[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/74032080][img]https://i.imgur.com/COrB7I7.png[/img][/url]
[i]alternate outfit:[/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/nE40XAx.png[/img]
[b]= Almagest =[/b]
[ [emoji=star size=1] 14 ]
City cop. Lives in a garden villa in the suburbs, commutes to work.
Decoy's lover. She was struck by his charm; he was struck by how cool and self-possessed she was. They fell for each other before they learned of their respective occupations...and by then, neither of them wanted to turn back.
Their relationship has always been clandestine. Decoy keeps it secret from his criminal associates. (He's never told Cygni and Ancalagon that he has a girlfriend, but they've taken the liberty of [correctly] assuming, and they constantly tease him about his mystery lover.) Almagest keeps it secret from the brothers in blue. (Her disciplinary record on the force is spotless and she intends to keep it that way.)
[img]https://i.imgur.com/MBZrRq5.png[/img]
Was killed in a raid on an illegal gambling den during the Night of the Nocturne celebration. Cops stormed the place, weapons drawn; a circuit breaker was tripped, possibly by an employee hoping to escape under cover of darkness. In the ensuing chaos, Almagest was fatally shot.
(Possibly even by friendly fire. Who knows what happened in that bedlam? It's not even clear who initiated violence. There was an internal investigation by the police department, and every cop swore they fired only in response to being fired on by an unknown assailant, but isn't that what anyone would say with their career on the line?)
[img]https://i.imgur.com/MBZrRq5.png[/img]
[item=Ragepuff Down][item=Winter Glade Lord][item=Glass Knife]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/MBZrRq5.png[/img]
Her lover Decoy:
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/77763818][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/777639/77763818.png[/img][/url]
Notable children: Alyazi, Reiya, Illyrian
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/78894522][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/788946/78894522.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/80849929][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/808500/80849929.png[/img][/url][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82078580][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/avatars/820786/82078580.png[/img][/url][/center]
City cop. Lives in a garden villa in the suburbs, commutes to work.
Decoy's lover. She was struck by his charm; he was struck by how cool and self-possessed she was. They fell for each other before they learned of their respective occupations...and by then, neither of them wanted to turn back.
Their relationship has always been clandestine. Decoy keeps it secret from his criminal associates. (He's never told Cygni and Ancalagon that he has a girlfriend, but they've taken the liberty of [correctly] assuming, and they constantly tease him about his mystery lover.) Almagest keeps it secret from the brothers in blue. (Her disciplinary record on the force is spotless and she intends to keep it that way.)
Was killed in a raid on an illegal gambling den during the Night of the Nocturne celebration. Cops stormed the place, weapons drawn; a circuit breaker was tripped, possibly by an employee hoping to escape under cover of darkness. In the ensuing chaos, Almagest was fatally shot.
(Possibly even by friendly fire. Who knows what happened in that bedlam? It's not even clear who initiated violence. There was an internal investigation by the police department, and every cop swore they fired only in response to being fired on by an unknown assailant, but isn't that what anyone would say with their career on the line?)
Ragepuff Down
Organics
A pillow filled with ragepuff down makes for troubled nights.
20
Winter Glade Lord
Familiar
Winter Glade Lords can put angry plants into a state of tranquil hibernation. Such plants return to healed trunks and new growth with the passing of winter.
1650
Glass Knife
Trinkets
This find is in excellent condition, but can only be used once.
78
Her lover Decoy:
Notable children: Alyazi, Reiya, Illyrian
Bubbly Buddy
Trinkets
Better than an actual hyena in every discernible way.
