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Got a rude response from someone I reblogged from so I'm making my own post about Ice Flight because um--

Hey Ice Flight can be pretty cool actually and be different from the rest of the flights, and this post is gonna be my two cents about it. I've seen people go around just summing it up as "cops" when just like every other Flight they can be so much more?

While first, I do agree that Ice’s aesthetic is kinda weak as is. Not a lot you can do with the same winter themes over and over with the occasional broken chain motif. I’d love to see people get creative to what they think Ice represents and how they contribute to Sornieth’s systems, cultures, and dragons as a whole.

I see ice flight specializing in stuff like collection and cataloguing as iirc before the map update it said those were things Ice Flight likes. I think where Earth is Uncovering What Was, Ice is about Preserving What Is.

They’re not entirely just cops (and even then stripping them to just the role of "cop" is a bad take). They’re also researchers of the things they fear, and of relics that need studying. In my head Ice would probably have the best museums, archives, and storage houses. What better way to preserve or trap something than in ice?

They’re a flight of Order, not so much in the sense of cops and law but a flight that bulks when there’s a sense of disorder or chaos, disorganization, and imperfection. If it’s uncategorized, unsorted, then it needs to be so in order to be learned. Where Lightning is stats and progression, Ice is pattern recognition (Tundra’s memory being linked to their smell may also reflect this) and tradition (Gaolers role system and lack of awareness about the state of Sornieth and not just the Ice Fields).

This can be extended then into interests, individual home cultures, businesses and what not. Why not start a collection of rocks? Or insects? They’d know best how to preserve it. Need something specific from the shop? Probably very easy to find if you know the qualities and traits you’re looking for. Need something preserved for safe keeping? They’ll do that, and they’ll do it awfully well. Perfectly. The systems have to be perfect. The line up has to be perfect and up-kept and looked after intensely— possibly so intense it’s evolving into passion. There can certainly be a sense of pride.

Combine with the lore that Ice is typically more hostile to outsiders due to their melting home I can see them being much more traditional and closed off. Not quite isolated, but having a more unique culture that’s a little more closed off from others and not quite as shared, trying to preserve what is left of their home and traditions.

What about urban legends and superstition? They’re guarding creatures and horrors in those prisons, surely the local resident dragons have folklore over that? What about fishing and hunting, two very popular ways to get food or supplies in climates like these? Where are the ice fisherman skins or hunters bound in furs? What about the fauna or flora found in the region we can probably make skins for that too.

Existential horror can also be fun; remember, relatively recently Gaolers learned that Sornieth has changed. Dragons of other flights have other magic not native to their elements and in addition the age old threat of Shade that seems to be making new problems for new times.

We have a flight literally dealing first hand with monsters and horrors existing already on the planet and in its own prisons and fighting against it, yet people relegate that to Arcane. 😔 Unlike Arcane, the unknown is already here in Ice.

You could easily take inspiration from the movie The Thing, too. It writes itself ngl.

Theres much to do and think about with Ice when you remember this is a region with its own people and culture and not just an aesthetic, and I’d like to see it dabbled in more. Even if it’s just headcanon, you can make it into a skin. That’s what people have done with Light with the whole angelic themes, so why not take creative spins on ice too?

Give ice some headcanon love like y’all do with Arcane and Light. Those flights aren’t about eldritch horror or angels but there’s endless skins for them about it. Give ice some of that same ole love too 💕

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I love Flight Rising clans so much. I love clans that are towns, cities, entire kingdoms. I love clans that are twenty-strong groups of bandits. I love clans that are sailors on the open ocean. I love clans that are really just families all living in a commune. I love clans that are workplaces. I love clans that stick together come hell or high water. I love clans that would sell eachother out for a single corn chip. I like clans that are led by progenitors. I love clans that have elaborate systems of government to lead them. I love clans that are just a bunch of dragons living together in a cave. I love clans that have buildings and houses and shops. I love clans that live in castles, cities, and everything in-between

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as someone who was around for the release of poison/toxin there's something kind of special about how people talk about genes without accent colors these days... people asking for more genes without accent colors, or not understanding how anyone could like them because they're too boring. i absolutely get it but it's also funny to at the same time remember when the most colorful gene was iridescent

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I have such a soft spot for dragons with the tiger gene. I know it's not a popular one, but I would go so far as to say it is one of my favourite genes on the whole site.

