The Shade is sort of slowly spreading throughout my clan through newcomer dragons, although only a few know and either are ignorant and don't care, or are too scared to speak out with the thread of being infected over their heads.
TOPIC | What's The Shade to your Clan?
The Shade is sort of slowly spreading throughout my clan through newcomer dragons, although only a few know and either are ignorant and don't care, or are too scared to speak out with the thread of being infected over their heads.
My clan isn't exactly sure?? They haven't encountered any Shade-touched and don't care enough to search such dragons out, so their opinion on the Shade is limited by their lack of knowledge and experience.
There are theories tossed around though!! The clan is made of monsters and other beings disguised as dragons, so they're hesitant to dismiss the Shade as being completely gone. There are a few members that have no discernible origin or species, even among myths and legends, leaving some of the others to speculate whether they have ties to the Shade or are just some unnatural creature in their own right.
(That's just the clan, though. As the writer behind them I can say that the Shade is definitely an entity that's present in my lore despite being weakened and scattered.
The clan leader, Anathema, has a strange affinity to darkness that she believes is a gift from the Shadowbinder, but the twisted and eldritch horror-esque being Ana can become due to her 'gift' leads some to believe otherwise.
Nameless is the literal other half of Anathema it is tied to her very soul. It's an extension of her powers and mostly a being of animalistic instinct and minimal intelligence. It's also the backbone of the eldritch horror the two can become with an eternal hunger.
Dysmorpha is a Greater Horror, which is a Shade-touched subspecies that originates from the Void and feeds off the fears of dragonkind. She knows her connection to the entity, but keeps it quiet because the speculation amuses her.
Finally there are Sana and Arcturus, who are either one strange couple or a single being in two bodies found in a strange temple that may or may not have been dedicated to the Shade.
Basically the Shade is barely there but it's there, lurking, waiting....)
There are theories tossed around though!! The clan is made of monsters and other beings disguised as dragons, so they're hesitant to dismiss the Shade as being completely gone. There are a few members that have no discernible origin or species, even among myths and legends, leaving some of the others to speculate whether they have ties to the Shade or are just some unnatural creature in their own right.
(That's just the clan, though. As the writer behind them I can say that the Shade is definitely an entity that's present in my lore despite being weakened and scattered.
The clan leader, Anathema, has a strange affinity to darkness that she believes is a gift from the Shadowbinder, but the twisted and eldritch horror-esque being Ana can become due to her 'gift' leads some to believe otherwise.
Nameless is the literal other half of Anathema it is tied to her very soul. It's an extension of her powers and mostly a being of animalistic instinct and minimal intelligence. It's also the backbone of the eldritch horror the two can become with an eternal hunger.
Dysmorpha is a Greater Horror, which is a Shade-touched subspecies that originates from the Void and feeds off the fears of dragonkind. She knows her connection to the entity, but keeps it quiet because the speculation amuses her.
Finally there are Sana and Arcturus, who are either one strange couple or a single being in two bodies found in a strange temple that may or may not have been dedicated to the Shade.
Basically the Shade is barely there but it's there, lurking, waiting....)
My clan isn't exactly sure?? They haven't encountered any Shade-touched and don't care enough to search such dragons out, so their opinion on the Shade is limited by their lack of knowledge and experience.
There are theories tossed around though!! The clan is made of monsters and other beings disguised as dragons, so they're hesitant to dismiss the Shade as being completely gone. There are a few members that have no discernible origin or species, even among myths and legends, leaving some of the others to speculate whether they have ties to the Shade or are just some unnatural creature in their own right.
(That's just the clan, though. As the writer behind them I can say that the Shade is definitely an entity that's present in my lore despite being weakened and scattered.
The clan leader, Anathema, has a strange affinity to darkness that she believes is a gift from the Shadowbinder, but the twisted and eldritch horror-esque being Ana can become due to her 'gift' leads some to believe otherwise.
Nameless is the literal other half of Anathema it is tied to her very soul. It's an extension of her powers and mostly a being of animalistic instinct and minimal intelligence. It's also the backbone of the eldritch horror the two can become with an eternal hunger.
Dysmorpha is a Greater Horror, which is a Shade-touched subspecies that originates from the Void and feeds off the fears of dragonkind. She knows her connection to the entity, but keeps it quiet because the speculation amuses her.
