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@RogueLoreWind - reasoning? I'm curious.

I think it could give them the look of being petrified or dried out from the loss of so much fluid? Developing a "thick skin". Turning them into some kind of empty husk. Not sure how well it look though haven't checked it in scry yet. Just a thought that popped in my head. [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=77&bodygene=97&breed=20&element=3&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=59&tertgene=91&winggene=97&wings=77&auth=2ce052edf9dd69da4ca6ead5a3de40dc50400a1b&dummyext=prev.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=77&bodygene=97&breed=20&element=3&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=59&tertgene=93&winggene=97&wings=77&auth=5ef548ccad5757db9f97130528351c493a2cd0f0&dummyext=prev.png[/img][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=77&bodygene=88&breed=2&element=3&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=59&tertgene=6&winggene=88&wings=77&auth=a4630b6f212d6505de6c75ae7677fc3444e64ac8&dummyext=prev.png[/img] Oh, Smirch? [img]https://www1.flightrising.com/dgen/preview/dragon?age=1&body=77&bodygene=88&breed=2&element=3&eyetype=0&gender=0&tert=59&tertgene=19&winggene=88&wings=77&auth=2cfec1eef730230a42bc57835c07698b89744571&dummyext=prev.png[/img]

@RogueLoreWind

I kind of like it! Something I've been considering with Striation and Tapir is maybe making Mummified Mercies - dried out, as you say from loss of fluid and plague - and those would work well for that.

For sure. So excited to see where the Mercies go.

its that time again time to flood in my Mercies who need to be regestered, as well as some infested too! Straud- [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/75298722][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/752988/75298722_350.png[/img][/url] Fordola- [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/75986244][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/759863/75986244_350.png[/img][/url] Sevenda- [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/74852115][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/748522/74852115_350.png[/img][/url] Ambrosia- [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/76879585][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/768796/76879585_350.png[/img][/url] Celeste- [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/dragon/76856332][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/350/768564/76856332_350.png[/img][/url] Ambrosia and Celeste are gen 1s btw

@DamionKaneki

All have been registered! I'm loving your apparel choices - Straud as a scholar, it seems, and Fordola all martial, I adore Sevenda, what an amazing colour combo, and I like how impossible and unapproachable she seems all armoured up like that. Ambrosia is a lovely plague-y bard, and Celeste - an arcane scholar with perhaps a touch of Shadow I see (despite all the Shade?). Oh I love these and I look forward to your lore ideas for them all!

@EssayOfThoughts

Thank you! to be honest i just look in my apparel for things that go well together and can convey possibly what there roll in my clan might be. ya Celeste isn't fully done yet i am still missing her robe but i should be able to get it soon, but i wanted to get all of my subspecies registered today so i thought on doing it early.

@EssayOfThoughts do you have any alternative species to recommend? i'm a little lost, and i'd like to change the lore of my dragons too!

@Chalphy There's a few options I can think of off the top of my head, but by no means do you have to stick to these. I'm also working on something of my own that I hope to have ready for release... eventually. In the meantime: ----- [columns][center][url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/2397522][img]https://i.imgur.com/fT1J7Mm.png[/img][/url][/center][nextcol][nextcol][size=3]Your Mercy could have been a dragon forcibly assimilated into the Hive, or have been created by a dragon attempting to replicate the Hive's drones. Perhaps their conversion was incomplete or perhaps a scientist seeking to deprogram Hive dragons found them, and the Hive's assimilative infection was stripped from them - sorely damaging their microbiome in the process, causing them to seek out Mercydom in order to continue.[/columns] ----- [columns][size=3]Not every dragon wants the symbiosis that the Blooming Grove Sickness can create - and some dragons might simply hate to see what they consider to be a dangerous infection. Perhaps they sought out a Mercy to cure themselves and became a Mercy as a consequence, or perhaps the Sickness was razed from their flesh, rendering their skin sterile to the spores they once housed - and so they sought Mercydom to find a new connection.[nextcol][center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/2722400][img]https://i.imgur.com/20nkVzU.png[/img][/center][/columns] ----- [columns][center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/3068802][img]https://i.imgur.com/j7ZXtoc.png[/img][/url][/center][nextcol][size=3]No one's heard of a Carrionix symbiont being forcibly removed from the dragon they've partnered with... yet. Who knows if it's possible? Perhaps it was a symbiont bonding that went wrong, or perhaps those dragons wary of this new subspecies found a way to damage the connection between symbiont and host - perhaps they even tore the symbiont out. Lost without their chosen companion, a dragon might choose Mercydom to find a place again.[/columns] ----- [columns][size=3]Paleblood Hunters are a complicated order, but regardless of their origins, all are touched by some variety of Paleblood. Perhaps some Moonlit hunters objected to your dragons paleblood infection - or perhaps some who distrust whatever lies beyond the portal found a way to burn that Moonlit blood from your dragon's veins, harrowing them with sunlight instead. Left hollow without that connection they once sought - perhaps Mercydom seemed like an acceptable alternative.[nextcol][center][url=https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/3055424/1#post_3055424][img]https://i.imgur.com/LI30Kg8.png[/img][/url][/center][/columns] ----- [columns][center][url=http://www1.flightrising.com/forums/drs/2464726][img]https://i.imgur.com/gy7lfx1.png[/img][/url][/center][nextcol][size=3]Everyone knows Effluvial Crows are a complex mix of weak and strong, infectious and at times dangerously infected. Their own nature weakens them and encourages them to strengthen themselves - is it perhaps so surprising that one Effluvial Crow, displeased with this eternal dichotomy they were hatched into, might seek out a Mercy to be stripped of the signature infection that makes Effluvials what they are?[/columns] ----- [columns][size=3]Curious dragons have always existed in the world of Sornieth. It is perfectly possible that your dragon was a plague carrier of some kind, cured by a well-meaning dragon but with unexpected long-term effects that becoming a Mercy could help. Likewise, they could have been a researcher themselves, and become aware of the complex microbiome of their gut without fully understanding the role it played. In attempting to cleanse themselves of these microorganisms they may have destabilised their body, necessitating Mercyhood to help them.[nextcol][center][item=Glass Beaker][/center][/columns] ----- If anyone else has suggestions or ideas, feel free to share!

@/Chalphy - I'll add a caveat on the Paleblood Hunters mentioned above; like Mercys, they were originally an offshoot from the Necromancers, and due to IRL issues I haven't yet reworked their lore to separate them out. For now I'd recommend looking more at the other subspecies that Essay listed; all of them are fantastic!