2025 was my first full calendar year on FR and I'd like to outline my experiences. I didn't keep any record of what I was up to before I started this blog in June, but since I'm not aiming for completeness, only making note of what stood out won't be an issue.

I'll start off with some pretty pictures (outfits and projects), move on to a retrospective, analyze the dragons that joined my clan (there will be stats), and end the recap with my clan's overall statistics at the end of 2025.

Outfits planned

Gonatid - Corripheye

Orokxu - Hespian

Xipho - Roi - Sahara

Projects completed

G1s:

Discito - Erythalas

Eosaph - Chonete

Gene projects:

Senet (breed change) - Leaf (sec. + tert.)

Ponteixites (prim.) - Nomismo (prim.) - Gwendolyn (prim.)

Arysa (sec.) - Diesto (sec.) - Calahan (tert.)

Retrospective

Personal Achievements and Projects

Had a big breakthrough in clan lore in January, which fizzled out due to life happening, unfortunately. I continued to return to it, though, and was adding bits and pieces here and there, often inspired by hatchery pairs, as well as starting to develop individual lore for a handful of dragons. It remains a major goal.

Had the Colonnade evolve from a simple adoption thread into somewhat of hatchery, with bigger plans for the future.

Began dressing dragons, as seen above! My methods have improved massively since my first attempt (Gonatid) and served to simplify the process, in part due to having participated in a few dressing events, too.

Began blogging about my activities, to my surprise! It's a reflection of how over the course of the year, FR became a central fixture and massive help in my life.

For the first time, I settled on scries for the majority of my projects and started making them a reality! Additionally, I began keeping track of projects in a thread (which should be moved to a devoted thread soon).

Coded a layout for my clan profile.

Began participating in and keeping up with Dom activities, as well as collecting badges!

Added useful features to all of my dragons' biographies, like site skins that might suit them and links to search for other dragons with their colors.

Several listing efforts, which also helped in figuring out some favorites: colors, specific gene colors, favorite genes per breed, and more.

Became more comfortable fooling around in the Scrying Workshop.

Achievement hunting, including some tedious ones like Crim and Higher or Lower.

Created a to-do list for Swipp familiars and grinded for Swipp trades and Den slots!

Grew more comfortable with acquiring Ancients without having specific plans for them, increasing their number from 4 to 12.

Welcomed new breeds (and genes), Obelisks in particular!

Milestones

reached 1000 familiars

paid off all lair expansions

had my first team, consisting of Donele, Eledona, and Schindleria, reach level 25

New Dragons

(I was meaning to assemble all of the newcomers in a picture (image limit >:() and link to them, but then I realized that doing so for 64 dragons would be beyond ridiculous, especially after already having wasted far too much time on this post. So... stats only.)

Statistics section

In 2025, a total of 64 dragons joined my clan.

Having spent more time on the site and caring for a larger clan, adoptions slowed down and hit a slump mid-year.

The majority of dragons came from the most active adoption board (Adopt-A-Dragon) or other adoption threads. 12 dragons were Auction House finds, 7 were bought from hatcheries, and 4 through Galopa's Old Oaks. 4 dragons were offspring I decided to keep, while 2 came from eggs I hatched (the Clanbound Thorntails). Outliers are 2 dragons from a raffle and 1 dragon acquired through an auction.

6 dragons were G1s (2 Clanbound, 4 adopted), accounting for 9.6%.

14 (21.9%) dragons were projects.

8 (12.5%) were oldies (three years or older); 14 (21.9%) were older than my account.

8 (12.5%) were Ancient breeds.

Ridgebacks (11) were the most numerous, followed by Spirals (10) and Pearlcatchers (9). Fae, Wildclaws, and Snappers (unfortunately) were the least common Modern breeds with 1 each (the 1 Nocturne is a G1).

34 (53.1%) M poses outnumbered 30 (46.9%) F poses.

The most common pose was M Ridgebacks (9), followed by M Spirals (8), F Imperials and F Pearlcatchers (5 each), and M Pearlcatchers (4).

Light (15) was the most common element, followed by Shadow (9), Ice (7), and Fire, Water, and Nature (6 each). Only 1 Earth and 1 Lightning dragon joined the clan. This is partially representative of adoption thread regulars.

Common (29, 45.3%) accounted for the most eye types.

Total color stats reveal an unsurprising preference for Banana and Grapefruit. The other yellows Buttercup and Flaxen as well as Cyan were also frequent occurrences. A tier below were Rose, Bubblegum, Saffron, Sunset, Metals, Ivory, Cerulean, and Radioactive. Unexpected were Caribbean and Sanddollar sitting at only two and one, respectively.

Primary colors had Banana taking the lead by a mile, followed by Buttercup, Saffron, and Cerulean.

