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[center][size=7][color=turquoise][font=corbel][b]Welcome! Happy Thundercrack Carnivale![/b][/font][/size][/color] [columns][url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=22519552] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/225196/22519552_350.png[/img] [/url][nextcol]Hello! My name is Dash and I am a Librarian for the Azurenight Clan. Usually, I just chronicle the lore of my own clan, but during this festive week I wanted to spread my wings and learn about the Lightning Flight and the Lore from other clans. So this is what I'm looking for: If you are a Lightning Flight Clan I would absolutely love to hear about your Lore. Tell me how you think, how your clan works, all those good facts so I can compare and contrast them to others of your flight. I'm not just looking for the Lightning Flight, I'm also looking for Lightning drakes that have joined other flights as well. What is it like for them in your clan? What is their back story? Even if you have a dragon that isn't Lightning Flight, but really really wishes they could be, I would love to hear their story too.[/columns] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/f6dacQA.gif[/img][/center] [center]This is so exciting! I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone. Oh, and there is no limit on how much you can write or share here (so long as it pertains to the Lightning Flight in some way) so please feel free to convey your Lore however you see fit. Open discussion is welcome as well, just please be polite about it and follow the rules of the [i]Flight Rising[/i] Forums. [/center]

[url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=26788462] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/267885/26788462_350.png[/img] [/url] [font=x]Jay is of the thunder, of the shadows, and of the lightning. The clan's Guardian Deity. She has a tendency to show up whenever there's trouble afoot- anyone who fights in her clan, will be sought out and made [i]sure[/i] that they are not welcome. She often brings with her entrance a whirlwind of black clouds and fluorescent cyan lightning, in the pattern of a hurricaine. Everyone knows when they have attracted the attention of the Gatekeeper. Everyone knows that they cannot run.

@Azurenight I'm pretty casual about lore, but I'm quite proud of the bits and pieces I do have! I'm currently a Lightning lair, but I started out in Wind! As everyone knows, Wind dragons can be drifters, and after some time, my clan found themselves drifting over to the Shifting Expanse. They've been here ever since! (Real-life explanation: I needed the right eye color for a very important breeding project and am too comfortable here to bother switching back haha) Here are some of my Lightning dragons of note: Back when the clan was still young, on the terraces of the Windswept Plateau, they found a Lightning egg while scavenging. The egg hatched, and they named the hatchling Luna. Though she is very much a child of the clan, she was always curious about her origins. So when the clan coincidentally moved to Lightning, she was actually quite pleased to be that much closer to her roots. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=16886933] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/168870/16886933_350.png[/img] [/url] I also have a few Stormdancers, of the Lightning subspecies! Cloudrunner gets her name from the way she shapes clouds from the top down, creating towering formations that can only be truly appreciated from above the clouds, or at a distance. Swift, being slightly more landbound, weaves together the base of the storm. His lightning scars show proof of his heavy work with the electricity inside the storms. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=18410075] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/184101/18410075_350.png[/img] [/url] [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=18474018] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/184741/18474018_350.png[/img] [/url] And last but not least, my final Stormdancer (?), Renn. Renn is...not from Lightning. She's actually a Water dragon. So she's not actually a Stormdancer. But she's always admired the spectacle of a good thunderstorm, and it was her dream from a young age to become a Stormdancer so she could be a part of their creation. Seeing as she was not born into the role, and in fact is entirely the wrong flight, it took a lot of hard work practicing her skills until she was finally able to manipulate the individual water particles inside storm clouds. By doing so en masse, she makes for an excellent third member of my clan's Stormdancer team! Her methods are a little unorthodox thanks to her flight affiliation, but she pioneered her own methods. Her lightning scars, a common trademark of Stormdancer dragons, proves her dedication to her pseudo-Stormdancer work. [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=18260094] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/182601/18260094_350.png[/img] [/url]

@Azurenight
And another round is upon us! My clan hosts many a Lightning derg why they're probably one of the bigger elements aside from Nature cause I swear Nature always makes pretty dergs, so much so I actually have to force myself to decline Nature dergs to keep my Fire majority. But we're talking about Lightning.

