Fathom
- "Well, there are lots of ways, and lots of reasons. Sometimes it's because they're sad or angry. Some dragons become bad when they have too much power. Sometimes... sometimes they don't know they're bad guys. They think what they're doing is the right thing."
- — Fathom to his dragonets about evil dragons
Template:Infobox Character Prince Fathom was a male animus SeaWing who befriended and mentored Darkstalker. However, he later convinced Darkstalker's mate, Clearsight, to help him betray him because Darkstalker was becoming too ambitious and powerful. He was the grandson of Albatross and one of the only survivors of the Royal SeaWing Massacre, along with his sister, Queen Pearl. He was described to be a green SeaWing, with grey-green eyes. He is only known to only have used his powers once, but he has actually used them multiple times, such as when he enchanted a coconut when he discovered he was an animus and during the lessons Albatross gave him.
Biography
Pre-Series
Fathom was the grandson of Albatross, and he was an animus. After Albatross went insane, Fathom swore an oath to his sister, the new queen of the SeaWings, Queen Pearl, that he would never use his animus powers. Later he was sent to train a young NightWing animus, named Darkstalker, and the two became friends quickly. Darkstalker made the three enchanted sapphires called dreamvisitors, and gave one to Fathom, and one to his lover, named Clearsight, to link the three, no matter how far apart they were. After some time, as the NightWing animus became more and more powerful, Fathom came to believe that Darkstalker would become evil, lose his mind, and kill everyone, so he broke his oath and enchanted a bracelet to put Darkstalker into an eternal slumber. He convinced Clearsight that Darkstalker would turn evil and become a threat to everyone. In the end she agreed to help him along with the others NightWings to bury the sleeping Darkstalker to protect the tribe. The Nightwings then moved to another island and may have given up their powers to hide from Darkstalker and never allow anything that powerful to ever happen again.
In Moon Rising, Moonwatcher reads a scroll to trying find out about dreamvisitors and finds out about Fathom from the scroll and more about Darkstalker. The scroll mentions Fathom's ties to the Royal SeaWings Massacre, and his enchanted object to put Darkstalker to sleep, but not much else is mentioned. Darkstalker confirms that the enchanted object was a bracelet.
Fathom and a group of SeaWing dragonets; including his sister, Pearl and a dragonet named Indigo, are waiting on a beach on orders of Queen Lagoon. Indigo teases Fathom consistently, but he ignores her and follows Lagoon's orders to stay still. Finally, she arrives alongside Albatross. The two announce that they are going to be testing to see if any of the dragonets are animus. Albatross gives them some coconuts and tells them to enchant the coconuts to hit him. At first, he tries politely telling the coconut to hit Albatross. When nothing happens, Indigo teases him again and he sternly commands it to do so, enchanting the coconut to hit Albatross for real. Albatross congratulates him while silently strangling a distant seagull.
Trivia
- A fathom is a unit used to measure water depth, equal to six feet.
- Fathom also means to deeply think.
- The current SeaWing royal family is the many-times great-grandchildren of Fathom, though we don't know the point in time in which Fathom, and not Pearl's descendants became the main royal family.
- Fathom appeared as the protagonist of one of the 3 parts of Darkstalker (Legends).
- Fathom has sworn to never use his Animus powers, stating that "The soul that I still have, and wish to keep. Queen Pearl of the SeaWings, I pledge you this oath, on my life and sealed with my blood: I will never use my animus magic again, not for the rest of my days." Afterwards, he used a sword and drew an 'x' on the palm of his talon.
Gallery
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A German SeaWing
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A typical SeaWing -
Fathom Ref- QueenClam -
Prince Fathom by GeekWayne
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Fathom on the night Darkstalker is born.
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Fathom at bottom left. By Sahel. -
Drawn by me, xTheDragonRebornx
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Darkstalker, by Lantasia (or Azalea The RainWing) -
Fathom is on the right. By Alaska the IceWing -
Fathom is on the right. By Snowblast -
Fathom on the bottom right -
Fathom and Indigo
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Fathom and Indigo by QueenClam -
By NightWing of Time/Queen Terra
