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Name: Caelum Species: Dragon Age: Adult Pronouns: he/him Element: Earth (specializes in Wind)

Backstory:

Caelum is a mysterious Earth dragon with a very positive reputation. He travels frequently, and is known across the lands for his charming and generous personality. Some creatures even decide to leave their homes and travel with him, even if for a short time. However, despite how fondly creatures will speak of him, no one knows where he came from or who he is beyond his kind gestures.

Trivia:

His parents were masters of the Earth element, and taught him everything they knew.

Specializing in the Wind secondary of his Earth element enables him to manipulate gusts of wind in order to fly very fast. This allows him to travel great distances in a very short amount of time.

just like with spyro, this design isn't necessarily final, and still has some changes to go through! in particular i'm going to be changing the color of the crystal she has, and possibly the collar she's carrying it with too.

cynder's design changed a LOT over the course of the three TLoS games, and within each individual game itself there are differences in her in-game vs. FMV models. however, i personally much prefer her look in TEN compared to anything else. i love the little white marking she has at the top of her underbelly, it adds such a nice flair to her design. her more dinosaur-like posture makes her really stand out compared to the other dragons too; i get the sense that her design was based heavily on a styracosaurus, especially with the way her head and snout are. so i decided to go more in that direction!

i know that she has these kind of spur-like claws coming out of her legs originally, but i kinda wanted to change it to giving her an extra toe on the back of each foot. she's got grabby hands! and it feels more bird-like to me, which connects back to the dinosaur stuff i was talking about. also, i brought back the tears in her wings from her corrupted form.

for her colors: cynder was originally intended to breathe green fire in ANB, but this was changed to bright red when they decided to make green terrador's main color. HOWEVER, in TEN, the villains are strongly tied to the colors green and purple - the mountain of malefor as a whole is swathed in both colors! honestly, i've always found the idea of her having green fire to be way cooler than the red they went with, so i brought it back!

as for the purple... in TLoFaI, instead of being corrupted, cynder's egg is enchanted with the spirit element, letting her use time (basically dragon time from TEN) but not magma (so no fireballs for her). although i don't have any rules in the AU saying that a creature's element color HAS to be on their design, i wanted it to be prominent on her because her being used as a weapon is a huge part of her character arc, and in the AU, is the entire reason her egg was enchanted. i'll be making something on how enchantment works... eventually. the element wheel has a brief explanation, though:

it's been a while since i've publicly posted about this AU! over the past few months i've been trying to pin down how i want the major characters to look, and so i've been working on their designs and finding out what i like and don't like. of course spyro is a big priority in that, and a character that's been quite tricky to pin down.

recently i've made a big breakthrough, and this is what i've come up with! this is only a first rough pass at what i've decided on for him, so i still might adjust or change some things in the future. when he gets a more finished ref, it'll probably be in a similar style to what i've made for voltz, and will include a lengthy written bio with backstory and other such info :> but i figured i'd document the first major step in his development!

the elemental orbs on the right show the colors his elements will be, though they're not going to be those EXACT shades in the final and are probably the thing that will change the most. some of the shades are way too similar, so when you grayscale them, they blend in. i'm planning on having the elements be visually very different from each other, but still, i don't want him to use multiple elements in quick succession in a piece and have them all become mush!

More TLoFaI: https://www.deviantart.com/polarpace/gallery/86685877/tlofai