Shade-Touched Dragons-
Wraith is a Shade infected dragon that has infiltrated the Clan to spread his decay. Since his original infection (see his lore), he continues to serve the Voidwaker, Soul of The Abyss, through slowly spreading the Shade to his willing and Void-sympathizing Clanmates! He is also a host to a variety of ancient spirits, too faded to make any negative impact- they are called wisps, or depleted souls. Basically they just hang around in his head and whisper stuff related to the Voidwaker and their glory. The Shadeblood flows freely over his scales, but due to the Voidwaker's blessing, he feels no pain- only the satisfaction of spreading the Shade's wrath to his Clanmates.
Oh, and hey look! Another Void child! This is Peccatum. She was tossed into the Great Abyss (the epicenter of the Shade) for being a threat to her mother's throne (see below). She was sacrificed to feed the growing powers of the Shade, which shattered her soul (elemental life force) into a thousand pieces.These essences harvested from her shattered soul would contribute to her mother's dark powers. Her lore makes literally no sense rn because there are other dragons an entire plot line that tie into the story that don't even exist on FR yet. (I'm working on it!) For example, this dragon is Hora, her mother and the dragon who unceremoniously throws her into the void:
Hora is a Queen in her own respect, having gained immense power through underworld communication and her unnatural ability to manipulate the Shade. For this, she is worshiped by a small but growing group of dragons that have defected from the Eleven gods as a "Goddess among the earth" . However, the Voidwaker will always be her higher power, which she isn't quick to admit because she thinks that she herself is a god.
Voragine is a demon from the depths of the Great Abyss. Before the age of dragons and elemental gods, Sornieth was overrun by the Shade- as well as its masters, the Eldest Demons, Voragine being one of them. She is the "Mother of Monsters", as she had shaped the Shade into eldritch monstrosities that roamed the planet, devouring the wasteland in its its path. In the First Age, her race, as well as her monsters, were cast into the abyss. But thanks to Hora and her maniacal quest for power, she was summoned from its depths, in exchange for a sacrifice that was cast into the Abyss in her place. This sacrifice acts as her presence in the void during the demon's absence, as Voragine raises her monstrous children to wreak havoc upon Sornieth.
Our Clan's Views on the Shade-
Instead of killing dragons, the Shade seems to me to not kill directly, but instead to consume a life force, dissipating a soul in a way similar to a black hole, where the matter is utterly destroyed. A soulless dragon cannot thrive, as magic is a dragon's lifeblood, essential to its survival as much as it relies on its heart to beat. But this process is not fast, nor painless- it begins with a weakening of magical stength, slowly draining away as the victim grows increasingly weaker- their soul is being replaced by the oblivion of Shade, deteriorating the body to an animated corpse, nothing but a vessel of abyss. But the Shade is too strong, too corrupting to be contained within. It is only when the soul is gone that it begins to bleed out. Crisscrossing patterns of black weave through a dragon'sscales, irregular in pattern, as it flows between them wherever it may infect. It must not be touched, lest the infection will spread. The Shadeblood burns excruciatingly, though it is not felt- all sentience has been destroyed by this point. Finally, it comes to a point where the vessel is too infected that even the physical body cannot support the Shade, and collapses in upon itself, all flesh and bone dissolving into black mist- and the dragons becomes one with the Shade, in body and soul.
The Shade does not see, the Shade does not feel, but the Shade shall mimic. To fully corrupt a soul, the Shade must be strong- but sometimes, when a dragon is infected with a lesser portion of Shade, their souls are not fully eroded. Not enough is left to sustain magic, yet there is enough left to feel, enough left to have emotion. Enough left that they feel the pain of the Shadeblood tracing across their scales, and feeling their body dissolve to mist before their eyes- and it is pain beyond what any could know.
It is common for multiples wisps of Shade to converge, in order to grow its strength and presence. And many of these wisps contain fractions of souls that were not depleted. And so, the Shade clouds gain a mimicked sentience- thinking the thoughts of the soul fractions, feeling their emotions, which are no more than anger and vengeance. This only compels the Shade to further corrupt more victims. And perhaps the worst part of the Shade corruption is the voices.
When the soul fragments find a new host to corrupt, they are overjoyed that another dragon will feel the same pain as them, their own form of revenge. They whisper to the new vessel, telling them their haunting tales. And when they speak, the words come from a thousand voices, echoing in delirious magnitude within the victim's mind, accelerating the deterioration of their mental state, leaving their thoughts and willpower null- leaving only a soulless corpse for the Shade to consume in its quest for domination.
But Wait, There's More...
This post is already a wall of text, so I'm not going to add on to it much more, but in my Clan, there is a poison that targets only a small portion of a dragon's elemental life force, corrupting this piece- it is basically an enchantment that allows a dragon to control the Shade infection of another (this type of dark magic can normally only be harnessed by those already infected). But this poison has another purpose, used by a small cult-like group based from Clan Saturn- they use the poison to "rot" out the small life force portion, and before the Shade's infection spreads, they stop it in its path. This gap is then filled with new elemental magic... of a different element than what was original. (For example, an Ice dragon if infected, the Shade is withdrawn, and they are infused with Water magic in its place.) This lets a dragon wield two elements, and though it is powerful, it leads to a quick and certain death. This is a special manipulation of the Shade, and little is known about it....other than its dangerous effects and its cursed name- Geminin.
Edit: Added another Shade-touched dragon!
