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mewrising · 2 years

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Some orange dragons for orange day!

Lore tidbits included under the cut :D

Top Row: Tau'riel // Whiskey // Sere

Tau'riel is Thunder Hollow's hot-headed fire representative. She was abducted by manticores as a young hatchling but ultimately found herself leading a revolution to overthrow the manticore leaders who abducted her by the time she matured. She and her loyal followers eventually fled to Thunder Hollow as other manticore groups took issue with a dragon-led manticore pride, and Tau'riel ultimately found herself a Council liaison both to her manticore allies and the clan's handful of fire dragons.

Whiskey is one of the dragons who watches the clan's clifftop border. He helps passerby find aid and rest in Thunder Hollow, which isn't always evident to dragons flying over the Cliffs.

Sere is...well, I don't know what he is yet. I only just finished gening him but I've been looking for a good opportunity to share him because he's just so pretty! Probably my favorite completed G1 project to date :D

Middle Row: Sparks // Quilava // Briar // Yuroja

Sparks' lore has been revamped a few times because the projects he's been connected with have fallen through, but, as of now, he's a vulcanologist researching volcanic activity in the Ashfall Wastes on Thunder Hollow's behalf. The apparel edit he's wearing in the picture was done by Rinny!

Quilava is my favorite fandragon and Thunder Hollow's lead metalsmith. She mostly works on small forged items and trinkets, but she has helped fill some industrial orders on occasion. She is a very bubbly dragon who doesn't seem to speak a word of draconic OR coatl, and she is well-known for her generosity and willingness to help.

Briar is the receptionist and record keeper for Sunder's Inn. She's a kind and quiet soul who is very passionate about animals and their husbandry. Her personal lair is more of a menagerie than anything, and she often brings some of her more well-behaved companions to work with her!

Yuroja is Thunder Hollow's mysterious lamp-lighter and resident storyteller. Dragons from all across the clan often take time from their nights to stop by her bonfire and listen to the stories she spins under the light of the moon. Some rumor that her stories were once inspired by prophecies from the Tidelord (she's a water dragon beneath all that apparel, believe it or not)...

Bottom Row: Arakiba // Ainsly // Kite

Arakiba (or Kiba as she is better known) is a resident of Thunder Hollow without a lot of lore as yet. When she was a hatchling, she swallowed a fire runestone that imbued her with uncontrollable fire magic. Coming to live in Thunder Hollow has helped reduce the extent of this affliction, but she still seeks a genuine cure--or at least a solution that will give her some control.

Ainsly is a mechanic who works at the Waystation, a small enterprise in the Lightning Farm that is designed to provide shelter and skill training for exaltation to those who need it.

Kite was one of Thunder Hollow's earliest members. She gave her life to save dozens of others who were ambushed by the Shade in the clan's settlement days. She has since returned as a ghost that protects the location where she died--a place that has since become a thriving town in the midst of Thunder Hollow's Great Forest.

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mewrising · 3 years

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Autumn dragon share????? Epic.

Ornge. Silly lore tidbits under the cut!

Top Left: Tau'riel. She's my clan's feral Fire representative and inexplicably the queen of a local manticore colony (it's a long story...)

Top Middle: Briar. The animal-loving receptionist at the clan's inn. She brings her pets to work every day and drinks too much coffee :)

Top Right: Elm. Herbal healer. Hippie. Works at the clan's clinic and helps with the creation of herbal remedies for everyday aches and pains.

Middle Left: Yuroja. The clan's eerie lamplighter. Tells stories around the huge bonfire that burns 24/7 outside her house if you stop by after dark. Some say her stories used to contain prophecies back before the Tidelord went to go get milk.

Middle Middle (heh): August. Tall nerd. Works on the farm for some reason. Collects obscure board game memorabilia and presumably uses his fieldworker wages to buy more.

Middle Right: Hika. Brickmason. Maker of mosaics. Rough and tumble kind of dragon whose idea of building immunity is eating dirt.

Bottom Left: Kite. She's a ghost now because she sacrificed herself to save her friends back when the clan was just getting off the ground. She protects the town that has sprung up in the abandoned quarry where she died.

Bottom Middle: Ayshe. Exuberant herpetologist who does her research in a tiny little laboratory miles away from all but the most isolated and rural pockets of civilization. Uncovered a Veilspun in torpor one day and thought she made the herpetological discovery of a lifetime. Now that Veilspun is mind-controlling her to undo her research and prevent the "discovery" of the Veilspun species.

Bottom Right: Kyou. Member of the Kitsune subspecies and holder of very little lore.

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mewrising · 3 years

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Mirror monday dragon share part 1/???

Heck yes!!

Row 1: Tenebris & Tau’riel. I’ve shared both of these before, but I’m gonna share them again dangit! Tenebris is Thunder Hollow’s gruff Plague representative as well as its premier seamster. He works at his wife’s apparel store! Tau’riel is a fire representative first and foremost but she also leads one of the manticore groups that settled in Thunder Hollow (it’s a long story...)

Row 2: Viridis & Chloris. Viridis is an excellent chef who works at Thunder Hollow’s local inn to provide food to travelers (though clanmembers can enjoy her cuisine as well, of course)! Chloris is actually her hyperactive little sister, and she helps keep Thunder Hollow’s gardens in tip-top shape.

Row 3: Farosh & Soot. Farosh is the co-manager of Thunder Hollow’s familiar stables! She’s a bit of an oddball, but her business partner, a serthis named Hylla, is very professional helps balance out her peculiarities. Soot is neither an artisan nor an official employee of Thunder Hollow, but she offers a great deal of time to the Hollow Guard as a volunteer. She possesses an incredible degree of magical power but cannot control it no matter how hard she tries. A Thunder Hollow local managed to enchant an amulet for her that captures any magic “runoff”, though this means that she cannot use her magic whatsoever unless she risks destroying the amulet. The captured magic is released at the end of each year to form a sort of “artifical winter” over Thunder Hollow--complete with snow!

