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[center][size=6][font=Century Gothic]BIRTHDAY'S RECORDS, OR A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF CLAN STRAFE[/font=Century Gothic][/size=6][/center] ----- You're not quite sure how you got to this part of the Hewn City. As you squint through the darkness, indistinct shadows resolve themselves into buildings, clearly remnants of what used to be a bustling library or university. Some of the walls appear to be charred – perhaps a fire played a part in what led this place to ruin. In the distance, you see a glint of crystal. You quicken your pace, wings propelling you forward towards the light. As you get closer, you see that the crystal is attached to something, or rather someone. You skid to a halt mere feet away from the suddenly resolved Snapper standing in front of you. [center][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=25081998] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/250820/25081998_350.png[/img] [/url][/center] She cocks her head to the side, hide faintly glimmering in the dim lights of the city as she regards you. When she speaks, her voice is soft and concerned. "How exactly did you end up here?" You search for a reason – your memory suddenly seems to have gone blank, with any reasons for travel or lost sense of direction out of conscious reach. After a few moments pass, the Snapper decides to stop waiting for an answer and coughs delicately. "Well, no matter. I'm sure you didn't mean to come here – nobody really does. I can guide you back to the Dial in the morning if you'd like." You nod, grateful and suddenly aware of how tired your wings are. How [i]did[/i] you get here? Confused and wary, you look to the other dragon as she smiles slightly and turns towards one of the more intact buildings. "You can stay in my library for tonight or sleep out here. I could use some company." The promise of a shelter, no matter how rickety, sounds better than staying in the open tonight. The Hewn City is rumored to be Shade-touched, and you're not even sure of the street you're on, or if streets even matter here anymore. Still – this dragon hasn't given you her name, and perhaps she plans on kidnapping you for the Lightweaver's brood tonight. Perhaps it's best to shake off the exhaustion and fly high enough to see the brighter parts of Light. [size=5][url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1949488#post_21969927]=> Follow the dragon.[/url] [url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums]=> Fly away.[/url][/size=5]

Exhaustion wins out; you really do wonder exactly how far you've flown tonight. You attempt a smile at the stranger in front of you and get a wider one in return.

"Excellent! I don't get very many visitors out here, the energies around this place are... odd, to say the least. My name is Birthday, by the way."

Relieved to have at least some information on the dragon in front of you, you introduce yourself and explain your predicament as you walk beside Birthday. Her brow furrows further as your story progresses.

"That's the first time I've heard of that reaction to these ruins, but I'm not surprised. I think these buildings were used to be a gathering place for magicians and scientists during the Second Age, which makes my clan's settlement here rather awkward."

Confused, you ask why. Birthday's smile turns to more of a grimace.

"It might be easier to show you. I'm the clan's historian – the library is at the edge of our territory, and I've been setting up a system of records here. However, I understand if you'd like to sleep. It seems like you've had a long day."

=> Ask to see the records.
=> Say you'd like to sleep.

Curiosity piqued, you decide that the promise of a bed tonight is enough at the moment. You're curious to see exactly how a Snapper (and a Wind Snapper, at that) has stayed put long enough to have a dwelling-place, let alone a system of records. Birthday's pace slows as she ducks her head into the low-hanging doorway of the library. Clearly this place wasn't designed with dragons in mind.

You enter as gracefully as you can behind her and gape – the cramped entrance serves to make the interior incredibly dramatic. The shadows of the outside are all but forgotten in the warm glow of hundreds of floating lights, clearly the work of a skilled mage native to the Sunbeam Ruins. While most of the shelves and original structure remain intact, some of it is clearly hard-packed dirt and stone, which seems to explain the debris on Birthday's shoulders and tail. Half a staircase runs up the middle of the room, fortunately unnecessary for the current occupants. There are several levels of shelving, but only the first two seem to be filled with scrolls.While the main room seems to make up most of the building, there's another small door to your left that casts a multicolored glow on the floor in front of it. There's an identical door to the right with no glow, but a Wind sigil and an Earth sigil scratched into the wood.

=> Ask about the scrolls.
=> Ask about the door to the left.
=> Ask about the door to the right.

Clearly the scrolls make up the bulk of Birthday's work here – as she turns back to you you ask what they all hold. Grinning, she heads to a shelf further from the entrance and beckons you to follow.

"Several of them are still empty – the clan's scavengers seem to collect scroll cases at an alarming rate. But in the time I've been here, this is what I've managed to get down about the clan."

She gestures to different shelves with her head as she speaks.

"On the top we have the clan's origin and pilgrimage to Light Flight – that stuff was hard to get down, most of the early residents aren't, ah, very willing to talk to a newcomer like me." It's clearly a sensitive subject; her wing twitches at the end of the sentence.

"Here in the middle we have the current subgroups of the clan – divisions of labor, roles and rankings within the clan, stuff like that. Most of that was already recorded by one dragon or another, it was just a matter of copying it down and putting it all in the same place. Very basic civic stuff, but there are some interesting personalities in there."

"The bottom is breeding pairs – some are together for love, some are there for convenience. Not everybody is in a monogamous bond, but enough are that it's worth keeping track of. The details of new hatchlings are stored elsewhere and managed by other clan members. I've also got some records of unexplained gene changes – they impact the hatchlings and I wasn't really sure where else to store them."

=> Examine a scroll from the top shelf.
=> Examine a scroll from the middle shelf.
=> Examine a scroll from the bottom shelf.
=> Return to the entrance of the library.

