Beware the Deeps

While I've had a fantastic time with the recent event and all the cool lore around it, I can't help but find the new Obelisk dragons somewhat....... generic. We see the god of the earth himself sculpt them from stone, name and individualize each with his own hands, and the end result just... doesn't really look like an 'earth' dragon.

I understand they're based off of stone guardian lions, which is a neat art direction, buuut the species just seems ill-fitting for their rocky homeland (and totally unrelated to Snappers). They mostly just resemble stout tundra/ manticore hybrids... so! Redesign time.

While the Obelisk's encyclopedia entry isn't out yet, I've tried to keep the design elements of the 'protector + harbinger' role they've been tasked with. They're large, stocky, and powerful, but also more suited to their environment & offering cover for their fellow dragons.

Their general posture is a mix of bear/ ankylosaur/ armadillo, with robust forelimbs + flat claws for digging. They have toughened hide plates running along their backs, with osteoderms lining their flanks. Their heads are flatter and wedge-shaped (though I've kept the under-bite, cute lil' ears, and bristly mane). Their tails are flattened into a spade- useful for defense, shoveling earth, or slamming into the ground to communicate. Lastly, their wings- they have 2 strong digits for tunneling, and the leathery membranes have been reinforced with fibers and scutes (this makes them pretty useless for flight, but perfect for defending smaller dragons).

Since they're a newborn species with no known culture/ behavior of their own yet, they're kinda... a blank slate rn (hopefully that lore article comes out soon). I see Obelisks as statuesque behemoths, watching over their tiny Snapper cousins as their clans travel across the steppes. Perhaps they use the pounding of their great weight to speak across vast distances, to warn other dragons whenever danger is near?

I… I went to screenshot the little swimming shark and legit felt bad trapping it in a box but

yea I love you swimming shark

aaand, there’s all the layers done for the marine guardian adopt so far! :-0 I’m not quite satisfied with the amount of options available though- I definitely need to add more. if you have any other ideas for features, please leave a reply down below! :-) thank you!

the first customizable attribute, secondary features, currently has 6 options:

serrated (clawed wings + tail fin)

standard (serrated - tail fin, looks most like on-site model)

frilled (lobed, slightly divided fins)

rounded (curved, convex fins)

lunate (sharp, crescent fins)

feathered (rounded, seabird-esque fins)

however, this is still way less than I’d like to have before I release these. this is the slot with the biggest visual impact, after all! I currently have WIPs for 3 other types: tattered (a lionfish/ bettafish style), lobe-finned (a coelacanth style), and continuous (an eel style).

any and all further suggestions welcome! got any cool aquatic animals that could gimme some inspiration? :-o

the second customizable attribute, primary features, currently has a few different categories within it. I’ve tentatively divided them into:

dorsal (things on the back)

ventral (things on the underside)

face (things on the… c’mon, guess)

chin

eyes

this category will mix-and-matchable, so the base could have a primary feature from each of the above slots if desired. for example, an adopt could have a long mane, rounded belly scales, large teeth, a short beard, and glowing eyes. or any other combination possible! (this could end up looking rather busy though, so sometimes picking less is more.)

dorsal features: plain (no extras), short mane, long mane, small spines, big spines, thin spines, angular spines, barbels, & fans.

ventral features: plain (no extras), pointed scales, & rounded scales.

face features: plain (no extras), small teeth, large teeth, jagged teeth, walrus tusks, & whiskers.

chin features: plain (no extras), short beard, long beard, standard beard (like the on-site male base), braided beard, fans, and shielded (like the  on-site flared belly scales).

the various eye types available also fall here. only multigaze is done currently, but I’m also expanding it’s scope- for example, you could have all the eyes of multigaze be ‘plague rare’ colored, or ‘light faceted’, etc. or each eye could even be a different color- like a whole rainbow of elements along the base’s lateral line. gotta love customization! :-]

currently for primary features, I have WIPs for a few other types: boar tusks, narwhal tusks, & overlapping belly scales (an arowana style). I’d love more ideas here too!

the third customizable attribute will be genes, which will function as they do on-site (and not be as complex as the other categories lol). I’ve already finished most of the primary genes I plan to do, so hopefully the rest go quickly! (this section is mostly just for my own reference.)

primary genes done: basic, bar, cherub, clown, fade, falcon, giraffe, jaguar, jupiter, leopard, petals, piebald, poison, ripple, savannah, skink, swirl, tiger, vipera.

tertiary genes done: basic, underbelly, spines, stained.

primary genes remaining: iridescent, laced, lionfish, mosaic, pinstripe, python, speckle, tapir, wasp.

tertiary genes remaining: contour, capsule, firefly, ghost, glimmer, lace, okapi, peacock, ringlets, runes, scales, smirch, smoke, thylacine, veined.

aaand that’s all I have down for everything so far! :-] not a bad start for a project I shelved for a couple of years (sorry to everyone kept waiting lol)… but slow progress is still progress! and, once again…

Hallo and happy mid-notn! 💜

This year, as a terrible burden gift to the FR community, I decided to put together a general guide for Generation One dragon pricing and selling.

With Notn, we all tend to get our hands in G1 sales regardless of whether we’re a G1 lair or not. A lot of people don’t know where to start or how to even consider values, while others may want to buy dragons and don’t know where to even start with an offer. This leads to a lot of users being scammed out of dragons or underpricing their stuff in general, which can more than upsetting to see.

