Flight Rising Discussion

There's a few options for that. Honestly, clicking around the world map is a good way to familiarize yourself with the vibe and aesthetics each flight is going for. Lore in the Encyclopedia is also a good resource, as are the Dragon Gods themselves, and each Dragon God's profile will have a link to forum posts announcing the various things released for their dedicated holiday. Remember that all the flight's aesthetics have places where they overlap with other aesthetics, and also that just because all [i]you[/i] see is trees doesn't mean that a nature member is dissatisfied with a greenhouse full of dragons they can easily differentiate. ----- [columns][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/1][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/1p.png [/img][/url] Stones, fossils, and crystals. Archaeological tools and historic themes also appear. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/2][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/2p.png [/img][/url] Lava, Metalwork, and Flame. Steel, iron, and pheonixes are not uncommon. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/3][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/3p.png [/img][/url] Wings, swirls, and jangly things. Paper kites and lanterns make a common appearance. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/4][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/4p.png [/img][/url] Water and Aquatic Life. Bioluminescence, boat stuff, and the night sky are sub themes.[/columns] -----[columns][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/5][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/5p.png [/img][/url] Illusions, Mushrooms, Eldritch things. Thorny vines too, think like, a trickster fairy ring or creature that goes bump in the night. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/6][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/6p.png [/img][/url] Snow & Ice, Imprisonment, Furs. Ice tends to go for either glassy and ethereal or bundled attempted survivor vibes. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/7][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/7p.png[/img][/url] Steampunk, Cyborg, Desert Thunderstorms. The gleaming city of brass and rubber in the desert, full of mad scientists and engineers. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/8][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/8p.png[/img][/url] Solar Imagery, Greco-Roman ruins, Religious Imagery. Also some scholarship/academia themes.[/columns] -----[columns][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/9][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/9p.png[/img][/url] Flowers, leaves, and branches. The concept of teamwork is central, and pollinators are sometimes featured. Sometimes a druidic healer-like subtheme. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/10][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/10p.png[/img][/url] Body horror, vermin and detrivores, and the concept of animals needing to eat each other to survive. Sometimes a warrior subtheme. [nextcol][center] [url=https://www1.flightrising.com/clan-profile/11][img]https://www1.flightrising.com/rendern/portraits/1/11p.png[/img][/url] Stars, space, and messy scholarship. Focusing crystals and eldritch transformation of one's own making sometimes figure. [/columns]

let me see... [emoji=nature rune size=1] nature is kinda like... an surreal forest look, i guess? serene? mysterious?? [emoji=light rune size=1] light is eldritch horror and knowledge themed according to myself [emoji=water rune size=1] water is, well, sea themed but they also have seers and the future/past and whatnot [emoji=fire rune size=1] fire is a bit similar to lightning - they are blacksmiths - but i'd say your description works too [emoji=plague rune size=1] plague is all about survival (a bit like nature) and adapting [emoji=shadow rune size=1] shadow's aesthetic is a bit of sinister trickery + darkness [emoji=ice rune size=1] not sure about ice but looking at Gaolers and the description of their territory landmarks, i think it would be about solitude and order? [emoji=wind rune size=1] wind is exploration and travel, and there's some stuff about wind-like instruments (flutes, windchimes, etc.) [emoji=earth rune size=1] earth... i genuinely have no idea. rocks???

Honestly for a better view on flight aesthetics, I’d look closely at the world maps and festival scenes.

There’s a lot of bones and the remains of leviathans along the ocean floor. And a tiny pirate town!

There’s an adorable village inside the labyrinth, it’s in the tree tops and looks super cozy.

I think the sunbeam ruins as a gorgeous, gorgeous port!

I think fireflight’s current background rn is a golden forest of burning trees.

And the colonnades of antiquity is definetly more than just rocks!

I’ll have to come back to ramble on how varied flight aesthetics later. But yup!

Another good source of inspiration is fest skins, especially since you may want each of your reps to wear a fest skin. You can search these in the game database. For example if you put "greenskeeper" in the description field, you get all Greenskeeper skins.

One possibility is to pick out a skin for each flight rep first, and then buy/breed a dragon with colors to match.

Some great comments have already gone in above, so I'll just add on that another way to get a sense of both canon and community-driven flight aesthetics is to check out the subspecies hubs for each flight. Subspecies embody flight aesthetics in really creative ways and can often be a place to get inspiration (or directly purchase) a flight rep. Lightning's Subspecies Encyclopedia is here and we also have a sales hub here (Baroclinic Runners and Painted Vultures are my personal favorites). There's also a Universal Subspecies Hub here that has links to many different flight-based subspecies (it's a bit out of date, but there are links to most of the different hubs there and it's still a good overview).

Other than subspecies, looking through all the map locations and fest apparel can be helpful. It all depends on what you want to highlight!

This is very helpful!!! I'm doing a page in my sketchbook for each flight right now and this will be quite useful