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The Crystafam Gem & Gold rundown!!

First: Why? Well, I thought it would be funny to try and design pokemon that the FR dragons would design, based on creatures that live in their world, and then all the rest happened! My partner in crime @deer-rising contributed so much to this ridiculous project, creating the in-game pixel screenshots as well as the logos, which we'll get into later. Special thanks also to Arkeyr79 on Flight Rising, who created the Flight Rising Runes font that I used extensively in the magazine spread and on which Sourdeer based the logos and custom textwork. Doing all the layout and beating up the quality a bit to make it look like a magazine scan was a lot of fun. We were going for an overall Gen IV vibe because imo Gen IV and V were the golden era of fake pokemon leaks.

Crystafam Gem & Crystafam Gold

The game logos, designed and flawlessly rendered by @deer-rising. We went with "Crystafam" as the name of the game because this is a game made by Arcane flight featuring Arcane crystal capturing technology. The text in the first box of the magazine spread says... well the first line is just nonsense letters that look like they say "bitch cheddar". Um, because that's traditional. But then it says, "Welcome to the Umbra Region! Set out on your new Crystafam journey! Exclusively on the Stormlight Spark." (The Stormlight Spark is the name of the console it's on, which is Lightning tech, and a shoutout to the FR studio.)

Gem and Gold Protagonists: Fae and Mirror

Whereas Pokemon uses a lot of red, Crystafam skews more pink and magenta. Because Arcane! It also uses capture crystals instead of pokeballs. My choice to make the protagonists a Fae and a Mirror was pretty arbitrary, but Sourdeer's idea to base their colors off the dragons in the FR header banner was inspired lol. It immediately makes them recognizable, I think.

Moofio, Dilloom, and Mamertyke

The starters! Based on these guys:

They are Fire type, Nature/Plague type, and Water type (of course the types are the flight elements, not normal Pokemon types.) Mamertyke's name was originally Mammerteeny but we wanted it to be 9 characters so it got the Feraligatr treatment and got cut down to fit. I think that Moofio would evolve into a Fire/Earth type, and Mamertyke would probably be Water/Ice. If they didn't just stay pure Fire and Water.

In-Game Battle Screenshots and Vampuff

These are so incredible and they are made by Sourdeer. Look at the special crystal UI! She made a bespoke pixel version of the runes font! Custom type symbols. The sprites!!! Just outstanding work.

This bird is Vampuff, based on the Ragepuff familiars, and it is the regional bird (Shadow/Wind type). Unfortunately it was left on the cutting room floor because we wanted the screenshots to feature the starters. But it even has an animation!!!! Sourdeer is the best.

Professor Wispwillow and Rosmack

This is Professor Wispwillow, the professor who gives you your first Crystafam! Her partner is a Rosmack, the regional rodent Crystafam based on a Rodaque. I think it is Shadow/Water type and when it evolves it would dual wield bones to do the full jolly roger.

Nogdon and the Shade

Finally we have a couple hints at the plot of Gem and Gold. The Crystafam are being infected by a dangerous Shade incursion! This is Nogdon, a pseudolegendary Crystafam, and it has been completely Shadebound!! You have to catch it or KO it to save it! The Shade also seems to be able to infect capture crystals, uh oh... Nogdon is of course based on Xhaztol a Noggle:

That's pretty much it I think! Oh, also the vertical text on the left says "You have to get them." The slogan of the series. Get them. You have to.

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Pretty certain that Lightning Skydancers use their magic like this.

Extremely stupid reaction image of my girl Riik for Bottlesong.

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I absolutely love the detail in your accents!! This one even made me breed-change my beloved Ezekiel into a spiral!

Art is by AlwaysD2 on FR! (There's no wings on the art because lorewise they're usually not visible but I love the little flower-wing-crown so much)

hi i never post on here but ive been having One Of Those Days and i have an odd request… if you’ve ever commissioned or made art of a dragon wearing one of my (auroshen) accents, i would rly love to see it (and the model themselves of course) :’)

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I was just casually thinking about something again and I'm always curious about other players, so here's yet another random poll

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POV: You are an up-and-coming manufacturer in Goldensparc, and your business's stake in the Lightning Farm has recently been bogged down by vandalism and corporate sabotage. Desperate, you decide to hire a freelance guarantor. She agrees to take the job, but includes a rider for unfettered access to recharging stations for her powerpacks. You wonder why she will be discharging a weapon often enough to require that in the contract, but decide to put it out of your mind. After all, she came very highly recommended.

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Another commission, this time it's for ForgeFossil on Flight Rising!

★FR Store★

★Bluesky★

Process video HERE

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Yes!! Merun here went through the process (mistakenly thinking his affections could only be reciprocated if he was also a dragon).

There's a lot to consider - I think some breedchange scrolls are easier to apply to different beastclans, I figured Serthis - Coatl made some sort of sense. Maybe Harpy - Skydancer would be an easier transformation than, say, Harpy - Snapper.

Does anyone ever think of like.. a beastclan creature using a breedchange scroll to be a dragon?

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Ancient bones rest in the Fishspine Reef

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Video description under the cut

[VIDEO DESCRIPTION] An open ocean scene on a beautiful blue sky day with land in the far distance. The perspective and animation are as if you’re comfortably floating in the ocean. You are surrounded by the sounds of waves when a large splash is heard offscreen. The scene fades to reveal the Flight Rising logo. A golden glittery special effect appears to reveal more text that reads Saturday June 8, 2024.

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Ornamental Pond Gardener [outfit=2404645] (SD skin #34250)

this came to me in a vision (originally just the lily pads + koi skin) (but i felt like it needed some more pizzazz)

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Living Fossils- my entry for this years wavecrest!

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Someone messages you and offers to trade you a Boolean. It’s legit, there’s no funny business, but in exchange you must give up your most prized dragon that isn’t a progenitor. It could be a dragon with years of lore and art, a roundsey raffle prize, your special dragon you worked years for. It doesn’t matter.

No maybe answer. You have to decide.

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Coat of arms based on Guardian dragons and Water Flight.

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some cheeky april fools achievements for you all :PPPP

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Thank you for this chance - here's Bollwerk, a former mercenary who is now a member of the guard. He was the one who made me reconsider M-pose snappers and now he's a beloved favourite :)

⭐ 10 Year Anniversary Giveaway ⭐

It's been 10 Official Whole Years since I joined FR, so have a little giveaway to celebrate! I've done so much in those years, from getting obsessed with a fake petsite-within-a-petsite, making the best friends of my life from a Flight Rising themed Minecraft server and to very briefly running a Barbara Streisand/FR mashup blog lol There will be 4 winners, whom can choose from this list of prizes! 1. 5000 Gems! 2. 1 Fullbody Illustration of an OC (Dragon or otherwise) 3. 1 Headshot Illustration of an OC (Dragon or otherwise) 4. A copy of (almost) any of my Accents! ⭐To enter simply RB with your favourite snapper and why! It doesn't have to be your snapper, just your favourite! Because that's what we are all on FR for, the snappers :) ⭐ Winners will be chosen with RNG from the entries!

Only RBs with snappers will count! Giveaway will end on Wednesday 17th April 2024, 00:01AM BST! And to cap it off a selection of some pretty old art from years gone by :)

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Decided I wanted to see if I could color match the new apparel with some XXY Metallic/Alloy/Circuit dragons! The last pair with the same apparel because I could not decide if I prefer the contrast of the Orca vs. the more matching White.

Midnight/Cornflower -Smoke/Purple

Slate/Saffron -Beige/Banana

White/Ruby -Orca/Ruby