref name="imaru" /> Imaru caused the river to become blocked,Template:CiteJournal with its waters beginning to leak into the surface of Fellhollow.Template:CiteJournal This gave her a hunger for souls. She gave into it, feasting on those she had sworn to protect and turning them into undead.Template:CiteJournalTemplate:CiteJournal Soon this rot began spreading further, and even those who had not been blessed began becoming undead,Template:CiteJournal as the necrotic magic infected those bitten.Template:CiteJournal

With Imaru continuing to consume the souls of Fellhollow, her strength grew.Template:CiteJournal Fellhollow became a place of rot and ruin, with undead ruling the region.<ref name="imaru" /> In her guilt, Ravanna attempted to fix her mistake. Knowing that Imaru would never stop consuming souls, she decided to seal her in the tower to prevent her from spreading to the rest of Ashenfall and Dragonwilds:Gielinor.Template:CiteJournal After successfully locking her away, she separated the essence of Imaru's curse into three fragments and spread them across Fellhollow,Template:CiteJournal in hope that someone more skilled and powerful than herself would one day use the very curse against Imaru.Template:CiteJournal

Sixth Age

Template:OccDur In the Dragonwilds:Sixth Age, Death would recruit some Adventurer(s) to enter Fellhollow, where they would work with Dragonwilds:Cathan and search for the curse fragments to confront Imaru. Despite being sealed within her tower, she is was still able to use her specter form to command the tormented souls and Ghost Wolves to attacking them when they are Soul Rifted, as well as appearing when she grows impatient. After gathering the fragments and removing the seal, the Adventurer(s) confront Imaru, empowered with the same curse, and defeated her, ending her reign in Fellhollow, putting all the souls to rest.

Gallery

• Imaru concept art.
  Imaru concept art.
• Imaru appearance in the trailer.
  Imaru appearance in the trailer.
• Imaru and her mate.
  Imaru and her mate.
• Imaru and her with Kuldra in the background.
  Imaru and her with Kuldra in the background.
• Ravanna empowering imaru with a curse.
  Ravanna empowering imaru with a curse.
• Imaru confonrting Kuldra.
  Imaru confonrting Kuldra.
• Imaru's death.
  Imaru's death.
• Imaru drinking from the river of souls in the underworld.
  Imaru drinking from the river of souls in the underworld.
• Imaru returning as an Undead
  Imaru returning as an Undead
• Imaru's specter's form
  Imaru's specter's form
• Imaru in her spectral form charging up an powerful attack
  Imaru in her spectral form charging up an powerful attack

Music

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Trivia

• Imaru's appearance is similar to that of Template:RSL, an undead dragon from both Template:RSL and Template:OSL.
  • They share a similar backstory to RuneScape's Vorkath. Neither was aggressive towards humans and shielded them from danger. Both later became undead.