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Join me as I record some of my adventures on the quest to recreate every Sengoku Basara character as a dragon. Raakel (6140) on Flight Rising Main blog

[snotsdragons]

My first Flight Rising giveaway! Mostly for those who like art of their giant lizard horde.

The prize is: I’ll do adopts for your dragons! You will get one of each breed I have available. (Pictured above)

Rules: -One reblog. -Likes do not count, so please refrain from liking this post. -The dragons you choose can be either yours or a friend’s. -No substitutions for breeds you do not own. -Provide your Flight Rising username and user number. -I do not have every gene funded, so if you ask for a gene I haven’t done yet, it will just be left as basic (Sorry.) -For other rules concerning the adopts, they are listed on the page is here. -Ends Saturday, May 23rd.

This is a pretty small giveaway, but eventually I plan to do bigger ones.

[contaminated-ambassador]

Kahvinporo #11138

[warringlairs]

Raakel #6140

[dark-sun-dragons]

[warringlairs]

I knew some of the Nature holiday things were going to appear late, but this looks a little off regardless...

[ridgebaby]

my poor mirror-brained ridgeback child.

[warringlairs]

Haa, this kind of stuff is intriguing. Seeing dragons coping in a wholly different body all of a sudden... Also, what a lovely style...the lines look...relaxed.

[daxtri]

The Flight Rising Deities

(click through for high res)

You may use them for icons/backgrounds/edits/etc as long as you credit back to me

[fr-stockexchange]

FRSE Weekend Chart Roundup 4.26.14

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[warringlairs]

Hoo, this is a very interesting blog. Very interesting indeed.

[soaringsparrows]

Yaaaay! Managed to get the Frigid Fugitive Shackles and Ice Sprite from the Crystalline Gala. Since I have my suspicions that the Armband isn’t a one-time thing - it doesn’t have 2014 in the description, it just says “Crystalline Gala Holiday Item” like the Emblem - that’s the exclusives sorted out. Much less stress involved if I want the armband or emblem.

[xhaztol-fr]

Just wanted to pop you a reply, since there’s still time! Only the emblems will be returning each year. We clarified this a few weeks ago in our Encyclopedia entry for Elemental Holidays.

Sorry for any confusion about exclusives earlier! :)

[warringlairs]

As I suspected! (But always failed to check.)

[warringlairs]

The baby Yukimura sure is enthusiastic to test his mettle on the field of battle.

[feleochadan]

I wonder what the story is behind Pinkerton’s funny-looking left horn/crest/thingy. Did he get bitched up in a fight? Did he lose a bet and have to file it down or something? Did he do it for fashion? Was he born that way and it’s just the dragon equivalent of Nemo’s “lucky fin”?

[xhaztol-fr]

Well.

So.

Y’know how…

Crim likes to collect things?

I’m not sayin’

I’m just sayin’

[warringlairs]

Holy shit

[meandering-miasma]

and here we go: all current Flight Rising dragon breeds, all together! I used the average sizes for each breed, which is is as follows (in order from left to right in the second image):

Imperial: 21m

Ridgeback: 18m

Guardian: 15m

Snapper: 5m

Pearlcatcher: 5.65m

Mirror: 5.7m

Wildclaw: 5m

Tundra: 3.48

Skydancer: 5.66

Spiral: 3.25

Fae: 1m

and again, the human silhouette is 1.83m/6’. this was a fun project and I think I can get back to actual arts now, and while I enjoy having this reference, I also still take dragon sizes with a big grain of salt (and don’t even get me started on wingspan & weights ok)!

you can also nab a larger size (2500x1185 pixels) of the second image over here on dA, and you can check out my tag #drag size chart for individual size charts of each breed (with smallest, largest & average).

[warringlairs]

Yusssssss great!

[banasaboat-deactivated20140409]

Swipp and Shade both begin with S.  Coincidence?  I THINK NOT.

[warringlairs]

ooOOOOooooooooohhhh......that makes sense....

