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(Unraveller : Year 343)
Svikešla, the Amethyst dragon, the curious one, has vanished. Their small, yet loyal enclave has gone with it, save for but a single lesser drake. The creature fled to the Copper Drake of the east.
((Knowing you, you've probably got plans for this and aren't just going to unceremoniously kill off an Immortal like that.
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(TankKit : Year 343.1)
Eightstone apathetically walks over a fort, doing some damage to it, and being only mildly hindered by it.
(TamerVirus : Year 343.2)
The first Liani Great Bombard, is hastily installed in the venerable Fort Ziani, mirroring the deployment history of Liani's ancestral predecessor, the Ziani cannon.
(King Zultan : Year 343.5)
The purple leaf disease in the unclaimed lands begins to spread rapidly towards the south after coming into contact with a large herd of migratory animals.
With the recent increase in the area of the purple disease infection in the Foxfolk's lands, they have decided to burn a line separating the uninfected lands from the infected in an attempt to stop the spread.
(Naturegirl1999, Strik3r : Years 343.6, 343.7)
The Phoenix finally hatches, is full of surprises.
Elysian Nomads form a "symbiotic" relationship with Dreamites.
(TamerVirus : Year 343.7)
M'Ova sets off toward Dalai, depending only on his own two feet and sense of direction to take him to Dalai.
WORLD STATE:
The Dwarves of formerly Vanishmountain have continued on their sky-island building.
Construction of the Observatory, Orcs' Capital City, the Chaos Coalition's Rift and the Moon Tower has progressed. The Moon Tower has been completed.
Elysian Nomads have continued their travel southward.
Rolls Eightstone attempts to go through a fort1d20=10Eightstone did indeed just simply walk through the fort, over walls and all, apathetic to those within both ways. The same could not be said for the troops stationed, who scrambled to get away from Eightstone who stepped wherever it pleased, without care for what's underneath. While it didn't specifically aim to damage the fort, it also did not care if it did, and damaged several buildings and the exterior walls on its way through. The repairs and the clearing out of sand will take some time, but the fort will generally be usable again in a few months at most. Eightstone suffered no damage, as the troops within the fort had no means to attack it, nor did they want to, but the fort itself did somewhat slow the spider down.
M'Ova journeys toward Free Cities of Dalai1d20=11M'Ova did start walking toward Dalai, but to Dalai is a long way, with only roads to guide him, some rarely traveled and long overgrown. Relying mostly on his own senses and vague hints of "far to the North-West" given to him by the Foxfolk, he set out, directly northwest. While he had a good sense of direction, he had no idea where Dalai precisely was, but having been told that Dalai is a coastal nation, M'Ova figured that he'd head northwest until he reached the ocean and then follow the shoreline west until he reached his destination.
For now however, he is still nowhere close to the Dalai or even the coast, yet. Unbeknownst to him, far to the north, but closer than ever before, the Purple Leaf Disease is slowly spreading in all directions.
343.6
The Phoenix begins breaking the crystal growths. Its orange beak can be seen poking holes and breaking off small chunks of the ruby shell.
The nomads have discovered something new about the dreamites. When they get big enough, they grow small spheres on their backs. These are dreamite eggs. The parent hides these eggs under leaves in the hopes that they wont be eaten before they hatch. The hatchlings start off very small, about the size of a fingernail.
YEAR 343.7
With a final, strong peck at its shell, the little Phoenix broke an opening big enough in the shell to fit itself through and emerged from it. Irahan, being the great, firey and lazy bastard that he is, only noticed the bird's hatching when he heard little squeaks and short songs coming from behind him. The great drake looked at the little creature with great surprise and wide eyes. Where most would run for the hlls upon setting sight upon an Immortal's eye, the little bird only tilted its head and called out again, singing a small, distinct tune.
