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TheCheshireCat
There are a lot of layers to the game. Many of us joined because we liked the art style and wanted pretty dragons of our own. Getting genes for your progens costs treasure (or gems), so the next step was figuring out how to earn these. If there are familiars you like, you can work on getting those; if there's apparel you like, same. Here are some suggestions for seeing what the game has to offer:
--Scrying Workshop, where you can quite literally spend hours discovering breed/color/gene combos that you like
--Auction House, where you can look for dragons that match what you liked in the Scrying Workshop; also familiars, apparel, food, etc. Hint: It's often cheaper to buy familiars HERE instead of on the Marketplace!
--Fairgrounds, a good place to start earning treasure so you can
afford what you like
--Forums, to chat with other players and learn things
--Coliseum, a safe if sometimes frustrating place to earn food, apparel, battle stones, trinkets, Festival currency during Festivals, and experience points for your dragons so they can level up
--Trading Post, where you can grab a free item once a day from Pinkerton, trade stuff for treasure with Crim, trade stuff for stuff with Swipp and his kids, and brew stuff into combinable items with Baldwin
--Flight Rising Encyclopedia, which has a lot of good information on the game and its different elements
--Flight Rising Wikipedia (off-site), which has lots more information and full-color images of the different familiars
And above all, have fun! Welcome! :)