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So here are all of Marinos' shimmer dragons- they're a wee bit cursed to us land creatures.
Shimmer dragons are an entirely separate family of dragonkind from DnD's typical chromatic, metallic, and gem dragons. They are very loosely inspired by Chinese and Japanese dragons, some of which (the Japanese dragons iirc) metamorphize from fish as part of their life cycle. That and being heckin noodles is where the similarity ends, though.
Shimmer dragons are aquatic, able to remain above the water comfortably for only a few hours, though they can magically fly. They are hermaphrodites, able to both sire offspring and lay eggs. Shimmer dragons of any species can mate to produce eggs for both parents- they seldom form long term mating bonds of any sort and rear their own eggs alone. The young are always of the seal-jellyfish form until pupation from wyrmling to young dragon, which is jarringly rapid and reveals their species. They can be the species of either parent; it is completely random and impossible to divine in advance. Shimmer dragons seldom care if their young takes after them physically.
Their personalities vary pretty wildly, but they all tend to be very ecclectic and to have very strange and esoteric hoards.
Like other true dragons, they can shapeshift and produce offspring with other creatures, but given they mostly see All That as a way to produce young and lack much romantic instinct, and find typical bisex beings to be repugnantly alien (often a mutual feeling), this doesn't exactly happen often.
As is the case for all true dragons in Marinos, shimmer dragons carry the Bloodsong, the immuteable essence of dragonkind that grants them power and majesty that ever increases with age for as long as they live. In desperation they can sing the Bloodsong for a Wish that is even stronger than the typical uses of the spell, sacrificing dragonhood in the process and becoming a new dragonborn. Their descendants after that are shimmer dragonborn.
Shimmer dragons all have dual damage resistances, sometimes in ecclectic combinations, and matching breath weapons.
Pearlescent- poison and piercing
Aventurescent- fire and thunder
Opalescent- radiant and lightning
Schiller- necrotic and acid
Chatoyant- psychic and bludgeoning
Irridescent-slashing and cold
They also have innate spells, which they can imbue their breath weapons with to turn them into areas of effect, sometimes to bizarre effect!
From Stardust To Stardust
Inked version :D
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From Stardust To Stardust
Inked version :D
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Kitsunes in yokei godneu, this is part of my headcanons for yokei godneu to be a hero
A species of fox yokei, known commonly by locals as multi tailed foxes, their most common known appearance is a strange colored fox with nine tails, with females being more common than the males of the species, but often take on a humanoid form
Females tend to take on a more humanoid appearance than the males, which are more like anthro foxes are, and are also smarter than the males too, who are stronger but dumber than the females.
They gain a tail every 125 years until they have 9 at 1000 years old, which is when they are fully grown and can’t die form old age, they are very strong in all types of magic, and physical combat, but can gain more than nine, though it is rare.
Kitsunes are some of the yokai with rather varying power levels, they can be rather decent to close to god like, and tend to be rather competive and haughty as they get more and more tails.
They often serve under the god/goddess inari no okami, but kitsunes have been found outside of their control, and have even become leaders of yokai kind at some pionts.
They have a bad rivalry with vampires due to the blood of a nine tailed kitsune being on par with the blood of a divine, the two species hate each other, as vampires tend to be more villainous than the kitsune
#LifeCycle
A progression through a series of differing stages of development.
@BenAdrienProulx June 23rd, 2024.
#LifeCycle
A progression through a series of differing stages of development.
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"Boys make excuses. Men make changes."
Me.
Run, wolf warrior, to ends eternal
Through the wreckage of the death of the day
Scent of silence under starlight spinning
A captured beast within a human skin
Are you searching for long lost landscapes
Lit by flowers and crystal cascades?
Where the lamb lies down with the lion
Where the wolf is one with the wild
Run, wolf warrior, through kingdoms' chaos
Senseless cities and ghost towns towering
Howl, o hunter, though few know you're crying
Face upturned into that midnight moon
Are you hunting for mystic mountains
Where the air is like liquid laughter?
Where the beasts inherit the earth
Where the last again will be first