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WolfSelkey's Clan

What of the nothing before you began?

Ancient Lair

attached to

Flotsam Town

Clan Info

A lot of dragons are in hibden.

Dragons will always be named and kept to adulthood before exaltation in compliance with our lore.

Not a shared account, a system (healthymultiplicity.com). We'll be signing off with our individual names and using plural pronouns sometimes.

d20system is our roommate and we generally share an IP, and may trade unfairly sometimes due to offline agreements. We also sometimes ask our friends if they would like dragons who will otherwise be exalted.

--- The Wake: Lore ---

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index

I. Base Lore
II. The Sleep
III. Beastclan Relations

I. The Wake began as a tattered clan that originally lay at the border of the territories of Plague and Water-storytellers, travelers, exiles, and misfits from many a clan coming together to form a refuge between the visceral and ever-changing. The Wake has never had a stern affiliation to any of the world's dragon clans and instead attempts to live in peace in the interaction of their host clans without claiming a solid alliance.

Some years after their formation during the rainy season, The Wake suffered from a terrible tunnel collapse, which enclosed its inhabitants deep within their own lair. The dragons attempted to escape, but none of the Wake was skilled in elemental earth magic at the time, and the disorientation proved too much for them.

The dragons struggled, dug, and spellcast, and as the oxygen ran out a decision was made: In a collective effort between all the clan's mages, the Wake's dragons would all be placed in a deep sleep, something deeper than hibernation, to the point that the sky was seen and air flowed into the tunnels once more. The Wake had always existed in relative peace with death-but they were still living creatures, and a living creature will take what efforts it can keep living before it will accept its death.

And it did, in the end, and not through any special effort, but years and years later as the coastline was worn and shifted, earth and stone falling to the sea, roots of contagion digging through the land. Perch was the first to wake into this new world that they had found themselves in-uncurling from the crook of Pharos' neck, feeling every piece of their body learning to live again as the stasis faded.

Perch would wake their mate, then Angel, and slowly the clan was brought back to life within a world that had moved on without them, and bodies that in some cases seemed to have changed during their rests-eyes shifted to colors and patterns they had to learn again were their own.

But through all this, the cold air still flowed into their lungs. They felt the warm touch of the sand. Their bodies would scorch in heat, shiver in cold, and become sick with fever. They were alive, and they would rebuild their home to hold them once more.

Not too long into these efforts, however, the Wake was made one of the many casualties to the maelstrom that preceded the disappearance of the Tidelord-land and dragon alike ripped beneath the waves as the coastline became remade in an instant. The now open tunnels where the clan had previously slept were flooded near immediately, and the clan could only be glad that their waking had preceded this storm, as even of those who could breathe beneath the ocean many may well have died before their bodies could wake enough to fight the dashing waves.

When the maelstrom calmed, and the coasts so unstable in the aftermath, the Wake were forced to move from their long-time home on the border of the clans and rebuild once more within Flotsam Town, where the community bonds formed in the wake of this disaster not only assisted the clan in rebuilding but overall adjusting to the new world without the risk of having gaze cast upon them in excessive pity. Everyone here had endured some level of tragedy, after all-their own would stand out less by comparison, and their disorientation would be more expected in the residents of this place.

II. Beastclan Relations: Primarily a clan of outcasts, the Wake's dragon hold their gods in an uncertain place within their hearts, and mostly exist in an uneasy but earnest collaboration with their surrounding beastclans, and regret the circumstances that led to their conflict.

Some Beastclan residents of the Wake are exiles or outcasts themselves, some reside in the clan as a foothold for trade and diplomacy, and some have more personal reasons for their residence of the Wake.

III. Plague: Even though the Wake has since moved to the center of Water Clan borders, the traditions and values of the Scarred Wasteland are held close to the clan's heart and remain important aspects of clan life within the Wake.

IV. Exaltation: Exaltation is a personal choice within the lore of the Wake-dragons are not pushed to go serve a certain god, but they are not prevented from doing so either. Dragons tend to go to serve the Tidelord as a result of having grown up in Flotsam town and wishing to join service with their hatchinghood friends or partners, or simply having a greater familiarity with this god.

V. Auction House: The price paid for a prior member of the clan in the auction house is based in the idea that the clan is losing support within the clan when that member joins another, and that the treasure or gems is meant to hold the clan over in the place of that support.

VI. Hibden: Just extra space unless otherwise noted on the tab.

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