spikenard's dragon Marotte

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Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

12 m

Wingspan

15.78 m

Weight

7177.31 kg

Genetics

Brown
Ripple

Brown
Current

Orange
Smoke

Hatchday

Jun 11, 2013
(11 years)

Breed

Adult
Guardian

Eye Type

Wind
Faceted

Level 25 Guardian

Max Level

STR

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

122

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

none

Offspring

Biography

custom progen
formerly MARRIS | formerly a mulberry / rose fae

art by @coalescency

ℳAROTTE
THE FORSAKER

n. - ℬaton used by a fool or jester, as a mock emblem of office

marris is the progenitor of her clan.

xxshe ruled them wisely in the windswept plateau, and when they were driven out, she did what she must. that meant rounding up her wind-hearted wandering charges, and pressing them to leave the cloudsong behind. that meant working her clan to the bone dragging their lair across the sea of a thousand currents. the only thing that mattered was preserving the tattered remnants of her clan.

xxwhen the balloon-lair crash-landed safely at the clifftop edge of the hewn city, marris forced her exhausted clan to cast powerful magic - dangerous magic - spending the very last of their strength invoking the blessing of the new land's ruler to rid their territory of the taint of the shade. this invocation of the lightweaver more than decimated the clan in a great clamor of Exaltation. the remaining survivors were unable to hold the territory they had claimed at such great cost. marris' people, settled, were more ragged than they had been on even the worst days of their flight - and worse, they were now unable to trust their matriarch. grimly satisfied that at least they were alive to distrust her, marris retreated.

xxnot physically, but into herself. around her, her clan built up windbreaks in an abandoned tower & tunneled pit-shelters into the bleached soil. they hatched enough clutches, and drew in enough new blood, that over time the clan could glaze over the memories of that hectic, terrified flight, though the very oldest could not forget the reason for it.

xxmarris, too, had lost her purpose. she could no longer lead her people; she had failed them so horribly, and was so lost in her own failure, that she did not notice how dearly they needed her. she continues to yearn for a purpose, for a task she can complete, for someone within her power to protect.

pixels by chee

ten of swords
The Ten of Swords usually symbolises a sudden and unexpected failure or disaster, whereby a power beyond your control crushes you without warning or mercy. Sometimes you will be able to alter the course of this impending disaster but most of the time you will simply have to let go and take the hit.

The Ten of Swords also indicates an experience of endings, loss, pain or release. However, the saving grace is that you have a new awareness and a positive sense of relief that the difficulty and pain will soon be over and will evolve into something new. As with all endings there will be a new beginning. So, this is a card of hope and an indication that your troubles will not be permanent.

Furthermore, this is the final ordeal, and no more pain will come to you from that source. It is darkest before the dawn, and as gloomy as it looks, the sun will rise again. It can only get better from here.

The Ten of Swords is about letting go and accepting your current circumstances. You no longer resist change but allow it to happen, even if it causes some initial pain and hurt to you. You accept that there must be change in order to facilitate renewal.

When this card appears after a painful situation, it is a signal to pick yourself up off the ground and to reflect upon what happened to you and why, and what you can learn from the experience. Hidden deep beneath the surface of the Ten of Swords is the ultimate power of the Swords suit – the ability to analyse the situation and your responses, and learn from yourself. True wisdom does not come from without but from within. The Ten of Swords is a sign that the pain and hurt you have endured has not gone without purpose. You can learn from your pain and draw wisdom from defeat.

reversed:
The reversed Ten of Swords may indicate that you are resisting an inevitable ending, because you are deeply worried about how much it is going to hurt you. However, what you are doing is delaying the inevitable and possibly making it even worse for yourself because you keep trying to put off something that needs to happen.

Sometimes, the Ten of Swords reversed may reflect fear of ruin, even if that ruin as not yet occurred. You are always be thinking of the worst-case scenario and planning for the worst, even if it does not happen.

The Ten of Swords reversed represents an old situation that ended very badly. You are still carrying around wounds from that situation but you have buried them so deeply that you do not realise they are still present in your life and still hurting you. This old pain needs to be brought up and dealt with once and for all, so you can liberate yourself from these deeply inflicted wounds. It may be difficult to experience the pain again but at least you are releasing yourself of this pain and allowing it to pass from your life.

source: biddytarot

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art by @nephoscope

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art by @chimbu

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my dragons live in in ruins - both in the ruins themselves, and in a series of caves
and half-improvised shelters around them. but we started out a wind clan, who built
our own floating lair of bamboo and balloons. i minded the balloons, patching them
and building more and more of them, until our lair was ready to take us on our next
great adventure across the lands.

however, when we floated off over the scarred wasteland to seek our fortunes, our
balloons and platforms gave out slowly as our clan grew in size and we had nothing
to mend them with. i was able to patch them up enough that we could continue on,
and we attempted to return home to settle back in and make repairs, but instead
drifted across the sea of a thousand currents .

our lair finally collapsed and crashed entirely over the sunbeam ruins, and we were
forced to seek refuge in the closest place we could find shelter from the elements -
the ruin of a tower.

my clan was able to cannibalize their old lair in order to make our new home more
livable, using the bamboo from platforms, as well as fir branches from our new forest
surroundings, to create improvised roofs and walls where the original structures had
fallen away, and stretching the fabric from my balloons over frames to make
windbreaks to place over the open window holes.

eventually, many of my dragons expanded downward into the earth - building a cave
system that extends underground. as the clan & lair expands in size, they've built
connecting tunnels to other ruins, and restored them to functional dwellings with
aspects of each new dragon's home element - earth dragons bring gemstone-studded
rocks, lightning dragons bring metal, nature dragons coax peat roofs into growing,
water dragons shape rivers and streams.

but the main structure & my clan's stronghold has very strong and visible ties to
my own wind roots.

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art by @UFO

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art by @quickhatch

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in memory of those who have left the clan:
#22188, random progen // stone - tangerine - blue. exalted 6/12/2013. retrieved 8/10/16.

scattered: camo / peacock / turqoise
exalted 7/9/2020

#8854641, first nocturne born to the clan
#8856595, second nocturne born to the clan

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