Editing Taru the Dragon Slayer (section)

==<b>Relationship</b>==

To say that the relationship between Taru and his sire, Nuoia, is antagonistic would be putting it mildly. Since their very first meeting she has been manipulating him for her own devious purposes, and continues to try to do so to this very day. And even though he was, at one time, fooled by her duplicity and lies, Taru has since come to understand his sire's true self-serving motivations. He realizes that he is merely a pawn to her even if they are nearly equal in power. However, that equality is tempered by the fact she still has several millennias' worth of experience under her belt that he can never match. And while Taru can certainly lay the blame for the greatest tragedies in his life, both mortal and Kindred, upon Nuoia, he also can't deny that her manipulations and actions have helped shape him into the being that he is today. Because in her own seemingly uncaring way, she has forced him to survive and thrive at all costs.