While the scrolls and the lights around you are astonishing, the barely-restrained rainbow of the door to the left leaves you equal parts wary and excited. Maybe Birthday's charitable nature is masking something darker... You ask what the door holds before she turns back to you, body tense as you prepare for flight or a fight. You are relieved, then, when she laughs, absolute delight visible on her face. "That's a side project I've been working on – the runes are stable, but I can't figure out how to dim the lights." She moves towards the door and you hesitate for a moment before following – that explanation was a bit too vague for comfort. Sensing the tension, she laughs again as she goes to turn the knob. "I promise it's not harmful. It's just a slightly brighter than I'd like." The door opens and the lobby explodes into a riot of color. Your eyes adjust and your jaw drops – the walls are [i]covered[/i] in dragons. Birthday ushers you inside, still smiling broadly. "This is a list of all our surviving former clan members. Most of them are hatchlings from dragons in the lair – kids don't tend to stay in the area, so I've been tracking down the ones that aren't exalted and putting them on the wall. Most of the parents are pretty good for that stuff." She stands in front of a pair of Snappers, their eyes noticeably different than the hundreds of yellow pairs around the room. "Some of them are dragons that lived here for a long time – put down roots, had kids, contributed to the life of the lair, et cetera. I figured they deserved a place too. These two," she says, gesturing to the well-dressed Snapper couple, "were my predecessors, so to speak. Ferox was technically the archivist, but Mir did a lot of the legwork. Sadly, like most of my breed, they weren't too keen on writing things down." Her expression has softened as she talks about the pair on the wall – clearly, they mean a lot to her. She shakes her head slightly and focuses back. "They're all organized by age, if you'd like to take a look. It's oldest first." Awestruck, you examine the wall in front of you. ----- 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[/center][size=5][url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1949488#post_21978155]=> Return to the library.[/url][/size=5]

While it may be the least obtrusive of the feature of the library, the door to the right intrigues you. What exactly, you wonder, are Earth and Wind sigils doing here? You ask and see Birthday's shoulders tense a bit.

"Those are my living quarters, with the sigil of my birth clan and species clan on them. I felt I should claim the heritage, even if I don't exactly live up to it."

Her tone is a bit frostier than it was before. Hesitantly, you ask what she means by that.

"I am a Snapper and a Wind that does not travel. I'm not even quite sure why – something pulled me to this place and I can't bring myself to leave it. I know my mate would go if I asked, so..." she trails off, looking confused as she turns to you.

"My work here is important, but I'm not sure why I had to do it. It's important to remind myself where I come from."

Dragons that have visited: [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=20499959][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/205000/20499959.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=24824645][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/248247/24824645.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=25882947][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/258830/25882947.png[/img][/url][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=24634349][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/246344/24634349.png[/img][/url]

[center][size=6][font=Century Gothic]ORIGINS[/size=6] -----[/center] [columns][img]http://flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=1&bodygene=0&breed=2&element=5&gender=0&tert=9&tertgene=0&winggene=0&wings=60&auth=3b1755cc94b87377b58d4221688d7c28a8e6583c&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [nextcol] [font=Century Gothic]Eremus and Avium were born under different names in the Highland Scrub, some time after dragons had begun to populate and civilize a post-human Sornieth but before the population of the land skyrocketed. Archonei, as he was called then, was said to have risen from the desert all sparks and sand. In reality, he hatched alone; there was no clan or nest to surround him, only the vast and terrifying emptiness of the clear sky. He blinked startling electric eyes, shook the sand off his hide and began walking. Eventually he reached a trade station of sorts, one of the many outposts of the Auction House set out in the middle of the desert like an oasis. There was food there, and dragons too — some calling out the names of others, or shouting descriptions of dragons with no names at all. He met eyes with one of these nameless dragons, and some previously unknown instinct in his hindbrain kicked to life. He had to protect her. [/columns] [columns][font=Century Gothic]She was so much smaller than him — her eyes hung luminous in her face, the grey of her body and the bright red of her wings making the blue pop. The seller was another Fae, authoritative until faced with a feral Guardian who had found a charge and he let her go, alarm clear in his expression as they receded into the horizon. They chose their names in a storybook (she knew how to read, hadn't known parents but had been hatched dispassionately and then sold to the Fae at the oasis). He would be Archonei and she would be Valerion, named after ancient dragons from another world that served kings and knights and lived in palaces. They looked at the Tempest Spire and saw nothing but hope. [font=Century Gothic][nextcol][img]http://flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=4&bodygene=0&breed=1&element=5&gender=1&tert=52&tertgene=0&winggene=0&wings=59&auth=ceb944cfd4e06b0f7d39a08c6f2edccc3c1d7972&dummyext=prev.png[/img][/columns] [/font=Century Gothic] [columns][img]http://flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=11&bodygene=0&breed=7&element=10&gender=1&tert=34&tertgene=1&winggene=0&wings=9&auth=17f85d3e0be67556fde51692f4c93beb6991fa94&dummyext=prev.png[/img] [nextcol] [font=Century Gothic]They learned to hunt and fight and eventually other dragons joined their makeshift clan, dragons with different eyes and skills. A young Spiral with bright green eyes stumbled upon them in the desert, tired of plants and looking for spare parts to build something with. She had none of the Nature magic her eyes promised, but all of the instincts and mechanical skills of a Lightning dragon. [/columns]

fun stuff to include:

common draconic: http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/cc/1863552/1
floriography: http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/gde/1895234

Research theses undertaken in Strafe:

Defensive properties of elemental magic imbued in armor (Gloin)
Structural foundations of Second Age Light mage incantations in Common Draconic (Avium, Cita)
Foundries and smithing techniques of the Second Age Light cult (Gloin)
Patterns of worship amongst draconic political refugees (Aliento)
Nocturne integration into mixed-species lairs (Slipstream)
Effects of Plague magic on various elemental battle wounds (Iridis, Cita)
Color and light symbolism in Hewn City literature (Aliento)