by To Kill The Necarae » Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:31 am
Pet's ID Tag: 36
Name You'd Choose for It: Orchid Tilamet
Gender: Female
Reason You Want It: I've been looking for a good dragon charrie for a few months now, but I've always been thinking of the stereo-typical skin-winged dragon. I didn't really want a dragon charrie with skin wings, but I figured, "What other wings could a dragon have?". Then I saw Orchid. She is an astuonding beauty, with wings of a butterfly! How can I resist?
History/Background/Other:
The creatures true origins lie in the depths of Time, in that beginningless Beginning when all was emptiness and waste, darkness and mist. Then moved the Timeless One to sunder the dark from the bright. So were established concord and balance, with darkness driven to the fringes and the Abode of Light at the middle point of it all.
But darkness, once given a situation and compass for itself, grew weighty beyond accounting, intruding among all things and drawing them toward itself according to their weights and inclinations.
On that very day when the Unicorn first drew forth from barren rock a gushing spring of life, the seeds of doom were sown as well. For even as those shinning waters spread their fertile moisture, they poured into unlighted fissures and trickled down to secret, burning caverns that wound among the mountains roots.
There, in those abysmal chambers, the sacred waters life-bestowing charge was first expended in raising up a living thing. And there in fire and darkness was the Dragon born. Her nature bears everlasting testimony to that uneasy birth, and ever after, no creature has possessed the same measure of strength and cunning.
Now, the first Dragon was called Tliamat. She was fearsomely wrought, with darting, lidless eyes; and the first sight caught in her unblinking gaze was her own image, reflected in those dark waters. She worshipped the sight, and a secret lust for that selfsame image has consumed her heart ever since.
And Tliamat grew great and spawned others like herself, Nagamat and Kaliyat and Orkus, Tarasque and Serpens; and many others besides. Now while dragons are of many sizes and shapes, all are swift and of the sharp intellect, and thirst after knowledge. While the Unicorn seeks to divine the secrets of creation that he may more perfectly know than the Creator, the Dragon desires the same that it may gain domination over all the world and thereby conquer death.
Now the Dragon fiercely hates the Unicorn for his primacy, because it is not self created, but owes to him its being. And so it has ever been the bane of the Unicorn, its fixed intent to devour him, that it may no longer be an aftercomer, but she Oldest of All Things.
I understand that by adopting this creature I take full responsibility for it.
Icon by Wendigo
I love my Tracker. <3
Wow, lots of people like Orchid. I'll have to make another butterfly dragon design sometime.