Dear Hawkeye is pure aesthetic cause his eyes are so bright against his Shadow I couldn't resist for the keen-eyed fanderg. I wanted his eyes to look intense compared to the rest of him.

Vespana is a teacher, teaching the youngest of the clan or anyone who feels they're lacking in their education in some way.

Chiyo is my priestess! Originally I had the whole 11 reps but I didn't like all the dergs so I stopped. Chiyo came after when I exalted my Flambebe fire rep, it felt wrong to not have some kind of priestess for the flame caller and then I saw her and knew she'd look great in Solar Flare. She's not sure why she's the priestess for the Flamecaller when she's Lightning but no one seems to mind. I guess she's Lightning in that regard, making the role fit her rather then fitting the role.

Faith, my poor Faith has been through the ringer. She's a yellow stained pink derg that reminded me of those Rose Gold dergs that got made when Stained first came out. But her lore! She's my winemaker for the moment but doesn't do it often because of her backstory. She's made it her profession as a way to conquer her fear.

Mew is a Mew pokederg I won in a contest, made him a gatherer and a shop owner but his lore complete otherwise. If I can't think of anything for him I might let him go.

Pepper! Wrote a good story for him for a thread and the sensible son of an eccentric baker, his job isn't decided yet but he's fine helping his pops around the shop until then.

Rainstorm~. My baby fanderg from a fanfiction. Blue eyes cause his canon is but Water was too dark. He's intuitive as a Lightning derg should be though~. Goes his own way and doesn't give two flips about what everyone else says.

Savend is one of my older dragons. I wanted a blue crystal and got a blue crystal. He's based on a magic crystal in a video game that can bring people back to life and heal wounds and such so of course I made him a magical healer. Sadly not much more lore then that. I really need to fix that.

MissingNo, yet another pokederg. This time though she's the younger sister of a famous trio of dragons on site. You see back in '15 there was this big deal being made of three missing numbers, three numbers int eh rush to get to a milestone ID that just didn't exist. Turns out there was a bit of a glitch during their hatching nest, they eventually got restored with new IDs and I snatched up their next sister to get my own little legend. She was just an engineer but after my big purge she went mad and became my mad scientist.

Destra is Millefiore's right hand dragon and one scary Ridgeback. I just went looking for a red derg cause I hadn't had any by that point and given I didn't really like RBs even though she's one of the only pretty ones I like, I thought throw her in with the villains. Make use of that size and Lightning ambition for evil.

Qoreyth is my bard and likely the start of my love affair with browns.

Sparky is another pokederg, this time based on my very first starter, Charizard. I basically went looking for red/orange and blue wings and got her. I made her a scout/gatherer who doesn't like fighting after my pitiful attempts as a child to one shot my game with only my starter.

Xpoison is the last pokederg in this part. He runs the sand baths in my bathhouse cause I figured given lightning is a desert they'd likely use sand baths for their scales and save the water.

Last but not least is one of my most senior and oldest dergs Araloz. My treasurer and just about the only derg I really like with Clown. At first I played with ehr going tot he fairgrounds when my clan was starting out and playing Shock Switch out of homesickness for the Shifting Expanse.

The Cathedral of Eyes is a Light clan, but there are a number of Lightning drakes who make their home here as well. . . [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=27150237] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/271503/27150237_350.png[/img] [/url] Zelyn has traveled around quite a bit and just joined the Cathedral/got new chapter of his lore finished up in time for the festival. He started out as a ward specialist who served under a manipulative leader who threatened Zelyn's loved ones. She was overthrown, and Zelyn left to wander the Foxfire Brambles where he eventually stumbled across one of the Cathedral's allied clans, the Hidden Haven. He originally accompanied a guest from the Haven to the Cathedral of Eyes where he felt at home amongst the bustle of activities and eventually fell in love with another of the Cathedral's residents. ------ [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=29554994] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/295550/29554994_350.png[/img] [/url] Then there's Viktor, a changeling born to surrogate parents in the Shifting Expanse. He has completed lore, which is essentially a Yuri on Ice faerie AU :> ----- [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=30367242] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/303673/30367242_350.png[/img] [/url] And, finally, Quark! They're a nonbinary drake born in the future with the ability to open 'doors' across time and space.

