Maxint

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Maxint was hatched in Nature, and immediately whisked away to a Light clan, who told her that terrible things would happen unless she stayed in Light. She didn't entirely believe them, but she agreed to stay within the Lightweaver's domain - as long as she could stay with a different clan.
Alternifolia, one of the First Four of the Solar Solar, was opposed to her joining the clan - something about not wanting any more Imperials to live near him - but his daughter, Waterlily, pointed out that Maxint could always seek out a change scroll, and Alternifolia relented. (Waterlily and Maxint did look, but v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y - the latter didn't actually want to stop being an Imperial!)

Maxint's Imperial heritage comes from her father, Pontus: he is the son of Soleil, the daughter of Poppy (#30431). (Pontus is additionally a 3rd-gen; Malia, Maxint's mother, is a Skydancer and of varying distance from her 1st-gen ancestors. However, Malia's great-great-grandmother, Selenea, is an Imperial; Selenea is descended from Mrost (#235) and Melody (#1802), and also from Autumn (#3225). (Autumn is the 2nd-gen son of a pair of Skydancers, furthermore!))

Despite Maxint and Waterlily looking as slowly as plausible, a breed-change scroll was found nevertheless - but it was of a brand new breed, one created by no elemental deity. Riodinid brewed it for her himself, and brought it to her still smelling of sulfur and ominously damp...

...so she read it, and not just because it was obvious the gestalt wanted her to do so. She was curious, after all, and touched by the concern Riodinid had shown for her. As an Imperial, she had been 25.3 meters from snout to tailtip, with a wingspan nearly the same length, and had weighed sixty-seven hundred kilograms; as a Bogsneak she was much smaller. She delighted in being a Bogsneak, and when Riodinid said, "Oh, my - you're beautiful," she immediately agreed with him. Such beauty deserved perpetuation, of course, and they had a nest together - but perhaps because of the lingering magic of the scroll, they hatched immediately!

Bealdwine left just as immediately, for a clan of the Foxfire Bramble. Astrid stayed a little longer, but still not long enough to share even a single meal with her parents; she departed for the Molten Scar, where she stayed for less than a day before heading to a different clan of the Foxfire Bramble, and then to a clan of the Driftwood Drag, and finally to a clan of the Focal Point, where the native magics caused her to become an adult by suppertime! (Unusually, given their parents' range in colors, both hatchlings were Smoke-primary.)

A Wildclaw takes longer to become ready to nest than a Bogsneak, but Maxint wasn't impatient; she knew Riodinid would want to make more unbearably beautiful hatchlings. Their next nest, long-awaited, also had two hatchlings: Boudewijin and Beaudoin, who went to the Sundial Terrace and the Leviathan Trench, respectively. Around this time Astrid herself had a two-hatchling nest; after it hatched she left the Focal Point for the Fishspine Reef, where she had an additional two two-egg nests.

Their next nest had but one egg in it, and then came Light's glorious battle to earn the Lightweaver dominance for the last week of the old year and the first week of the new; on the last day of the year, Maxint bought herself a Saturn scroll, and delights in her new appearance. After the scroll's magic had settled, she and Riodinid had a three-egg nest (the first to another clan of the Mirrorlight Promenade, the others together to the Arcanist). Shortly thereafter, Light gloriously triumphed over the Beastclans, while no other flight dared challenge; Astrid left the Fishspine Reef for the Lightweaver's glorious service during the battle.

Sometime later, Bealdwine let his parents know that he'd had a three-egg nest. Maxint and Riodinid were inspired to nest again, and their nest was also composed of three lovely eggs, who hatched on the first day of the Wavecrest Saturnalia. The younger two left for the Lightweaver's service on the last day of that same festival; the elder remained.

Three-egg nests seem to run in Bealdwine's line: his daughter and his daughter's daughter have had a single three-egg nest each. Maxint and Riodinid, on the other hand, have had one-, two-, and three-egg nests.

After the Brightshine Jubilee the year after the Catastrophe (i.e. of 2020), the Solar Solar won a Swirl and a Marbled scroll in the raffle; Maxint applied the Marbled scroll, while Riodinid applied the Swirl scroll, and then the two of them had a nest - a three-egg nest. They named the three hatchlings after Maxint's mother's eldest offspring - the eldest of those who had been exalted, of course. Skaldi went to join a clan of the Cloudscape Crags as a quote-unquote breeding project partner, while Tien and Vera waited until Light's next push for dominance at which point they went to the Lightweaver's service. The day that they left, Maxint and Riodinid's next nest hatched; again three eggs, again named for Maxint's siblings who had already been exalted.