Irahan looked upon the small being in front of his face, no larger than the smallest tooth of his, yet remarkably brave, covered in golden yellow or slightly orange feathers, with some feathers such as the crest being a distinct, vibrant red and it's tail feathers a deep blue that seemed to slightly shift in hue depending on the angle. Irahan was hardly an expert on birds, but being frequently around his brother, Tahar, he has picked up certain pieces of... trivia, from his brother's frequent mumblings. From what he remembers of them, highly vibrant coloration with contrasting colors and distinctive crests are typically found on males among birds. Not that it mattered much anyway, there aren't exactly any others like him around... Whatever the little guy is... Considering that his egg was made of Fire Crystal and he seemed to become more active after the eclipse (Which Irahan missed, because he was sleeping), that to Irahan gave the creature a connection to the sun, Irahan decided to call these beings... Sunbirds... well right now it was just
The Sunbird, but this was a title, not a name, something the little guy would need, very soon.((Im leaving this one up to you))
Eventually these great birds of fire would become known as "Phoenixes", it is believed that the word derives from and was morphed from the combined Draconic words for "Sun" and "Bird"
Irahan was again utterly clueless as to what to do with the small Sunbird. Well he tried to do something, he lowered his voice down as much as he could, but it was still a loud, booming voice of a great immortal dragon, however, the little Phoenix was utterly unfazed, only responding with... the hymn of the Elder Council of Dragolia, well a slightly sped-up and high-pitched version of the lead instrument part that Irahan frequently hums, anyway. But he still sung it better than Irahan could. It took Irahan by surprise, but he was just amused by it, it was the cutest version of the song that he'd ever heard...
While he still had no idea how one was supposed to raise such a creature, at least Irahan barely had to worry about feeding the little guy. The little Phoenix was already capable of flight and a vicious predator to boot, more than capable of feeding himself by way of bugs, caterpillars and occasionally a small rodent, yet never flew far from Irahan and when he slept, he did so on top of the great dragon.
Irahan however, in a moment of humility, possibly brought on by watching the little Sunbird sleep, he realized that he can't raise him alone, and as such, arranged for one of the female dragons of his Enclave to act as a surrogate mother to the little creature. While it is intended to be just a utilitarian relationship, so that the Sunbird would have both "parents" as one should, who is to say it wont develop into something more and the little bird wont end up growing up being the older brother of one or perhaps many dragons. While most would scoff at the idea of an Immortal together with a Lesser dragon perhaps Irahan may be the one exception?
Speaking of eggs, a strange kind symbiotic relationship has formed between Elysians and Dreamites, if one can consider it "symbiotic", when Elysians eat Dreamites.
When they left the northern parts of the Avarrian Empire, they took some Dreamites with them. The University could not figure out many things about the Elysians, one of those being the purpose, if any, of the marsupial pouch that all Elysians have. It turns out, its for storing things, eggs specifically. Some Elysians who ventured south carried Dreamite eggs within their pouches in large numbers. The Elysians' pouches are ideal places for the Dreamites eggs: Moist, warm and in shade.
Elysians carry the eggs of Dreamites around, dispersing the newly hatched ones wherever the Elysians camp, preferably close to civilization so that the Dreamites can eat dreams, and Elysians can eat the Dreamites, keeping a few around to produce more eggs and thus continue the cycle. Dreamites however, can not eat the dreams of Elysians for some reason, so the Elysians need to feed them dreams from other creatures.
But perhaps this behavior sheds a greater light on the Elysians' own reproduction itself, if they are indeed capable of it. It is unknown how and whether they do, as such a thing has never been observed, but perhaps if they so nonchalantly store Dreamites' eggs in their own pouches, it may be possible that Elysians themselves lay eggs as well and incubate them within their pouches, which would mean that they are monotremes, like platypuses, in addition to being marsupials. And with the Elysians' energetic movement, the issue of having to turn eggs would be non-existent, as Elysians pitch their torso down nearly parallel to the ground while running and in general make large motions frequently. Maybe now that the Elysian Nomads are going beyond the gaze of the White Tree's eye, they will begin to increase their numbers in the more typical way, rather than being born from... tree-pods.
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