(NOTE: Some lore details are not recorded anywhere on my account, and not all the info is up to date. The only place this stuff is currently complete is in my head. :P) Our lair is a research center (Cosmological Horizon Research Center- the CHRC). It's research simply for the sake of curiosity. In short, we're just an isolated bunch of nerds. A couple of our accomplishments/failures/notable events: -Time Machine Project: We successfully built a time machine... in an alternate reality (due to [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=261176&tab=dragon&did=29069568]Xek[/url]). We failed in this one (also due to Xek). -The Accident on Page 2: We have a thriving unofficial 'Bot Division'. Due to some mysterious magical accident that none of our mages will give us details on, we accidentally created Lenka. -Bot Competition: Within the Bot Division there are two groups that are always in good-natured competition with each other: those who work on lifebots (or biobots, as some call them), and the ones who work on true robots. Lifebots include [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=261176&tab=dragon&did=31234440]Lenka[/url], [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=261176&tab=dragon&did=32486895]PAIL[/url], and [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=261176&tab=dragon&did=33471301]WISF[/url]. It takes longer to create a complex, artificially intelligent true robot, though, so the only one that has been completed so far is [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=view&id=298065&did=32558055&tab=dragon]QUANTACA[/url]. -Future Plans: We're working on a pretty complicated bot right now that, at its soonest, will reach completion next week. That's unlikely- though; it'll probably take a couple of months. :P And we may begin building a cyclotron soon... it depends on when [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?p=lair&id=261176&tab=dragon&did=30473574]Vesta[/url] starts pushing it... Here's a bit about our Lightning flight members: [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/265373/26537275.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/290332/29033156.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/304736/30473574.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/295726/29572562.png[/img] Io: Io was our first member from Lightning. She's an electrical engineer and head of our Tech Department. Seneca: A rather sinister and disturbing mage. He was hatched on a cliff of the Shifting Expanse reaching over the Sea of a Thousand Currents, and he seems to be more of a Water than a Lightning type. Vesta: Vesta is an electrician-turned-particle physicist with a lot of ambition. Wiztix: Wiztix is an accomplished (and classy) Bot Division enthusiast. She's worked on practically every project the Center has started since joining it. [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/334714/33471301.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/334766/33476539.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/324869/32486895.png[/img][img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/312345/31234440.png[/img] WISF: WISF is a lifebot that sort of became more alive than it was expected to. (It's also me.) Ixchel: A student. See bio for details. PAIL: A rather cynical lifebot- also the first successful one. Lenka: A lifebot who was magically animated before complete. Lenka is currently being kept in the EarthLab (which has been emptied) for the well being of himself and others. No one (except for PAIL... but that isn't known yet...) really knows what to do with him yet. Anyway. Yup. There's some stuff.

@Japachi

A different sort of deity? Dash thought while recording the lore shared with him. This was the first he'd heard of others outside the common ring of deities. As he finished with his notes he considered that Orian might like knowing about this.

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Absolutely beautiful dragon and awesome lore. Thank you =)

I had to come up with a new lore for Volta, but I think it fits best! [url=http://flightrising.com/main.php?dragon=29995852] [img]http://flightrising.com/rendern/350/299959/29995852_350.png[/img] [/url] Now, while Burinn, my Earth rep, goes out to do the digging and scavenging, Volta goes to the neaby areas of the lair to find hut/lost dragons and bring them to the clan, even if its just to heal them and send them back to their original homes. Since the majority of the dragons in the lair worship the Arcanist, she wants to find one who is loyal to the Stormcatcher too. I still need to figure out her origins but that will take a lot of [s]procrastination[/s] time to figure

@fistfulofdragons

"Stormdancers," Dash muttered under his breath. "Fascinating!" He finished his notes on the Lightning subspecies and set his journal down. "Did Luna find anything about her past?"

