Welcome to the World of Diondra

Home to all dragons

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I should like

actually use this dang blog shouldn't i

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you know I think i'm gonna prioritize useful world building stuff in this blog while peppering some reblogs from the artblog

Truth is that is mostly what i need, a good old guide for my own stuff

Yes this is the plan, expect a lot of text walls and worldbuilding ;v

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I should like

actually use this dang blog shouldn't i

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More Inferna stuff, in color! + me remembering how to do fire |D

Plus a means for me to play around with how a draygon’s wings look like while fazing through clothes, excuse me as i shamelessly copypaste the info dump from patreon kjngbgf

Draygons being made of rather moldeable energy, have the ability to shrink or fully absorb their wings (some can do so with their tails and horns even), while also being able to let them pass through fabric.

Tho conveniente for traveling or daily routines in small places, this takes time to learn. Most draygons spend their childhood with their small wings at full display, learning how to absorb them as they grow.

There’s also some risks to this practice, as the glowing seams between the wings and body are delicate. A draygon could be as sturdy as a rock, but if anything sharp enough cuts through this seam, it could damage the wing greatly, most of the time permanently. A good reason why some species of draygon that depend on their wings (like Air draygons) leave windows on their clothes or armor so their wings can extend without interruption.

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one more reblog! i think that’s all i had to catch up with >w>;;

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Took a small break from pokemon to design more electric draygons~

they naturally glow, of course i’m gonna love them 8V

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Some more electric lizards

you bet my stories ain’t complete without some bad boys™ >:3

And they have names now! from left to right, these are Duzkho, Xu, and their team leader Gaxat

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i’m sorta alive i guess

Did some redesigning with my Electric draygon buds Lexxy, Myns, and Vixev. they all look so good now i feel like a proud momma ;w;

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Some more old design work

The electric buddied were finally coming along <3

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Trying to break the artblock, i went back and revisited the dragon world i have in mind, specifically experimenting with the designs of some of the main characters, so i did a bunch of doodles of this girl, that i later found myself coloring cuz that’s always really fun and relaxing to me .w.

I might do a bit more work around these characters and their world, but only if i get a bit of interest for them, otherwise it would feel like i’m pretty much talking to myself :v so yeh please let me know what you think!

I may as well present her too (It might be a bit confusing sorry :’D)

This is Desire, a poison draygon, raised and trained as a bounty hunter from an early age. Being under the venomous family, she’s swift and quick in movement and thought as they are known for, with the ability so soar silently into the sky, create mild poison from her purple scales, and inject venom with her scorpion like tail.

She’s secretive and cold, detached from the people around her as she was taught to be, yet still she’s a rogue at heart, doing what best fits her and those she holds close, even if it means going against those with higher power.

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Tho the design and some of this info are outdated, this still needs to be here.

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Some draygon doodles of Ammy and Lexxy, plus her very tiny friend Myns <3

More random OC info below.

Ammy is indeed part of the glowy magic lizard club, being able to make the crystals of her wings and her horns shine bright, they probably feel extra cold to the touch when she does that too.

On a side note, i really gotta figure out how to do the wings seam thing. I want it to be glowy too but in a more subtle way. Gotta play more with that.

And then there's Lexxy giving me a laugh, cuz she's very much the party goat at night, professional business lady in the morning. I really like how she looks in a dress too <3

Tho it made me wonder how she would get ready if all she can sense are vague shapes, and it gave me the cutest idea of her friend Myns helping her out and just being that girl pal <33

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So now that all the girls have a consistent style, i noticed that three of them have very similar hair |D I like how Inferna and Thera look so Lexxy gets the new hair

A messy mohawk fits her, plus she now has space for eyebrows! She’s gonna need those with her lack of expressive eyes XD

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Better pics of the girls! Trying to settle their designs now that i have a consistent style for them

They're looking so good all together so far oh boy >v<

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Can you give us a little fun fact about the Big Four draygon characters? It’d be fun to learn some more about all of them!

