#augh this is not my best writing but w/e it gets my points across

[dissentersrising]

18, 19, 38??? Please???

18. an affection lost to time

Jackdaw and Azide.

Met online, bonded over shared fandoms, and then just... slowly fell out of touch. That's about all there is. Nothing really happened, they just slowly drifted apart, as friendships sometimes do.

Both of them think about the other sometimes, but Jackdaw's a little busy with his current obligations (also known as NOT DYING, because he's somehow found himself in what is essentially a noir detective film) and Azide's a little too nervous to reach back out. Interestingly, Jackdaw's still in contact with another dragon (Shax) from the same city Azide lives in, but that's about it.

And no none of them have ever met face-to-face it's fine

19. a character with taboo magic

eeby jeeby

Jebediah Christoff, the problems and issues man. You see that halo he has? Yeah? Yeah it harnesses the Shade.

(IMPORTANT NOTE: the Shade in this lore is NOT extraterrestrial nor is it an evil force. It is just a counterbalance to magic and actually vital to Sornieth's magical ecology, as it 'cleans' magic and allows it to be re-programmed.)

He stole it from his old company that was experimenting with the Shade's ability to both consume and mimic magic. If properly controlled, they (correctly) surmised, it could rewrite reality (not reality per se but close enough).

How does that work? Magic underlies the world and informs certain natural laws. Certain types of magic also have certain properties that cannot be changed i.e. fire magic being associated with heat. As a result, though magic is programmable, you can't really change the underlying properties that much. The Shade only mimics magic though so you can basically give it any properties you wish. If you then replace the magic in an area with this Shade, well... you can basically rewrite whatever natural laws you want.

It's more complicated than that, but that's the short of it.

Also, while there is Shade in the leylines, that Shade is being "cushioned" from affecting reality by the magic that keeps cycling through said leylines. It is also too busy cleansing said magic (that's its 'purpose' there, inasmuch as natural balances have purposes).

The halo (proper name keystone fragment, but that's a mouthful) was the first real field trial of controllable Shade, and then Christoff went and disagreed, stabbed his boss, stole the halo, and ran off.

38. your clan's most joyous moment in history

Hard question to answer, there's no singular best moment for most of my lore locations.

Anyways, you didn't specify a location so I'll pick one that does have a defined moment: Lemegeton Inn; the first time a dragon returned to visit again.

Mocha's pretty heavy on the belief that if everyone were just nice wherever they could spare to be, the world would improve a lot real quickly. So she runs her inn and rest stop and really doesn't expect any thanks.

But look. Knowing she's doing a little better in the world and having actual definitive feedback are slightly different things. So when this one aether, pale blue and yellow like the sunrise sky, comes winging back in her door and tells her he remembered? Strikes up a little conversation and thanks her for the coffee and the rest stop in this middle of this route?

Yeah. That means a lot.

#flight rising #/usr/textpostin' #/etc/lore time #/etc/asks #augh this is not my best writing but w/e it gets my points across