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Awesome subspecies!

A quartet of dragons arrived around noon. Two Wildclaws and Two Coatl. “Hello.” The scarf-wearing Coatl spoke first. “I am Keryin and I am here to serve as an interpreter for Myzrin.” The referred to Lightning dragon hummed a laconic greeting which Keryin proceeded to relay in common draconian.
“My name is Aeria Gloris,” the sanguine Wildclaw told Dash, “and you can call me any shorthand you like. Within reason of course.” She gave a crooked smile.
“And, well, I’m Molerince.” The least self-assured of the group introduced herself.

“My role-” Keryin relayed Myzrin’s thoughts, “-is to invent. Occasionally I get requests, some musicians asked once. Sometimes I’m needed for lair development projects, such as when the bath-house was constructed. Mostly I’m left to work on whatever I care to. Ventilation, sound enhancement, containment-physics manipulation, heat-regulation, and a translation device. Those are the projects I’ve worked on at varying states of completion. I sometimes share resources with the engineer, but everyone has distinct focusses. It becomes a matter of how easy materials are to obtain.”

“You may think of me as a botanist of sorts.” Lor remarked. “Life is such a remarkable field of study, isn’t it? Sure, realms vary in their abundance, but, if you look, you’ll find it everywhere.” She offered an arm with what seemed to be a thorny rose stem wrapped around it. “This was an experiment to copy the gene that gives Notocacti harmless spines. Touch it and see for yourself.
“The trouble that a lot of life can find is that it simply isn’t given ample time to adapt and prepare before being, say, blasted by lightning. Now with science, we can give it the conditions it needs. We can accelerate the process of adaptation. Especially if we know some other species that’s already found itself a winning formula.” The Wildclaw paused, and then changed topic.
“My former clan was a caste-system, not terrible as far as those go. You’re assigned something to do, such as I was to bring honour to the clan in contests with others, but how exactly you do that isn’t very restricted. But, you see, they did make sure they honoured the Stormcatcher, and one caste dedicates themselves to worship. Now it seemed that one particular colleague I discussed my work with was a chatty sort and some of the Devout would fail to conceal the looks they gave me.
“So once I’d earned myself a name and had my work’s merits recognised, I decided I’d best move on. They would have only brought me trouble in the end.” She chuckled. “I still earn something of an oddball’s reputation, but the clan are fair and as my comrade implied-” Lor gave Myzrin a nod, “-we get ample workspace.”

“Oh, I guess all of us moved because of not being happy where we were before.” Molerince gave a small smile before continuing. “I, ah, worked hard but…the supervisor didn’t take kindly to missed deadlines. When this happened it made me anxious, so it’s harder to work well and…you can see how I left. I wasn’t the only one either.”
Myzrin interjected, humming disapprovingly. “Last I heard,” Keryin translated, “they’d gone nomadic. With heavy machines? What madness.”
Molerince sighed. “Ah, it’s taken a while to find somewhere I can settle. The Errant clan is where I went next. I can only guess they thought it was a good idea at the time, but I always saw it as a clan of strangers, even to those already there.” She raised one claw. “With the exception of my pupil. Have you met Inkfell? He left before everyone else decided it was shambles. My, when we next met it was in the Scarred Wasteland. Dreadful. Just dreadful. I couldn’t be more relieved to leave with the group he came with.” The Wildclaw brightened. “I'm happy where I am now. I don't have to worry so much any more."
"We appreciate your efforts, Molerince." Keryin remarked. Myzrin gave a short, non-lexical hum and uttered a couple of words of the common speech (albeit with flawed grammar) to the Wildclaw, "everyone remember." Lor hadn't been part of the clan long enough to have a great awareness of Molerince's contributions, and smiled without comment.



Lovely to see so many sharing their lore. ^^ One of my dragons has yet to be breedchanged into a Wildclaw, so for consistency I won’t be using images for the main group.