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Revision as of 22:01, 21 September 2008
Character Profile
| Name: | Messoria |
| Date of Birth: | c. 1767 |
| Breed: | Yellow Reaper |
| Captain: | Sutton |
| National Loyalty: | Britain |
| Appearance: | Golden middleweight |
| Special Abilities: | |
| Status: | Active |
Biography
Messoria is a more experienced dragon who was assigned to Lily's formation along with Dulcia and Nitidus to balance out the inexperienced Lily, Temeraire and Maximus. She shares cigars with Sutton, her captain, and once commented to Temeraire - who was quite young at the time - that the breeding grounds are "all much alike, and not very interesting, except for the breeding part." Although as a Yellow Reaper Messoria is only a middleweight, she and Sutton are wily fighters.
Like all the British dragons, Messoria contracted the Dragon Plague in 1806. Along with the rest of Lily's formation, she was sent to Cape Town aboard the HMS Allegiance to find a cure. William Laurence, spending an evening reading to Temeraire from a book on mathematics, was surprised when Messoria found the topic of "great circles" so boringly obvious that she told Laurence to skip the proof. Laurence himself had found great circles difficult to understand when he was studying for his naval exams. He quickly learned that all the dragons had a natural understanding of geometry, although they argued with Euclid's postulate on parallel lines and started developing their own non-Euclidean geometry instead.
