Strantlummus

It started out, as many things do, with a joke. Arcane Slack (Slack being a messaging system used by Arcane members to talk about everything from dom to lore to how their days are) started a little channel, run mostly by AriaEchoes, to play a game we all referred to as "bloodsport." In reality, we would take image links to dragons in our lairs and the names of said dragons, put them into a Hunger Games simulator, and play out the fight, hoping our dragons would emerge victorious. It was fun. It was entertaining. Of course, we couldn't always get 12 people to submit dragons. Sometimes, we had to fill them up. So came the role of "RNG derg," and so came the origin of Strantlummus.
It was a casual night in the bloodsport channel. Aria was hosting, so we all sent in our dergs. Unfortunately, there were a couple of open districts and no takers, so we did the usual- we opened up the scrying workshop, went to "Predict Morphology," and grabbed the first dragon we saw. In this case, it happened to be a little soil vipera/soil current/gold circuit plague wildclaw hatchling. Aria posted a link to him and said, "Name this dragon." I, being on my phone, opened it up in my Safari app, gave it a cursory glance, and said, "Strantlummus. This dragon should be named Strantlummus." I don't know what came upon me that day to name the dragon such a weird, meaningless name (I just mashed together some sounds and said "sounds like a name to me!"), but it is what it is. Aria thought it was funny, went with it, and we entered Strantlummus in the game. Unsurprisingly, he died very early on in the game, we laughed, and life went on.
The next day, Aria hosts another round of bloodsport. We once again found ourselves in need of randomly generated dragons, so I just said, "Well why don't we just use Strant again?" and posted his link. I had never closed it in my phone, so when I went to my Safari app that fateful day, I saw he was still there. I offered him up, and Aria thought it was a bit hilarious. That extremely oddly named dragon, back at it again. He was the first RNG derg to ever become a recurring character in the games (after, he would be followed by various other RNG dergs- the bushes, for example).
Aria decided he need a partner in crime. We decided the best route would be a female wildclaw of a different element in the colors gold/gold/soil. Thus, Summultnarts was born.



Strant and Summ became a meme, in all honesty. Strant's claim to fame was the fact that he always died early one and always died in extremely stupid manners, like falling out of trees or into frozen lakes. He was a huge klutz. Summ was famous for a different reason; she was vicious in her goal to win, taking out as many as she could.
You see, we established a rule: Any RNG dragon that won the games more than once would be made "real." This meant we would attempt to make them an actual dragon, colors, genes, element, and all, on Flight Rising. Summultnarts wanted to win. She wanted to escape the loop that was her life and death in the arena. She wanted something outside.
When I finally bred Strant, he hadn't won yet. Summultnarts had, multiple times. It was the ultimate betrayal for her. Everything she wanted, everything she deserved... It had been given to the klutz, the failure, the joke. And so Summ became angry, so very, very angry. She wanted more than anything to be real. And Strant was the greatest object of her hatred, by far, until recently...

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