Dragon Trading

[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/86343140][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/863432/86343140_350.png[/img][/url][/center] [center][b]Janumor[/b] [i]Rogue > Ranger > Feral[/i][/center] ------ The parents of Chosen nests had markedly duller senses than their offspring. An egg being stolen from the nest of vacationing parents wasn't impossible, though it was unheard-of until Janumor's was taken. His parents scoured spacetime with a fine-toothed comb, but ultimately wrote him off as a loss. After all, what were the chances that egg would even survive? Better than 90% of Project Chosen eggs were DOA. A wizened old dryad by the name Dangal found the only fertile egg of the bunch with barely any effort whatsoever. Janumor was an opportunity. A Chosen One, especially in dragon form, was at once a pool of power and a living weapon. She might've been able to gain access to that power if she'd opted to raise him, rather than subject him to training that even the most rabidly survivalist Plagueling would consider excessively brutal. Young Janumor bore the weight of Dangal's centuries-long hatred of dragons, and she took it out on his hide and heart and soul at every possible opportunity. It is possible to strangle a dryad, even an ancient one, in the same way that it is possible for honeysuckle to strangle the trees that dryads call home. It took him three days. He knew, even then, that he probably could have just torn her to pieces. But he wanted her to know what she'd done, and he wanted her sisters in the grove to have to live with her tree's dead husk-- a monument to what they'd allowed her to do to him. Far from remorseful, Janumor only felt freedom from the endless pain and torment that Dangal put him through just for being who and what he was. He spent a week resting inside the dying tree, gathering what he could use and breaking or burning what he could not, before setting out to find his own way in the world. It didn't take him long to find the rifts; his took the form of walking the World Tree. Janumor doesn't particularly like traveling spacetime, but he very much likes dropping enemies into the void between. Without someone siphoning off all his magic and using his blood for spellcasting ingredients, Janumor found himself more potent than he thought he was by an extreme margin. He never learned control growing up, and feels disinclined to now. If you're very careful, you may be able to make a deal with the beast of the woods, but his temperament is fickle and his sadism runs deep.

[center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/87077282][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/870773/87077282_350.png[/img][/url] [/center] [center][b]Alphega[/b] [i]Mage > REDACTED > Shaman[/i][/center] ------ Pouring a nearly-limitless amount of pure power into a bloodline, then making the resulting egg hatch in a land made of pure magic, had every chance of ending in disaster. In fact, Alphega reasons, it [i]should[/i] have ended in disaster. In point of fact, it [i]would[/i] have, if he hadn't had uncommon amounts of both foresight and hindsight baked into his fetal soul. There was a reason all his siblings' eggs detonated as soon as they were laid and his hadn't. Several days later, his parents thought their final egg had been stolen from the nest by nefarious forces. In point of fact, [i]Alphega[/i] had stolen Alphega's egg. He was able to successfully argue in Celestial Court that, as an autonomous sapient being, he had the right to take custody of himself and raise himself as his own adoptive son. This had the eventual side-effect of creating an entirely new form of grief never before seen in dragons (although time is an odd concept where Alphega is concerned). Eventually, after fledging and becoming independent of his own care, he reached his own physical age and merged with himself. Simultaneously losing and quite literally becoming the only father figure he'd ever known sent Alphega into a grief-stricken spiral. He researched and researched, finding out that after he'd fledged to pursue his own studies, his older self had put himself into stasis to await the day he reached his own age. It was up to him to close the loop, but more importantly... Alphega was now tasked with the concept of raising a child. His child. [i]Himself.[/i] As stupid as this all was, Alphega absolutely loved the work he was doing. He learned how to wipe his own memory blank so that he could do the learning he was doing now, independent of his own influence (besides the work he'd done raising himself). He figured he'd already raised himself to be his own person, indepedent of his influence, which would later have the effect of making him a calm parent. He'd made mistakes, sure, but they shaped him. He learned how to split and tie off a timeline loop, split himself, pull his own soul in duplicate from the paradox, let it wither and fall off like a skin tag deprived of blood supply. From the timeline's perspective, it would be as if his egg disappeared, and he appeared instantaneously and fully formed with memories nobody else had. Alphega took a deep breath, leaped into the past, and plucked himself from his nest. It wasn't even remotely difficult to fool his parents. And thus began the most difficult and rewarding period of Alphega's life. He knew the little one was himself, but he stepped into the father role even more than he thought he would/had. The love he'd felt from himself was real, growing up. The Celestial Court case was genuinely harrowing in a way he hadn't thought. The thought of inflicting grief on himself was almost unbearable, since he saw his child self as his own son. But it had to be done. At least he'd leave himself good memories, he reasoned. When it came time to put himself into stasis, Alphega split the timeline, and himself with it. One of him stayed in stasis, waiting for him to reach his own age. The other looped the paradox over on itself, tying it off... and sucking the soulstuff from his other selves. The paradox crumbled to dust and fell away, and Alphega was left alone... in a different sense than he always had been. Free to live his life, an old man in a strong immortal body, from a point in time only a few days after his egg had been laid. He rarely messes around with time any more, but he is among the most exceptionally knowledgeable about how it works, to the confusion of basically every outsider looking in. Finding his family while several times older than he should be was an interesting experience, but he gets along with them well, and is treated as the venerable elder he both is and isn't. He just advises people not to think too hard about it.