Finally there are Sana and Arcturus, who are either one strange couple or a single being in two bodies found in a strange temple that may or may not have been dedicated to the Shade.
Basically the Shade is barely there but it's there, lurking, waiting....)
There are theories tossed around though!! The clan is made of monsters and other beings disguised as dragons, so they're hesitant to dismiss the Shade as being completely gone. There are a few members that have no discernible origin or species, even among myths and legends, leaving some of the others to speculate whether they have ties to the Shade or are just some unnatural creature in their own right.
(That's just the clan, though. As the writer behind them I can say that the Shade is definitely an entity that's present in my lore despite being weakened and scattered.
The clan leader, Anathema, has a strange affinity to darkness that she believes is a gift from the Shadowbinder, but the twisted and eldritch horror-esque being Ana can become due to her 'gift' leads some to believe otherwise.
Nameless is the literal other half of Anathema it is tied to her very soul. It's an extension of her powers and mostly a being of animalistic instinct and minimal intelligence. It's also the backbone of the eldritch horror the two can become with an eternal hunger.
Dysmorpha is a Greater Horror, which is a Shade-touched subspecies that originates from the Void and feeds off the fears of dragonkind. She knows her connection to the entity, but keeps it quiet because the speculation amuses her.
Finally there are Sana and Arcturus, who are either one strange couple or a single being in two bodies found in a strange temple that may or may not have been dedicated to the Shade.
Basically the Shade is barely there but it's there, lurking, waiting....)
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The Voidwaker is the deity of the "Twelfth Flight", or Shade Flight- its a group project that is contributed to by many users, though it is headed by Ragnarok41. If you want to read about it, skim through the beginning of the thread from this link! My Clan's lore incorporates Void Flight traditions and such, though I've tweaked certain aspects. Anyways, here's the link! :D
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@Lindwur
The Voidwaker is the deity of the "Twelfth Flight", or Shade Flight- its a group project that is contributed to by many users, though it is headed by Ragnarok41. If you want to read about it, skim through the beginning of the thread from this link! My Clan's lore incorporates Void Flight traditions and such, though I've tweaked certain aspects. Anyways, here's the link! :D
The Voidwaker is the deity of the "Twelfth Flight", or Shade Flight- its a group project that is contributed to by many users, though it is headed by Ragnarok41. If you want to read about it, skim through the beginning of the thread from this link! My Clan's lore incorporates Void Flight traditions and such, though I've tweaked certain aspects. Anyways, here's the link! :D
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@Lindwur
Really, really, really long lore here. Warning you now.
The Shade is an extremely powerful force. It's a lack of magic, I believe in canon terms? My lore doesn't quite flesh it out fully, but we know that it is destructive and parasitic. It seeks to destroy dragonkind, the Eleven, and even Sorneith itself. It is malleable and typically adjusts to the best possible way to tear a dragon apart. It can do it physically, with some kind of force that isn't quite magic but not physical either - something dragons are struggling to understand, and it can get into dragons minds to berak and/or possess them.
My clan was only really concerned with what an Eldritch is in Shade terms, because one besieged and violently destroyed my old clan after months of...siege and psychological attack. Even Eldritch vary in what they are and how they go about their business (see above goals), but this particular one was psychological. All Eldritch are beyond powerful. The Eleven send their best to get rid of these things and no one else.
In my lore, an Arcane academy exists that scouts dragons wih the highest magical potential in all of Sorneith. It's invite only and this Academy is so prestigious that no one dares decline, nor has anyone done so for hundreds of years.
-The first phase of training pushes dragons to all of their limits. This drains their magical energy daily, pushing their endurance and magical energy past the boundaries of any normal dragon. It goes on for at least ten years, until they can withstand a good deal of bodily injury from how much magic is released at once. It also allows them to fully drain their magical reserves in a matter of seconds, if not less. That isn't able to happen under any normal circumstance, but it's vital for what they'll eventually do.
