sentimentality draconified

Frauzis (#45198), hiya~ This place contains rambles and reblogs. Clan lore and related writing gets reblogged on my sideblog, clanfirnice, for tagging / organisational purposes.

[lavvythejackalope]

A quick lil headshot of one of my newest NotN babies on Flight Rising, Patroclus! He is a ghost and also a robot :3

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Which Flight Rising Deity is the Most Fuckable?

The Arcanist

The Earthshaker

The Flamecaller

The Icewarden

The Lightweaver

The Stormcatcher

The Gladekeeper

The Plaguebringer

The Shadowbinder

The Tidelord

The Windsinger

Voting ended onFeb 11

[flightdescending]

its rambles #3 except i dont feel like i got good rambles in me rn oh well here we go

Nemo is a dream scholar and adventurer, known as a "Sleepwalker". He explores the dream realm for his own research and curiosity, but also professionally. A Lot of information can be gleaned by the exploration of a person's subconscious -- helpful in memory recall, psychotherapy, and prophecy -- and on Sornieth, which is completely saturated with magic, that subconscious actually does create a physical plane that can be explored. Dreams are temporary, fragmented planes, held together in a vast and hazy extraplanar network, and they are haunted by at least three distinct entities that Nemo must deal with almost every time he enters the realm: Mimsy, the avatar of good dreams and restful slumber; Bleak, the avatar of nightmare and insomnia; and Hocus, the avatar of surrealism and silliness. They appear to him as dragons usually, although of course they can be anything. Nemo is not entirely sure about whether or not they are able to get out onto the material plane, but he suspects that they can. Especially Hocus. It's very possible, however, that it's the very act of exploring Dream that has created these entities and the dangers of the realm. Some argue that this kind of tampering is what led to the downfall of the Second Age civilization, and "sleepwalking" is generally seen as needlessly reckless (not to mention invasive).

[frfrauzis]

[bursting from the earth of this graveyard blog] you ever get incredibly homesick for dragons

oh god there's so many breeds and genes now. oh god multi-gaze is SCROLL you can BUY in the MARKETPLACE now.

[frfrauzis]

something very funny about the things i've just left cooking for the past 7 years

[frfrauzis]

[bursting from the earth of this graveyard blog] you ever get incredibly homesick for dragons

oh god there's so many breeds and genes now. oh god multi-gaze is SCROLL you can BUY in the MARKETPLACE now.

[frfrauzis]

I’m more-or-less gone from FR these days, but I did occasionally remember to gather/swap for chests, so here’s a token effort at continuing my self-established #notn-loot tradition:

(bold for new stuff)

something old, I forget, I think a Conjurer’s Cloak?

Pinpush Mirror Doll

Haunting Amber Ghastcrown

Conjurer’s Cloak

Kyorinrin

Veiled Vision

Four-Eyed Phylactery

Serthis Support

Vulpine Lamp

Total chest count: 9

[marmite-forreal-deactivated2023]

Relics of a long forgotten, ancient civilisation…

[acornrising]

It’s especially funny when you remember that Tundra have the memory of a goldfish, cause like.

Imagine being Icewarden, you just brewed up a hot batch of dragons, shiny and new and ready to serve Your Glory, you address them all, address your mass of fluffy children, and for now, they are your PRIDE, they are your JOY, they are going to do WONDERS, you give them your godly lecture on history and preservation and how to survive in the ice, you release them into the world-

And about a week later they’re all flailing about because they’ve forgotten the entire thing. Half of them don’t even remember who you are. One of them has swallowed eight rocks because they’ve forgotten what a plant is. You realize that somewhere down the line, you fucked up. You think about your brothers and sisters in their other lands, creating their wonderful children who can actually remember how to function in a society.

Eventually your children pull themselves together and make a habit of surviving, because habits are stronger than memories, but you’re already humiliated. Sure, you can keep addressing them en masse, but what’s the point? They’ll forget it in three days anyway. You go home to sulk. Flamecaller didn’t have this sort of trouble, and all she made were fat snakes that hum. 

[suchusrising]

nobody messes up as bad as Lightweaver though.

[hungrytundras]

Okay this post is back on my dash and I feel the need to reiterate that the tundra memory thing was probably perfectly intentional. 

Tundra Dragon’s memories function in two parts: Traditional memory which is very very short term and an olfactory memory that is extremely long term, possibly even ancestral, but limited to only the vague positive or negative.

So these dragons are both the perfect jurors and the perfect prison guards. 

They can take on multiple trials in rapid succession and be perfectly non biased in those trials because they’re guaranteed to only consider factual evidence presented in the very recent past. Everything else is forgotten. 

They’re amazing guards and trackers who will be able to sniff out anyone who’s ever been in their custody and maybe even those who were in the custody of their ancestors and tell whether they were friend or foe (prisoner) from a considerable distance regardless of any disguises or the time elapsed. 

Furthermore, they’re impervious to pleas and manipulation because the friend/foe metric in their mind predominates all other memories of them and thereby eliminates any susceptibility to anything a captured prisoner may say to try to get away.

tl;dr

Icewarden was very very careful in creating tundras to serve a specific purpose and he did an excellent job. They are less an embarrassing mistake and more a highly specialized force.

He’s only disappointed because they wanted to do other things instead.

[05637-deactivated20190328]

i forgot how much i enjoy drawing dragons?? here’s a couple fr commissions from today ~

Commissions ☆ Twitter ☆ Patreon ☆ Tip Jar

[mechanoidhelix]

My newest gen1, Energon! one with background and glow, one without.

[eeeviee-fr]

Ko-Fi | Commissions

Continuation of this

[toad-fr]

A dragon, having just used a scattersight vial: DEBRA— DEBRA I HAVE AN EYE ON MY ASS. DEBRA I CAN SEE MY PANTS. DEBRA IM IN HELL.

[peacevine]

would you pet this boy? 

(please do)

[brahkest-fr]

please relocate all hands to the pet zone

[peacevine]

this is so cute and i’m crying my depression has been cured

[riteflyzing]

Rare arcane eyes are a miracle and Minerva is their saint

[corvidus-fr]

“It - it worked.” Rubric could hardly hold the scroll in his trembling claws. “By the Eleven, it actually worked.” The Archmage was silent for a moment. Then she delicately plucked the eyeglasses from her face, and considered them sombrely before - with a swift motion - snapping them clean in half.

“Then our work here is only beginning.”

this seemed a lot cooler in my head but now i realise it’s basically just that one scene from the 2002 Spiderman movie

[grasslandskira]

Spiral + Multi-Gaze + Spines = TEETH??? It looks like its whole body is a giant mouth… siiiiick

[kittyrising]

anyway did someone say marva eyes over primal eyes because i love th