Bubblegum and Metals were the most common secondary colors, closely followed by Banana and Grapefruit, and then an even spread of blues, yellows and oranges, and pinks.

Tertiary colors were dominated by yellows, with Grapefruit at the top, then Banana, and then Gold, Ivory, and Flaxen. This comes as a surprise to me. An analysis of the color ranges reveals that yellows accounted for more than one third of all tertiary colors and, together with oranges, made up half of them. Blues sat at 14.3% and pinks at 6.3%.

6 dragons were XXYs, 3 XYXs, 2 XYYs, and 2 XXXs (Cerulean and Radioactive).

The most common primary gene was Wasp (7), followed by Harlequin (6), Chrysocolla and Crystal (5 each; the 5 Basic are ungened projects), and Flaunt and Iridescent (4 each).

BEES (10), followed by Facet and Flair (6 each), Constellation (5), and... Shimmer (4)? I was expecting a lot more Trail, Saddle, and Jester.

Runes (9) took the lead over Koi (8), followed by Soap (7) and Flecks (6). Opal and Smoke sat at 4 each.

Clan Statistics

As of December 31, 2025, I have:

179 permanent dragons;

18 oldies (dragons aged three years or older),

38 dragons older than my account,

Makara (9 years) as the oldest dragon,

14 dragons that were offspring of my dragons,

no completed lore, but fragments,

13 G1s,

88 M and 91 F poses.

Breed distribution:

(note that two M Guardians and 1 F Nocturne are G1s likely to get breed-changed)

Elements:

50 Light

20 Nature

17 Shadow, 17 Wind

15 Ice, 15 Fire

14 Arcane

10 Water, 10 Plague

7 Lightning

4 Earth

Eye types:

73 Common

43 Uncommon

26 Unusual

18 Rare

8 Pastel

5 Faded

3 Dark

2 Primal

1 Bright

0 Goat, Faceted, Multi-Gaze, Button, Glowing, Swirl, Innocent, Dark Sclera

Color patterns:

132 XYZ

24 XXY

10 XXX

8 XYY

3 XYX

Color ranges:

Most common colors

primary and tertiary: Banana (10 each)

secondary: Rose (9)

total colors:

Banana (27)

Grapefruit (23)

Cyan (22)

Most common primary genes:

Flaunt (23)

Wasp (13)

Iridescent (11)

Poison, Crystal (10)

Most common secondary genes:

Flair (27)

Bee (21)

Toxin, Constellation, Shimmer (11)

Trail, Facet (10)

Most common tertiary genes:

Koi (18)

Runes (17)

Opal (16)

(yes, i am using this as means of procrastination instead of actually writing)

(for all intents and purposes many of these are JOKES)

(also if there's any factual inaccuracies errr too bad)

cato the elder hates fun and happiness

the original (known) roman translation of the odyssey was called the odyssia/odyssea

roman authors liked to live with each other

the "og" aeneid (not actually) was called annales, written by quintus ennius

these guys really liked dramatics

marcus pacuvius has a loooooooooooot of surviving lines

if i have to memorize any more of this i will lose my mind

gnaeus naevius wrote the first entirely-roman (non greek-inspired) epic

David Rowe

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Nihil deorum honoribus relictum, cum se templis et effigie numinum per flamines et sacerdotes coli vellet. Ne Tiberium quidem caritate aut rei publicae cura successorem adscitum, sed quoniam adrogantiam sævitiamque eius introspexerit, comparatione deterrima sibi gloriam quæsivisse. Etenim Augustus paucis ante annis, cum Tiberio tribuniciam potestatem a patribus rursum postularet, quamquam honora oratione, quædam de habitu cultuque et institutis eius iecerat quæ velut excusando exprobraret. ceterum sepultura more perfecta templum et cælestes religiones decernuntur.

No honor was left for the gods, when Augustus chose to be himself worshipped with temples and statues, like those of the deities, and with flamens and priests. He had not even adopted Tiberius as his successor out of affection or any regard to the State, but, having thoroughly seen his arrogant and savage temper, he had sought glory for himself by a contrast of extreme wickedness. For, in fact, Augustus, a few years before, when he was a second time asking from the Senate the tribunitian power for Tiberius, though his speech was complimentary, had thrown out certain hints as to his manners, style, and habits of life, which he meant as reproaches, while he seemed to excuse. However, when his obsequies had been duly performed, a temple with a religious ritual was decreed him.

Acte to Nero: 

[ neque adfectui suo aut alieno obnoxia, unde utilitas ostenderetur, illuc libidinem transferebat. ]

Ennius, Annales XII, ll. 360-62 Warmington (=Cicero, de Officiis I.24.84) One person saved the public weal by delaying. He did not put idle talk ahead of safety, And thanks to this the glory of the man Shines even now, and greater than before. Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem. Noenum rumores ponebat ante salutem; ergo postque magisque viri nunc gloria claret.