Corrain
(#33657466)
Level 4 Ridgeback
Familiar
Maren Warlock
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This dragon’s natural inborn element is Nature.
Female Ridgeback
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
21.89 m
Wingspan
15.14 m
Weight
7051.14 kg
Genetics
Swamp
Bar
Bar
Forest
Daub
Daub
Royal
Basic
Basic
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 4 Ridgeback
EXP: 1330 / 4027
STR
21
AGI
5
DEF
5
QCK
13
INT
5
VIT
9
MND
5
Biography
·Corrain·
·Female·
·Painted Forest Ridgeback·
·Female·
·Painted Forest Ridgeback·
Dragon eggs are a valuable commodity. Aside from their nutritional qualities, the contents present boundless opportunity when tended to and allowed to hatch. A young dragon could grow to become an unparalleled warrior, a shrewd scholar, or a master craftsman. Some may choose, or be chosen, to serve a higher cause, while others can propagate vast families.
A life of servitude or slavery awaits an unfortunate few. Little do the hatchlings know what designs their caretakers have for them. An unhatched egg represents a clean slate; the perfect specimen for experimentory endeavours.
And so, wily scavengers are always on the lookout for unguarded nests. The boldest may even attack a nesting dragon. Sometimes, the thieves are other dragons or those in service to them.
Today, Corrain's nest holds two eggs. Yesterday, it housed three. She remarks that the theft must have occurred in the early hours of the morning, before the dawn, when she and her mate were sleeping. Her mate, a ridgeback of similar colouration and markings, left before the sun broke the horizon to forage.
The thief had made off with their prize without detection, but efforts could still be made to search - how far could they have gotten in a few hours? Yet there was no talk of recovering the egg.
Corrain had her suspicions as to whom the culprit might have been; the familiar of a neighbouring nest-sitter. I remembered that 'borrowing' was an accepted cultural practice among the ridgeback species, but it hadn't occurred to me that their young were fair game.
Dunhoof society is communal, with no rigid familial structure. Resources are shared equally within the herd, as are responsibilities, including raising young - so the arrangement is far from peculiar by my standards, but dragons are generally known to be fiercely protective of their hatchlings, and to take their offspring without the parents' knowledge or consent is considered a grave offence even if they would have willingly agreed.
It would seem that some dragons almost make a game of the transferral of parenthood, however. Corrain was confident that she would have a nest of three again before the clutch hatched, but she never specified whether the third egg would be hers or another's.
Ultimately, neither parent was able to verify whether Corrain's suspicions were correct. Their lapse in diligence may have merely provided a predator with a meal. Perhaps they would rather imagine the mischievous ploy of a well-intentioned neighbour than the negligent loss of a precious child. It is hard to say, and I did not intend on trying their tempers by asking.
All in all, the experience was insightful.
I thanked them for their hospitality and went on my way, though not before filling a sack from their food stores. With one fewer mouth to feed, I doubt they would have missed a handful of crabs any more than their lost egg.
About the author
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Elmara is a wandering taxonomist, seeking to both broaden and narrow the ways in which dragonkind is classified. Her mission leads her far from her herd's ancestral homelands to regions no hoof has dared to tread since the world was new. She has found friends and met many helpful allies along the way, though the road was paved with no shortage of peril.
Dragons come many different shapes, sizes, and colours, and new genetic possibilities are always being discovered. Elmara's work is already cut out for her, and the caprice of magic often turns all she believes to be true on its head from time to time, but she hasn't relented yet. |
Her work is an ongoing project, but her progress so far can be read in the Encyclopaedia Draconica. Ever grateful for contributors and tolerant of critics, she can be reached through Clover, her carrier crow.
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