-The second phase of training has the dragons cast out of the Academy, and they're all told to return once the Academy has heard of something grand that they've done. This is an arduous task at best. Many of the students give up here, if they haven't already. I have two dragons who have done this ...One got the fleeting attention of one of the Eleven, and the other saved multiple clans and some beastclan clans from the falling of one of the massive ice pillars in the Fortress of Ends. It would have crushed multiple clans, and there was no way anyone could possibly stop it. She did and was able to because of her previous training. This process has been completed in a record time of 3 years, but the average is closer to 7 to 15 years.
-The third phase starts and ends at different times, depending on when a dragon was recalled to the Academy. This phase is when the Academy reveals its intentions for all of this training, and this is when they offer to allow dragons to leave - they don't graduate though! This is when Shade training begins. Lessons on everything that is known about the Shade, what dragons don't know about the Shade, what can cause various Shade afflictions and how to avoid them. How to resist the Shade's influence on the physical, magical, mental, and emotional levels. How to avoid contact / afflictions / possessions, how to recognize them, what to do in case of any of things going wrong. Dragons are also taught how to fight it using their elements, and how to work with others - Academy students, non-Academy Shade Hunters, and normal dragons. This is when dragons purge all of their weaknesses to minimize the Shade's ability to get to them. Eventually, after gruelling training to prepare for it, they are pitted against the Shade itself. The Academy actually sits on an area that the Shade is naturally inclined to collecting in. The faculty and even Alumni are tasked with guarding the Academy itself, and purging the grounds underneath the Academy of the Shade, but students who make it this far are sent into the grounds to fight the Shade itself. They do it in groups and with supervision. Once they have enough years of this to grow numb to the fear, and to develop reflexive Shade sensory and response, they are finally allowed to graduate.
This whole process takes 30 years minimum, and often 50 years or very easily longer than that. I actually calculated statistics for the percentage of how many are invited our of Sorneith population, how many graduate from those invited, and various time lengths for each step. Basing dragons' lifespans on the Abiding Boneyard's, "Dragons can get lost for centuries, if they aren't careful," I would say that most dragons can live to 500/600 years. This Academy's training can take a tenth of a dragons life. That's for medium sized breeds with metabolism in mind. This takes an even larger portion of smaller breeds' lives, despite their general ability to complete phase one faster due to body size. It takes a smaller portion of life for larger breeds, such as Imperials, but phase one can take a good deal longer due to body size.
And by the end of this, the strongest of the strongest of graduates still cannot face an Eldritch and win. It was all my dragons could do, to seal the clan off from it. And that put the single dragon holding the barrier at constant risk of direct attack by the Eldritch - which occured multiple times. Even her mind was eventually breached, though she was never successfully possessed.
The Shade is so powerful that someone who spent her whole life studying and performing magic, then going through this Academy's training, still could not face the Shade and come out unharmed. Many dragons were immediately possessed, forcing their clanmates to end them - which in turn put them at risk for possession. It was a very ugly battle, when the clan went face to face with this monster.
So, it's pretty much a force that can rival the Eleven in power, and no dragon can match up to it. There are also other dragons out there with relations to the Shade. Some hunt it, after family members were possessed or killed. Some are born with natural abilities to fight it, or attract it to themselves to no good end. Some worship it. It's just beyond comprehension, it seeks to destroy everything in Sorneith, and dragons can only barely hold more powerful collections of it off.
Really, really, really long lore here. Warning you now.
The Shade is an extremely powerful force. It's a lack of magic, I believe in canon terms? My lore doesn't quite flesh it out fully, but we know that it is destructive and parasitic. It seeks to destroy dragonkind, the Eleven, and even Sorneith itself. It is malleable and typically adjusts to the best possible way to tear a dragon apart. It can do it physically, with some kind of force that isn't quite magic but not physical either - something dragons are struggling to understand, and it can get into dragons minds to berak and/or possess them.
My clan was only really concerned with what an Eldritch is in Shade terms, because one besieged and violently destroyed my old clan after months of...siege and psychological attack. Even Eldritch vary in what they are and how they go about their business (see above goals), but this particular one was psychological. All Eldritch are beyond powerful. The Eleven send their best to get rid of these things and no one else.
In my lore, an Arcane academy exists that scouts dragons wih the highest magical potential in all of Sorneith. It's invite only and this Academy is so prestigious that no one dares decline, nor has anyone done so for hundreds of years.