After seeing a lot of questions and concerns from both people in forums and in discord groups, I decided to put this guide together to help both new and old players understand what specific colour subspecies mean, how they impact a dragon’s value, and how to look at specific additions in a dragon and understand if they add or subtract from the overall value.

This document is still in Beta! Please keep that in mind while going through it – it took a lot of time to set up and has been checked and used by a small group already, but it definitely needs to have the kinks worked out of it before I set up a proper forum for it on FR. This means that if there are any questions, suggestions, or concerns that you should feel more than welcome to message me about it on FR since… well, my tumblr is a bit of a mess ;v;

The document is not super optimized for mobile, but can still work fairly decently ( I may try to make a version specifically for mobile if the need arises. ) It also includes images of multi-gaze dragons and primals, since it’s important to show these examples for pricing.

The values in here are ones pulled from both the current and past market, with extremely old or extremely unique cases excluded to keep things a bit more streamlined. The guide will likely be updated in the next few months depending on how this year’s notn floods specific colour groups and how people’s interests are waning.

I’m hoping to keep this document something updated, clear, and easy to use for any user to start pricing their own G1s, so please have some patience as I work through it all with user feedback to ensure it’s something that is both accessible and usable for everyone. For now, I am a tired cookie and will be letting the document breathe and circulate before doing major edits unless something terrible pops up! ( please don’t break it, I don’t know how you could but please, my little heart can’t take losing all of this )

With Night of the Nocturne 2020 soon to be upon us, here’s a quick reminder of items to prepare before it begins! Here’s a quick link to the 2019 NotN announcement for a general idea what you can expect to see this year!

Baldwin & Transmuting :

Copper muck, Yellow sludge, Yellow goo, and Yellow ooze will be required to brew a single Strange Chest. Mimic Powder can be obtain from defeating mimics in the coliseum during NotN.

Silver muck, Gold muck, Red ooze, Red goo, and Red sludge will be required to brew two Strange Chest’s. I fully recommend you start transmuting for these items now especially if you’re not keen on coli.

Swipp’s Swap & Coliseum:

These aren’t applicable now but are important to consider when deciding where you will be grinding.

Here’s a link to a guide detailing where each of the items required in the Swipp’s Swaps will drop. These won’t drop until the event but it is important to consider when deciding where to grind, especially if you want those Swipp Vistas.

So! I wanted to draw some fusions between the deities, mostly for fun and practice, so I threw em all into a randomizer and… well. This is what it spat out!

Wildclaw mirror hybrid sprinting on all fours just ravenous for the hunt. A true carnivore

Snapper guardian hybrid watching over an ancient charge they spill stories about to anyone who will or wont listen. They relax in the sun or wade in hot tide pools in their idle time

Skydancer fae hybrids. Feathery crests and sing-song creatures of strange unexplained emotions. They care about you so very much but struggle to show it

Coatl spiral hybrid they are very long and full of song. Too many teeth but they are very pleased with who they are and are dying to be your friend

Ridgeback tundra hybrid. They forgot who they borrowed from or what they needed. They are a great keeper of secrets becuase they fail to remember but will always listen. They wade amid the ice floes and fish in the chilled waters and they smile as they tell their tacky jokes

“Her name was Evie. She was always a kind heart despite, you know… everything.”

“Sounds like you loved her very much.”

|| Distant Horizons ||

definitely gonna start using “crabwhiskers” as the Sornieth word for “shucks”

For contrast: There’s a house listing in a nearby city that’s 3 beds, 1 bath, and like 940 square feet that’s going for $174,000

Three guesses who hasn't been paying attention to their lair for weeks.

Plz halp?

Insects: Volcanic Vents or Rainsong Jungle

Meat: Waterway or Arena

Seafood: Crystal Pools or Kelp Beds

Pearlcatchers who lost their pearl that keep producing the slime for it. The slime drools from their mouth, coating their teeth… It keeps flowing, flowing, flowing…

So maybe PCs invented ways to keep their teeth clean through certain herbs or scrubs and need to keep up with a consistent dental regime to avoid such a fate.

Imagine the bad stigma between PCs when they see another PC with pearlescent teeth (sign of poor hygeine) but I’d imagine it’s unavoidable in elderly PCs.

Daybreak Cape is the eastern most point of mainland Sornieth. It runs from the city of Cliff’s Cast to the Beacon (A small portion of the just short of 50 miles total is shown) and is one of the most densely populated areas in the world, Third behind the Point’s region of the Southern Icefields and the First Circuit of Tempest Spire.

The Beacon of the radiant eye is separated from the rest of the cape by Beacon’s Gate Harbor, accessibly only by a narrow causeway. On the other side of that is the city of Beaconsgate, a sprawling second age city expanded significantly in the recent age. Here the real estate runs high. So close to Lightweaver, the land is almost exclusively owned by high ranking exalts and wealthy old blood clans.

A canal allows trading ships to pass through the city instead of making the trip all the way around the beacon, saving a precious hour or two on the route from manufacturing centers in Sornieth’s south to agricultural producers in the north.

Beaconsgate University lies a short distance outside of town. The establishment is the jewel of the Sunbeam Ruins, a source of great acclaim and a center of learning only paralleled by its rival, The Arcane Conservatory on the opposite coast.