[center][b]Night of the Nocturne celebrants, part three:[/b]
Drift & Arlo, a duo of traveling performers
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82365759][img]https://i.imgur.com/3DryTGi.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Drift =[/b]
[item=Gossamer Flame Headpiece]
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82677159][img]https://i.imgur.com/IFgd5ib.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Arlo =[/b]
[item=Solar Flame Headpiece][/center]
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81762419][img]https://i.imgur.com/QYubjLS.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Gemelli =[/b]
One of Zeke's girlfriends. She's a copy editor but really wants to become a novelist. She's working on her first novel (a YA portal fantasy/horror about a group of fledglings exploring the Library and getting lost in an alternate dimension), but it's slow going. She keeps changing and rewriting things. Her desk is a snowstorm of notecards.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/IAI5ahc.png[/img]
[item=Scary Storybook]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/IAI5ahc.png[/img]
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83535112][img]https://i.imgur.com/mJ35iGa.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83535113][img]https://i.imgur.com/gdbh5y6.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Rogelio & Cruz, brothers =[/b]
[chronopolis]
Rogelio and Cruz are two of the main characters in Gemelli's novel. Their exact relationship has been workshopped and changed around more times than Gemelli cares to count, but for now, they're brothers. Rogelio is a hothead, while Cruz is the more cautious of the duo.[/center]
One of Zeke's girlfriends. She's a copy editor but really wants to become a novelist. She's working on her first novel (a YA portal fantasy/horror about a group of fledglings exploring the Library and getting lost in an alternate dimension), but it's slow going. She keeps changing and rewriting things. Her desk is a snowstorm of notecards.
Scary Storybook
Trinkets
The foreword indicates that these are best told in the dark. The black and white illustrations throughout are crude, sketchy, and haunting. Don't read the one about the neck ribbon.
47
= Rogelio & Cruz, brothers =
[chronopolis]
Rogelio and Cruz are two of the main characters in Gemelli's novel. Their exact relationship has been workshopped and changed around more times than Gemelli cares to count, but for now, they're brothers. Rogelio is a hothead, while Cruz is the more cautious of the duo.
Bubbly Buddy
Trinkets
Better than an actual hyena in every discernible way.
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82607458][img]https://i.imgur.com/2qheQMM.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Orichalcum =[/b]
[lineage: Razanei x Chibundu] [G2]
[progen descendant]
Razanei's 45th child. Junior sous chef at an uptown seafood restaurant. (37th floor of a fancy hotel. Superb views; fresh fish caught daily and cooked to order.) Hopes to become a celebrity chef someday.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/gAfyzJg.png[/img]
[item=Crackers][/center]
= Orichalcum =
[lineage: Razanei x Chibundu] [G2]
[progen descendant]
Razanei's 45th child. Junior sous chef at an uptown seafood restaurant. (37th floor of a fancy hotel. Superb views; fresh fish caught daily and cooked to order.) Hopes to become a celebrity chef someday.
Crackers
Familiar
Crackers has never eaten its namesake, nor does it want to. Crackers doesn't want dry bread; Crackers wants POWER!
0
Bubbly Buddy
Trinkets
Better than an actual hyena in every discernible way.
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/78176961][img]https://i.imgur.com/qgolFrU.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Wintermute & Neuromancer =[/b]
[ [emoji=star size=1] 20 ]
An ascended AI sometimes encountered in the Kaiator network.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/lkuETX7.png[/img]
[item=Oozing Tusk][item=Otherworldly Aura]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/BHU3yk5.png[/img][/center]
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/80305899][img]https://i.imgur.com/tdAkt7W.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Remington =[/b]
[ [emoji=star size=1] 19 ]
Cowboy, gunslinger, legend.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/TlHbaSZ.png[/img]
[item=Fire Aura][item=Jasper][item=Red-Breasted Hainu]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/TlHbaSZ.png[/img]
([url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/3161048/2#post_52586543]Izzy's[/url] a huge Remington fangirl; he was the major inspo for her Wasteland Warrior sona)[/center]
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82903183][img]https://i.imgur.com/3B8Tl5o.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Krilich =[/b]
[i]bow down before the one you serve
you're goin' to get what you deserve[/i]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/LK99kLx.png[/img]
[item=Bewitching Ruby Forejewels][/center]
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82459865][img]https://i.imgur.com/ngm6OGj.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Benji =[/b]
[lineage: Rhiannon x Fenrir]
[progen descendant (Razanei G3)]
Grew up in a small fishing outpost on the Great Kaiator Bay. His mother Fenrir was adamant about the virtues of country life, but Benji and his twin sister Vulpactia couldn't stand it. Every night they would fly high into the sky to stare at the glittering lights of the big city and make up stories about what they would do there. Maybe they would be freelance mercenaries like their granddad Razanei. Maybe they would be detectives, or crimefighters, or musicians performing before a crowd in the city's biggest concert hall. The possibilities were endless.