[lightweaverismyhomegirl]

HELLOOOOOOO followers and fr tag!

I’ve opened up a wee adopt shop for pairs of dragons and YOU SHOULD GET SOME OF THEM.

I just have these bases for now but I am making MANY MORE so if you don’t see anything you can use now keep on eye on it!

COME WINDOW SHOP AND POSSIBLY BUY. OR NOT! IT’S UP TO YOU.

[slaughtercress]

whoa these are cute

[warringlairs]

I am a fan of this style starting this moment.

[pinkpestilence]

WHAT.

[warringlairs]

I saw you there! XD Congratulations. Well-deserved, I say. I'm loving that realistic gemstone texture.

[pinkpestilence]

Show Me Yer Basics

So I did a thing last night: I finally used one of those Remove Gene scrolls I’ve been hoarding since the Great Server Outage, and stripped the Seraph off Emery. He was actually one of the first dragons I bought a gene scroll for:

And I think we can all agree he looks a million percent better without it. Emery is rose/maize/maize, which makes him a desirable dragon in the current market; he’s getting underbelly as soon as I have a scroll to spare. Now that the tide of dragon value has turned away from genes and toward colors (appropriately, I think, since breed/genes are mutable and color is not, unless you want to play scatterscroll roulette), I’m starting to appreciate my basic-primary dragons more.

Lyle is double-gened: shimmer/circuit. Like Emery, he is also double-colored: steel/mulberry/steel. He’s my favorite circuit dragon and I will never, ever change his primary to iridescent because it would spoil him. He’s just a cool dragon (appropriate, since he’s Ice flight) who looks cool.

Moar circuit! This guy is so recently acquired that he hasn’t got a nickname yet, but I fucking love this royal asshole. He’s not quite double, being violet/royal/gold, but the way his circuit nearly matches his tan belly color makes me happy. (I don’t care what anyone says, violet needs appreciation.)

But everyone agrees that double colors are cool, so let’s move away from them to Judy:

She is the firstborn daughter of my beloved Floyd, and I’ve kept her around because she’s an interesting character and she rocks the steampunk gear. I kind of vaguely intended to give her Tiger at some point — show me a tundra that doesn’t look good with Tiger — but then I previewed her with an underbelly scroll and went WAIT HOLD ON, I DON’T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS BUT IT DOES. So now I’m keeping her the way she is. Judy’s slate/jade/coral and I don’t know how she makes it work, but she’s the only one on FR (not exalted, anyway).

Also if I don’t mention Delores she’ll cut my throat while I sleep.

ANYWAY: show me your basics! Let’s have a basic primary party. Let’s firmly disagree that Everything’s Better With Iri/Shim and show off the dragons that adding more genes to would ruin. I AM CURIOUS.

[warringlairs]

The pride of my collection (at the moment, I am hoping to breed a couple similar dragons out of him), Mikawa.

I suppose only having a his tertiary Lemon instead of Banana would make him more perfect. Underbelly has easily become my favorite tertiary at the moment.

[lorrainechicken-fr-blog]

Idea for Tert - piebald

so like whatever color was the tert would just be like plain splotches over the other genes. 

Imagine how legit that would look over shim or iri or the same color. 

If it was done in a nice, not blaring way it would be legitttt

[pinkpestilence]

Oh hey, I have some mockups for that I did a ways back.

[warringlairs]

Wow, do want. I can't think of who to put it on just yet, but it would surely be potentially super cool.

[blightrising]

Oh…Oh. I better go buy a scratch-off ticket!

I think they only did this because I just eked out enough treasure for a lair expansion. I hope you folks like spirals and snappers. Geez.

[pinkpestilence]

I THOUGHT THEY WERE A LEGEND

[warringlairs]

Whoaa, the first time I've seen/heard of it happening... Majestic

[banasaboat-deactivated20140409]

AW YEAH NATURE

Rebloggin cuz it happened.

Non-tumblrfied version

[warringlairs]

Wow, this is so well done : o Very cool.