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Just some Lore - Gemstone Dragons
3 years ago
Welcome to my cave! Please, sit down and enjoy something hot or cold while I tell you something....
So my derg, had him and will forever, for a long long time, and over that time I've tinkered with his species of dragon.
I am no literary genius, but I wanna write down the basics.
More will be added or removed or altered when I feel a change is needed or I want to incorporate.
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Razuel Dracon, Prince of the Shrouded Isles.
Razuel is a Gemstone Dragon, that being a subspecies of dragons granted a power via a type of symbiote bestowed upon a mischievous god whom took pity on the runts of a continent.
Puritan, the society they originally fled from (the meaning of the word, not the name of said society), the watchful god led them into a drifting fog out at sea where pursuers would lose their way, crashing amongst pillars of crystals, stones, and crude metal. Eventually led to rest at an isle suitable for the blighted.
It'd be many years until Raz would be born in a hail of crystal explosions and destroying walls of the nursery, as is the unbridled power of the blighted young, princed and raised by two loving parents, the youngest of many already in line for important roles.
As Raz grew he'd learn about the history of his type, how upon reaching the isle, the god whom led them greeted them, and the more hot headed brought the ire of their secret savior. Many of the others tried to stop those loose-headed, but it was too late. Feeling the blessed had betrayed them, this god cursed those whom were blessed with rivaling power with a coin-flip, as was the nature of this being.
When the young brush the eldest age, a celestial coin shall flip; Be granted power with clear of mind, or be cursed with greed-filled insanity and power to sink continents.
Raz's teachers did tell him they learned the consequences of this when one of their enemies turned ally were found to no longer be where they were, finding nothing but craters, leveled mountains, and a single coloured crystaline statue, at which inside could still hear the growls of the trapped beast.
As is with all young who are told this woe, they are comforted by the great crystal golem protector, the immortal first King of the Isles, trainer of the army who stay prepared should their spiteful god lower the shroud to those who still desire their destruction.
A few inquisitive young do ask, 'what if an elder whom lives in the isles loses the toss?', the teachers state that the elders who are not fit for a pilgrimage of isolation, to lands where they can't hurt others, are then housed at a shrine in the fog.
The interesting thing about the fog is it's a macguffin, those who wish harm will stay forever lost, those with clean intent will always find their way through, even if it takes some navigating.
Some time later in Raz's life, he's taught sex-ed, the gryphs and the faes. But the more inquisitive ask about the blight. The teachers will state that those of their kind can reproduce, but it is encouraged that they do it with others off the island. While the blight they have is useful and keeps runts safe, the coinflip is just far too dangerous to not dissuade the young... that and inbreeding, since the island is otherwise isolated.
They finish by stating, the blight cannot be passed onto partners or offspring whom do not already share the same blight, ie not contagious.
On his own, Raz visits the librarians to learn more, and that he does. The symbiote is itself an expansive brain which can store many a magical formula to use its rechargable energy to inflict on the host, ie each can be cast upon a spell and while affecting the host, the gem will internalize and synthesize it into be focused out as its own brand of magical energy.
Bands of the Isle often tour outside the islands in friendly lands where they focus their energy for impressive lightshows and zapping plinths of stone to make musical zaps!
[Onto current Raz]
Currently, so I can shoehorn Raz into any situation, at an adult age, he was given the last job on the docket, Envoy. To represent his kind and offer refuge on the isles to any he finds in need, even if temporary.
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Yeah, late night thinking, wanted to get this down.
Again, I am no literary genius, I just do the art stuff, me no have good brians for typey type... but feel free to ask
side thing, I did come up with the gem in dragon thing, at least this take on it, before SU was a thing publically... never had anyone suggest the similarities, but the Gem in body is as far as similarities go.
I am no literary genius, but I wanna write down the basics.
More will be added or removed or altered when I feel a change is needed or I want to incorporate.
===================================
Razuel Dracon, Prince of the Shrouded Isles.
Razuel is a Gemstone Dragon, that being a subspecies of dragons granted a power via a type of symbiote bestowed upon a mischievous god whom took pity on the runts of a continent.
Puritan, the society they originally fled from (the meaning of the word, not the name of said society), the watchful god led them into a drifting fog out at sea where pursuers would lose their way, crashing amongst pillars of crystals, stones, and crude metal. Eventually led to rest at an isle suitable for the blighted.
It'd be many years until Raz would be born in a hail of crystal explosions and destroying walls of the nursery, as is the unbridled power of the blighted young, princed and raised by two loving parents, the youngest of many already in line for important roles.
As Raz grew he'd learn about the history of his type, how upon reaching the isle, the god whom led them greeted them, and the more hot headed brought the ire of their secret savior. Many of the others tried to stop those loose-headed, but it was too late. Feeling the blessed had betrayed them, this god cursed those whom were blessed with rivaling power with a coin-flip, as was the nature of this being.
When the young brush the eldest age, a celestial coin shall flip; Be granted power with clear of mind, or be cursed with greed-filled insanity and power to sink continents.
Raz's teachers did tell him they learned the consequences of this when one of their enemies turned ally were found to no longer be where they were, finding nothing but craters, leveled mountains, and a single coloured crystaline statue, at which inside could still hear the growls of the trapped beast.
As is with all young who are told this woe, they are comforted by the great crystal golem protector, the immortal first King of the Isles, trainer of the army who stay prepared should their spiteful god lower the shroud to those who still desire their destruction.
A few inquisitive young do ask, 'what if an elder whom lives in the isles loses the toss?', the teachers state that the elders who are not fit for a pilgrimage of isolation, to lands where they can't hurt others, are then housed at a shrine in the fog.
The interesting thing about the fog is it's a macguffin, those who wish harm will stay forever lost, those with clean intent will always find their way through, even if it takes some navigating.
Some time later in Raz's life, he's taught sex-ed, the gryphs and the faes. But the more inquisitive ask about the blight. The teachers will state that those of their kind can reproduce, but it is encouraged that they do it with others off the island. While the blight they have is useful and keeps runts safe, the coinflip is just far too dangerous to not dissuade the young... that and inbreeding, since the island is otherwise isolated.
They finish by stating, the blight cannot be passed onto partners or offspring whom do not already share the same blight, ie not contagious.
On his own, Raz visits the librarians to learn more, and that he does. The symbiote is itself an expansive brain which can store many a magical formula to use its rechargable energy to inflict on the host, ie each can be cast upon a spell and while affecting the host, the gem will internalize and synthesize it into be focused out as its own brand of magical energy.
Bands of the Isle often tour outside the islands in friendly lands where they focus their energy for impressive lightshows and zapping plinths of stone to make musical zaps!
[Onto current Raz]
Currently, so I can shoehorn Raz into any situation, at an adult age, he was given the last job on the docket, Envoy. To represent his kind and offer refuge on the isles to any he finds in need, even if temporary.
=========
Yeah, late night thinking, wanted to get this down.
Again, I am no literary genius, I just do the art stuff, me no have good brians for typey type... but feel free to ask
side thing, I did come up with the gem in dragon thing, at least this take on it, before SU was a thing publically... never had anyone suggest the similarities, but the Gem in body is as far as similarities go.
