Nova

Akitla

Niran

Inofficial child of the search-breaker. See this Thread for context.




On September 27th the random dragon on the frontpage featured a female Tundra named Akitla. What was so peculiar about this dragon was the obvious lack of a username.

Clicking on the dragon brought up the error message "404: User not found. Please check your link and try again."

Users then proceeded to search for Akitla using the dragon search - except that the search broke.

Akitla and her mate Niran broke the search on every page they appeared on.

In their attempt to solve this mystery, the FR community found a bunch of glitched, flightless lairs that gave errors as soon as one tried to look at their lairs, an non-existing lair, someone with definitely too many progens and not enough lair space (and did you know it used to be possible to get 5 egg nests from same-breed parents?), an eerie similarity between Akitla the search dragon and this cute little Tundra hiding in the code of the coli page

Three days later staff plucked Akitla and Niran from their half-existence, changed them from Progens to non-progens and exalted them to the Arcanist.

This glitch has possibly been undiscovered since June 17th 2013 and only got unearthed because she hit that one in a million chance of being on the front page. I've had so much fun in the last few days reading theories and discovering more fun/weird stuff. I am so glad that I could be a part of it after I missed Naomi by a few weeks.