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new breed is really good but i am MOST obsessed with the babies. look at these Things

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VERY long Ramble incoming
honestly now that I'm looking at the auraboa lore situation, I'm just disappointed. There was such POTENTIAL in the idea of the Loop and the horror of a new generation inexplicably being disconnected from it, forcing the newly hatched children into a world totally separate from that perceived by their parents (I mean, hell, they perceive TIME differently!).... but then the writer(s?) just fell ass backwards into Icky Tropes.
Right!!! You get it!!! It's so full of potential! These poor parents are cut off from their children for most of the day, their children can't hear them, and the story just shows it as lol silly tree snakes when their fear and horror is so completely legitimate!
If they had shown how auraboa kids Normally integrate into society(from their own perspective ofc) and then contrasted it with how scary this new development was (for an auraboa, losing consciousness must be related to being sick or dying! Suddenly their children are passing out/becoming sick en masse?? That's terrifying! They must have thought a plague hit all the kids!) But instead we got.... This condescending story of how ridiculous and simplistic the adults are and how overblown their reaction is. It's honestly so frustrating.
I honestly think the lore on itself from the encyclopedia page isn't that bad, but the story was just truly awful and misleading. Sleep is a scary concept to a species that never rests, and the heartbreak of their children being barely reachable most of the day must be awful. But the story didn't humanise or explore the older auraboa at all, they were just setup dressing for the New, Fixed Generation and it Sucks.
(also I think a translator for their parents would be incredibly funny. 'Yeah let me ask everyone -zonks out- -wakes up- ok they like that idea.' they'd maybe have to use magic to force themselves to sleep in quick bursts. Idk there's just so much potential for such an interesting concept! And instead we got this dehumanizing story! UGH!)
That said, the new update to the encyclopedia is WORLDS better at explaining the concept for them, and I'm glad the staff is acting much quicker this time to try and fix this grievous mistake. I do still think the speech thing needs to be adjusted, because it comes across as making the auraboa seem very simplistic even if that was never the intention.
Preface: I am native.
I've seen posts asking for the connections to native mythology to be changed, to be erased. I saw one saying coatls should have their name changed because of its connection to quetzalcoatl. I think the belief that staff can't pull from indigenous mythology is unfair both to staff and to natives, when fantasy itself as a genre exists almost entirely based off of cultural mythologies. Dragons themselves are mythology. Yetis are mythology. Quetzalcoatl is mythology. There's wisps, there's dryads, there's kelpie. A game about dragons is going to have connections to mythology around the world, it is the nature of fantasy.
I love how much the FR community supports one another, but please don't ask native mythology to be removed. We exist and our mythology is the same as any other, and I think it's lovely when it gets explored and inspires creativity. Ask for it to be done tastefully, yes! But don't ask for it to be removed entirely, please.
Oh my god, staff.....
This auraboa issue with the lore being (most likely) unintentionally racist is especially maddening to me, because the concept they seem to want to portray (based purely on the encyclopedia entry) is very similar to an OC I have, and so I can say with experience, it's incredibly difficult to convey! ESPECIALLY when you try to portray it inside a short story where you're cutting lines for word count (their forum reply mentioned they left out some lines to keep it short)
Instead of getting across the concept the encyclopedia entry seems to allude to, the short story just accidentally walks into like 10 racism rakes in a row and its truly agonizing for me to watch, knowing what i assume the actual lore's intent is.
encyclopedia quote: "Older generations of Auraboa existed in a constant state of communion with their fellows. They refer to this connection as The Loop. In this persistent state they perceive time and memory in a non-linear manner; their intertwined considerations for past and present events are such that it became difficult for a dragon outside The Loop to grasp the intentions of these ancient wyrms."
what seems to be the intention is that the auraboa are a hivemind that doesn't experience time the same way other dragons do- they experience past, present, and future all at once and thus cannot communicate well NOT because they have a different language, but because they aren't experiencing TIME ITSELF in the same fashion as the dragons! However, in practice, in the story, the auraboa seem to speak with words in the proper order, just haltingly, since otherwise the story itself couldn't work at all.
another encyclopedia bit: "The newest generation of Auraboa is not linked to The Loop in their waking hours. While they move through the world, they are less directly accessible and read as "silent" to Auraboa who are within the communal state. This disconnection has allowed the young Auraboa to experience time in a linear fashion, and with this new understanding they have begun to form connections with other species of dragon that have never before been possible."
The encyclopedia seems more clear about the Linear Time thing, and that being why they can actually communicate sensibly, but in the act of having a story where the older ones DO communicate with the outside dragons and get a point across, they've kind of not shown the reason why dragons and auraboa COULDNT communicate before! which is! a big thing!
If they'd implemented the auraboa speaking with everything in the wrong order instead of halting single words at a time, i feel like the intention would get across better. As it is, it just smacks them directly into the 'simple native' stereotype with a truly awful tripping into the 'having our kids be taught by outsiders' which is. a really wretched parallel, as many native people have spoken of the unimaginable violence of residential schools.
I feel like the encyclopedia entry Alone isn't nearly as awful (still not great, but not as bad) as the extremely poorly implemented story that managed to ddr dance onto a bunch of horrible tropes.
they were literally so bad at conveying the fact that the auraboa are a hivemind that is unmoored from time, that i see people misinterpreting the lore as auraboa having their own weird language that other dragons can't understand! there was not enough effort put into conveying the ideas they tried to convey, and what WAS put forward was literally chock full of the most unfortunate parallels physically possible.
Practicing drawing AETHERS! I may make the second one an adopt... evil gremlin babies for everyone. They are so me-core it’s not even funny... I adore them 😭

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Susie had her art updated!
compared to the old art, if you’re anything like me and don’t remember how it looked
i’m just gonna work through the rest of the fr sketch backlog on.. my fr blog…
this is Kaiser, the alchemist of my clan. He’s got shades of mad scientist, but is actually a very responsible person who works very hard even if he gets some side glances. First pic has Claret, who he helped raise and teach alchemy to, and the bottom features Goop, a strange little baby who emerged from the sewers after he dumped a failed experiment down the drain.
so, that’s his son now I guess! free son!
continues to trudge through the backlog of flight rising doodles
an assemblage of flight risings. at some point it turned into a project to have at least a rough design for each dragon so there are a Bunch of these. i will space them out.

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Cirrus, my coatl. I wasn’t really sure what to do with the lighting in this, but i had fun!
...and this is my glow in the dark trampstamp that I got from a funny little merchant in a funky hat as a gift from God.
all it cost me was an ancient manuscript carved in stone that I found under a table at the Trading Post.
so i may have a hibernal den hoarding problem.... oh well.... what can you do!!! anyways, BIG FLASH SALE before i throw these children into the abyss! 13k is fine for any of them! a LOT of them have lore parents, too! and parents with art that i really need to get around to posting...
anyways, link in the RB! you can message me here or on FR for them!
The new breed reminds me of chinese guardian lions. They're even known as stone lions,because they're typically made of stone 👀 and are used in palaces, temples and tombs 👀👀
Also this is how cubs are usually portrayed:
(Could be just coincidene of course)
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plans for my obelisks!!! im especially super happy with my SHISA gen 1 obelisk girl..... she’s a shisa!!! i LOVE her!!!
soon i’ll also have my starcon reckoning because constellation on obelisk manes is BEAUTIFUL....

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goo. feels right at home in the sewer
oh my god. oh my god. gooey friend.
this is goop
friends...... sewer friends....
HONEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING
STOP VIBING FOR A SECOND AND HELP THEM