#WBW FR

[autumn-millifae-fr]

Welcome to the Agate Tower

A once-dilapidated tower in the Crystalspine Reaches now stands lush and whole, peacefully overgrown in the wake of its wizard's departure.

Astralla - The Wizard

Astralla was an aether dragon, and a to-be graduate of the local magic academy... That is, until they got kicked out within their second year for eating too many books. In the wake of this expulsion, Astralla sought to strike it out on their own, and prove to their instructors just how wrong they were to do so.

Their desires to become the best wizard in the arcane realm never came to fruition, however, but they would not regret it. Astralla eventually stumbled upon the Agate Tower in its ruined state, and declared themselves the new Wizard within it.

Astralla eventually animated their beloved plush toy, Star, into a familiar with the one (1) spell they learned at magic college. Though they never truly fit in to local society, Astralla made a family of their own in this way, and was never without the company of their many, many familiars animated from the tower's relics and trinkets.

After a long life well-lived, Astralla passed on peacefully hand-in-hand with their dearest Star, and bequeathed to her the mantle of Agate Wizard.

The Seamstress (Star)

Star is a short, stout Obelisk plush that was animated into an intelligent familiar by her owner, Astralla. For centuries, she served as their closest friend and confidant, and was gifted her own sense of will, wit, and intelligence as Astralla's knowledge of magic grew.

Upon Astralla's passing, Star was given the mantle of Agate Wizard, and as such, the tower and its inherent magic would now look to her. She took a shard of Astralla's crystal staff into herself, and sewed it within her chest, so she would never fall inanimate again.

In her grief, Star found comfort in the company of another familiar named Mosaic, and together the two devised a plan to ensure they would never be without their own friends and family. Star eventually shed her own name as her grief proved too much, stating once that she was Astralla's star. Without her wizard, she was nothing.

But it was Mosaic who suggested she take on a title instead, and gave her the moniker of 'Seamstress' once they began working on new familiars sewn together from Astralla's old wardrobe.

Just as her wizard did before her, the Seamstress worked tirelessly to ensure she and Mosaic would not be alone, eventually cobbling together the first few fellow familiars that would become the start of their toy family.

All toy dragons within the Agate Tower were crafted lovingly by the Seamstress' claws. She presides over her tower now as Matron and Wizard, and it is to her that the other familiars look to for guidance. With even more decades under her belt now of living amongst her created family, the Seamstress has found herself wondering if this peace is what Astralla felt before they passed. She has grown content with her life, and in that contentment, the quiet desire for a legacy is close at hand.

Until recently, The Seamstress had found no one worthy nor willing to take up her mantle and keep their family thriving -- that is, until she found a glimmer of her old friend within the eyes of a new apprentice.

Stuffing

In all her years of crafting familiars, the Seamstress tried to avoid creating those with small pink bodies and blue moth's wings, lest they remind her too deeply of Astralla. It's no surprise, then, that as the fabric within the Agate Tower ran out, these colors were all that she was left with. It was not another dragon that requested Stuffing's creation, but a sense of quiet acceptance from the Seamstress herself-- and a bit of encouragement from Mosaic. Together, the two fashioned what remained of their fabric supplies into the only shape they could manage with so little: the form of a tiny aether, bright-eyed and fat-tailed, ready to take on the world.

Perhaps it was fate that this little dragon, made in the image of a grand-creator they would never know, would be the one to take a keen interest in the Seamstress' sewing. They would bring her whatever scraps they could find, badger her with questions about magic, and look on with eyes rounder than the moon at even the shortest story she could tell them about magic.

Stuffing was welcomed wholeheartedly by the Seamstress as her apprentice... And though they do not know it yet: she hopes, eventually, her successor as well.

Mosaic

Mosaic is one of the very few familiars Astralla created with a higher intelligence and a semi-free will of her own. She stands taller than most other familiars in the tower, with massive wings made of stretched canvas, and a body made of intricately folded paper. Unique to her magic, Mosaic can also choose to abandon her paper body in favor of becoming a drawing incarnate, and stride freely across canvases and finished paintings as a two-dimensional figure. To aid this, most of the tower's upper observatory has been draped with canvas sheets and filled with paintings from elsewhere in the tower, allowing Mosaic free roam on the higher levels.

Mosaic is the closest of the familiars to the Seamstress, and the two share a unique bond in their mutual grief over Astralla.

