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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: CC-2224 | Cody/Obi-Wan Kenobi, Boga the Varactyl & Obi-Wan Kenobi Characters: CC-2224 | Cody, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Mace Windu, Boga the Varactyl (Star Wars) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Pern Fusion, Mating Flight (Dragonriders of Pern), Dragon Riders Series: Part 3 of AU-gust 2025 Summary:

AU-gust Day 03: Dragons

Obi-Wan gets to know the Wingleader of a Wing visiting from Kamino Weyr, just in time for his green’s next Mating Flight.

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Some art I made recently

Purple Guy (Mauve Task) belongs to @the-micelium

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Illustration by N. Taylor Blanchard (1983) for Fantasy Gamer #4 (February-March 1984 issue).

Images from Blanchard's website (link) and Warehouse23 (link).

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The only thing I can think of is that this is an elephant situation – they can hit up to 15mph, which apparently surprised researchers because they can't actually run. They always have one foot on the ground at all times, which is not classified as a run. (University of Colorado Boulder, link here to a paper with more details: https://spot.colorado.edu/~kram/elephants.pdf)

I can't find anything about *why* elephants don't run, whether it's purely a weight issue or something about their conformation, but it would explain why it's surprising to people.

Sometimes I remember that the DLG described whers as capable of "shocking speed" given the "bad design" that is having two toes and a singular footpad. And I have to wonder if this is a matter of not knowing how feet work and how speed adaptations work (which is very possible) or if they're trying to say that like, the digital and metacarpal pads are fused giving the wher a stiffer foot? Would any of the people involved in writing that book know jack-all about the pads on animals' feet, enough to make that sort of call? And even with the singular pad, my guy that's just a camel.

From what I'm finding online fuckers can maintain speeds of up to 25 mph (40 kph) over a distance and even 40 mph (65 kph) in short bursts. Two toes and a single pad does not slowness make.

Now mind when looking at potential wher speeds you also need to look at things like body shape and adaptations, for instance bears are clocked in going at around 25-30 mph (40-? kph) over distance it looks like? Depending on size of course. And of course that's another thing to keep in mind for whers is size, the numbers in the DLG give us something closer to the size of a brown or polar bear, but we have no reason to believe they didn't also grow over time, given Todd's statement that a gold wher is the size of a brown dragon. And something that size, you need to account for that size in your speed estimates.

I can't remember if we get anything about their gait in the books, I don't remember anything but I may have forgotten, so we don't know if they share the hopping one of dragons. This would effect their speed, locomotion is a pretty big part of getting around afterall, but again we don't know. The DLG has a picture of a wher and it seems to have have the same 'longer hindlimbs shorter forelimbs' set-up, also shows them as having far longer legs, proportionally, than dragons, which is interesting, but we can't be certain how canon accurate it is given *gestures at all of Pern* so we can't be sure. Especially since even dragon limb proportions aren't consistent in the book.

Don't know. There's no reason to whers being fast to be surprising if what we're being told is accurate, unless there's something with their gait, and again we don't know from a gait to my memory, so. *shrug*

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If you're a fan of vintage miniature figurines, you might have heard of Ral Partha. Their metal figurines were the official figures for TSR's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and they produced Citadel's miniatures in the US until 1986, plus a whole host of limited figurines and IP specific models. It's probably not a surprise then that they produced a limited edition model for Pern.

(Images from the Miniatures Workshop Wiki.)

Sculpted by Julie Guthrie (whose models are so ubiquitous of gaming in the 80s they were used as the game models in Stranger Things, and was responsible for the ElfQuest miniatures), the bronze dragon was made of five parts and came with two riders.

(Images from The Stuff of Legends.)

From what I can tell, this model was released in 1984 (this is the first Ral Partha catalog to feature it (view here on DND Lead) but a price and picture show up in the 1985 catalog (view here on DND Lead)) and in 1985 at least cost a whopping $30 ($89.93 in 2025 money).

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an intruder in the charcuterie!!

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My first Art Fight was lots of fun. Here's all the cool characters I drew!

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Updated reference sheet for my Pernese Green, Seaforth. Her wing panels have cartilaginous reinforcement but are fully connected by elastic skin membrane. She is a sea-foam green with darker points and some white scarring on her muzzle from foraging in sharp coral.

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I have a couple other artfights to post, but this is the final one that I finished today with two hours to spare!! A revenge of Enkeitath for @galacticteeth

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Drops a mini of my bbg Zirth. Didnt wanna include her shine but she is a gold.

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Moreta in Dragonflight (Moreta II, which is kind of hilarious to write and see on the wiki) could also hear all dragons, whereas Moreta prime can't.

Which makes it seem like even more of a thing where Anne went: what if I actually did something with this Moreta figure...actually I don't like what I did before...eh, there's two Moreta's now, whoever makes the fan timeline can figure it out.

In dragonflight, Lessa has a moment where she’s sitting in the weyrwoman’s traditional seat in the council room and she thinks about what an honor it is to be where Torene and Moreta once sat. Now this is likely just a typical anneconsistency, but I’m kind of fascinated by the potential explanation that at some point in the intervening time the Harper hall actually intentionally circulated the myth that Moreta was Weyrwoman of Benden instead of Fort, in order to make Benden the most specialest of all weyrs. I mean I’m not entirely sure what purpose that would serve, unless it was in the last two hundred years between the eighth and ninth passes, but mostly I’m interested in the potential for the Harper hall to be a hardcore propaganda machine

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Conclusion: Chapter 12- Landing

Wanda laughs, and twines her fingers with Agatha’s blackened ones. “Come on, Weyrleader.” Wanda teases.

Agatha rolls her eyes. “Call me that again, and I’m feeding you to the shipfish.”

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being chosen by a cat as their favourite person is somewhat comparable to what it must feel like for someone living on pern to get chosen by a dragon at a hatching imo

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Episode #16: The Masterharper of Pern

In this episode, we are perturbed by Petiron and Merelan’s marriage, intrigued by homosexual subtext that’s edging toward text, and disappointed to realize that F’lar is a nepo baby.

Transcript is available on our website!

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Oh, bother.

Hi! Hi! Good morning!

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Dragondrums (竜の太鼓), published by Hayakawa Publishing in 1990. Translated by Obi Fusa (小尾芙佐), with cover art by Kijima Shun (木嶋俊).

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#I don't know everything yet but it sounds like a good guide#does someone have a guide to their colours? I only understand that the bronze ones are the elite

If you've not already seen it, the Pern Wiki covers the basics: link. Dragons come in five colours: gold, bronze, brown, blue, and green. This is the order of their size and their 'rank/importance', but there's also a split between 'fighters' and 'metallics'. Brown/Blue/Green are fighting dragons, while Bronze/Gold are metallic dragons.

Rank in pure canon supposedly determines their intelligence and personality, too, with golds being the most intelligent and greens being the least, with the worst memory and 'flightiness' (being fickle and irresponsible).

Golds are the top of the pecking order, queens that are capable of commanding other dragons and their riders are weyrwomen. Bronzes are the dragons that are supposed to be the dragons of leaders, therefore their riders are wingleaders and weyrleaders. Browns are supposed to be the dependable middle ground, their riders are often wingseconds but it's expected that they will never be able to properly lead. Blues and greens are the main fighting force, but in canon it's expected that they spend all their time, er, being irresponsible.

I say supposed because I don't think the text supports these stereotypes one way or the other – Anne believed she wrote them that way, but bronzes/golds as often pick "weak/bad" leaders as they pick "good/strong" ones...

A mnemonic for remembering the genders of Pernese dragons

Green and gold are girls.

Blue, brown, and bronze are boys.