#fallon cd

[clan-fuildarach]

husbans

[clan-fuildarach]

i wanted to draw an imp gijinka with a full mane so here’s angery man + antler velvet 

[clan-fuildarach]

nemi is literally torturing me right now so in turn i’ve come to write more angst 

so. emiliano wanders north. and a dragon out on a fishing trip sees him. now most would just be like ‘hm weird’ and go their separate way, but emiliano is eye-catching because he has a rare skin disorder that makes him drip black ink, and u tend to remember something like that (i’m going by my lair demographics here - crackle is rare).

so the fisher returns home and talks about it, and the story spreads because hey, isn’t the (presumably fully deceased) dorchadas royal family supposed to have somewhat of a monopoly on obsidian crackle? 

it reaches sky spire and that’s when shit gets a little more real. the fisher is brought in and questioned. the description fits emiliano to a T, colours notwithstanding. the fisher recalls that the mystery dragon looked south for a long moment before turning away and setting off with a sense of purpose. 

fallon is crushed. 

[clan-fuildarach]

ok so fortress dorchadas got levelled by some unknown creature. i’ve talked about that before but it’s time to talk about the rest of the court, and the international ramifications 

so court dorchadas is comprised of a single large city surrounding the base of a fortress built into a hollow mountain (a dead volcano actually), and a dozen or so smaller holds and associated towns spanning the entire country-sized territory in dragonhome. the fortress and city were the equivalent of the capital city i guess. originally, it was just the fortress, which was a small town in its own right, but since the foundation of the court the population has grown exponentially. mostly due to the court bringing smaller clans into its fold, but also due to immigrants arriving from eastern dragonhome, the growing desertification of which has pushed out a lot of vulnerable populations (the verza among them btw)

the fortress and capital city are gone. they were smashed to bits in an event that is not clearly understood by any of the court’s allies and neighbours, since there were no survivors. in other disasters, like flooding or invasion, there are always witnesses who flee into the nearest settlements, bringing a pretty clear account of what happened along with them. that isn’t the case here. no one made it out, except for prince fallon. because fallon fled straight back home to the sky spire empire and is in recovery, his eyewitness account wasn’t made publicly known for several months following the event

what is left of court dorchadas is made up of the nobles’ holds scattered around the countryside. of the surviving nobility, Lord Adagio is the most senior. one of the main changes that emiliano made after becoming king was the banishment of the traditional dorchadas nobility - the rich and useless aristocrats. Adagio was appointed as senior in place of the banished nobles. He is a highly experienced and practical military man. unfortunately, he has little to no experience when it comes to court power games (he doesn’t even have a collection of blackmail nudes, which is like the basic possession of every other noble the court has ever had)

despite the scattered and mostly clueless nature of the remaining dorchadas dragons, an emergency ruling council was quickly elected. Lord Adagio is in charge and he answers to Commander Robin, who’s all the way west in Rezann’s citadel. together, Adagio and Robin are trying to work out just wtf happened. the citizenry of the court have begun to flee in large numbers, scared of a repeat disaster, so the remaining council members are trying to keep the peace and ensure resources are distributed evenly. one of the council members is Lord Friday, the head of an older dorchadas noble family who have, until now, been very good at flying under the radar in terms of terrible behaviour. 

under Robin and Adagio, a team of basically CSI agents were sent to the fortress to check out what happened. none of them survived past their first report, most of which consisted of “oh god i touched the ground near a dead body and now my lungs are dissolving” 

this kind of elevated the situation from “maybe an earthquake?” to “potential biohazard event”. Robin sent in her best team of healers to figure out wtf it was that had leeched into the ground and rock, and whether it would spread and become a danger to the court’s neighbours. they determined that it wasn’t the shade, and it wasn’t an emperor, but the exact nature of the contagion is still unknown. however, the dragon equivalent of biohazard suits must be worn at the site of the fortress at all times

one of the healers was Aiteal, a necromancer who was sent along because she also had a collection of ghouls under her command. these already-dead dragons, bound to their necromancer by magical contracts, could not fall victim to the contagion and made great workers. they were made to burn the dead and bury the ashes in the hopes that it would make the place a little safer to be in 

anyway the team of healers is still working stuff out. but by now, word has spread that whatever happened might happen again, and has the potential to infect others. there’s a quiet fear that might at any moment be pushed into full-blown mass panic, and migration from Dragonhome to the Starfall Isles has taken a sharp upswing. because the pervading rumour is still spreading - that an emperor destroyed the court, seeded the land with disease and rot, and might even now be moving towards the next most populated area (Robin’s citadel). 

as for the official story, it’s still ‘earthquake’. but no one really believes that any more. the situation at the sky spire empire is likely to be far more complex, due to the fact that one of the princes is the sole survivor, and he has come home in a state of shock and anger over what happened. 

[clan-fuildarach]

fallon pre- and post- court dorchadas 

[clan-fuildarach]

skyspire-empire replied to your post: o shit battle putting fallon back on my dash...

I think Sparks probably spends the most time with him. She’s a very difficult person to ruffle and can weather the angry outburts w/out taking them personally. Saf has a bit of a harder time with it but would make the effort too - he understands being that angry but he’s also the more sensitive of the parentals

:w;

if she is patient enough she may catch a glimpse of the person hidden under the anger and while he may be easier to get along with, he is a much sadder sight

[clan-fuildarach]

recent outfit changes i’m pleased with!! you’ve seen luke and vaska before but consider seeing them again please. fallon is getting festive and corin is... wait, what happened to corin?

[clan-fuildarach]

the Royal Husbands and rulers of court dorchadas

i still hate that dumb purple flower that comes with the black crown but i also appreciate that it looks terrible and u know what. emil deserves that 

like i said before, while emiliano is the overall king, a lot of the leadership is a joint effort (and a group effort when it comes to the advisers and seafra). emiliano gets the final say in theory but he trusts fallon implicitly and lets fallon do basically whatever tf he wants with dorchadas resources (but ofc fallon is moderately sensible and won’t go wild with them)

fallon generally takes care of trade and social stuff. emiliano controls the military and most ambassadorial duties (as previously stated: he sends his nudes to potential allies and also potential enemies). after his run-in with the emperor, emilio is somewhat more sensible and conscious of like, his own mortality and the fact that he has a husband and daughter and several thousand citizens to take care of. he’s also deaf on one side but that isn’t common knowledge, he doesn’t want word of any potential weaknesses spreading beyond his circle of friends and family. 

he and commander robin are working towards his goal, now that rezann is out of the way: in several months time, forces from robin’s army and court dorchadas will march on the winterborn hold in the southern icefields. and, hopefully, they’ll rescue corin and restore him to his rightful place on the throne. 

hopefully.