Cottonfluff Desire

One of the first toy familiars crafted by the Seamstress, Cottonfluff (or 'Desire' as he will claim to any who will listen), considers himself to be the darling younger brother of Star. She made him for this purpose, after all, and to this purpose he shall serve-- even if he is a bit over-the-top at times.

Desire gets his self-proclaimed nickname from spending far too many hours reading Astralla's old (half-eaten) romance novels, and pouring over the bits and pieces of chivalry sprinkled between the gnawed pages. He thinks of himself as quite the gentleman, and embodies these lofty ideals to a fault.

Early into his knightly escapades within the tower, Desire begged his elder sister for dashing apparel to match the persona he wanted to build. As a bit of a friendly prank, the Seamstress did indeed provide -- provide a familiar, that is, with a mischievous mind of its own (Rogue Apparel).

(Desire is also loosely inspired by the Winged Lion from Dungeon Meshi :) )

Scraps

Scraps is one of the youngest familiars in the Agate Tower, sewn together from dishcloths found left under the sink. Their 'duty' to the tower is to wriggle their way into nooks and crannies in order to clean them, then wash all that dirt off in a teacup bathtub. Scraps is one of the few familiars sewn by the Seamstress that can safely get wet, on account of their stuffing being made from shredded towel.

Scraps lives in the cupboards, where they've befriended the spice shaker, Nutmeg. They love being wrung out after a long day of cleaning, and especially enjoy hanging in their swing to dry (It feels like flying!)

─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ───

The Tower Gardens

Before Astralla took up residence in the Agate Tower, its creator had commissioned a massive, sprawling set of gardens that have since overgrown their boundaries...

Lychen

Lychen is by far the largest familiar Astralla ever animated, formerly a marble statue covered in moss. Because of his size and the amount of magic it takes for him to operate, Lychen typically rests atop his plinth to conserve his energy. He is a kind, slow-to-speak and kind soul, readily offering his masttive figure as shelter for the creatures of the garden.

Queen Myre and King Thicket

A pair of witty Veilspun who may be older than the Agate Tower itself. This mysterious pair claim to rule the overgrown gardens, and are rarely seen by any of Astralla's animated familiars. They are the caretakers of the gardens, and their brood is plentiful- occupying every hollow and clump of weed as tiny, shadowy pixies.

[lumoselm-fr]

WBW, GO GO GO. How do you envision breed changes going? Is it magical, or is there an actual scroll they would use? Do they go through it painlessly, or do you think there would be some literal growing pains? I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW.

Magical!! And sometimes not even of their own choosing, depending on the circumstances and magic at hand. There very much are growing pains too. Going from a fae to a guardian, for example, would be a large jump in size and a very unpleasant experience :)

[bawkrya]

HIIII HAPPY WBW!

My entire lair is basically up for questions, except for: Directory, Dossier, Travelers, and any faes named PARCHMENT

The Clan of Phrauge & Burrow Market are my most developed tabs to date, but I have info in my brain for just about any dragon, INCLUDING my fodder breeders LMFAO

I'll try to see if i can find prompts to rb but I'm presently available to answer any questions atm!

Sidenote, norves WIP bio is in Aethers bio for code testing

[murkmirth-halo]

oooooo i almost forgot, happy worldbuilding wednesday!!!! here's my lair, you can ask questions about anybody as long as they arent in my hibden or sales tab. even if they dont have anything in their bio, they likely have lore or at least something about them that i havent written down yet

i'll be online grinding so send in those questions!!

[alhabil]

Childhood loss...

It is a bad feeling for my children to lose their right to play and to lose all their rights....

At the age of less than ten, they are doing work...the war is the cause of all this...at this age they are supposed to have fun and play...we are only in Gaza, they are filling water and lighting fire...they are contributing to things that were not We never imagined that one day they would do it at this age..... Please help us by donating and sharing. Every 10 euros helps us reach our goal.

@90-ghost @nanaisbabe @nabulsi @eliirlick

@riding-with-the-wild-hunt @soons-palestine

@fundraiser @palipunk @el-shab-hussein @occupationsurfer @evelyn-art-05 @ibringmotivation @ibtisams @sar-soor @

[figfull]

Gene origin headcanon-Brightshine/Sparkle

The original brightshine wasn’t a heritable gene. It was a gift the Lightweaver herself, bestowed on her most favorite and loyal children. These “brightmarked” were deeply respected and often given special privileges throughout the Flight.

