Crosswind Clan

Syrrinx likes dragons. Wind dragons. lair # 27959

[splendid-fr]

ok but a pearlcatcher purposely breaking/tossing its pearl in order to cut away from it’s old life to start anew

like the symbolism in cutting off your own hair to cut away from an unsavory past

AAAA

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hello I am not dead (i just recently started playing again)

And I hatched these siblings who are lovely and come from lore dragons in my lair even if I don’t have descriptions, I’m so sorry. And I tried to sell them on the AH but each time I listed them, I took them down, because they’re so pretty and they’re pretty together and I didn’t know whether I was gonna keep them or not. But having sat on ‘em for a while, I don’t really have lair space for two related beebs in this color range! But I can’t list them on the AH because it makes me sad to think of them going anywhere and getting separated.

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bluhh I hatched this triple mulberry beeb, do I want to sell him or keep him

THE STRUGGLE

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YEEESSSSS

thank u thisispirateclan <3

[thisispirateclan]

syrrinx said: HNNGGG I AM VERY JEALOUS. I -am- a familiar collector. How much do you want for it? >_>

UMMM they seem to go for between 800k-1milT, so around that mark?

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Would you do combo gems/treasure? And what conversion rate? I must have the thing. 8|

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Zenith also got a fancy update! That accent was perfect for her agghh

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Aureus got apparel. Momma's precious Hannibal flower crown corpseworm lab assistant bby

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As promised, my other favorite set in the lair~

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Feeling the need to parade some of my prettiest dragons today :> Also gonna make a post for my most aesthetically pleasing (but not "pretty") dragons in a little bit.

In the meantime, I showed you mine; now you show me yours 8]

[clansyrinx]

Silence

Silence chose her own name, and most in the lair think it very appropriate. After all, she rarely speaks; when she does it is in a quiet voice. She is frugal with her words, treating them like precious things.

They do not realize that Silence chose her name as something of a joke.

She looks at the others and envies them, sometimes. They can be alone with their thoughts. There can be quiet and peace within their minds. Her mind is anything but silent - she hears every thought, every image that passes through a dragon’s mind. It makes conversations hard, as she must parse what is being said and what is being thought, teasing the two threads apart as they wind together.

She makes mistakes, sometimes, responds to something said not-aloud. None have yet guessed the secret, and think just that she is acutely perceptive.

Not even at night is she free from the noise - she dreams their dreams. She has considered leaving the lair and taking up the life of an itinerant wanderer or reclusive hermit, but she thinks it would get too lonely. She focuses instead on mastering her ability, in the hope that one day she will be able to “turn it off”.

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Taiga & Arinna 

It takes Zenith quite a while to orchestrate the lovely pair. She finds each on her own time, carefully selecting for color aesthetic and talents, secure in the knowledge that Hadal can work his art on the rest to bring it into line with her vision. She wants them to have a love of music; to be soft-spoken, but to play beautifully. She has a vibrant dream of setting them up at exhibitions, paired cleanly across from one another and providing the kind of elegant background music that's easy to ignore but artistically valid if one chooses to pay attention. And in time, she finds her candidates.

She chooses Taiga first -- he's exactly what she wants as a raw material, and after several weeks in Hadal's lab, he is truly perfect. She showers him in lush adornments to fine-tune her vision. She carefully selects musicians from Crosswind and beyond to guide him and give lessons.

For long months, he absorbs his purpose. Validated, pampered, but alone; told so repeatedly of his place as half of a future whole that it works itself into each fiber of who he is. Like so many Crosswinds, Taiga's identity becomes Zenith's vision.

And then Zenith finds Arinna.

There's certainly something to be said for the Curator -- though she treats sentient beings as nothing more than objects, her taste in objects is truly impeccable. Certainly there were other quiet, beautiful, musically-inclined dragons she could have chosen before now. Dozens, hundreds even -- but Arinna is perfect. Tarquin negotiates with the home lair, and they sweep her into Hadal's lab.

Taiga is the first dragon she is introduced to once the geneticist has done his work. Taiga is the only source of music education. Taiga -- unwittingly, but according to Zenith's plan -- is the only source of her reprogramming. They learn together, grow together, recover together; they are bound by shared experience, shared purpose... and by the Curator's relentless vision. They trust each other implicitly. They speak freely to each other, but are quiet in the presence of the rest of the clan.

They are two halves of a whole.

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MASSIVE sales post! Dragons from 45-285 gems!

Hey guys! I have so many dragons. Soooooooooo many dragons. And I also need a big ol' pile of gems for a breeding project I'm trying to make happen! So check it out: all these dragon are for sale. All 24 of them. There's a wildclaw that looks like she is the embodiment of every Goosebumps book cover. There's a rusty-scrapyard female imperial. There's a gold-spattered angel of a skydancer. And there are three magnificent sorta sorcerers-and-graveyard-mist-looking imp siblings up for grabs.

Each dragon's gem price is set fair-to-low, so I'm not looking to haggle, and while treasure and trades are great, I REALLY need the gems! If you desperately require a particular dragon but don't have the funds, drop me a line and I will hold it. Otherwise, to buy them, check out pages five, six and seven of my lair. Crossroads to Syrrinx or buy them straight from the page, whichever is easiest for you! And thanks for looking. :>

[oilslickmires]

"Imperials were Light’s first children, an amalgamation of bone, blood, and the shed essence of the Lightweaver - excavated from ancient battle sites of the First Age.”

My headcanon is that Emperors form because all these bits and essences made of Lightweaver are trying to unify again. To be Lightweaver again.

They are mindless and mad because they were lost during battle. They are pieces of injury trying to heal. To become whole again. But all they know is fighting. Mad little scraps of a god.

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Some dumb dergs are for sale on page 5 of my lair (and one on page 6)! As always, I accept gems and combinations of gems/treasure. No payment plans, but I will always hold a dragon if you need to save up. :]

[thisispirateclan]

Grey had always loathed that Fae. The creature seemed to have turned up from no where, found wandering alone on the ice one night, with no explanation save for a crudely scrawled note tied to her ankle. She had had no voice, no magic or power, and yet Lothak had doted over this one, Our Terrible Lady had done everything in her power to ensure that this pathetic, nameless little mute had thrived, had become more.

And then what? As far as Grey could tell the creature had just been left to wander the clan camp as she pleased, allowed (and this was what truly sickened Grey) to drift from the very edges of the camp to the inner circle, the place where only those with trust and power may tread. Oh gods only know what kind of treacherous ideas those outlanders could have been planting in her tiny skull, for The Priestess had seen the little wretch loitering around with the worst of them; Conray - that crafty old magician, Boneshaker - who’s lust for power was well known by the clan, Riddle.

So, it came of a surprise when Grey’s usual look of scorn was replaced by a confused kind of shock, when the dumb little creature passed her by this time. The wretch had been changed once more, and rather than soft wing beats, her coming was heralded by the click-clack of claws on ice, and a knowing glance was thrown The Priestess’ way.

"They say her name is Halphia."

It was Aether who had spoken, the little Skydancer who was looking more savage than princess by the day, and had slunk up beside Grey without her seeing.

Halphia, is it? The Priestess would keep a far more careful eye on this one from now on.

[fenixofthedark]

PLOT PLOT PLOT - staring Ismael, Ishtar and Circe.

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“Sleep.” She whispered into the imperial’s ear, eyes almost glowing and voice soft as Kilysa’s, though it lacked the purity and essence that would one day be a reckoning force if Kilysa choose. This voice was sick, twisted. Impure and...

[starfallisles]

Plot time!

Meilinoe is over here like

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holy shit Ruth Wilson as Meilinoe is terrifying perfect

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