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tilkka
Sorry for the extra ping, but I just wanted to say I love that story! I've ended up keeping a dragon I was sure was going to be fodder in a similar way, but your Caelum is absolutely breathtaking! That skin is too perfect for her! Her familiar is such a good fit too. The colors on the Charming Sage Lantern meld so perfectly into her wings that the whole thing just looks like magic.
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Zikitty
I don't have a lot of very sad dragons in my lair, but Arenna has a particularly tragic story. You can read it in her bio, and I think there are links to the bios of related dragons as well (they're kind of hard to see because of the text color).
It didn't start out that way, though. Like a lot of my lore, her story was built up and changed as I got new dragons and projects and developed the stories of other dragons.
She started out as Tephra's mate, back when he was the clan librarian. Their story was that she patrolled the clan territory, and spent all her time with him in the library in the brief periods that she was in the lair.
But I when I developed the Shattered Construct subspecies, I picked a handful of dragons to "convert" most of them were guards or warriors, playing into the idea of sleepless protectors for the clan. Arenna wasn't the only dragon I "converted" but she was the only one with a dedicated mate, and the only one who wasn't plague to begin with. So I thought that conflict made for a good story. Her mate Tephra became a core grounding force in her life. He was her reason for being with the clan.
Then, much later, I introduced several new dragons into the clan. One was a Naomi Descendant, and I wanted her being there to be really significant. So I had her interact with Tephra, I bred the two of them, and in the story, it ultimately drives Tephra insane.
He's still with the clan, but now very off, and Arenna still loves him, but feels they both have been ruined by the clan, directly or indirectly. She has to take care of him, and no longer has any real loyalty to the clan, but stays out of obligation and to care for the dragon she once loved (still loves, she assures herself). So there is a lot of anger and sorrow there.
But enough tragedy! Show me a dragon who is a hero.
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Luunai
Ahh, he seems like a great paladin archetype. I love the art in his bio! He is a beautiful dragon.