-The first phase of training pushes dragons to all of their limits. This drains their magical energy daily, pushing their endurance and magical energy past the boundaries of any normal dragon. It goes on for at least ten years, until they can withstand a good deal of bodily injury from how much magic is released at once. It also allows them to fully drain their magical reserves in a matter of seconds, if not less. That isn't able to happen under any normal circumstance, but it's vital for what they'll eventually do.
-The second phase of training has the dragons cast out of the Academy, and they're all told to return once the Academy has heard of something grand that they've done. This is an arduous task at best. Many of the students give up here, if they haven't already. I have two dragons who have done this ...One got the fleeting attention of one of the Eleven, and the other saved multiple clans and some beastclan clans from the falling of one of the massive ice pillars in the Fortress of Ends. It would have crushed multiple clans, and there was no way anyone could possibly stop it. She did and was able to because of her previous training. This process has been completed in a record time of 3 years, but the average is closer to 7 to 15 years.
-The third phase starts and ends at different times, depending on when a dragon was recalled to the Academy. This phase is when the Academy reveals its intentions for all of this training, and this is when they offer to allow dragons to leave - they don't graduate though! This is when Shade training begins. Lessons on everything that is known about the Shade, what dragons don't know about the Shade, what can cause various Shade afflictions and how to avoid them. How to resist the Shade's influence on the physical, magical, mental, and emotional levels. How to avoid contact / afflictions / possessions, how to recognize them, what to do in case of any of things going wrong. Dragons are also taught how to fight it using their elements, and how to work with others - Academy students, non-Academy Shade Hunters, and normal dragons. This is when dragons purge all of their weaknesses to minimize the Shade's ability to get to them. Eventually, after gruelling training to prepare for it, they are pitted against the Shade itself. The Academy actually sits on an area that the Shade is naturally inclined to collecting in. The faculty and even Alumni are tasked with guarding the Academy itself, and purging the grounds underneath the Academy of the Shade, but students who make it this far are sent into the grounds to fight the Shade itself. They do it in groups and with supervision. Once they have enough years of this to grow numb to the fear, and to develop reflexive Shade sensory and response, they are finally allowed to graduate.
This whole process takes 30 years minimum, and often 50 years or very easily longer than that. I actually calculated statistics for the percentage of how many are invited our of Sorneith population, how many graduate from those invited, and various time lengths for each step. Basing dragons' lifespans on the Abiding Boneyard's, "Dragons can get lost for centuries, if they aren't careful," I would say that most dragons can live to 500/600 years. This Academy's training can take a tenth of a dragons life. That's for medium sized breeds with metabolism in mind. This takes an even larger portion of smaller breeds' lives, despite their general ability to complete phase one faster due to body size. It takes a smaller portion of life for larger breeds, such as Imperials, but phase one can take a good deal longer due to body size.
And by the end of this, the strongest of the strongest of graduates still cannot face an Eldritch and win. It was all my dragons could do, to seal the clan off from it. And that put the single dragon holding the barrier at constant risk of direct attack by the Eldritch - which occured multiple times. Even her mind was eventually breached, though she was never successfully possessed.
The Shade is so powerful that someone who spent her whole life studying and performing magic, then going through this Academy's training, still could not face the Shade and come out unharmed. Many dragons were immediately possessed, forcing their clanmates to end them - which in turn put them at risk for possession. It was a very ugly battle, when the clan went face to face with this monster.
So, it's pretty much a force that can rival the Eleven in power, and no dragon can match up to it. There are also other dragons out there with relations to the Shade. Some hunt it, after family members were possessed or killed. Some are born with natural abilities to fight it, or attract it to themselves to no good end. Some worship it. It's just beyond comprehension, it seeks to destroy everything in Sorneith, and dragons can only barely hold more powerful collections of it off.
@Lindwur
Really, really, really long lore here. Warning you now.
The Shade is an extremely powerful force. It's a lack of magic, I believe in canon terms? My lore doesn't quite flesh it out fully, but we know that it is destructive and parasitic. It seeks to destroy dragonkind, the Eleven, and even Sorneith itself. It is malleable and typically adjusts to the best possible way to tear a dragon apart. It can do it physically, with some kind of force that isn't quite magic but not physical either - something dragons are struggling to understand, and it can get into dragons minds to berak and/or possess them.
