SnE Post:
Keeping it short, the Knuckler family of dragons can be found across the known world, with the most well known being the temperamental Beyhekan Knucklers, often called the Dreadsaw or Blackwater Stalker by most.
Semi-Aquatic foragers of plants and shelled prey, quick to charge 'threats'.
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Finchleer, or sometimes called whooping birds for their shrill cries, are some of the speediest herbivores to exist on the continent of Tyrselon. These reptiles thrive in woodland edge, primarily eating nuts, seeds, and pitted fruits such as peaches. Living in social groups of 10-25 individuals-
WHERE ARE YOU ALL COMING FROM?! HELLO!!
🗿 oh the in-app cam widened the image...oh gosh.
Anyways: While you may see several individuals sharing the same rivers and ponds, their young are more numerous and fall to predation MUCH more regularly, with only a small portion becoming the adults you see around.
My favorite part of doing creature refs for SnE is the lil doodles of their ecology I can add.
This beast prefers water just deep enough it can splash around in but not deep enough for predation as full adults on a regular basis. This means you may see several of these dragons in the same area.
Thagoyarma
A dragon of peculiar behavior, it uses the weight of its body to pivot, lashing out with the phalanges of its wings, some say it is almost as if it were dancing.
These phalanges are very sharp and resistant, they are fused with claws.
It is not a great flyer, but it can handle it well.
Based on an old Black Dragon design made by @memothenexus.bsky.social (You should go follow them now!!)
Gross, foul, creature being designed for Smoke and Embers. Semi-Aquatic forager that mostly feeds on aquatic plants and their roots but sawing them against its jowl-tusks with its prehensile tongue.
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And finally, like it's coastal cousin, Emperors are most well known for the azure flames they breathe. Fire so saturated in magic that even it's *smoke* is tinted blue in older individuals, and this saturation is what makes their fire among the deadliest of all Dragons alive.
-find their next source of food, with slow, majestic beasts in the air that can be heard from nearly a full mile off. Their wings are the precursor notes of their deathly symphony, a sign of approaching doom to even the most well armed cities and forts.
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With ever-growing tusks, a long snout and the strongest sense of smell given to Drakonia, Emperors are gluttonous omnivores to the fullest. Anything from a small berry bush to an entire fields worth of livestock can be on their menu. Their powerful wings ensure they always-
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Their caves are oft far and away from the touch of humanity (this will refer to all Sophonts) but yet a Crimson Emperor will always make sure at least one or two settlements of any size are within their IMMENSE territory boundaries.
They do not share outside of courtships.
SnE Post:
"Upon wings that shadowed the land, Death soared to the castle of Kings to feast upon an endless banquet. In an hourspan we saw the fall of what was once the greatest kingdom. In a moment, it was gone", description of the first Crimson Emperor attack, 500 years ago.
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Have a WIP of a new SnE dragon species.
The Crimson Emperor, the inland equivalent of the Southern Smokesnout. Found across Gendahhal and Beyhek mostly, with populations rarely found in other mountain ranges. They have no qualms with raiding a city even as civilization advances forwards.
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"O'Mother, O'Ecplise Bringer, O'Life Bearer!
May you guide our talons, Mother Ravahdrah!
By the shadow of your wings, we thrive day and night.
By your gaze we remain hopeful."
-Caedastori prayer oft said before a day's work begins, to ease ones self.
3/?
"They have become the finest blade bearers, favoring them still even in the advent of smokepowder weaponry, as their forebearers before them were the ones who carved the world a new eon ago. Blades of the highest quality are oft made by Caedastori talons."
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"It's rare for Chimeras to live long enough to integrate into the world properly, even rarer for them to spawn entire generations worth of culture and LIFE. Their innate magic is unstable, but this never hampered them from growing, from thriving, from the Jadeshores to the rest of the world."
SnE Post:
"The Caedastori, or Carvers on Wing, are an old surviving folk that can trace their origins to the ancient practice of Chimeric magic, but any older knowledge is lost, their dragonic appearance simply a result of flesh being warped like artists clay."
1/?"
Megaguirus
Bonus post for grouping:
Toaodds: Bouldhopper, Melongulp, Fleshsnapper, Wrinkled Taba.
Serpos: Strangler, Salted, Reef.
Lordewts: Fat Furk, Lurking Lurg, Lumbering Lusters, Odder, To'Fra.
Pseudotiles: Salahund, Song Eater, Stream Strider, River Titan, Grunting Groose.
Drakon: Dawn Drake.
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-the more terrestrial dwellers of the Song-Eaters, Striderine, and the Titanoamphi, animals that rely less on the water bodies of the lush Jadeshores, and instead getting their moisture through the humid air and retaining it for much longer then their contemporaries." 3/3
"The Amphitiles, a strange group of primarily semi-aquatic to fully aquatic animals of distant relation to the dragons and lesser reptiles.
From them arose the Serpos, lithe aquatic and arboreal snakes, the Toaodds such as Bouldhoppers and Fleshsnappers, and-" 2/?
SnE post:
"The humid and lush wetlands of the Jadeshores are made up of not grass and fern, but moss and flowers and towers fruit and nut trees.
A shallow carpet of water covers almost any flat or slightly downwards inclined surfaces. Bountiful and beautiful, yet danger lurks." 1/?
"Their jaws are constantly warmed by their never ending heat, smoke often billowing from the snouts of older individuals, making it hard to gauge when these dragons are about to let loose a jet of fire. At near 200 years, this smoke trail can often cloak the dragon entirely if it chooses."
SnE Post:
"Be sure to have a portion of the ship with a sturdy canopy to hide under, for extended travel at sea leaves you ripe for snatching, the talons of a warm air riding beast rake these salty waters often, and this crew is no safer then the fish themselves. Duck least you be snatched away."
Close ups of the major regions of Gaedren, the world of Smoke and Embers:
Beyhek, Gendahhal, Gaol Isles, the Chainlands Between (Normally just Chain), the Sunset Lands, Redmount Sanctum, the Jade Isles, Jadeshore Island, and finally, Dragon's Fire respectfully.
