Arrideo and Cor

Arrideo and Cor
Type	NPC
Actor	Brennan Lee Mulligan
Character Information
Creature type	Humanoid
Race	Dragonborn
Class	Cleric (Arrideo) Paladin (Cor)
Languages	Common, Draconic, Celestial (Arrideo)
Place	Seagate, Issylra
Family	Erro Mordaurum (son)
Connections	Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon (deity) Order of the Last Banner (Cor was a member) Grenalin (family friend)
Status
Status	Dead
Causes of death	Arrideo was killed by the forces of the Lord of the Hells Cor died of illness decades before the Divergence

Arrideo and Cor were Issylran followers of the Platinum Dragon, and the parents of Erro Mordaurum.

Description

Arrideo and Cor were honorable and devout people that followed the tenets of their god and helped people in need. Cor was a fearsome warrior with bright gold scales.

Biography

Arrideo and Cor were followers of Bahamut living in Seagate, a city in Issylra during the Calamity. Arrideo was a cleric with knowledge of the intricacies of the draconic language, and Cor was a fearsome scimitar-wielding paladin, a member of the Order of the Last Banner, and the bearer of Honor's Last Stand. They raised a son together, and although life was hard for them, they helped refugees whenever they could.

During a battle in which Asmodeus was involved, his fiendish forces invaded Seagate; Arrideo was killed, but Cor managed to escape with their young son. Along with a man called Skoll, they traveled to Gwessar, where they stayed for a time with Skoll becoming like an uncle to Erro and teaching him about survival. They made a brief return to Issylra, but they couldn't find any refugees, so they decided to stay in Gwessar Cor, however, didn't live to see her son grow: when Erro was about eleven, a sickness killed the people of the small settlement they had found, including his mother. The young dragonborn stayed with Skoll.

Many decades later, not long before the Divergence, Erro and his friends found a hidden sanctum near Snowgrave Pass in which several relics were kept: one of them was Honor's Last Stand, which the dragonborn last saw with his mother. He took it with him, and days later, during a battle against devils, he remembered his parents' lessons about not wasting the advantage against an enemy, and pushed away the fiend that was approaching him as Honor's Last Stand became Awakened.

Appearances and mentions

• Exandria Unlimited: Divergence
  • "Mirror and Key" (E4x03), mentioned only (first mentioned)
  • "By Heart Alone" (E4x04), mentioned only

Trivia

• Given their son's last name, their own might have been "Mordaurum" too.
• According to Liam O'Brien, the Platinum Dragon deliberately chose Arrideo and Cor as his mortal parents because they were remarkable followers of his, and he knew that they would raise their son (his mortal incarnation) with the very values he represented as a god; thus, Erro would become someone like Bahamut, even if he didn't know he was actually the god of justice.

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