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What the fuck is this

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saw an accent shop with [ftm] in the title and my first thought was "oh an accent for trans dragons? godspeed"

.fathom male.

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someone bought a dragon from me on flight rising then applied 3 gem genes + primal eyes and exalted it. quite possibly one of the funniest sales ever

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Got a bunch of very nice visually striking dragons listed at the moment but I'm really hoping I can find a loving home for this boy:

I really go hard on breeding and finding dragons that look stunning on their own, with skins and apparel only enhancing what's already there, and I think Mohave is GORGEOUS and that there's somewhere out there that's right for him! He has a nontraditional sort of XYZ contrast, but the potential is there for some STUNNING primal-geode vibes.

Like look at this!

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No “other” option. You must decide. Colors used for the scries are slate/stone/dirt.

Propaganda welcome!

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flight rising can we have new terts. pls flight rising we r being so good please let us have new terts

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[longing sigh]

Why are people breeding XYX antiques so BORING, it's all triples.

Where's the flash. The pizzazz. The Antique/Turquoise/Antique that I can spend obscene amounts of money on despite having absolutely no lore slot for them and in fact still possessing several dragons who do not yet have lore written for them--

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Top 5 Most Popular Dragons

Purely for fun, I was idly curious and went poking around to see which of the Reach's residents had the highest number of likes. I attach no significance to this, but it was a fun little investigation!

In order:

#5: Maiden (4 likes)

#4: Avalon (5 likes)

#3: Caspian (7 likes)

#2: Iskan (10 likes)

#1: Kpinga (13 likes)

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I see people complaining about only Water getting the translation of Tidelord's message but you know what?

I think there should be a proper big plot on FR that encourages inter-flight collaboration by every flight getting bits of exclusive info that we all have to share and swap to figure things out

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All current issues in Sornieth (as far as I can get from the encyclopedia, and in no particular order)

The Shade is free and active (as of Epilogue: Flight Rising, reinforced in several other stories)

Infighting among the Oculus of the Eleven - inter-flight distrust is seemingly quite high (as of BotE: Ten Eyes)

Large strike/rebellion in the Ashfall Waste (as of BotE: Temper, Temper)

Portal connection between Tangled Wood and Sunbeam Ruins (as of BotE: Kindred Crossing, reinforced in Unveiled)

Suspicious disappearances in Earth Flight excavations (as of BotE: Ancient Fascinations) (I did not have the chance to participate in Dustcarve Dig, but from what I've been able to read on the site itself, these disappearances, while part of the setup, were never resolved)

(Intentional) destruction of the Stormcatch Sanctum (as of BotE: Workplace Hazards)

High tension between the Nature and Plague Flights, due to the breaking of the Armistice by use of The First Seed. Plague ambassador has still not been found, and has taken The Final Infection with her. Implied to be part of a larger conspiracy. (as of BotE: The Seed and The Sickness)

Tidelord is missing, and no divination magic can currently be practiced. (as of BotE: Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow, reinforced in Mixed Elements, Echoes of the Deep, and Unfathomable Oddyssey)

There is a three-headed Emperor (Luminax) in the Sunbeam Ruins. (as of BotE: Raising A Family)

Major change in the energies of Auraboan nests due to the events of The Seed and The Sickness, allowing younger Auraboas to experience linear time, and causing a worrying partial disconnect from the Loop. (as of Ancient Arboriculture Observations and the Auraboa breed article)

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i feel like this is appropriate again

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Hatchling Skin guidelines have been updated.

The section on "adultifying" the hatchling no longer includes the phrasing "Lolita-inspired fashion," and instead now specifies examples of inappropriate content; this includes both inappropriate clothing/accessories, and references to "inappropriate age-related tropes" which would "imply the imaged hatchling is a sexually mature dragon."

The section regarding injuries/scars has been changed to allow for scars on hatchlings, with the caveat that they will be under more scrutiny than adults. It is also specified that prostheses, mobility aids, and other disability aids do not violate this rule in.

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this is S tier fest apparel. a physical trait fest apparel?? it has been ten thousand years. i wish this happened every month