Mondriel still feels a need to wear plain clothing, as her position above other riders feels wrong after an entire life spent working fields and living hand-to-mouth. She dresses like an average draconar, and if she's not with Ukubith she could probably be mistaken for a rider working with any position in a formation wing. When she's at formal meetings she will pull out her best, deep burgundy robes over slim pants and soft boots, but this usually serves to make her feel more of an imposter, leaving her stiff and overformal whenever she's dressed so.

She latched on to the Searchrider that found her, a then young, beautiful man named P'ax, and found that going by looks alone was not enough to forge a steady relationship. They broke apart after only a few weeks, and Mondriel was forced to find ways to adapt to being not only a new rider, but the rider of a Queen in training.

She eventually got good at it; her natural predilections towards leadership came out by bits and pieces with Ukubith's encouragement. She was never very high up in the hierarchy at Darkling Dawn, and eventually she found herself looking for something more meaningful. Torn between staying close to her family and home and feeling the tug of the unknown, she eventually discovered she didn't really have a place in a tiny village, with a giant dragon to feed and roles tugging her in different directions.

Mondriel set off with a small group of dragonriders looking to transfer to Nidus Descendi, where she and Ukubith have been working to build up a strong team with the other Queens and their riders. She defers to the more experienced of them for anything to do with territorial conflicts with the nearby Arx, but she knows how to handle necessities like food and access to clean water, and how to do hard work, which has put her in a position of authority for draconars looking to support the humanoid populace spreading out over the surrounding valley.

In the meantime, she's had an on-again-off-again relationship with P'ax, who came with the group from Darkling Dawn, and she's had two children due to treating her dragon's flights in a traditional, Pernese fashion. She cares for her girls, Vassilia and Paula, very deeply, and has fostered them to Nidus Descendi's own small village to learn how to work the land and make their own gaggle of peers.

Ukubith has decided that she can find happiness and purpose by fulfilling her biological role, though she is drawn to odder dragons more often than not, and has occasionally been known to dabble in giving chase to some of the lower ranking females when the urge strikes her. Though this wasn't especially well understood at Darkling Dawn, her sheer size and force of personality have overwhelmed any nay-sayers at Nidus Descendi.

Ukubith spends much of her day-to-day gathering a cohort of her favourites, seeking to find ways to interest them and ease their minds. She's completely uninterested in the dealings of defense and attack, but she has a deep focus on keeping everyone fed and happy that she puts to use by coordinating the villages resources. She is surprisingly long-minded about numbers and has been known to outpace some of the calculators that Star City residents have access to, at least when it's in regard to areas that interest her.