#terrador

[whevs-whatevstu]

Terrador & Cornyx.

[plaguedogs123]

Dark Aether Plague AU - Even when the world seemed to break around them, they had each other

[oliveyeenart]

here we are! as promised, the lil surprise! after two weeks i finished creating the three guardians: volteer, cyril, and terrador! i'm super happy to have these guys done and ready!!

with these guys done, i got a few more dragon characters to do. the chronicler is next and hopefully should be done by this weekend.

below is me just rambling about my modeling history and how important it was that i got these guys done!

im so happy and excited that i finally created models for these three! for a few years i've made models of spyro, cynder and her corrupted form, ignitus, and malefor specifically, with an adult spyro made on occasion. but i never got past anyone after those characters. hunter is my first model i did outside of these batch of characters! i'm super happy i did the guardians :)

[anelespyrodrawings]

They love each other 🧡💚💛💙

Poly guardians! They aré the dads Of Spyro and Cynder and other young dragons!

edit: better drawing now!

[laweema]

And the fourth caregiver - Terrador!

[bentleysglasses]

no one understands me

[rubylarkspur22]

I’ll look into drawing Malefor later. Probably add my two OCs when I get there. Head canons below the cut.

Though Cynder(in my opinion/head canon) is a very exaggerated depiction of an adult female dragon in her corrupted form, she probably has some similarities with an actual adult female dragon.

Cynder, in her corrupted form, has far larger wings than any of the Guardians. It's fun to wonder if this is simply her corruption, a result of sexual dimorphism, or a result of Cynder most likely being a Wind Dragon initially.

Volteer has little turned out front paws, and I love it so much! As someone with naturally turned out feet, this was surprisingly heartwarming to see.

Volteer and Terrador are more similar in body shape than I expected. I thought Terrador was the only Guardian I would qualify as particularly bulky/muscular, but Volteer also seems to have more muscle to him. Who's the gangliest(though still plenty muscular) of the Guardians seems to be a toss-up between Ignitus and Cyril.

Fire dragons and Electricity dragons have similar horn shapes. Or at least Ignitus and Volteer do. Volteer's seem to go more towards the back with Ignitus' go out and up.

Spyro and Ignitus have the same horn shape! Like, pretty much the exact same if you don't account for the different stages of life they're in.

Cynder and Cyril both do not have ridges on their horns, as far as I can tell, aside from where their horns join their skulls. I assume this is an element thing.

Even as her normal self, Cynder clearly has a different leg shape and tail compared to Spyro. And her wings do appear to be bigger than his. Then again, his wings might be a tad underdeveloped from lack of use for the first twelve years of his life.

Not every dragon has a pattern. Ignitus and Volteer have patterns, Spyro seems to have some on his back, Cynder's iirc came from her corruption, but Terrador and Cyril seem to only have texture/scale patterning on their bodies.

It's lovely to see the scars of battle on the bigger dragons. I'll probably incorporate more scars aside from the wing damage when I start migrating from referencing to drawing these guys in my own style.

Doing some more Legend of Spyro practice. This time, suing references! Only things I actually traced were poses, everything else I drew out while looking at the reference pictures.

(And geez , are the Guardians complicated to draw! I drew Ignitus twice before even attempting the others!)

[luchicm04]

Ranting about The Legend of Spyro lore

I really like what TLOS fanfictions are doing because there's so many things that take place between games and they were either deleted or are barely mentioned.

I specifically love the guardians and all the dragon lore but, except for Ignitus and a few Terrador moments, their characters are rarely explored. Volteer and Cyril have many iconic moments but their whole personality is them being an hyperactive blabbermouth and a snobbish icicle. And the rest of the surviving dragons who had been in hiding during the first two games only appear during cutscenes in the background. No one even mentions the dead, or the eggs they lost!

I always wondered why Spyro never asked who his real parents were, or if he had any siblings. I get that he already has an adopted family and he loves them, but seeing how put up he was with wondering who and what he was, I figured it would be a questiong that would come up sooner or later. (He doesn't even wonder what happened to his parents after TEN lol) Same with Cynder. She never questioned if she had any family at all. Although I'm starting to think she simply didn't want to know because she though she might have killed them herself at some point :(

However, the worst thing is seeing how Cynder wasn't even sad when confronted with her past abuse. She was mocked, beaten, starved, transformed into a rampaging, bloodthirsy monster forced to kill members of her own species... And she just accepted it!! Like, of course she feels remorse for what she did and understands how wrong (messed up) her actions were, but when it comes to her day-to-day life, she genuinely believes that's the standard because it's the only life she's ever known.

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