Azura Kye is a Splinterlands character.

Splinterlands is an NFT Trading Card Game based in the world of Praetoria.

Lore:

As a siren, Azura Kye loves spending her days in the sky and her nights deep beneath the waves. She is a third-generation Riftwatcher who grew up listening to her grandparent's stories of the Chaos Legion's invasion of their homeworld, Lemell.

Azura learned to fight at a young age and grew to become a renowned sorceress. She also has an incredible aptitude for runemancy and has developed a variety of mana-infused weapons and gadgets for her allies to employ in their fight against the Chaos Legion. On the battlefield, she has proven herself repeatedly, facing off against the Legion's scouts on various realms and harassing their forces with clandestine, insurgent tactics. Once, she even single-handedly brought down a kraken.

Subsequently, she rose quickly through the ranks of the Riftwatchers. Time passed, and so too did the old guard. Azura was an obvious choice to replace them. Honored to follow in the footsteps of her predecessors, she now wears the mantle of Runemancer. She is a natural leader and a champion of the people, dedicating her life to stopping the Chaos Legion threat.

On yet another world ravaged by the Chaos Legion, Azura Kae swam toward the harbor of a ruined city, guiding a merchant ship through the flotsam and jetsam. A thunderous explosion of water sounded behind her. She turned. Massive tentacles rose from the sea all around the vessel. One slammed upon its deck, crushing the crew beneath it. Another wrapped itself around a sailor, hoisted him into the air, and yanked him beneath the waves. The ship rocked from side to side, sending more sailors overboard. The sea churned and frothed around the vessel. It was perilously close to capsizing.

A kraken. Azura had heard tales of these leviathans, which inhabited the depths of many realms, including her homeworld of Lemell. She dove beneath the waves and swam toward it, her runic staff at her side. The shard of crystalized mana at its head glowed a vibrant violet.

Through the murk ahead, the beast's massive shape emerged until it filled her vision. Tentacles writhed around it, yanking sailors from the ship and the water's surface, dragging them down into the brine and crushing them until they burst in a cloud of crimson.

The muffled thunder of cannons echoed from the ship. Harpoons flew and jabbed into the tentacles like tiny thorns. It only enraged the kraken more. It wrapped its tentacles around the vessel, intent on dragging it beneath the waves.

Azura's tail whipped through the water, and her wings propelled her even faster. She wove through the thrashing tentacles, toward the kraken's head, and thrust her staff into its eye. It pierced the cornea and sank into the vitreous meat. Then the shard of mana at the staff's head exploded with violet light. The eye bulged, then it, too, exploded.

The leviathan's roar reverberated through the depths. Its tentacles flailed wildly. One of the ship's masts fell into the water, its sail furled around it as it sank into the darkness. Half-blind, mad with pain, the kraken rose toward the surface, intent on ramming into the vessel's hull.

Holding fast to the beast's head with one hand, she used the other to drive her staff deeper into the ruined remains of its eye. Gritting her teeth, she drove it deeper still, until her entire arm —up to the shoulder— was inside the grisly socket.

Deep within the kraken's skull, the staff exploded with magic again. The beast's tentacles jerked. Its body twitched. It fell still, dead at last, and drifted upward. It breached the surface alongside the ship and bumped harmless against it.

A cheer went up from the surviving crew.

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