I was sent this guy as fodder a little while ago. He's not registered as he doesn't meet the lore requirement yet, but figured I'd post here in case anyone would like him as I would feel bad exalting a lineage dragon without at least asking. [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/93435317][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/934354/93435317_350.png[/img][/url] [columns][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drt/2840151/1#post_42744443][img]https://i.imgur.com/2k6QEB3.png[/img][/url] [nextcol] [b]Generation VII[/b] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/51396647]Allison[/url] -> [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/57054494]Caspian[/url] -> [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/63929977]Cleopatra[/url] -> [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/85436999]Stargazer[/url] -> [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/89084111]Nuri[/url] - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/92179754]Verja[/url] -> Me (Unregistered) [/columns] I'm going to train him to level 7 and move him to my hibernal den soon for storage. Once he's in my den, I would kindly ask 10kT to adopt him to cover the exalt money.

@temporalrifter

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I have some lovely little brown moth rifters looking for new homes! [columns] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/93717429][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/937175/93717429_350.png[/img][/url] [nextcol] [b]Name[/b] - Unnamed [b]Generation Number[/b] - 5 [b]Rifter Parent[/b] - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/91005449]Metamorphosis[/url] [b]Status[/b] - Open [b]Requirements[/b] - ~100 words of lore or 15kt/g [b]Prompt Idea[/b] - Their father is a changed dragon, becoming much more than what he was created to be. He's a strong-willed free spirit, and encourages his children to take their own paths. [/columns] [columns] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/93717430][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/937175/93717430_350.png[/img][/url] [nextcol] [b]Name[/b] - Unnamed [b]Generation Number[/b] - 5 [b]Rifter Parent[/b] - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/91005449]Metamorphosis[/url] [b]Status[/b] - Open [b]Requirements[/b] - ~100 words of lore or 15kt/g [b]Prompt Idea[/b] - Their father is a changed dragon, becoming much more than what he was created to be. He's a strong-willed free spirit, and encourages his children to take their own paths. [/columns] [columns] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/93717431][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/937175/93717431_350.png[/img][/url] [nextcol] [b]Name[/b] - Unnamed [b]Generation Number[/b] - 5 [b]Rifter Parent[/b] - [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/91005449]Metamorphosis[/url] [b]Status[/b] - Open [b]Requirements[/b] - ~100 words of lore or 15kt/g [b]Prompt Idea[/b] - Their father is a changed dragon, becoming much more than what he was created to be. He's a strong-willed free spirit, and encourages his children to take their own paths. [/columns] @pokemoncha, @aerdnanocte, @CoyoteFlowers, @TheCell, @pythonesque, @TemporalRifter @LadyAria @Franchesca @Fantivity @SkyofStars @SnowFrost620 @Lynz @itsrainningtacos @fluteloops0329 @girlinthechair @Elemental131 @Nighthydra @EternalLife @Stermwind @Kahzu @Shadowfire1223

@pokemoncha, @aerdnanocte, @CoyoteFlowers, @TheCell, @pythonesque, @TemporalRifter @LadyAria @Franchesca @Fantivity @SkyofStars @SnowFrost620 @Lynz @itsrainningtacos @fluteloops0329 @girlinthechair @sp580s @Elemental131 @Nighthydra @EternalLife @Stermwind @Kahzu @Shadowfire1223 It’s a Shame this lineage has been so quiet but I’m still producing kids so I’m not gonna let it get forgotten I have Gen 7 kids from both Dream and Nightmare 15kt/15g/150 words of lore Nightmare kids [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/94196513][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/941966/94196513_350.png[/img][/url] Male [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/94196515][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/941966/94196515_350.png[/img][/url] male Dream kids [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/94196536][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/941966/94196536_350.png[/img][/url] female [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/94196537][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/941966/94196537_350.png[/img][/url] male