Shortly before reaching adulthood, Benji and Vulpactia ran away to the big city (leaving behind their middle sibling, Paragon, a stick-in-the-mud who would have tattled if he got wind of their plan).
They brought money they'd saved up from months of part-time odd jobs. Benji's half got pickpocketed on their second night in the city, and as for the rest, money vanishes quickly in a land of endless parties. Faced with a dwindling cash supply, they decided to split up to pursue separate money-making ventures. Vulpactia planned to be a street performer/musician. Benji had a more ambitious plan: get expedition gear, explore the uncharted depths of the Kaiator Library, hopefully find treasure, and map the region to sell maps to future treasure hunters.
(They refused to consider going home. They were city dragons now.)
They parted ways, and that was the last Vulpactia ever saw of Benji.
No trace was ever found of him or his belongings. Who knows what might have befallen him in the depths?
[img]https://i.imgur.com/4DfRBUJ.png[/img]
[item=Vista: Treasure Map][item=Bladed Boa][item=Cartographer][/center]
Grew up in a small fishing outpost on the Great Kaiator Bay. His mother Fenrir was adamant about the virtues of country life, but Benji and his twin sister Vulpactia couldn't stand it. Every night they would fly high into the sky to stare at the glittering lights of the big city and make up stories about what they would do there. Maybe they would be freelance mercenaries like their granddad Razanei. Maybe they would be detectives, or crimefighters, or musicians performing before a crowd in the city's biggest concert hall. The possibilities were endless.
Shortly before reaching adulthood, Benji and Vulpactia ran away to the big city (leaving behind their middle sibling, Paragon, a stick-in-the-mud who would have tattled if he got wind of their plan).
They brought money they'd saved up from months of part-time odd jobs. Benji's half got pickpocketed on their second night in the city, and as for the rest, money vanishes quickly in a land of endless parties. Faced with a dwindling cash supply, they decided to split up to pursue separate money-making ventures. Vulpactia planned to be a street performer/musician. Benji had a more ambitious plan: get expedition gear, explore the uncharted depths of the Kaiator Library, hopefully find treasure, and map the region to sell maps to future treasure hunters.
(They refused to consider going home. They were city dragons now.)
They parted ways, and that was the last Vulpactia ever saw of Benji.
No trace was ever found of him or his belongings. Who knows what might have befallen him in the depths?
Vista: Treasure Map
Forum Vista
Forum Vistas are cosmetic backgrounds that add flair to your forum posts. Applying this forum vista will consume the item and make it available in your Account Options.
250
Bladed Boa
Familiar
Whatever dragon named this seemed more concerned with alliteration than proper classification of the genus of this snake.
500
Cartographer
Apparel
Mapping Sornieth one shard at a time.
1500
Bubbly Buddy
Trinkets
Better than an actual hyena in every discernible way.
[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82338387][img]https://i.imgur.com/WCr4WTP.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Donut =[/b]
Professor of topology.
[item=Serthis Support][/center]
[center][b]Spelunking Adventurers[/b]
In the wake of [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/3161048/3#post_53458231]Benji[/url]'s disappearance and presumed death, his sister [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/82459863]Vulpactia[/url] (a street performer/musician) composed a ballad to his memory. It was an instant hit. Crowds gathered in the streets to listen to her. She got multiple lucrative contract offers from competing music labels.
But the ballad also sparked public interest in the forbidden depths of the Kaiator Library. From aspiring young adventurers to potbellied fops, dragons ventured into the depths in search of adventure and glory and treasure.
