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HoraDusk
Here's your review! Your lair was absolutely lovely, it has a wonderful, eerie aesthetic that I can really, really get behind, and it was one heck of a good time picking these three beauties out! Send payment via CR when you can, and feel free to drop by again anytime!
Now, I'll fully admit, I'm a
little biased towards Messier because I have a watcher fandragon from the Horizon: Zero Dawn series that looks very familiar to her, but I like to think I would have chosen her for this review anyway because WOW do I love me an electrical spiral. Busy spirals are one of my favorite FR designs, and what's wonderful about Messier is that she's such a carefully cultivated... well,
mess. I've been obsessed with that Thundercrack accent for ages and the way you emphasize it with all the red lightning and the glowing eyes is a 10/10 choice. I really thought the wing armor would get in the way more than it does, but it fits in pretty seamlessly, especially with the stormsnips being the real stars in that area. Also, orca giraffe? 12/10 primary choice, it doesn't even feel like her primary where you can see it, it looks like part of her accent! She's so good and I love her. 100% would steal from you.
If there hadn't been other people in the room while I was doing this review, I absolutely would have looked at Kalina and said "oh no she's hot" out loud, because OH NO, SHE'S HOT. That Eldritch shimmer? Is
phenomenal. The way it plays off the grasps and her halo and her accent is just so, so amazing. I know I said I'd steal Messier if I could but this might be the best dragon in your lair, I'm not even joking. They layered charms so they really pop and shine more brightly? The subtle touch of the necklace matching her Celestial attendant? The fact that she's a shadow dragon but is a light dragon in all her looks and you worked that into her lore? It's all stellar. Having a dragon this well-designed in an already gorgeous lair is truly an achievement. If she had a doppelganger I'd snap her up in an instant. Did I mention the Eldritch shimmer was perfect? Because I don't think I emphasized that enough.
If Actias is one of your clanbound G1 aether eggs, I'm so jealous. Mine were both pretty and will make a good breeding pair, but these colors are really just so unbelievably complementary with the genes you've chosen. That Umber monarch really ties the whole dragon together in a way I don't think any other tertiary could have accomplished, especially since it has those brown eyes to play off of. I also like that the blue-purples in the primary and secondary aren't quite the same, because it almost feels like a gradient slowly making its way up the wings to accent them. This guy is so vivid and colorful and I keep finding new things to like. What a cool little space friend!
"But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
This I did."