I'm a shapeshifter. This is my groundling form. I thought I might at least show you something not scary first. Step back a bit, would you?

[Once she's a few steps back, the old man disappears in a cloud of dark mist, which spreads and grows and then disappears, revealing a... well, he looks a lot like a very spiny dragon with a vaguely humanoid face (looks like Stone-the-groundling's face, except covered in scales and spines). He drops to a crouch, hands on the ground, bending his head down. On all fours, his folded wings are level with the bottom of the second story of the Invincible. His wingspan, once opened, would be at least seventy feet. His scales are light and colorless, like his skin and hair, but it makes him look delicate despite his size.]