Beta
(#31287851)
Level 1 Skydancer
Familiar
Octoflyer Baron
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Energy: 0/50
This dragon’s natural inborn element is Ice.
Female Skydancer
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Personal Style
Apparel
Skin
Scene
Measurements
Length
3.32 m
Wingspan
5.03 m
Weight
588.73 kg
Genetics
Orca
Crystal
Crystal
Orca
Facet
Facet
Ice
Opal
Opal
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Skydancer
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
4
AGI
5
DEF
4
QCK
9
INT
9
VIT
4
MND
9
Biography
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Beta
Automaton Creation
Curious Machine Spark of Life Among dragonkind, the harnessed power of lightning is a powerful thing. One that many covet, and only a few are brave enough to seek. A key element in giving life to mechanical automatons, the power of lightning must be collected from the heart of a storm the moment it strikes. Once harvested and distilled by the skilled Tempest Chasers that make their trade to rush into the wildest of tempests, the raw lightning power is capable of incredible feats and applications in the right hands. And there are no scientists that don’t endeavor to push their skills even farther in attempting to achieve their biggest creation. For years, dragonkind had worked to unlock the secrets to the peculiar creatures found in the Golem’s Workshop. Left alone by an ancient civilization – or maybe even the gods themselves – the automatons that inhabited the lab were as alive as any beast found in the wild. Capable of cognitive thoughts as well as complex behaviors, those mechanical creatures puzzled modern engineers that made it their lives’ work to study and understand those amazing familiars. Two imperials at the Tempest Clan were sure they had finally found the key. Automaton Combining pieces left over from the clan’s frequent incursions into the Workshop, the imperials were able to create machines that resembled dragonkind in their looks. However, the spark of life and intelligence needed to make their creation truly alive seemed to elude the duo; their creations, while exquisite in detail and form, could merely move as any unfeeling machines would. The first attempts could only sustain themselves for a small amount of time until they ran out of power and broke down before their creators’ eyes. Unable to speak – for their designers had never encountered a soundbox quite like dragonkind’s among the creatures they studied – the machines could only utter pitiful groaning sounds as their circuitry failed them. Only by overcoming the boundaries of modern technology and science could the engineer pair succeed in their project. Magic is but science not yet fully understood, and the clan had plenty of peculiar creatures living among their midst not fully alive. Data wandered if maybe the key to sustaining the spark of lightning longer was to bind it with magic. Alive Finally a prototype was able to sustain itself long enough to be studied. Beta, the second of her kind to be functional, was alive thanks to the ice spells that bound her body and life force together. Unfortunately during the first attempts her crystal-like form had been damaged, exposing chunks of ice swirling with magic within herself. Despite the rough start the skydancer-like automaton was able to function as if it was alive, although silent and often suffering from slight spasms and hiccups in her movement – a side-effect of the faulty magic and circuitry inside her. Later attempts met unforeseen glitches. Data and her mate quickly learned that it was prudent to attempt creation only of smaller machines, easier to subdue – and destroy - if necessary. Their last bath produced Zeta, a more life-like counterpart to Beta. Though speech capabilities never really worked out for any of the machine creatures, the male was at least unencumbered by the glitches that plagued his companion - instead his smooth movements mirrored those of a real skydancer, thanks to a massive increase in the driving energy used to sustain him. Content with the initial prototypes to what they were sure could be a line of reliable guards and servants, the two imperials started researching methods to easily replicate their success, their research occasionally yielding smaller versions of their skydancer aides. However, a growing concern as to what might happen should the machines malfunction keeps them from hoarding all prototypes. Instead the smaller ones are often shipped to different clans, sold as novelty items to curious and wealthy clans all over Sornieth. 
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