This is considered to be one of the most important documents in dragonriding history. Here's why:
Back during the Forgotten Times, the Selarudians were at war with their neighbors over ownership the Alps. As the war raged on, they became interested in how to better protect their Dragonriders, and made a diagram of common injury areas based on the warriors that returned from the battlefield. This became known as simply the 'Dragonrider Diagram'.
Selarudian commanders, based on this diagram, jumped to the conclusion that it was the dragons' wings, heads, and tails that all needed armor to prevent casualties. This made perfect sense to them, as the torsos of their dragons were protected by virtually-impenetrable scales, therefore everything else was lacking in durability.
They, of course, lost that war aeons ago, and became forgotten with the rest of the era.
I discovered the history of the Selarudians and their war within the High Council's Endless Archives. When I found this diagram I burst out into a laughter so severe I was barred from the Endless Archives for 200 years! You may think me rude for doing so, but allow me to explain why:
The diagram was incredibly misleading! The data was skewed in favor of the Dragonriders that SURVIVED; none of these injuries were fatal. Therefore, it could have been assumed that the Dragonriders who did NOT survive received (mortal) injuries in places the diagram excluded, including the torso.
But why would attacks on an impenetrable torso be fatal?
Here's the kicker: while the dragons' torsos were invulnerable, the riders themselves were not! They wore light leather armor for maneuverability on the dragons' backs, but with armor that thin they were being picked off by enemy arrowfire. This, I theorize, is why the Selarudians eventually lost their war.
You may be thinking, "This diagram looks familiar..." and you'd be quite correct! News spread of my analysis of the Dragonrider Diagram, and eventually it fell onto the ears of Abraham Wald, a "statistician" who reused my findings in assessment of military aircraft during World War II. Guess who got all the credit! I digress.
Why is this important outside of dragonriding circles, you may ask? A wise wizard once told me, "You need more than a keen eye in order to actually see the truth — Not only must you know what's there, you also need to make yourself aware of what is NOT present."
And that is the pitfall of statistics!
So let me ask you this: What, in your life, studies, or career, are you NOT seeing? It may be the most important thing.
My father taught me about this conflict when I was young and suckled at his teat of knowledge. His wisdom was slightly different from that relayed by this document. He revealed to me that his master would cast a wall of flame before the dragons. The beasts themselves were of course impervious, but the riders would be immolated atop them. I am certain that this wisdom was used to design vehicles not to remain intact in a conflict but to be themselves destroyed to protect their drivers.
seeing shockingly few people understand this very basic idea so i made this flowchart to help you determine when and if it's okay to shapeshift into another person.
VERY SIMPLY STUFF PEOPLE!!!! I DONT KNOW HOW SOME OF YOU KEEP FORGETTING!!!
okay but what if im doing a bit. just so i can be like "oooo look at me i'm so-and-soooo" and make fun of them. if it's really funny. it wouldnt work without the shapeshifting i swear
for people with static bodies, you have to understand how personal their facade is to their identity, and how traumatizing it can be for them to be stolen from them, even as a "joke".
genuinely cannot believe the attitude some shapeshifters here have towards static beings... like. you're mad at us for saying you shouldn't shift into someone without asking first?? be fucking for real right now. if you shift into a real person you literally take a piece of their consciousness in your own to be able to channel their visage. it's incredibly fucking disorienting to have a literal piece of you ripped away from your consciousness for g-d knows how long for someone else to play a silly prank (not to mention how fucking awful it is to have your visage used for something you would never do) and if too many people shift into you at once it can have incredibly damaging repercussions!! like literally ripping your soul from your body and killing your physical form. thats literally what happened to elvis. so many people started impersonating him and it fucking killed him. if any of the shifters on this site ever actually did any research on static people they would know this but they don't care because static pain is only a big funny joke to them 🙄
THANK YOU. i try not to speak for statties too often (im not sure if i can say that word but "static beings" is kind of a mouthful, plz lemme know if thats not ok), but so many people literally act like you didn't see the heartbreaking footage of Elvis pushing through his final show while his soul escaped his body!! as if it isn't compulsive in the American school system to watch that footage in grade 8!!!
and most people just FORGAVE john lennon for straight up SOLICITING SHIFTERS IN HIS AUDIENCE TO TAKE ON THE FORM OF ELVIS WHILE HE WAS ALSO PERFORMING A CONCERT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AT THE SAME TIME AS HIM. i mean, he was shot about it eventually but nowadays people talk about him like he didnt basically kill a man live on stage.
it's fucking gross honestly and not enough people take this shit seriously.
this dipshit kid @ the lair improvement store is telling me they dont carry Dark Harbinger Blue but i literally scryed it online like do not tempt my wrath right now
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