Row 4: Haemoglobin & Jay. Haemoglobin is a surgeon and transfusion specialist with a bit of vampiric heritage, though she’s not a complete vampire herself. Jay is a construction expert and amateur detective!

#flight rising #fr #dragon share #d: Tenebris #d: Tau'riel #d: Viridis #d: Chloris #d: Farosh #d: Soot #d: Haemoglobin #d: Jay

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mewrising · 3 years

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Ooh, and here’s one for Tau’riel! Total revamp for her, but a much needed one :D

I love how the black ties in with everything! And she gets to have a royal scepter now too :o

#d: Tau'riel #I'm just gonna keep going #it's a blast!

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mewrising · 3 years

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I'd really like to know ⚔️!

I have not had a shred of free time over the past few days, so this is getting answered way late! Sorry about that, and thank you so much for asking :D

⚔️How do they get along with beastclans? Is there tension even if they get along well?

Thunder Hollow's entire purpose is to be a haven for whoever needs it. Dragon or beast, if someone's looking for shelter, Thunder Hollow has it. As long as they're willing to swear their Oath, which is a binding agreement to uphold the clan's peaceful tenets, they are more than welcome to stay. Many beastclan groups have taken advantage of this policy over the years, and the clan's population consists roughly 50-50 between dragons and beasts.

The reason why Thunder Hollow's metaphorical arms are so open to beastclans is actually quite interesting! Storm, the clan's founder, grew up in an incredibly harmful environment. The dragons who raised her constantly belittled her and convinced her for many years that she owed them her eternal loyalty and service for the very act of incubating her egg. Because she grew such a strong loathing for them, everything they ever spoke in her presence was called into question when she finally escaped. They had strong opinions about the "Beastclan Scourge," opinions which Storm was very ready to doubt when she finally set out on her own. Through her own life experiences, she discovered that, like dragons, beastclans are a mixed group containing good, bad, and everything in between. When she ultimately wound up founding her own clan to offer solace to those who, like her young self, desperately needed it, she wanted that solace to be open to beastclans, too.

Though the clan is founded on peace, tension certainly still exists--particularly between beastclan residents and unacquainted visitors. Those who pass through the clan for travel and trade reasons aren't bound by the Oath, so a beastclan out in the city might face harassment--or worse. The clan's guardsdragons, and even its ordinary residents, do their best to intervene in such cases, but the occasional conflict remains and unfortunate fact of existence. Those dragons caught in the act are promptly ushered on their way, and shops will refuse them service if they stubbornly attempt to stay. As Thunder Hollow's reputation has grown, so too has the average visitor's knowledge of its beastclan residents and the clan's view on those who disturb them. This has lead to a downtrend in harassment, but those who are particularly hateful towards beastclan groups have occasionally schemed to target the clan in particular.

Some tension occasionally crops up between new clanmembers and their beastclan neighbors, particularly when a new clanmember is actively fleeing battles in which beastclans were involved. However, as long as they keep to their Oath and continue coexisting peacefully, these tensions are quickly ironed out.

For funzies, I decided I'd summarize a few of the beastclan groups who have concrete lore in Thunder Hollow! I know that's not part of the prompt but I felt like rambling :D

Ferngully is a Longneck-established monastery in one of the narrow ravines that tunnel into the Cliffs. Its tenets are peace and a life of minimalism, so Thunder Hollow is an ideal place for it to exist.

The Village of the Beastkin is a central beastclan village that is located a few miles away from the main city. It was founded by the first major beastclan group to settle in the clan, which largely consisted of Centaurs. It used to be the main hub of beastclan commerce, but, now that beastclans feel more and more at ease to move through the main city, it is mostly just a neighborhood where beastfolk who don't have any group affiliations tend to settle.

Scorpion Island is an island off the coast of Thunder Hollow territory where the first group of Manticores to join Thunder Hollow settled. It is semi-independent and ruled by the adopted daughter of the clan's fire representative, Tau'riel--who, through incredibly peculiar circumstances, was the initial ruler of the group despite being a dragon.

Spirespan is a large Serthis village founded by a group of young Serthis who feared the eventual return of their parent generation and the bloodshed it would cause. They decided to flee their ancestral home and find a peaceful place to focus on the incredible technological and alchemical advancements of the Serthis species. Spirespan ended up being that place, and it continues to be a haven for those few Serthis who shy from their species' tradition. It is located in a coastal area of Thunder Hollow known as the Sticks, which consists of several tall spires of stone that rise up from the ocean along the edge of the Cliff. Its upper areas are quite arid thanks to the nearby Shifting Expanse--perfect weather conditions for a Serthis! Their village consists of homes that are drilled into the rock and connected by aerial platforms and bridges.

Eventide Island is a small island very close to the shore of Thunder Hollow. Historically, it was governed by an advanced tribe of Aviar; however, because it escaped the leyline shattering that befell the rest of Thunder Hollow's territory, it was eventually ransacked, pillaged, and intermittently settled by passing dragons. However, the angry spirit of one of its mages awoke and began to curse any passerby. After years of the clan's founders enduring curse shenanigans whenever they explored the island, descendants of the original Aviar group from the island finally approached and were curious about returning to their ancestral home--even despite the warnings about the curse. The moment the first one set foot on the island, the curse was lifted and the spirit was appeased. The descendants have since been hard at work discovering remnants of their culture and reestablishing their society under the protection of the resident spirit.

I have even more scattered ideas about other groups, but I haven't really solidified them!

#thank you so much again for the ask! I had so much fun with this :D #flight rising #fr #lore

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