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Oh No! You've been turned into a Flight Rising Familiar!

Spin this wheel to find out which one!

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FR tumblr is like a small town where everyone knows each other and crime is somehow still so high

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Okay you guys.

IF YOU PRIMARILY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH reply with what you mentally call it, if you have a nickname for it or something

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Designing the Everlux for Flight Rising

In November of 2024 Flight Rising released the Everlux dragon breed.

Designing a new dragon for Flight Rising is always an interesting challenge. The dragons need too be unique, fit into a square, and have enough surface area across both their bodies and wings for separate patterns (genes) to go into both. This breed originated from the Light Flight, and we wanted to explore a more alien dragon design. I came up with several concepts for the breed, but a heavy-set caterpillar inspired dragon is the direction we ended up going in.

Before proceeding with a final, I decided to do some studies from reference to learn a bit more about caterpillar anatomy and how their segmented, soft bodies worked. I did several studies from photographs of monarch butterfly caterpillars. I took the opportunity to draw in my sketchbook. Up until this past year, I have not been doing a lot of practice studies, and since picking up the habit, I’ve found that I observe more carefully and learn more by drawing on paper. With digital art, it is very easy to cut, move, and warp drawings after the fact. With paper, I was required pay attention to get the proportions as accurate as possible from the get-go, and I think it helped me to draw more mindfully.

With some practice under my belt, I proceeded to tighter drawings that fit the Flight Rising dragon style and template requirements.

And here are the final templates used for the game! Between the drawing and final stage, the FR art team provided helpful feedback on the hatchling. It was determined that the pulled up leg was busy and read poorly, so it was streamlined for the final. Getting an additional pair of eyes on something is always a good idea!

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Amaranta is a lot of things, but at least she's stylish!

Reblog to poke her with a stick from 30 meters away

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Love when flight rising is like "your dragons are happy and full of energy!" like okay sure they ate but I'm looking at the lore and the rest of that is a bit of a stretch.

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While the people of the Selvan don't celebrate Christmas, the teretosi will take any excuse to hunt celebrate with their fellow intalli

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Reblog to ask Serra if she's single or something

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just throwing out a message of appreciation , because i see you around all the time , reblogging all sorts of stuff from the community , tagging it with such sweet and positive things , often giving your own thoughtful and creative input too . i love seeing you in my own notifications of course , but more so this is just gratitude for the general pillar you are to the FR space in my eyes .

aaa dgsdfg omg thank you so much <3 that means a lot!! i just love the community here so much, we're all just in this together to look at some fun dragon pngs c:

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How do you feel about the Everluxes?

Well, I'm actually someone who generally dislikes Ancients. I usually find that they're kind of a "waste" of an otherwise interesting breed concept, and the fact they can't wear apparel means I find them difficult to work with even when the colors are all aligned. They're usually just "discount moderns," to me.

So Everluxes are everything I want, actually!

They're something that could never exist as a modern breed because they break the 4-legs 2-wings mold, they're SUPER unique in terms of their grublike proportions and big chunky upper legs, and they released with a ton of amazing line-breaking genes that are fun to play with. This is exactly what I feel like Ancients have been missing since their release!

I actually strongly disagree that these guys are "unfitting" in the Light Flight-- I think everyone who's saying that just doesn't like that Light has a fat dragon. I'm losing patience with the way they'll say, "It's not because they're fat, it's because they're inelegant, ungraceful, gross, tubular, long, round, etc" and just expect people to not realize those are being used as alternate words for "fat." The only person they're fooling is themselves.

They have a lot in common with the other breeds, actually. The wings resemble the Imperial's. The rhino-like horn reminds me of the pearlcatchers. They have the same prehensile "feeler" whiskers. Even the way that they're really long makes me think of a sort of "beta" imperial.

I have a headcanon that the Lightweaver made Everluxes and was suuuuper proud of them, her little "bookwyrms..." and then her bully of a sister, Shadowbinder, got REALLY mean about them. Took jabs at every chance, and ultimately made Veilspuns as "LOOK, IT'S YOURS BUT BETTER LOL. MAYBE YOU COULD LEARN SOMETHING. YOU LOVE DOING THAT, DON'T YOU?"

Long hair, sleek features, strong and tricky... Lightweaver loved her design, but when she looked at what her sister could do, she felt ashamed. She'd just wanted people to help her archive and preserve knowledge, but now that she was being pressured to compare her creations to someone else's, suddenly the joy was gone.

And, of course, FlightRising lore enjoyers know what comes next.

Spurred on by that fierce feeling of inadequacy, her next set of creations would be larger, more beautiful, more powerful than anything that had ever come before. She forced every tear, every sob, every moment of anguish she'd ever felt into her next creation. No dragon that walked the soil of Sornieth would be able to hold a candle to the light of the masterpiece within her claws.

Imperials came after the Everlux-- and Emperors in their wake. The Lightweaver swore to never create a breed out of anguish ever again.

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Behold! The incomprehensible All-lux and the less-lux

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These people could NOT handle my fake lightning ancient from ages ago

ok why are people acting like everluxes ran them over with their car 12 times before killing their whole family in front of them

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retracting my statement about the skinny legs i understand them now

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Anyways look at my headworld designs and quiver in fear i guess (follow me at @pulsarspark to see more)

ok why are people acting like everluxes ran them over with their car 12 times before killing their whole family in front of them

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Am i going insane. Like ok the fatphobia is expected (Unfortunately) but in terms of people hating them because of the bug thing. they're not even that insect-like to me?? am I just desensitized??

ok why are people acting like everluxes ran them over with their car 12 times before killing their whole family in front of them

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ok why are people acting like everluxes ran them over with their car 12 times before killing their whole family in front of them

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looking at the dev tracker and aequorin is about to start killing people I think