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wolven91 · 7 months
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The Human Problem
Humans.
'Late to the party' as they would say, were only discovered after many of the other sentient races had already discovered one another for thousands of years. That wasn't unusual. Space was big, very big. There are records of many species and races living in old territories of one another and not knowing it simply because of how big space was.
What was unusual, was how the draconians, were not surprised by the human appearance like the other races were. Furthermore, the draconians already had many stories of humans, or at least, something that could match the human appearance according to their archivists and philosophers. Although, to the draconians, 'human' wasn't the correct name.
According to the literal hundreds of draconian stories and even one or two ancient texts; humans, were called the fae.
All three rings of the draconian government were present for the debate. The inner circle, the chaotic aquatic draconians swam in the mighty pool at the centre of the auditorium. These were the artists and creatives of the draconians. They celebrated the humans as a great tiding and new life being breathed into a stagnant and dying universe.
The outer circle, the quadrupedal dragons clung to the rafters and in the upper stands. They suspected the humans; they knew what the stories of the fae warned. The outer circle of government was the military arm of the draconian people, it was their honourable duty to protect the draconian way of life. Humans represented chaos and new dangers.
Finally, the middle circle of their government, the bipedal draconians. These were the even hand of the draconian people, the ones who were the outward face and considered all sides before acting. They... did not know how to handle a part of their history come to life. Humans or Fae, they were fantasy, they were myth. It was as if the draconian children's imaginary friends were all suddenly wished into being.
How does one handle the magical suddenly made physical?
The fae, were described as 'Without, feather, fur or scale...' by an ancient text dated several tens of thousands of years ago. At first, it was assumed that it references ghosts or spirits. Likewise, their exploits were just as fantastic. As folktales began, the spirits gained flesh. They were given a name.
Fae.
Shorter creatures that lacked feather, fur or scale. Fleshy creatures that gave off warmth unlike the draconians. They lacked direct advantage in a fight, no claws or sharp teeth or even wings, but a bite from them would always become infected. They were either a great ally, offering boons or sound advice, or they were merciless tricksters, fooling the rude and cruel to their dooms. Often using a draconian's greatest desire against them.
The golden rules to dealing with a human was to be polite, never threaten them or theirs and to never, under any circumstances, offer them your full name.
"The ancient texts are incomplete!"
"We all know what it was going to say! 'Without feather, fur..' and the final portion was to be 'without scale'!"
"That is a guess! The piece is missing!"
"And the folktales? They all complete the saying."
"We have no knowledge of where they began, there's no written beginning to the folktales."
The debate raged on, while several of the more serious bowed out from the discussion, a consensus would not be found here. A purple draconian with a serious expression stalked the halls back to their quarters as they considered the situation.
Humans were a problem. The fae were rightly destroyed. Killed as technology was discovered. No one needed magic back in the universe, least of all an entire race that could destabilise the draconian rings of power. The humans were few, this was a good thing. A few credits given to the select few and many of these humans could suffer accidents or simply disappear in their travels.
No one would miss them, and the status quo would return, but they would have to reach out to like minded others amongst the ssypno, taurian, ursidain and others...
The loathed races would cooperate again to resolve the human problem.
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mage-of-beasts · 3 months
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Meleanor caring for her egg, what could have happened had
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skelleste · 1 month
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Commission I forgot to post of Kirre for Deceit.
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fausto-xiii · 1 year
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A bit of color test
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batstabb · 4 months
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Some doodles of mine and Taris boys! Draconians are everything to me
Plus a meme thingy that makes me giggle
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My favorite niche of music is 90's gothic doom. I love how bands like The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy, or The 3rd and the Mortal combined gloomy sounding doom metal riffs with beautiful lead vocals.
I think it's so cool that more recent artists like Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle have inspired a new wave of bands who mix doom and post-metal with ethereal vocals and haunting atmospheres. Bands like Frayle, Iress, and Shedfromthebody remind me a lot of those 90's gothic acts that I love so much.
Alongside Draconian and Lethian Dreams, it overall just feels like a sort of revival or resurgence of that style of music that I loved so much. 
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a-typical · 4 months
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappé (2006)
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rynnelarion · 11 months
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Scalecommander Emberthal. She plays important role in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight expansion. Emberthal is one of five scalecommanders of dracthyr and leader of Adamant Vigil. I really this character and her look and she deserved some artwork. Possible i will do some more art with her.
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nihilosphere · 2 months
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The path of the initiate is a winding one. The very nature of our ascent is serpentine. It twists, turns. coils and goes back into itself. Ascension through the spheres is a gradual process. The mystic must take his time, watch his step and perform his work with devotion, or he will be consumed and annihilated by the Great Chaos. The Dragon compels us – but by degrees.
HO DRAKON HO MEGAS
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kgonbeiden · 18 days
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Van Fanel from Escaflowne the movie sketch.
Escaflowne (c) Sunrise studio/Hajime Yatate/Shouji Kawamori/Nobuteru Yuki
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chaoskirin · 9 days
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The lil one on the left was from 2005-ish? I don't remember exactly. I really wanted to redraw him.
This is a baaz draconian from the Dragonlance series. I imagine this to be Riel, one of the first-born female draconians.
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massgrav · 2 months
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The grandeur of stillness
And all of her sadness
Will I ever tire of him? Unlikely
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euphoric-dramione · 2 months
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I’m reading Draconian by Noelle M. and I’m loving it so far! At first I thought Hermione was a bit OOC but now we’re slowly finding out what happened to her and I looooove the hurt/comfort in this… 🥹
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mazeru · 10 hours
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The DnD 3.5 campaign I'm in is now officially 5 years old... so here is to many more to come!
A lot has changed over the time, some party members have come and gone, but the memories and the story and certain idiots' camraderies persists, and I hope it will not change anytime soon.
So thank you, to my DM and to my fellow players: the idiot who's I've been alongside of through this journey from the start, the nerd we have gained along the way and has become to us an inseparable element of the group, to the players who have split off or left and to new one - and maybe one day new ones - to join us on this insane ride.
This ended up being a big concept and I will most likely get overwhelmed trying to finish it off over the years to come, but... I wanted to get at least the sketch done of our party as it started, and as it is now.
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I love the model work in Frontier in Space- it’s a bit limited in motion, but there’s a great array of varied ships and action that keep the story’s 6 parts fresh. They’re not exactly streaking through the cosmos at lighting speed, but they really help the story’s space opera feel.
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batstabb · 4 months
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My Aurak, Aadhev. Made him in BG3 too, i think hes gorgeous
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