However, it didn’t take too long for scroll artists to make imitations, some ranging from a weak sparkle to a nearly perfect copies of the brightmark. (In fact, one scroll maker flooded the market with them at a loss, purely to spite the elite.)

There was already some debate around “scrolled” vs “true” appearances, and whether using scrolls was cheating fate or dishonest etc, but the idea that any dragon with enough treasure could masquerade as a god’s chosen really set the debate into overdrive.

Scrolling fell out of fashion for a while, or at least, dragons claimed not to use them, but brightshine/sparkle had already circulated far and wide.

[whichoneofyourdragons]

Happy WBW!

Which one of your dragons... is most picky about food?

[dilsdragons]

for worldbuidling wednesday instead of requesting general asks, i'd like to talk about my gay dirt boy ayers!

he's a scavenger who was giving the power delivery research and development team a lot of trouble but now he provides them with scrap he's scavenged to recycle, and tesla doesn't ask too many questions about where he got it from (because of the influence of early ridgeback settlements i think in the "modern" day shifting expanse there are "don't ask don't tell" laws or practices on the providence of some materials). he is a huge asshole and has been a loner for a long time. he lost his leg after trying to scavenge a huge ass spire on his own and getting trapped under it during a cold night while trying to get it to his base. when he was found, llueve had to amputate it. his scars act up when it'll rain.

he's very close with the android beta.v2, since on discovering the extremely sad living wildclaw automaton being forced to guard the source (thanks to some minor meddling from auggie), he stole him away and took him to tesla's workshop, which alerted her to the fact that her employers plagiarised her work and used it in the one circumstance she explicitly told them not to. it's an open secret where the stolen automaton is, but if they acknowledge its existence they'll admit to having kept it against its will and stolen tesla's work, so they leave it alone. anyway, beta and ayers are really really close, and ayers doesn't like to admit how close he is to beta or how much he like spending time with him, and beta has very little context for what any of this means. but ayers makes him feel like how his roses do. and beta makes ayers look back on his life of being alone and think he looked lonely.

so yeah! that's ayers :]

[gaelbog]

i think you might have posted about this before but, why are there two Tupelos? i'd love to hear about the Garden of the Snappers too, how did it get started and who does what?

There is a non-lore reason for the two Tupelos.. but I do also have a lore reason. I'll start with the non-lore answer.

Tupelo was a hatchling that I used to have, he's the son of the first dragon I had ever bought off the AH (Mire) and her wife (Taliesin). I've taken a few hiatuses since I joined fr.. and one of these times I sold/gave away a lot of my old dragons. Mire, Tupelo, and Taliesin being a few of them. Over time however.. I started to miss Mire in particular. I found out she had been exalted a while ago, which led me to try and find a replacement for her. And that led to me wanting to find a replacement for Tupelo so I could in a way reunite this family I had lost. Eventually I ended up reaching out to people and managed to get the original Tupelo and Taliesin back! Now there was the issue of.. two Tupelos. What would I do with the doppelganger now that the original was back hom…

The answer is simple. Have him be a doppelganger! I refer to him as Twopelo in my own mind. At some point. I think Tupelo got separated from his family and while partially lost and partially exploring he met himself. No ones really sure where this 2nd Tupelo came from.. but the two of them are very close friends, despite the strange circumstances.

And a much briefer answer for Garden of the Snappers.. A while ago I had set up some lore that Caedmon was the leader of a group of snappers that decided they wanted to settle down somewhere instead of continuously wandering. This group consisted of Caedmon, Zepha, Jerel, and Jeric. Caedmon was tasked with tending to this ancient garden and uses her skills to help create cures for ailments. Zepha is a living part of the Garden, no one is entirely sure when she was created. Jeric and Jerel are brothers who learned their warrior skills from Jerboas.. trust me they mean business.

Now I think the Garden is becoming a small community, Tupelo's family being the only other residents currently. I need to come up with more for them but.. Taliesin helps at the shop Caedmon runs, making potions and cures.

Thank you so much for your interest in my lore!!

[flourishing-fagopsis]

Good morning everyone, lets Worldbuild this Wednesday! ^0^

[firebirds-roost]

WORLDBUILDING WEDNESDAY!!!

You know the drill! Come check out my lair and then ask me questions about it!! All of the dragons in the first two tabs have some sort of lore associated with them, but the ones higher up on the page tend to be the ones with more story relevance.

