#beastclan

[daily-fr-familiar]

Day 52 - Wintermane Bowman

A good eye and a steady hand are required to shoot while galloping.

[pumpkin-bread]

October Adoptathon, Day 1!

Hey folks. The votes are in, and the first three adoptables will be sphinxes! Body lines are batch style, but the heads are all unique this time around.

Got attached to this girl immediately, but she's still up for 1kG even!

Kaial's dragon Unnamed

Breed, raise, and train dragons on Flight Rising!

Hoping for something creepier? Wait 'til you see what I have tomorrow!

[ophionyx]

6: Bipedal familiar

Longneck medium. I really like these guys but this picture didn't turn out to my satisfaction.

[Osiem's list]

[honoratacarnage]

Why no new beastclan lore for the 3rd consecutive year?

Huge disclaimer! this isn't an attempt to attack the staff nor am I stating that everything said here is true, everything here is just my opinion from being a fan since 2020

so, it took a while but i finally gathered all my thoughts and i think i know just why flight rising is so goddamn slow lore wise:

the lore is being rewritten for the 3rd time for the Adventure mode. probably all from scratch.

so. we all know flight rising lore has changed twice in the overall history of the site: it started with the element descriptions, world map and encyclopedia entries for the dragon breeds and the beastclans in the encyclopedia from 2013 to 2018ish - then in 2019 the bounty of the elements was introduced, the deities' interactions diminished and the ancients emerged. the change between lore styles was jarring: in the beginning, we had deities talking to us in the foruns but during the 2018-2023 lore building period, every sentence was important for the story the Adventure Mode was building up to tell - now we have event npcs to decipher the gods' hidden broken messages as they are going missing

the change from the 2013 lore to the 2019 one was mainly to increment and prepare the site users for the future Adventure Mode release, that's a given, but what some people didn't understand is how big the impact of the Auraboa backlash was for the overall development of the Adventure Mode.

you see, the interactions between beastclans, modern dragons, ancient dragons and the shade were and probably still are the principal source of conflict and a lore for the Adventure Mode. it just happens that the source of conflict between the beastclans and everything else was very colonialist and the conflict between modern and ancients could be seen as opressive. Imagine how much art and writing it got produced for the Adventure Mode from 2018 to 2022 having both the old ancient lore, the old beastclan uprising and the old flight lore in it. Now imagine having to restructure EVERYTHING because:

in 2022, the devs decided to make public their desire to change the official lore in a way that doesn't mirror horrible practices found in the real world regarding to land dispute and cultural relocation. In the "Apologies for Beastclans on The Rise", the devs announced that they would be rewriting everything about the beastclans in the whole lore to erase the colonialist tone plaguing it.

this makes for the First Big AD Rewrite, or the Second Lore Retcon (Bounty of the Elements being the First), during late 2022. and everything went well after this until a unseen controversy shook the dev team and their plans late 2023: the Auraboa lore.

When the short story for how the Auraboas got "found" again by the modern dragons was released with the Auraboa dragon, many people were quick to notice that both the story and the dragon design told a story too gleefully based on native nations stereotypes and suffering, like the noble savage trope, the cultural assimilation of their kids and the white savior trope given to the modern explorers. this created such an unexpected backlash for the way the devs were handling the lore building that they decided to go full control mode.

completely freezing the lore updates and making sure that every single new dragon or familiar they added was squeaky clean and controversy free, to the point they have written a completely different tone for the site from everything they have ever done. the dragons aren't warlike, there's no mentions of conflict ANYWHERE anymore and nothing gets any more lore than a tooltip.

it got so far that they have started to remake entire flights, this being seen in the wind flight remake in the Cirrus dragon introduction, as the staff deems the cultural background of the wind flight to close to real life asian countries.

imagine how both of this big changes have affected the lore planning in the backstage? now that they are in the hyper cautious mode, I dont doubt that the new sensibility writer has been working overtime having to redo most of the planned lore for the big sitewide Adventure Mode

this certainly marks the Second Big AD Rewrite or the Third Lore Retcon.

the reason we don't have any new beastclan lore is because they are rewriting the Adventure Mode.

we don't have new first contact stories because they are making sure no one is gonna get upset by the Adventure Mode.

we don't have any new official lore because they prefer to give nothingburger lore to the new dragons that can't spook the ad sellers because its much easier to work with that than anything with conflict for the new Adventure Mode!

so now they can't be transparent and show the Adventure Mode progress or any kind of lore for that matter because they will have to tell everyone that they have demolished everything substantial and are starting new again for the third time!

siiiiigh. all I wish from all of this is that the Staff doesn't sanitize the site lore to the point of unrecognizability. and maybe a beastclan lore drop or two.

[changeling-droneco]

I know flight rising has made steps to fix it and the like but I do still think it’s funny for just how long the lore was just casually “so the dragons did a colonialism and multiple war crimes but don’t worry about that it’s fine don’t think about the beastclans being absolutely fucking pillaged and decimated for simply existing” it’s was so wild being like seventeen and actually going to read the lore for the first time and go “the dragons did WHAT to the other races that already lived here?!” Like it’s a bit old hat to talk about now but it’s still so so funny to me to think back on, girl help the dragons were secretly the British the entire time. I’m glad they changed it because my god was it needed, but it’s so funny to think about how blatantly evil the dragons were until like 2022.

I don’t think it will never not amuse me, someone should make a pet breeding game that leans into those themes, im not sure how you would make it work without being like, shitty about the real world effect, but it would be very funny to see attempted and maybe bring up some interesting discussion

[flightrisingmemes]

Clearly she magically flew off and was never seen again!

[figfull]

thinking about how the Fiona mechanic lets you get pre-bonded familiars 

[dayundying]

Second thoughts?