Absolutely! >w< I'll be sharing just a few from the top of my head, hopefully I haven't mention these yet >v>

Ammy's full name is Ammelisia of the Guiding Lights, named as such as is tradition in her family, where each member is named along the predominant weather condition at their birth. Ammy was born during a clear night, with the northern lights at their brightest.

Thera is the only one in the group unable to fly, best she can do is glide. Despite so she's not afraid of heights, as she loves to climb and glide from place to place. She's very much a squirrel with scales.

I see Ammy being the most afraid to flying too high actually lol poor thing.

Inferna is the least social of the bunch, simply cuz she grew up kind of isolated as the only draygon in a tribe of drakes, so she didn't get to learn properly how to be social, especially with other elements. She's generally nice tho, and values and protects anyone that sticks with her despite her shortcomings.

Lexxy is super blind! So the chances of seeing her without her goggles or any kind of eyewear are very minimal. Also despite her inability to see normally, she is luckily born a lightning draygon, so through shear will and experiment, she was able to teach herself how to use her own electricity and honed electromagnetic senses to "see" at a certain degree. Kinda like how sharks do!

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I like hearing about your draygons. Since you mentioned the different elements are there any cultures that form around them each having an element or is it based around different things? Also for my own OC setting may I name humanoid dragon species Draykan as a nod to you?

I'm gla you guys like this!! >W< it's sp fun talking about all this stuff after having it noted down for so long

As for your question, while most draygons and such usually remain within their own culture depending of their element, there are some element combinations that added their own twist to old traditions, some made their own due to their disconnection to the main land. For example the water draygons, whose beliefs revolve more around secrecy and mysticism rather than nature itself.

Also i believed you asked me that before and i said yes? owo yeh i don't mind! as long as they are different from this bunch of course |D

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I wondered how the main four would look as kids

They are all hilariously adorable to me ;v;

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So, I noticed in your Draygon world you had the light elements of fire, earth, ice, and electricity, and the dark elements of poison, air, fear, and shadow, but I noticed water wasn't apart of either light or dark element. Is there a reason for that?

I considered ice to be more powerful than water, but there are in fact water dragons/draygons as well, often time born by the combination of a fire/ice pair

For example there are large sea dragons that roam the shores of the fire territory, and in the ice kingdom there's a frozen lake with a massive open hole in the middle. It is believed that a mysterious society of water draygons use the lake as a means to reach land from their home in the sea, forcing the lake to never fully freeze.

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I drew the other girls all together like if my girl Lexxy wasn't a thing and that made me feel so bad ;;w;;

NOW the main group has new headshots pics >w<

I even got to tweak her design already, will be posting that on patreon first as usual :3

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Going by the tags, I’m assuming Draygons World is called Diondra? Any particular inspiration for the name?

Honestly i had no real inspiration for that name other than i wrote it down and liked it 8'3 which is how most of my creative process happens so no surprise there hjcutc

If anything i can guess it's subconciously a mix between dios/diosa (god/goddess in spanish) and dra (as dragon). It also sounds motherly to me.

Their world is called like so cuz of their goddess, as she's believed to be the one to give birth to the first dragons, the very creatures that created the ancient beasts.

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Talking more about draygons and stuff 8V

I should also mention that there are also dragons in this world too, along with their relatives like wyverns and drakes, also their older relatives called ancient beasts, rare creatures not quite like dragons but fully infused with their elements.

Some of them are sentient depending of the specie/element combo, with drakes being the evolutionary equivalent of humans during the bronce-iron age

Depending of how self aware they are, dragons and their cousins fit within any of the ages evolving around them, often times mixing with drakes and draygons.

Meanwhile, Ancient beast are the most likely to remain as just wild creatures, only gaining some sort of awareness once a century has past. This being due their incredibly slow ageing process and the extreme ways their merge with nature.

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How many different types of Draygon are there? Are they just the four elements, or is there more to it?

There are in total 8 elements plus their many combos.

There's fire, earth, ice, and Electricity. Created naturally by their goddess that lives deep in their world

Then there's poison, air, fear, and shadow, elements that were not meant to be controlled, created by the experiments of an dictator from out of space (i love how this sounds out of context lol)