My clan was only really concerned with what an Eldritch is in Shade terms, because one besieged and violently destroyed my old clan after months of...siege and psychological attack. Even Eldritch vary in what they are and how they go about their business (see above goals), but this particular one was psychological. All Eldritch are beyond powerful. The Eleven send their best to get rid of these things and no one else.
In my lore, an Arcane academy exists that scouts dragons wih the highest magical potential in all of Sorneith. It's invite only and this Academy is so prestigious that no one dares decline, nor has anyone done so for hundreds of years.
-The first phase of training pushes dragons to all of their limits. This drains their magical energy daily, pushing their endurance and magical energy past the boundaries of any normal dragon. It goes on for at least ten years, until they can withstand a good deal of bodily injury from how much magic is released at once. It also allows them to fully drain their magical reserves in a matter of seconds, if not less. That isn't able to happen under any normal circumstance, but it's vital for what they'll eventually do.
-The second phase of training has the dragons cast out of the Academy, and they're all told to return once the Academy has heard of something grand that they've done. This is an arduous task at best. Many of the students give up here, if they haven't already. I have two dragons who have done this ...One got the fleeting attention of one of the Eleven, and the other saved multiple clans and some beastclan clans from the falling of one of the massive ice pillars in the Fortress of Ends. It would have crushed multiple clans, and there was no way anyone could possibly stop it. She did and was able to because of her previous training. This process has been completed in a record time of 3 years, but the average is closer to 7 to 15 years.
-The third phase starts and ends at different times, depending on when a dragon was recalled to the Academy. This phase is when the Academy reveals its intentions for all of this training, and this is when they offer to allow dragons to leave - they don't graduate though! This is when Shade training begins. Lessons on everything that is known about the Shade, what dragons don't know about the Shade, what can cause various Shade afflictions and how to avoid them. How to resist the Shade's influence on the physical, magical, mental, and emotional levels. How to avoid contact / afflictions / possessions, how to recognize them, what to do in case of any of things going wrong. Dragons are also taught how to fight it using their elements, and how to work with others - Academy students, non-Academy Shade Hunters, and normal dragons. This is when dragons purge all of their weaknesses to minimize the Shade's ability to get to them. Eventually, after gruelling training to prepare for it, they are pitted against the Shade itself. The Academy actually sits on an area that the Shade is naturally inclined to collecting in. The faculty and even Alumni are tasked with guarding the Academy itself, and purging the grounds underneath the Academy of the Shade, but students who make it this far are sent into the grounds to fight the Shade itself. They do it in groups and with supervision. Once they have enough years of this to grow numb to the fear, and to develop reflexive Shade sensory and response, they are finally allowed to graduate.
This whole process takes 30 years minimum, and often 50 years or very easily longer than that. I actually calculated statistics for the percentage of how many are invited our of Sorneith population, how many graduate from those invited, and various time lengths for each step. Basing dragons' lifespans on the Abiding Boneyard's, "Dragons can get lost for centuries, if they aren't careful," I would say that most dragons can live to 500/600 years. This Academy's training can take a tenth of a dragons life. That's for medium sized breeds with metabolism in mind. This takes an even larger portion of smaller breeds' lives, despite their general ability to complete phase one faster due to body size. It takes a smaller portion of life for larger breeds, such as Imperials, but phase one can take a good deal longer due to body size.
And by the end of this, the strongest of the strongest of graduates still cannot face an Eldritch and win. It was all my dragons could do, to seal the clan off from it. And that put the single dragon holding the barrier at constant risk of direct attack by the Eldritch - which occured multiple times. Even her mind was eventually breached, though she was never successfully possessed.
The Shade is so powerful that someone who spent her whole life studying and performing magic, then going through this Academy's training, still could not face the Shade and come out unharmed. Many dragons were immediately possessed, forcing their clanmates to end them - which in turn put them at risk for possession. It was a very ugly battle, when the clan went face to face with this monster.
So, it's pretty much a force that can rival the Eleven in power, and no dragon can match up to it. There are also other dragons out there with relations to the Shade. Some hunt it, after family members were possessed or killed. Some are born with natural abilities to fight it, or attract it to themselves to no good end. Some worship it. It's just beyond comprehension, it seeks to destroy everything in Sorneith, and dragons can only barely hold more powerful collections of it off.
