Cyril Ibn Syrtis

Cyril Ibn Syrtis is a red dragonborn from the province of Bayt-Syrtis on the continent of Bayt-Altinin. His family trace their ancestry to the semi-mythical red dragon Syrtis the Bloody Talon, one of the founders of the Altinian Council of dragons that rule the continent.

His generally easygoing personality, his love of books and puzzles, and his unusually slight stature and poor eyesight set Cyril apart from most of his rampantly extroverted House, who are more renowned for being fiery warrior-sorcerers and passionate artists than scholars of any kind.

Cyril is also the youngest of his five siblings. His older sisters hatched from their parents' first clutch, and his brothers the second. His twin sister hatched several days before Cyril did. He was small for a dragonborn, and survived hatching only through the intervention of divine magic.

When curiosity and bookishness turned into a talent for wizardry, Arshad and Yasmine helped Cyril apply to the Arcturus Academy of the Arcane after extensive begging and pleading on their son's part. While the dragoborn clans of Bayt-Altinin are not as bound to the natures of their founders as true dragons might be, Cyril was convinced that Arcturus' more diverse faculty and students would be a better school than the academies of Bayt-Altinin, where rivalries based on ancestry and House could cause problems for a misfit.

Cyril's admission essay on the malleability of spell formulas caught the eye of Arcrturus Librarian and Lore Master Niles Undrentide, who became Cyril's advocate among the faculty.