Ranga and Rin – The Crooked Rivers
The Spiral sisters were left at the main entrance to the Lundlaevungar lair, alongside their Mirror siblings Syllinga and Hneitir, with no explanation. Their similarity in looks to
Morcant and his recent dalliance with a pretty Mirror led most of the Clan to assume that he was their father. After a brief and futile attempt to locate their mother, all four hatchlings were accepted into the Clan and given a home for as long as they wanted it.
Morcant had little to do with his offspring as they grew up. This was partly due to his wanderlust, and partly because the hatchlings themselves had inherited this same urge to explore – and cause trouble. While Syllinga and Hneitir ran their caretakers ragged with incessant mischief, Ranga and Rin often could not be found for hours on end. The Spirals were drawn to the Starwood Strand to explore the little waterways that ran between the trees. As they grew older and bolder, the brooks and dramatic cascades of the Focal Point called to them more strongly, and they started to disappear for days at a time.
It was then that Einmyrir began to take an interest in Ranga and Rin. He spoke to them of the stars and their movements: their patient tide across the sky, like the waves advancing and retreating along the shoreline; the flow of comets and meteors, like unending rivers.
As he had planned, they began to turn their Arcane eyes to the heavens. To watch; to whisper together of what they might see, if they could go there.
Their explorations were so frequent and so lengthy that the Clan barely noticed when Ranga and Rin went missing. It was only when Syllinga and Hneitir began to show concern that they realised that they had never been away for so long before. I became clear after several weeks that the two Spirals were not coming back, though none could guess where they had gone.
Einmyrir only smiled to himself, and stared up at the stars, and whispered a blessing to the Arcanist’s newest explorers.
Syllinga and Hneitir – The Forsaken
Syllinga and Hneitir were left on the threshold of the Lundlaevungar lair alongside their Spiral sisters, Ranga and Rin. There was no explanation, but the Clan assumed that their father was the Spiral Morcant, who had recently bragged of a romance with a pretty Mirror. The hatchlings’ mother could not be found, and so the four joined the Lundlaevungar.
Unlike their easy-going sisters, Syllinga and Hneitir did not forgive their father so easily for refusing to acknowledge them as his own, and for neglecting to spend time with them on the rare occasions he returned to the Lair. So, they turned upon the Clan that had so kindly taken them in, wreaking havoc in any way they could. They rooted through the Hoard, disrupting its careful organisation and releasing familiars and food alike; they followed hunting parties only to lose all skills in subtlety the moment they spotted prey, and deliberately went swimming whenever the older dragons were trying to catch fish; they teased their elders with words and sharp teeth in tail-tips, and drove the Lundlaevungar to distraction.
When they were old enough,
Loki placed both Mirrors in the charge of
Thor, to train them for battle in the hopes that this might kerb their tendencies for mischief – or at least, turn them outwards.
However, as soon as they had the skills, Syllinga and Hneitir began to target the local Beastclans, with whom the Lundlaevungar had been on neutral terms until this point.
It was around this time that Ranga and Rin disappeared for good.
When the Mirror pair realised that their sisters were not coming back, their behaviour only grew worse. They began to target not only the local Longneck, Centaur and Talonok tribes, but moved further afield to do battle with scouts from Beastclans living on the edge of the Arcane lands. Eventually, the Beastclan leaders sent envoys to the Lundlaevungar, insisting that something had to be done.
Syllinga and Hneitir were given an ultimatum: they could leave the Lundlaevungar of their own free will and cut all ties forever; or they could be taken by force to the Observatory.
They chose to leave and go in search of their lost sisters. They left the same day without saying a single word to their father, and were not heard from again.
The father of these four dragons, Morcant, is canonically a huge Casanova; this ‘hatchlings on the threshold’ thing probably happens a lot. :3 I like to think that these siblings found each other again in the Observatory.
Also, playing with Beastclan lore, because why not!
Name Meanings:
Ranga: Crooked River
Rin: The Rhine
Syllinga: The Scilly Isles
Hneitir: Cutter
The links above lead to full-size images of Ranga and Rin’s outfits because I particularly like them. :)
xRekkr – The Warrior