It made Vulpactia unspeakably angry. (But she couldn't stop performing the ballad. It was her ticket out of the gutter, the song that launched her successful professional career.)
Here are a few of the spelunkers who ventured forth. Their tales never sparked fame, but maybe they got bored and came home after a few uneventful nights in the stacks. Or maybe they had a narrow brush with death and narrowly escaped with their lives. Or maybe, like Benji, they were never heard from again.
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[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83969199][img]https://i.imgur.com/bjbLnck.png[/img][/url]
[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83969200][img]https://i.imgur.com/RIl7IJi.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Merricat and Zelie =[/b]
[lineage: Zenika x Locke]
[progen descendants (Razanei-Chibundu G4)]
Twin sisters. Distant cousins of Vulpactia from a different branch of the family.
Their mother, Zenika, is a librarian and always warned them not to stray past the safe regions of the Library, but her words only spurred their interest.
[item=Supplicant Rings][item=Fire Aura]
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[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/81477555][img]https://i.imgur.com/ufqdM4D.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Mira =[/b]
[item=Bottled Bones][item=Onyx][item=Tattertail Bilworper]
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[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/84185742][img]https://i.imgur.com/cLwyHS2.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Isokel =[/b]
[item=Antique Lace Waist Frill][item=Trick of the Light]
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[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83900616][img]https://i.imgur.com/rHJo350.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Candycane =[/b]
[item=Dusky Rose Thorn Wing Tangle]
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[url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/83644590][img]https://i.imgur.com/Oxjdfg2.png[/img][/url]
[b]= Gatling =[/b]
[item=Furious Kilt][/center]
In the wake of Benji's disappearance and presumed death, his sister Vulpactia (a street performer/musician) composed a ballad to his memory. It was an instant hit. Crowds gathered in the streets to listen to her. She got multiple lucrative contract offers from competing music labels.
But the ballad also sparked public interest in the forbidden depths of the Kaiator Library. From aspiring young adventurers to potbellied fops, dragons ventured into the depths in search of adventure and glory and treasure.
It made Vulpactia unspeakably angry. (But she couldn't stop performing the ballad. It was her ticket out of the gutter, the song that launched her successful professional career.)
Here are a few of the spelunkers who ventured forth. Their tales never sparked fame, but maybe they got bored and came home after a few uneventful nights in the stacks. Or maybe they had a narrow brush with death and narrowly escaped with their lives. Or maybe, like Benji, they were never heard from again.
= Merricat and Zelie =
[lineage: Zenika x Locke]
[progen descendants (Razanei-Chibundu G4)]
Twin sisters. Distant cousins of Vulpactia from a different branch of the family.
Their mother, Zenika, is a librarian and always warned them not to stray past the safe regions of the Library, but her words only spurred their interest.
Supplicant Rings
Apparel
A set of Supplicant's enchanted rings.
1200
Fire Aura
Apparel
Burning licks of flame dance around the wearer. (Flameforger's Festival 2022 Holiday Item.)
0
= Mira =
Bottled Bones
Organics
This is the kind of thing that you'd find in the back room of your local magic shop.
47
Onyx
Minerals & Ores
Onyx is a common material in centaur arrows and other weaponry.
45
Tattertail Bilworper
Familiar
Flocks of bilworper manage to thrive on desiccated soil with minimal sunlight. Their droppings and digging revitalize the land, ironically making it unsuitable for bilworper!
2940
= Isokel =
Antique Lace Waist Frill
Apparel
A fresh rose pinned to a delicate lace netting.
1000
Trick of the Light
Familiar
Did you see that? It looked like a fox! You didn't? Well, it was there a second ago...
2250
= Candycane =
Dusky Rose Thorn Wing Tangle
Apparel
A twist of thorns with a beautiful bloom. Wear with care.
1600
= Gatling =
Furious Kilt
Apparel
A richly dyed kilt, bound by a leather belt.
1600
Bubbly Buddy
Trinkets
Better than an actual hyena in every discernible way.