Southern

I'm all about da Nest, 'bout da Nest, get Hatching!

All clans start wout with 2 nests, and can buy up to 3 more nests. They cost treasure and are not discounted during your clan's dominance. Their design match your flight and all eggs laid in the nests will become the same element as your flight. My flight is wind, therefore I hatch wind eggs. Laying, incubating and hatching eggs are considered daily activities. Hopwever, only laying and hatching eggs will give you a chance at holiday items when there is an ongoing event.

There are two roads to go to breed your dragons. The first is to go to the Nesting Grounds, find an unoccupied nest and click breed. Choose a male and a female from the list. The second is to go to the profile of one of the dragons you want to breed. Click breed, and choose a mate from the list for the opposite gender. From there the procedure for both metods are the same. You can preview the offspring if you like, but keep in mind that will not show you what the hatchlings will look like, only what they have a chance to look like. Hit breed, ok and then ok. Now your dragons have a nest of 1-5 eggs. Remember to scroll down to the same nest and hit incubate! Otherwise your nest will take longer to hatch. Incubate 5 days, preferably in a row, then hatch your nest on the 6th day!

Pixel nest by wakor.

Nest Costs 1st nest: free 2nd nest: free 3rd nest: 25kt 4th nest: 100kt 5th nest: 250kt

Breeding Cooldowns Plentiful: 15 days Common: 20 days Uncommon: 25 days Limited: 30 days Rare: 35 days

You may get from 1-5 eggs depending on the breeds of the parents. Dragons of Sornieth are divided into two main groups: modern and ancient breeds. Ancient breeds can only breed with their own kind, and give you 1 to 5 eggs. Modern breeds can mingle with any modern breed, and to encourage diversity you get a chance of 1 to 5 eggs when you breed two modern breed dragons of different speecies and only 1 to 4 eggs when breeding modern dragons of the same breed. Note that the Plentiful breeds are also called starter breeds because those were the ones you could choose between when you designed your first dragon. All ancient dragons are uncommon breeds. When a nest is laid, it will hatch after 6 days if you incubate it every day. Alternatively you can buy a Boon of Fertility for 350 gems to immediately hatch the nest. In the earliest days of FR, dragons eggs had a chance of rotting if you didn't incubate them every day. This system was thankfully quickly removed.



Breeding cooldown is the number of days from a dragon has laid a nest until it can lay another. The breeding cooldowns of dragons depend on the breed rarity and can become quite long. You can shorten it if needed with a Swiftbrood Boon for 150 gems, which cuts your dragon's remaining breeding cooldown in half and adds it to the next time it has a breeding cooldown. Another Swiftbrood Boon can not be used on the dragon until this extended cooldown is completely over, so use it with care.

Permababies can't breed. Dragons affected by a silouette scroll only change pose, not their actual gender, and can still be bred like normal. Dragons need to be of opposite genders to be able to breed, and they can not be related by 5 generations. You check this by entering two dragon's ID numbers into the Assay Bloodlines function of the scrying workshop. First generation dragons, meaning dragons with no parents, are unrelated to all other dragons. Therefore you never have to check their bloodlines. To see what the offspring of two dragons have a chance of looking like you can enter their ID numbers in the Foresee Progeny option of the scrying workshop. All eyes previewed will be that of your flight, but you can lend someone else's nest if you want another element's eyes.

Modern Breeds Plentiful Common Uncommon Limited Rare Fae, Guardian, Mirror, Tundra Pearlcatcher, Spiral, Snapper, Ridgeback Skydancer, Bogsneak, Obelisk Imperial, Nocturne Coatl, Wildclaw

Ancient Breeds Banescale Gaoler Veilspun Aberration

Breeds of the same rarity have the same chance of appearing in the hatchlings while, quite logically, dragons of different rarities have different chances of getting passed down. This system and the relative chances of inheritance are similarly distributed among breeds and genes, and we have dubbed the rarity categories according to the breed rarities. Genes are patterns on a dragon's body and wings. All modern breeds can have the same primary, secondary and tertiary genes, and the options are plentiful. Ancient breeds have some of the same genes, and some that only appear on ancients and come that only appear on their specific bred. Some ancient breeds have tertiary genes that break the lineart, which is one of the reasons they can't wear apparel; It would just be too much work to customise it for each gene.





The colours of Flight Rising goes in a big circle. The offspring of a dragon has a chance of displaying any primary colour on the parents and any colour in between when taking the shortest route. A user has made a colour predictor tool, and it's simply neat.



Eyes differ from breeds, colours and genes because they are not inherited. Eye types are divided into two categories: natural and unnatural. All hatchlings have a chance at displaying any natural eye type upon hatching. Like breeds and genes the eye types have different rarities, but unlike those they have almost one rarity level per eye type. While natural eye types also can be applied with vials, unnatural eye types must be applied with a vial because they don't appear naturally in hatchlings.

What should you do with your hatchlings? First of all, if you like them you can keep them! Second, if you don't like them you can sell them to other players for treasure, gems items or another dragon and third when they are 5 days old they become adults you can name them and then train in the coliseum and exalt for treasure and dominance. Note that some players buy cheap dragons to exalt, meaning dragons prized under 10kt. These dragons are often referred to as "exalt fodder" and some players will give all their exaltees the same name to sort them from the non-exaltees. Having several weird or several of the same name appearing in a row on the offspring list can look a bit weird, so many (me included) prefer to name their hatchlings before selling them.

If you want to breed two dragons in a different element than your own, but don't want to change your flight because it is super expensive to change back later, you may request that another player host your nest. It is courtesy to either pay them a little treasure and/or food as a thank you, or simply let them do as they please with any hatchlings from the nest that you don't want to keep. Splitting the nest 50/50 is also quite common.

Yet another user held a big survey to analyse dragon sizes. They calculated each breed's likely egg size based on the ratio of a newborn crocodile's length and the length of a crocodile egg. They found out that fae eggs are about the same size as a large chicken egg, while a mirror egg is the same size as the largest dinosaur egg ever found! And

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Southern #57743549 biography Bred in Ellemelle's nest. She became a banescale, got ragged, tear and plumage in late January 2020.

hatchling names: aurora polaris, aurora borealis, aurora australis, arctica, antarctica, north pole, south pole, solarwind,

Hatchling lore: A dragon who flew from the Cliff of Goodbyes in the Windflower to find his new home, as per the clan tradition. He threw himself from the cliff, well aware his wings were strong enough. He closed his eyes for a moment, as instructed, and felt for a direction. Then he soared high and followed his gut.