Really, really, really long lore here. Warning you now.
The Shade is an extremely powerful force. It's a lack of magic, I believe in canon terms? My lore doesn't quite flesh it out fully, but we know that it is destructive and parasitic. It seeks to destroy dragonkind, the Eleven, and even Sorneith itself. It is malleable and typically adjusts to the best possible way to tear a dragon apart. It can do it physically, with some kind of force that isn't quite magic but not physical either - something dragons are struggling to understand, and it can get into dragons minds to berak and/or possess them.
My clan was only really concerned with what an Eldritch is in Shade terms, because one besieged and violently destroyed my old clan after months of...siege and psychological attack. Even Eldritch vary in what they are and how they go about their business (see above goals), but this particular one was psychological. All Eldritch are beyond powerful. The Eleven send their best to get rid of these things and no one else.
In my lore, an Arcane academy exists that scouts dragons wih the highest magical potential in all of Sorneith. It's invite only and this Academy is so prestigious that no one dares decline, nor has anyone done so for hundreds of years.
-The first phase of training pushes dragons to all of their limits. This drains their magical energy daily, pushing their endurance and magical energy past the boundaries of any normal dragon. It goes on for at least ten years, until they can withstand a good deal of bodily injury from how much magic is released at once. It also allows them to fully drain their magical reserves in a matter of seconds, if not less. That isn't able to happen under any normal circumstance, but it's vital for what they'll eventually do.
-The second phase of training has the dragons cast out of the Academy, and they're all told to return once the Academy has heard of something grand that they've done. This is an arduous task at best. Many of the students give up here, if they haven't already. I have two dragons who have done this ...One got the fleeting attention of one of the Eleven, and the other saved multiple clans and some beastclan clans from the falling of one of the massive ice pillars in the Fortress of Ends. It would have crushed multiple clans, and there was no way anyone could possibly stop it. She did and was able to because of her previous training. This process has been completed in a record time of 3 years, but the average is closer to 7 to 15 years.
-The third phase starts and ends at different times, depending on when a dragon was recalled to the Academy. This phase is when the Academy reveals its intentions for all of this training, and this is when they offer to allow dragons to leave - they don't graduate though! This is when Shade training begins. Lessons on everything that is known about the Shade, what dragons don't know about the Shade, what can cause various Shade afflictions and how to avoid them. How to resist the Shade's influence on the physical, magical, mental, and emotional levels. How to avoid contact / afflictions / possessions, how to recognize them, what to do in case of any of things going wrong. Dragons are also taught how to fight it using their elements, and how to work with others - Academy students, non-Academy Shade Hunters, and normal dragons. This is when dragons purge all of their weaknesses to minimize the Shade's ability to get to them. Eventually, after gruelling training to prepare for it, they are pitted against the Shade itself. The Academy actually sits on an area that the Shade is naturally inclined to collecting in. The faculty and even Alumni are tasked with guarding the Academy itself, and purging the grounds underneath the Academy of the Shade, but students who make it this far are sent into the grounds to fight the Shade itself. They do it in groups and with supervision. Once they have enough years of this to grow numb to the fear, and to develop reflexive Shade sensory and response, they are finally allowed to graduate.
This whole process takes 30 years minimum, and often 50 years or very easily longer than that. I actually calculated statistics for the percentage of how many are invited our of Sorneith population, how many graduate from those invited, and various time lengths for each step. Basing dragons' lifespans on the Abiding Boneyard's, "Dragons can get lost for centuries, if they aren't careful," I would say that most dragons can live to 500/600 years. This Academy's training can take a tenth of a dragons life. That's for medium sized breeds with metabolism in mind. This takes an even larger portion of smaller breeds' lives, despite their general ability to complete phase one faster due to body size. It takes a smaller portion of life for larger breeds, such as Imperials, but phase one can take a good deal longer due to body size.
And by the end of this, the strongest of the strongest of graduates still cannot face an Eldritch and win. It was all my dragons could do, to seal the clan off from it. And that put the single dragon holding the barrier at constant risk of direct attack by the Eldritch - which occured multiple times. Even her mind was eventually breached, though she was never successfully possessed.
