Sarah's Flight Rising Clan Lore

I have four gen one nocturnes. They are all male, and all free to a good home, just message me on flightrising about them.

eggplant - sunset - metals

indigo - pearl - sand

thistle - grapefruit - olive

I have four gen one nocturnes. They are all male, and all free to a good home, just message me on flightrising about them.

eggplant - sunset - metals

indigo - pearl - sand

thistle - grapefruit - olive

What if dominance actually had an effect on the climate of Sornieth? Like if Lightning wins dom there’s a week of world-wide heavy storms, when Ice wins the temperature drops, Shadow dom ensures for dark, gloomy weather, Earth causes dust storms, etc.

Guardians: Extend a wing over smaller dragons to comfort and shelter them; make a deep rumbling noise when very happy or content (this can last for several minutes and be rather startling to dragons who’ve never heard it before).

Wildclaws: Lots of nuzzling and playful mouthing, especially when young; resting their heads and long necks on another dragon’s back.

Imperials: Gentle nuzzles and licks are common, along with some rubbing/scent marking.  Highly bonded imperials will often touch and entwine their sensitive whiskers together for long periods, a form of intimacy that seems odd to other breeds.  They also purr softly when very content.

Pearlcatchers: Not very physically affectionate; prefer to have deep conversations as a form of bonding.  Pearlcatcher pairs may briefly touch whiskers, or drape them over close friends/mates of another breed, but do not entwine them like Imperials.  Touching the whiskers of a Pearlcatcher who isn’t comfortable with you is a major social transgression among Pearlcatchers.

Skydancers: Careful, extensive preening sessions - you know you’re friends with a Skydancer when they start trying to groom you.  Sometimes they will try to groom dragons they have upset/are not on good terms with as a form of appeasement.

Tundra: Sniffing and rubbing/scent-marking.  A Tundra who rubs its scent on you has declared you a good friend.  If a dragon is friendly with many Tundra, they may go to sleep alone and wake up surrounded by a protective circle of Tundra, all facing outward to watch for danger.

Mirrors: Half-lid their eyes or close their foremost set of eyes when comfortable with someone, as a wide-eyed stare would indicate aggression.  An extremely comfortable mirror (especially a young one) will often flop their sinuous body over you and sleep on you in a variety of odd positions.  Aggressive “love-bites” and scratches also occur, and a mirror may leave a bite or scar on another dragon to say “mine”.

Spirals: Coiling around another dragon.  It’s not uncommon to see an Imp or Guardian trying to walk and go about their daily business while a spiral coils lovingly around their limbs.

Snappers: Not very physically affectionate, except for the occasional gentle headbutt.  May produce a deep rumble/hum when content, similar to Guardians.

Coatl: Hum softly while flicking their tongues slowly as an expression of pleasure and peace.  Gift-giving (in the form of small precious metals or gems) is an important bonding custom.

Fae: Perch and sleep on larger dragons, and keep a keen watch on friends from a distance.  They seem aloof and unkind to many other breeds, even when being their most friendly.

Long story short: there are two entirely different kinds of eggs, no matter how similar they may look. Elemental/Unhatched eggs come from the feral clans– great single-species droves of the plentiful breeds (and also Nocturne colonies), more elaboration on the difference between those clans (and why their offspring never have genes) and player-organized clans here– while laid eggs? Are the direct provision of the deities.

See, the player-organized clans as I envision them came about as a direct result of the deities wanting to fight each other and the beastclans for dominance. The strength found in diversity of species/skill/training is responsible for the existence of mixed-species clans, period (though of course, from there civilization develops, and complexity and society). 

Anyway, soon you get dragons that are WILDLY DIFFERENT physically forming close bonds– whether in battle, or through alliances, foraging parties, or just hanging out. These dragons want hatchlings, for various personal and societal reasons. But short of waging war on/stealing from other clans, there’s no physical possibility (unless they want to have breeding partners as well, which I see dragon society having less stigma against, but that’s a whole ‘nother post).

