Telingewei

Biodata

Background

Telingewei’s mother, Rheinhild, departed for another plane before he hatched. To prevent him from growing up entirely alone, she used Life Magic to guide his energy into creating eight Companion Beasts. With no adult dragon present to regulate his hatching, Telingewei instinctively consumed almost all the available energy, leaving the little beasts weaker than ordinary Dragon Companion Beasts 12 41 243.

The Companion Beasts kept him company through his childhood, huddling with him in the cave on cold nights. Rheinhild left no written records or personal traces for him to inherit; the large cave he later occupied was one he dug himself after growing up 243 297.

Telingewei spent time as an adventurer and developed friendships with people of several races, including humans, Weaving Fairies, and a Gargoyle. He later guarded the Magic Forest for years, living with his Companion Beasts and sleeping on a hoard of gold coins 42 49 70 82 85.

Appearance

• Dragon form: An enormous black dragon with wings and a long tail. He can adjust his size and deliberately used his largest form when first meeting Xie Juanhan to discourage a territorial fight 15 108 269.
• Human form: A towering, black-haired man with broad shoulders, a narrow waist, long legs, and strongly defined chest and abdominal muscles. His low body fat gives him long, sculptural proportions 5 34 40 56.
• Complexion and features: Dark skin and high brow bones; his complexion makes blushing less obvious 230 273.
• Usual clothing: Generally covers himself fully, often in coarse wool. A fitted formal outfit made by the Weaving Fairies is accessorized with an elaborate gold-coin waist chain 103.
• Physical warmth: His body and hands are notably warm 3 108.

Personality

Telingewei’s imposing appearance and reputation for fighting contrast with his gentleness toward Xie Juanhan. He initially responds to an unfamiliar powerful creature with caution rather than aggression, explaining that displaying his strongest form can prevent a fight. Although not skilled at socializing, he maintains friendships across racial boundaries 15 82 111 192.

He expresses affection through practical effort: commissioning suitable cookware, preparing a furnished home, and practicing chopsticks for more than ten days to better understand Xie Juanhan. He takes promises seriously, sharing access to his accumulated wealth immediately after they swear to share their lives 37 84 109 110.

His relationship with the Companion Beasts is affectionate but combative. He teases them, orders them around, and sometimes wrestles with them; they retaliate by biting his clothes, scratching him, or refusing his attempted bribes. Despite his sternness, he searches for them when they disappear and eventually takes over their exhausting egg-incubation duties 37 38 71 196 271.

Growing up without his mother leaves him sensitive to abandonment. Learning that Rheinhild may have departed to protect him unsettles his understanding of his childhood, while the prospect of Xie Juanhan returning home raises fears of being left behind again 230 243.

Abilities & Skills

Dragon Flame

Telingewei’s Dragon Flame is a destructive power that he also uses for precise household tasks 17 269.

• Cleans golden plates and cutlery by heating them, and burns discarded bones and leaves 8 9.
• Renders whale blubber into oil and clears vegetation for farmland 23 202.
• At full force, destroys a massive stone stool even while he is reduced to juvenile form; Xie Juanhan must shield nearby companions from the heat 269.
• Is unsuitable for reproducing the fairies’ delicate textile enhancement: his test scrap immediately blackens and burns away 17.

Shapeshifting, Flight, and Strength

He freely changes between human and dragon forms and varies his dragon form’s size 5 15 71.

• Carries Xie Juanhan on long flights and uses a smaller dragon form to give all the Companion Beasts a ride 108 271.
• Warps a metal door fused to a secret chamber using his dragon-form strength 112.
• Tears apart a wooden desk and its concealed layers without transforming 112.
• Limitation: He is slow underwater and cannot catch a level-four Demonic Squid that retreats into deep water 24 42.

Companion Beast Memory Reading

Because the Companion Beasts originated from his own energy, Telingewei can obtain a general sense of their memories by pressing his forehead against theirs 5.

• Learns where they have been, what they have eaten, and what they are attempting to conceal 8 15 93.
• Reads information Rheinhild stored deep within their memories about the spatial passage on Kaonielin Plain 230.
• Limitation: Their memories are not a comprehensive inheritance of dragon knowledge; repeated searches yield no ready-made solution for Moli’s recovery 297.

Magic Arrays

Telingewei is an accomplished array designer, with steady hands and familiarity with abbreviated magical terminology 178 231.

• Draws a Kelis Magic Circle in two days, powering it with five level-four Demonic Cores for Xie Juanhan’s Dragon Power crystallization experiment 178.
• Recognizes racial differences in array construction and identifies the ancient spatial array’s first-generation deity style 231.
• Determines that the spatial array gathers ambient magic rather than running on Demonic Cores, estimating that natural replenishment could take a little over two centuries 231.
• Helps activate the enormous teleportation array and the farm’s protective rune network with Dragon Power 304 307.