The Shade is so powerful that someone who spent her whole life studying and performing magic, then going through this Academy's training, still could not face the Shade and come out unharmed. Many dragons were immediately possessed, forcing their clanmates to end them - which in turn put them at risk for possession. It was a very ugly battle, when the clan went face to face with this monster.
So, it's pretty much a force that can rival the Eleven in power, and no dragon can match up to it. There are also other dragons out there with relations to the Shade. Some hunt it, after family members were possessed or killed. Some are born with natural abilities to fight it, or attract it to themselves to no good end. Some worship it. It's just beyond comprehension, it seeks to destroy everything in Sorneith, and dragons can only barely hold more powerful collections of it off.
My clan has one shade touched dragon that's part of the Greater Horrors subspecies, and one that's been theorized is shade-touched because they aren't good at figuring out the difference between shade and self-destructive behaviors caused by depression. Both are on the front page of my lair though I need to redo their bios badly.
My clan has one shade touched dragon that's part of the Greater Horrors subspecies, and one that's been theorized is shade-touched because they aren't good at figuring out the difference between shade and self-destructive behaviors caused by depression. Both are on the front page of my lair though I need to redo their bios badly.
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uff... there isnt really a unique view on the shadow of my clan. Those who have traveled Sornieth and gathered stories, approching different cultures such as [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=163116&tab=dragon&did=24169485]Valkin [/url] and [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=163116&tab=dragon&did=12837786]Vilkerial [/url] will tell you the shade is something pretty real, something like a disease that infects dragons and that, so far, cure has not been found. They might be exceptical but that doesnt mind they disregard the idea of a unnown type of magic or a disease that not even plague dragons can comprehend, swirling around
In fact, one of the reasons why they have settle in the clan is because we are far away from the blacksand annex where
[quote=blacksand annex entry]
However, this builder's paradise is marred by inexplicable events and dreadful shapes moving deep in the pervasive mist.
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However the younger dragons believe this to be an old myth and at most a collective hysteria so they wont pay too much attention to it. However, Arabela (the clan leader) thinks this to be an excuse to ill-behavioured dragons to do as their please and yet, any dragon claming to have been infected, are thrown in the Great Furnace as sacrifice to the flamecaller, just to be sure (or make an example of)
uff... there isnt really a unique view on the shadow of my clan. Those who have traveled Sornieth and gathered stories, approching different cultures such as Valkin and Vilkerial will tell you the shade is something pretty real, something like a disease that infects dragons and that, so far, cure has not been found. They might be exceptical but that doesnt mind they disregard the idea of a unnown type of magic or a disease that not even plague dragons can comprehend, swirling around
In fact, one of the reasons why they have settle in the clan is because we are far away from the blacksand annex where
However the younger dragons believe this to be an old myth and at most a collective hysteria so they wont pay too much attention to it. However, Arabela (the clan leader) thinks this to be an excuse to ill-behavioured dragons to do as their please and yet, any dragon claming to have been infected, are thrown in the Great Furnace as sacrifice to the flamecaller, just to be sure (or make an example of)
In fact, one of the reasons why they have settle in the clan is because we are far away from the blacksand annex where
blacksand annex entry wrote:
However, this builder's paradise is marred by inexplicable events and dreadful shapes moving deep in the pervasive mist.
However the younger dragons believe this to be an old myth and at most a collective hysteria so they wont pay too much attention to it. However, Arabela (the clan leader) thinks this to be an excuse to ill-behavioured dragons to do as their please and yet, any dragon claming to have been infected, are thrown in the Great Furnace as sacrifice to the flamecaller, just to be sure (or make an example of)
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Though not writen down anywere, most of my dragons if not all of them would beleive that the shade has fallen and is nothing to be feared of. It is everywere but because its been reducesd to specks, anyone who calimes to be shade touched are just histarical / oother powerful magics at play. A cult whom don't beleive in the gods.
Though not writen down anywere, most of my dragons if not all of them would beleive that the shade has fallen and is nothing to be feared of. It is everywere but because its been reducesd to specks, anyone who calimes to be shade touched are just histarical / oother powerful magics at play. A cult whom don't beleive in the gods.