They appeal to the deities. “More dragons for your service,” they say, and the deities agree.

new elemental banners!

look for separated images under the cut and in my thread

With the new wheel out in the few days, remember at the same time, we’re going to get corrections to all the incorrect genes. So make sure you save images of dragons with sand vipera/hypnotic, seafoam ripple/current on female guardians, spring glimmer on male sprials, etc etc for your own memory of them.

crimson shimmer on fae, guardian (blood colored)

potentially irishim on all the older breeds (mirror, fae, guardian, tundra) (many breeds colors are inconsistent with other breeds)

shadow crackle on male guardians (midnight colored)

coatls with sunshine primary (belly is dark on females, light on males) + any gene

old breeds with sky primary (ears/horns are aqua or cornflower inconsistently)

spring on old breeds (color inconsistencies between secondary and primary)

beige tiger male guardians (orange on fins)

spring circuit on guardians (appears as leaf)

male ridgebacks with iridescent primary (one scale right before the arm is displaying as basic)

dragons with pink crackle (some breeds appear more dull, some are very bright)

obsidian circuit on coatls, faes, guardians

denim primary female coatls (swirls are dark grey, not light blue like on hatchlings and males)

seafoam tiger and/or stripes (dark color does not match)

black tiger on wildclaw male (stripes are not clipped at the belly edge on the tail)

green circuit on coatls (duller than other breeds)

lemon primary female coatl (may only be on iri - dark green curls)

female tundras with slate crackle

carmine ripple/current on male pearlcatchers (has orange in it)

female snappers with teal crackle (grey edges)

male imperials with stripes (slightly transparent or lighter)

ivory primary on coatls (curls white or maize-ish)

tomato primary on coatls (curls dull or bright orange)

azure current on male tundras (looks almost basic)

snappers with ivory ripple and current (males are too dark, females too light)

male coatls with facet (color inconsistencies with male and female, males are incorrect)

The seers had the right of it.  They had said this would happen to any who would listen.  More practical dragons had laughed it off, not understanding how it was possible.  Hatchlings would always be born just as Sornieth would continue to circle the sun.  

Some clans vowed to study it, collecting not only their own unhatchable nests but orphaned eggs as well.  Some lairs were filled to the brim with eggs of all elements while clan scientists tried to figure out just how to lift this curse.  

It’s a geopolitical map of Sornieth! Yay! Here it is with the real world so you can get a better sense of scale!  Well, Sornieth is actually 1.5x as large as Earth, but this is a good continent-size-to-planet-size scale visualization! 

This took a while for how simple it ended up looking. Basically what I did was used my “Winkel-Tripel projection” correction of the canon map and combined that with heavily referencing the close-up maps of each territory, matching the contours as closely as I could. I attempted to correct the side-on perspective, scaled down over-sized rivers and other features, turned a lot of things into islands, and gave Water a little land territory to be the Tsunami Flats. In actuality this has turned into a rather large country, probably the size of Chile. Well, it’s 1.5x as big as Chile, but, you know. Fun fact, the equator of Sornieth is 60,113 km (37,352 miles) long! 

I am quite contentedly chalking up what seem to be river flow irregularities to unseen elevation/continental divides; what seem to be strange biome locations to unknown weather patterns and a healthy dose of magic (the deities reshaped each territory to their liking, it’s probable that before the Pillar shatter there was a much more “normal” biome spread); and the statement in the official lore that the Pillar of the World is the northernmost point of the planet as literary hyperbole because mapping that would be beyond me. 

So this is my first attempt at standardized Sornieth cartography. I don’t expect it will match everyone’s headcanons, but I’m pretty pleased with it. 

Removal of the antenna as a ritual when a skydancer has completed their warrior training. Some of them are kept as keepsakes, others are discarded as a way to symbolize abandoning all mercy.