Life Magic

Despite representing destruction, Telingewei understands Life Magic better than the average magus because he has lived alongside creatures created through it. He does not initially possess a ready-made healing method or inherited instructions 297.

• Designs a recovery array with Xie Juanhan and installs it above the lava on Kaonielin Plain 297.
• Uses the array for Moli’s daily recuperation, strengthening the Demon Wolf’s wings 297.

Hunting, Cooking, and Local Knowledge

Telingewei is an experienced ocean hunter who regularly locates schools of level-two-or-higher magical fish to feed himself in his largest form 118.

• Knows the Magic Forest’s terrain, edible plants, magical creatures, and local craftspeople 16 34 51 56.
• Processes Chimerao meat while removing its poisonous heads, organs, bones, and tendons before they contaminate the edible portions 20.
• Learns fish-cake preparation, fish-liver frying, and winemaking principles from Xie Juanhan 16 45 72.
• Demonstrates masterful grilling temperature control, crisping marinated meat without melting its thin layer of underlying fat 91.
• Limitation: Has difficulty following Xie Juanhan’s explanations involving particles, states of matter, and energy 178.

Equipment & Possessions

• Dragon Scale Space: Personal storage from which he retrieves valuables and other belongings 110.
• Spatial armlet: A gold ornament made by Xie Juanhan containing an enormous storage space; Xie Juanhan wears a matching armlet 115 116.
• Gold hoard and utensils: Includes a bed of gold coins, golden basins, plates, cutlery, and a wine flask. He proposes using the flask to insulate volatile elemental crystals 8 20 70 137.
• Rare books: Ancient magical guides and textbooks accumulated over the years, later given to Xie Juanhan for his study 105.
• Kitchen equipment: Includes utensils received from his adventurer friend Meiruidisi, notably a foot-operated butter churn 42.
• Sea of Clouds Cottage: A furnished home he prepares for himself and Xie Juanhan, later used as a private retreat 109 243.

Recorded Financial Holdings

These assets represent only the portion held by the Silver Money Trading Company, not his entire fortune 110.

At the request of elves and humans, Telingewei deposits assets so that his hoarding does not remove excessive wealth from circulation. Lending also allows aging Demonic Cores to be replaced before their magic dissipates. He gives Xie Juanhan access through a mithril credential after they pledge to share everything 110.

Relationships

• Xie Juanhan — Lover and lifelong partner. Their initial friendship develops through shared meals, hunting, and farm work. Telingewei explicitly acknowledges his romantic feelings, later promises to accompany Xie Juanhan home, and addresses him affectionately as “A-Han” 51 109.
• Rheinhild — Mother. Her departure initially feels like abandonment to him. The Vespas’ explanation and the discovery of her hidden Demonic Core cache lead him to recognize her preparations as evidence of love 230 243.
• The eight Companion Beasts — Lifelong companions born from his hatching energy. Their relationship combines family attachment, frequent squabbling, and shared memories of his childhood 5 12 243 271.
• Weaving Fairies — Friends and trusted craftspeople. He recommends their tailoring, accepts textile deliveries for Xie Juanhan, and entrusts the little ones to their care during a trip 16 56 110.
• Meiruidisi — Adventurer friend who gave him kitchen utensils because of his interest in cooking 42.
• Dwarves — Initially enemies after an unsuccessful attempt to steal his gold resulted in their expulsion from the Magic Forest. He later sells them Wraith Wine, and dwarven builders assist with the spatial-array project 21 115 243.
• Moli — Young Demon Wolf in the household; Telingewei designs a Life Magic array to aid Moli’s recovery and strengthen his wings 297.

Major Story Events

Notable Quotes

“Wherever you are in the future, that’s where I’ll be.” 109

“Yesterday, we swore to share everything, whether in poverty or wealth, good times or bad, joy or sorrow. I’m here to fulfill my oath.” 110

“You’re my dearest love, a part of my life. I can’t cut you out and move on to the next stage of my life. Without you, I wouldn’t be whole anymore.” 230

Trivia

• He and the Companion Beasts strongly dislike dried fish 84.
• His chopstick practice includes picking up tiny gold beans 84.
• He discovered that whale blubber could be rendered into oil while attempting to burn foul-smelling carcasses that were harming the nearby sea 23.
• He once had a sulfurous scent, which disappeared as he grew older. A magic plant altered by his power reproduces that early aura 121.