genessia | [Video]

I just realized...I've been in Genessia for a whole year now. I remember the day I arrived like it happened yesterday. I remember... ~~[being kidnapped by...]~~ ...meeting Koishi...and Terra was another one of the first people I've met here. I think I've come a long way since then... I remember how scared I was, particularly of humans, since I had not encountered one before then, and I wasn't sure how they would react to dragons. But for the most part, they've treated me kindly, and I'm grateful for that. I was inflicted with a plague when I first arrived, but after my visit to the dream docks, I was cured, and I've become more powerful than ever. I don't like to brag, but...I feel proud of what I have achieved. I am also glad to have brought in my subarchway, so I can share my experience in Genessia with my clan.

Now...I have a rather...strange question. In my world, the dragons of my clan train themselves in battle in a journey that we refer to as The Passage. We battle against the various beasts in Sornieth to improve are skills and powers. Now that we're here in Genessia, resuming the Passage has been...difficult, with the lack of opponents. Now...I know there are many powerful fighters here, but these are frankly battles to the death, and I would not wish that upon anyone here.

So, I was wondering if there are strong wildlife opponents for my clan to fight in order to resume their Passage. Unfortunately, Everglade is off limits, and the creatures there were hatchlings' play anyway. So, if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. I know this sounds morbid, but...we feel that it's necessary. We are essentially a warrior clan, after all.

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I'm a Fae dragon. The Fae are the smallest known dragon breed in Sornieth so far.

So lightning dragons like metalworks and gadgets, faes like eating insects, can you do magic? Or how do you fight?

Well, the Lightning dragons like the gadgets. The Fire dragons are the metalworkers. I am a Fire dragon myself, but I've been living in the Nature flight all my life, and we take care of the flora and fauna.

I do fight with magic, yes. I can cast spells and heal my allies, and I can reflect the enemy magic back at the caster.

Yeah? So fire likes forging, makes sense, but you live in nature, and do healing. [Swallowing his "WOW!" again.]

Pretty impressive. Usually people in my world can only do one special ability. Healing or barriers. Well, it depends. There's doctors, but...

[Runs a hand through his hair thinking.] How many types are there?

Right now, there are thirteen breeds...but there may be more that may appear in the future. There are also eleven elements. Each dragon is aligned with one of the elements.

Fire, nature, and lightning are the elements?

Is there a smoke one?

Yes...Fire, Nature, and Lightning are three of the eleven elements. There's no smoke one, though...

Pity.

What other types are there? Let me guess... earth, air, water.... salt?

Yes, there is Earth and Water...and Wind. And then there's Ice, Arcane, Light, Shadow, and Plague.

Huh. Not that much like my world's fairy tales then. So the breeds are determined by the elements? What about the other two? Or are they separate from each other?

Well, not exactly. When the elemental gods first gave birth to dragonkind, each one created a breed, some of them have created two. For example, the Fae breed was originally birthed by the Arcanist. But when dragons mate, their offspring will inherit the breed of one of the parents. The element is determined by the nest in which they hatched. So any dragon hatched in the Nature domain will be a Nature dragon.

That makes sense! So their element determines the place they were born, but then they can move to other places. Like islands. [Nod nod.]

So does each element have its own culture and traditions?

No...it's the other way around. The place they were born determines their element.

The different flights have their own traditions and professions, like I mentioned. Lightning and Fire dragons are hard workers with their technology and metalwork. Light and Arcane dragons like to study and learn as much as they can about the world and beyond.

Oh... I see. I think.

What about shadow and plague? [Those sound evil :T] They sound like pirates.

Shadow dragons are the most mischievous. They like to play pranks on others. The Plague dragons are survivors, the most savage of them. They love to pit themselves against the other elements. They like to collect bones from their enemies.

Pranks aren't too bad.

Collecting bones sounds a bit odd though. What do they do with them all?

They keep the bones as trophies, mainly. In fact, there's one Plague dragon in my clan who wears the bones as trinkets.

I see.

Still sounds like pirates.

But I guess some marines can be like that too.

[She suppresses a laugh.]

There's one dragon in my clan who's a pirate as well. Or...he tries to be, anyway.

He tries to be?

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