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depths

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My first dragon had to be a mirror

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Comms

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oh yeah. it's gold again

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Orville and Wilbur

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another anniversary, another baking project...!

this year i made the fr emojis into sugar cookies! i handmade some cookie cutters, so i can keep practicing my royal icing techniques, haha...

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Recently taken a new artsy interest in nocturnes. :) My nocturne boi.

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favoured son

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Jesse for @buff-dunerunner!

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some jovian practice for ya

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Playing around with Ellisanndra’s design. Still not entirely sure about how to handle her deformed wings, but I like what I settled on in the top picture with one wing small and missing a fair bit of membrane, and the other missing a finger and and being a little misshapen. Bottom sketches are my experiments with what she might look like.

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Happy Halloween!! Eat lots of candy and stuff!!!

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Elderith, one of my favorite FR dergs~

Just for fun, I used this tool to determine his wing span.

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Lightning Lore - Scrub, Not Sand

It looks like Lightning Flight’s Shifting Expanse suffers from the same misconceptions as many Earth deserts do: namely, that people think this desert is filled with sand. This is a myth in reality and, according to the worldbuilding Flight Rising has done, a myth in Sornieth as well! But not an uncommon myth it seems. Even staff have described it as “rolling dunes”, and then designed a map that has no sand on it. Let’s look at the illustrations they’ve given us and see why there’s no sand in this supposedly shifting expanse:

That desert on the world map is clay and dirt and stone. The life they depict in the Highland Scrub- cacti, bushes, etc., wouldn’t grow in sand. They require dirt to live, and would die in a rolling dune landscape. The Carrion Canyon looks like hard clay and stone, created by layers of dirt being compressed, carved through erosion. Think the desert gorge scenes in the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron movie, or The Grand Canyon without any river in it anymore. The Lightning Farm and Tempest Spire are stony and hard, made of the same stuff at Carrion Canyon possibly with hints of sand around those areas on the coast, carried there by the wind but probably not originating from the desert itself.

The sandiest area of the Shifting Expanse is definitely going to be the coast. And even the coast has been drawn like a cliffside, not beaches. Probably there are still some beaches here and there, pockets of sand and dirt combined amongst the cliffs and rocks. But the way they drew these cliffs, there doesn’t seem like any one area large enough to have even a really decently sized beach. I’d wager a guess the sandiest, beachiest area is on the border with Light Flight, where it smooths out. That’s probably where we would find “rolling dunes.” 

Dust is prevalent however, and lots of dirt made from eroding clay. This is probably an incredibly dusty desert due to Stormdad’s ministrations. The dust would be kicked up by the storms and it’s probably terrible closer to the Spire, where it might rain less and is just plagued by staticy, windy, dry lightning storms. The decision to give his Flight an area of dust and static to build machines, which work best without dust and static, is a decision based on my theory that the deities want to directly challenge their worshipper’s greatest abilities. But I’ll write a post on that later.

Conclusion theories: the expanse is shifting because Lightning Flight’s denizens are ever changing and ever moving. It is both symbolic and literal, of the cycle of construction and demolition, moving communities of dragons, and constant invention and innovation. Worldbuilding around the Shifting Expanse, if it’s based on Sornieth of course (like those “characteristics of each flight” posts), wouldn’t involve any significant amount of sand. You would have hard clay for dirt, buildings constructed of mudbricks or very light wood, huge dust storms before rain, and lots of monsoons, though.

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some old/unfinished doodles because I miss drawing my dudes!!!

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51 colours of green for TalaTari :)

My DA - https://avokad.deviantart.com/

My FR ID - 283753

My FA - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tealavokado/

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Really happy with how this commmission turned out for Rangiku!

I’m Desnik #213154, if you want to poke me on Flight Rising.