Amreith

Redirected from "Angel", "Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman", "Buster Dragon" "World Dragon, Beginning of Swords".

Amreiths are a rare type of dragon clan native to God's Keep. Snake-like with fur and feathers, amreiths are thought to be among the first of the dragons, or at the very least descended from them. In Duel Monsters, they make up part of the Buster Blader and Destruction Sword archetypes. One known duelist who uses amreith dragons is Saki Yamaguchi.

Appearance
As young, amreiths are small, furred dragons with scaled bellies, with three pairs of legs and feet similar to a cats. They have large, fluffy ears, a pair of curved horns, and large eyes. They also have a pair of feathered wings, just large enough to get them off the ground. Their tails are long and tufted with extra feathers. Young tend to be light in color, ranging from whites and silvers to soft grays and golds.

As they grow older, most amreiths darken in color, many becoming black, dark purple, or dark gray, though a few particular amreiths will retain their pale coloring for reasons not quite understood. As adults, amreiths can grow to up to 200 feet long, and their horns develop into long, tipped frills along the sides of their heads.

Habitat
Amreiths are native to God's Keep, though due to their world-wandering nature, they can be found in any of the dimensions. Amreiths spend most of their time in the air or in the highest mountains. As they can spend many hours in flight, they normally only touch down when seeking food, normally livestock or other wild game. When nursing young unable to fly yet, they seek pine forests on high mountains, far away from others.

Disposition
Most amreiths are fairly mild in nature, tending to spend their time in the air and far away from other creatures. Teenage amreiths can be aggressive immediately after leaving the care of their parents, and tend to get into trouble with other creatures while seeking food and territory, and testing their own limits. As they age, however, amreiths tend to mellow out, and slowly withdraw from the sight of other races and species.

Culture
Amreiths do not spend much time in each other's company unlike other dragon clans, opting for more solitary lifestyles except when mating, which only occurs once in their thousands of years life span, and generally only results in two or three young.

Abilities
Amreiths are world-walkers, as many dragons are, able to pop from one world to another as easily as flying from one mountain to the next. They also seem to have some ancient association with weaponry, as the most ancient of amreiths are able to produce weapons in the same vein as an alchemist.

One legendary amreith had a special connection to the dragon slaying knight known as Buster Blader, a connection which seems to somehow continue between amreiths and Buster-style knights to this day, allowing for amreiths to call upon Buster Knights for assistance even from far away. All amreiths possess the ability to wield weaponry and increase the power of their knightly partners through a special, magical connection.

Known Amreiths
Several amreiths have appeared in the Duel Monsters card game and participated in human duels. One legendary amreith, once raised by the dragon slaying knight Buster Blader and then trained in the ways of swordsmanship before its corruption and subsequent slaying by Buster Blader, served as the inspiration for the archetype's creation, which now act as doorways for many amreiths to participate in duels if they so choose.

Angel
Angel is a young amreith with a connection to Saki Yamaguchi. He is a precocious but extremely loyal friend, and though he and Saki do not share a spoken language, he is always at her side and desires to protect her, the way the legendary amreith protected his partner Buster Blader. In the Duel Monsters game, he can be summoned with the card Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman, and has the ability to level up into Buster Dragon and World Dragon, Beginning of Swords.

Others
Saki Yamaguchi has a connection with at least four other amreiths, as of yet seemingly unnamed. There are also many other amreiths, whom can be summoned through the doorways of the following cards:


 * Buster Whelp of the Destruction Swordsman: summons young amreiths
 * Robot Buster Destruction Sword: summons adolescent amreiths skilled in a particular swordsmanship style
 * Wizard Buster Destruction Sword: summons adolescent amreiths skilled in a particular swordsmanship style
 * Monster Buster Destruction Sword: summons adolescent amreiths skilled in a particular swordsmanship style
 * World Buster Destruction Sword: summons adolescent amreiths skilled in a particular swordsmanship style
 * Buster Dragon: modeled after the legendary amreith who once fell prey to corruption and was subsequently slain by his partner, Buster Blader, the Buster Dragon card summons young adult amreiths. In Saki Yamaguchi's case, it allows her to summon a powered up version of Angel.
 * World Dragon, Beginning of Swords: seemingly only Angel has the ability to take on this form, and Saki Yamaguchi is the only person to have this card.