SUMMARY:

Deep in the Ashfall Waste, just a day's flight south from Cinderslag, stand the ruins of a long-abandoned factory complex. Nobody knows exactly what happened there - apparently the employees were just told to evacuate one day and never allowed back inside - and the site has become the source of many local legends. Some say it's haunted, swearing that they've seen shadows moving past the windows, while others are positive that it's all part of a government cover-up.

But the real truth may be stranger than any ghost story.

Unbeknownst to most of the flight, a small clan of dragons has recently made the ruins their home. They've been living inside for nearly three years now, building a town of scrap and salvage from the rusted machinery, and only a few unlucky outsiders know of their existence at all. Welcome, dear visitors, to Firebird's Roost!

The Roost was created as a secret safe haven for dragons who felt abused or rejected by society, a place where they could live in peace without all the pressures of the outside world weighing on them. Most of its population consists of blacksmiths and other workers who were sick of being mistreated by the forgemasters, but dragons from other flights are hardly uncommon. Anyone can join the Firebird family!

Not everything is as it seems, though. The clan's newest residents - Cheddar and Parmesan - have noticed a few things that feel strange about their new home. Why are the lower floors off-limits? Why was this factory abandoned in such a hurry? And why does the town's founder seem so determined to keep them there? As the summer solstice draws closer, so too does the dawning of a terrible truth...

[andromedaexists]

Happy WBW! <3

What are the world's religions like in the Icarus series? Are they similar to our own, or are there unique religious beliefs?

~ @nightingaleflowlibrary

Happy WBW!! I hope you have an amazing evening!

This is a fun question because it's kind of convoluted lol

So, like, all the worlds religions still exist in CMI. With it being a near-future dystopian based on out world, everything about our world is retained in the world of Call Me Icarus. It's just... different.

Primarily, in the United States, there has been a movement to revive the Old Gods in a desperate attempt to fix climate change. They do that by naming Elysians after characters from myth, including the Gods. They're meant to be like a living sacrifice to these Gods to earn their favor in hopes that they will aid humanity in stopping the severe progression of climate change.

However, this also comes with other side effects. The most noticeable one being that the abrahamic religions are kind off... pushed to the side? They are not the predominant religions in the US anymore because it's become apparent that the abrahamic God is willing to let the earth die.

But what comes out of that is a kind of like mash-up of christianity and paganism. People in modern America on a whole don't know what ancient greek religion entailed! So they kind of... cobble together what they think ancient greek religion entailed.

They worship the Gods, yes, but they don't have the rituals in place that ancient peoples did. It's more along the lines of like a pagan equivalent to catholics who only go to mass on easter and christmas if that makes sense.

Anyways this got really long, I hope this answers the question well enough! I could ramble about the convoluted mess that is religion in CMI all day if you let me

Thanks for asking!!

@bardic-tales

[lumoselm-fr]

YOU KNOW WHAT DAY IT IS, BITCHES

WORLD BUILDING WEDNESDAY

Hand over your lair links or wbw prompts!

My lair is here for those who also wanna participate!

[condensedenderman]

I don't have a moss dragon yet (soon. Soon) but the fact that Nature and Arcane are pushing together actually works out really well in my favor. Some Arcane student getting a little bit careless with their magic and accidentally animating a mycology student's patch of moss.....

[pestilentbrood]

Oo! There's a whole day for talking about our lore n such going on? Why did nobody tell ME about this/j

Well I am always more than willing to answer questions about my silly guys, as I am pretty much always thinking about them even when I'm not. Here's a brief overview of (most) of my current clans, if y'all wanna ask me things!

Only clans missing from there that I can think of are Pyromania (extremely underdeveloped fire clan circus), The Market (self explanatory; marketplace where shenanigans unfold), and the ant colony made up of sandsurges underneath the Shifting Expanse (also pretty underdeveloped).

And if you just wanna sift thru my lair, that's Here!

Come Indulge Meeee

[fenneckitsune]

tell me about Sulien; the fact that they're an extreme threat makes me want to know why

Aaaah Sulien

She's stuck down there for a few reasons

has and continued to -prior to capture- enthrall dragons to force them into shade pacts to have them permanently under her control

She at one point in the past resided with the aether residents near the forbidden portal, ended up going through it and infesting all sorts of unknowable entities with fragments of The Shade.

Gicelburg got involved when she emerged back from the portal to wreck havoc on the town that surrounded the portal; minions leveling the place to the ground

Gicelburg isn't entirely sure the full extent of the boons the shade has gifted one of its favourites thus they placed her in the highest security they possibly could. she's practically at the bottom of the iceburg prison