I don't have it written yet, but honestly my clan is kind of mean and has very traditional plague values. As such, since the Shade fell after smashing itself on the world, the clan views the Shade as nothing more than a dead and gone failure. Failed to destroy the world and failed to survive. The scattered bits that remain are treated like the ashes of a long-dead random corpse. Not worth the attention and certainly nothing to fear.
I don't have it written yet, but honestly my clan is kind of mean and has very traditional plague values. As such, since the Shade fell after smashing itself on the world, the clan views the Shade as nothing more than a dead and gone failure. Failed to destroy the world and failed to survive. The scattered bits that remain are treated like the ashes of a long-dead random corpse. Not worth the attention and certainly nothing to fear.
My clan sees the shade as a mind controlling substance of sorts that can be passed down through generations. It can manifest in different ways, wether physical or mental, any sudden and extreme change to a dragon is an immediate cause for concern. In my lore, there have been multiple cases where the shade has controlled the mind of an important ruler and stood in their place; creating a dictatorship and culling all those who don't immediately kneel before it.
The shade can also be an incorporeal thing; causing widespread symptoms to an entire clan or even kingdom. The symptoms of a shade infection vary; from intense headaches, to blacking out, to even spontaneous magical outbursts, all of these have the potential to hurt not only the dragon being effected, but others around it.
The shade can also have the potential to anyone, or thing, that it finds isn't useful to it.
While there have been very few cases of shade-controlled hosts having other desires than conquest and destruction, (like lore for a certain dragon that I haven't written any for yet >.>) the shade usually keeps any other emotions besides rage and contempt under tight wraps unless it's using its "emotions" to get what it wants. (Bargaining, keeping peace, etc.)
My best way to describe the shade simply: big scary slime monster that goes into your brain and deletes you forever.
The shade can also be an incorporeal thing; causing widespread symptoms to an entire clan or even kingdom. The symptoms of a shade infection vary; from intense headaches, to blacking out, to even spontaneous magical outbursts, all of these have the potential to hurt not only the dragon being effected, but others around it.
The shade can also have the potential to anyone, or thing, that it finds isn't useful to it.
While there have been very few cases of shade-controlled hosts having other desires than conquest and destruction, (like lore for a certain dragon that I haven't written any for yet >.>) the shade usually keeps any other emotions besides rage and contempt under tight wraps unless it's using its "emotions" to get what it wants. (Bargaining, keeping peace, etc.)
My best way to describe the shade simply: big scary slime monster that goes into your brain and deletes you forever.
My clan sees the shade as a mind controlling substance of sorts that can be passed down through generations. It can manifest in different ways, wether physical or mental, any sudden and extreme change to a dragon is an immediate cause for concern. In my lore, there have been multiple cases where the shade has controlled the mind of an important ruler and stood in their place; creating a dictatorship and culling all those who don't immediately kneel before it.
The shade can also be an incorporeal thing; causing widespread symptoms to an entire clan or even kingdom. The symptoms of a shade infection vary; from intense headaches, to blacking out, to even spontaneous magical outbursts, all of these have the potential to hurt not only the dragon being effected, but others around it.
The shade can also have the potential to anyone, or thing, that it finds isn't useful to it.
While there have been very few cases of shade-controlled hosts having other desires than conquest and destruction, (like lore for a certain dragon that I haven't written any for yet >.>) the shade usually keeps any other emotions besides rage and contempt under tight wraps unless it's using its "emotions" to get what it wants. (Bargaining, keeping peace, etc.)
My best way to describe the shade simply: big scary slime monster that goes into your brain and deletes you forever.
The shade can also be an incorporeal thing; causing widespread symptoms to an entire clan or even kingdom. The symptoms of a shade infection vary; from intense headaches, to blacking out, to even spontaneous magical outbursts, all of these have the potential to hurt not only the dragon being effected, but others around it.
The shade can also have the potential to anyone, or thing, that it finds isn't useful to it.
While there have been very few cases of shade-controlled hosts having other desires than conquest and destruction, (like lore for a certain dragon that I haven't written any for yet >.>) the shade usually keeps any other emotions besides rage and contempt under tight wraps unless it's using its "emotions" to get what it wants. (Bargaining, keeping peace, etc.)
My best way to describe the shade simply: big scary slime monster that goes into your brain and deletes you forever.
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