Flight Rising Discussion

I love discussing interpretations of FR lore, but I think I love seeing how people alter or ignore bits of the lore more! What pieces of canon FR lore do you make un-canon for your dragons?

I'll start: I imagine that every dragon breed has opposable thumbs.

I also ignore the "all Tundras have awful memory" bit.

I also also ignore all lore that would imply that my multi-species lair would fall into chaos due to the different breeds trying to rip each other apart.

[quote name="RosaTheRad" date="2021-06-28 17:22:47" ] I also also ignore all lore that would imply that my multi-species lair would fall into chaos due to the different breeds trying to rip each other apart. [/quote] This

I ignore soooo much of the lore involving breed quirks. Ridgeback "borrowing," tundra memories, nocturne compulsive mimicking, etc. Not that these things have no place in my lore, but they're far, far less severe than the encyclopedia makes them out to be!

i like to keep most of it.

i agree partially on the thumbs thing, but only for sapient dragons.

i ignore that all dragons are sapient.
there are a lot of sapient ones sure.
but i like roving eternal hungering terror monsters of infinite greed.
especially notable populations of Wildclaw and Mirrors.
Guardians/Ridgeback there are far less of, but tend to be more dangerous to the general population of the area.

[quote name="YoghyHam" date="2021-06-28 17:26:07" ] [quote name="RosaTheRad" date="2021-06-28 17:22:47" ] I also also ignore all lore that would imply that my multi-species lair would fall into chaos due to the different breeds trying to rip each other apart. [/quote] This [/quote] Same. I don't quite ignore-ignore it, but my lair is big enough/has enough barriers in place that some of the dragons that would have breed conflicts can live in relative peace. Also, some of them are just weirdos and not typical for their breed. We like weirdos here.

[quote name="Lifeseeker" date="2021-06-28 17:27:44" ] partially the thumbs thing, but only for sapient dragons. i ignore that all dragons are sapient. there are a lot of sapient ones sure. but i like roving eternal hungering terror monsters of infinite greed. especially notable populations of Wildclaw and Mirrors. [/quote] OOOOOO That's a really cool idea!! That's a really smart way to adapt the canon's more animalistic behaviours!

I don't exactly disregard the idea that Fae dragons speak in a monotone, but it's too much work to imagine them talking this way, so in my head, they always speak normally.

Imperial legs, they're supposed to be short in their canon I guess? But if I were drawing them fullbody they would end up with longer legs anyways because I draw my non-FR dragon OCs that way

[quote name="RosaTheRad" date="2021-06-28 17:22:47" ] I also also ignore all lore that would imply that my multi-species lair would fall into chaos due to the different breeds trying to rip each other apart. [/quote] [quote name="Ern" date="2021-06-28 17:26:38" ] I ignore soooo much of the lore involving breed quirks. Ridgeback "borrowing," tundra memories, nocturne compulsive mimicking, etc. Not that these things have no place in my lore, but they're far, far less severe than the encyclopedia makes them out to be! [/quote] Both of these to an extreme. I feel that they're traits of varying degree for every individual, just like how there are a lot of common quirks among humanity that some people show more or less. It feels dehumanizing - de.. dragonizing? To reduce one breed to just the quirks they may commonly have. Sure, some Nocturnes mimic, some Pearlcatchers are full of themselves, and some dragons might not be comfortable with other breeds due to a bad history or something, but as Tenrecidae said, the lair can be expansive enough and have enough isolated spaces for them to satisfy themselves with solitude or something like. The one I do try to observe is Imperials not hanging out in lairs of more than 3 of them or so. I have a lot of Imp breeding pairs in my hibden, but I only want to keep three active at most, because it feels more important for them to try to avoid the chance of an Emperor ever happen.

[quote name="RosaTheRad" date="2021-06-28 17:30:01" ] OOOOOO That's a really cool idea!! That's a really smart way to adapt the canon's more animalistic behaviours! [/quote] i was thinking that the younger non sapient ones might be those more recently made by the gods, since their encyclopedia type thing would be their baseline nature. so there are those ones, and then there are the ones who's ancestors had been made long ago and had started to change, adapt and make more society. so there is a wide spectrum of animalistic to civilized, since the gods don't just update their idea of what their creation is, and just keep making new ones of that dragon type how they first made them.