Wraith is a Shade infected dragon that has infiltrated the Clan to spread his decay. Since his original infection (see his lore), he continues to serve the Voidwaker, Soul of The Abyss, through slowly spreading the Shade to his willing and Void-sympathizing Clanmates! He is also a host to a variety of ancient spirits, too faded to make any negative impact- they are called wisps, or depleted souls. Basically they just hang around in his head and whisper stuff related to the Voidwaker and their glory. The Shadeblood flows freely over his scales, but due to the Voidwaker's blessing, he feels no pain- only the satisfaction of spreading the Shade's wrath to his Clanmates.
Oh, and hey look! Another Void child! This is Peccatum. She was tossed into the Great Abyss (the epicenter of the Shade) for being a threat to her mother's throne (see below). She was sacrificed to feed the growing powers of the Shade, which shattered her soul (elemental life force) into a thousand pieces.These essences harvested from her shattered soul would contribute to her mother's dark powers. Her lore makes literally no sense rn because there are other dragons an entire plot line that tie into the story that don't even exist on FR yet. (I'm working on it!) For example, this dragon is Hora, her mother and the dragon who unceremoniously throws her into the void:
Hora is a Queen in her own respect, having gained immense power through underworld communication and her unnatural ability to manipulate the Shade. For this, she is worshiped by a small but growing group of dragons that have defected from the Eleven gods as a "Goddess among the earth" . However, the Voidwaker will always be her higher power, which she isn't quick to admit because she thinks that she herself is a god.
Voragine is a demon from the depths of the Great Abyss. Before the age of dragons and elemental gods, Sornieth was overrun by the Shade- as well as its masters, the Eldest Demons, Voragine being one of them. She is the "Mother of Monsters", as she had shaped the Shade into eldritch monstrosities that roamed the planet, devouring the wasteland in its its path. In the First Age, her race, as well as her monsters, were cast into the abyss. But thanks to Hora and her maniacal quest for power, she was summoned from its depths, in exchange for a sacrifice that was cast into the Abyss in her place. This sacrifice acts as her presence in the void during the demon's absence, as Voragine raises her monstrous children to wreak havoc upon Sornieth.
Our Clan's Views on the Shade-
Instead of killing dragons, the Shade seems to me to not kill directly, but instead to consume a life force, dissipating a soul in a way similar to a black hole, where the matter is utterly destroyed. A soulless dragon cannot thrive, as magic is a dragon's lifeblood, essential to its survival as much as it relies on its heart to beat. But this process is not fast, nor painless- it begins with a weakening of magical stength, slowly draining away as the victim grows increasingly weaker- their soul is being replaced by the oblivion of Shade, deteriorating the body to an animated corpse, nothing but a vessel of abyss. But the Shade is too strong, too corrupting to be contained within. It is only when the soul is gone that it begins to bleed out. Crisscrossing patterns of black weave through a dragon'sscales, irregular in pattern, as it flows between them wherever it may infect. It must not be touched, lest the infection will spread. The Shadeblood burns excruciatingly, though it is not felt- all sentience has been destroyed by this point. Finally, it comes to a point where the vessel is too infected that even the physical body cannot support the Shade, and collapses in upon itself, all flesh and bone dissolving into black mist- and the dragons becomes one with the Shade, in body and soul.
The Shade does not see, the Shade does not feel, but the Shade shall mimic. To fully corrupt a soul, the Shade must be strong- but sometimes, when a dragon is infected with a lesser portion of Shade, their souls are not fully eroded. Not enough is left to sustain magic, yet there is enough left to feel, enough left to have emotion. Enough left that they feel the pain of the Shadeblood tracing across their scales, and feeling their body dissolve to mist before their eyes- and it is pain beyond what any could know.
It is common for multiples wisps of Shade to converge, in order to grow its strength and presence. And many of these wisps contain fractions of souls that were not depleted. And so, the Shade clouds gain a mimicked sentience- thinking the thoughts of the soul fractions, feeling their emotions, which are no more than anger and vengeance. This only compels the Shade to further corrupt more victims. And perhaps the worst part of the Shade corruption is the voices.
When the soul fragments find a new host to corrupt, they are overjoyed that another dragon will feel the same pain as them, their own form of revenge. They whisper to the new vessel, telling them their haunting tales. And when they speak, the words come from a thousand voices, echoing in delirious magnitude within the victim's mind, accelerating the deterioration of their mental state, leaving their thoughts and willpower null- leaving only a soulless corpse for the Shade to consume in its quest for domination.
But Wait, There's More...
This post is already a wall of text, so I'm not going to add on to it much more, but in my Clan, there is a poison that targets only a small portion of a dragon's elemental life force, corrupting this piece- it is basically an enchantment that allows a dragon to control the Shade infection of another (this type of dark magic can normally only be harnessed by those already infected). But this poison has another purpose, used by a small cult-like group based from Clan Saturn- they use the poison to "rot" out the small life force portion, and before the Shade's infection spreads, they stop it in its path. This gap is then filled with new elemental magic... of a different element than what was original. (For example, an Ice dragon if infected, the Shade is withdrawn, and they are infused with Water magic in its place.) This lets a dragon wield two elements, and though it is powerful, it leads to a quick and certain death. This is a special manipulation of the Shade, and little is known about it....other than its dangerous effects and its cursed name- Geminin.
Edit: Added another Shade-touched dragon!
   
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