Morrow and Moon (quick piece)

Some nightwings hybrids :D Love to think what nightwings can glitter like D'Albertis pythons lol. Not so much actually (because even now we dont quite understand how to draw such effect ╥ω╥ ) , but it would be really more interesting than just black scales!! And Sunny is inspired by albino d'albertis pythons. THEY`RE SOOO BEAUTIFUL.

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Panel redraw!!

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I FINISHED IT :DD!!!! So happy with how it ended up looking, Mastermind is my fav atm :]! I love the wet cat energy he and Starf give <33

i didnt like the words so i changed the vision :3

the vision includes clearsight and darkstalkers future dragonets, sunstreak, and then foeslayer and queen diamond !

Darkstalker + blood moon stuff

i know this isn't art but honestly the NightWing blood moon knowledge has me shook; you're telling me Darkstalker could've been born with even MORE power??? with seer blood moon capabilities he'd have been more aware of actions leading to (what he thought of as) undesirable futures, and with telepathy he could've had influence over people even if they were immune to animus magic just by driving them insane LMAO. imagine how the whole Darkstalker arc would've went if the earrings couldn't fully protect them from his influence...

whats ur opinion on dragons having different houses bc of class or tribe? i love dragon architecture </3

I'm such a fan of dragon architecture oh my god. One of my biggest worldbuilding gripes (besides the lack of clarity around food/cooking) is that the actual housing arrangements of the dragons are so vague????? Like towns are a thing but also Tui seems to imply most dragons sleep in caves even though it makes no sense for any of the other tribes???? like ma'am most of your dragons live in swamps, jungles, or deserts where the hell are they even finding them

Basically, we have functionally no point of reference for anyone who isn't royalty (Winter, Turtle) or grew up in such specific circumstances that don't reflect back onto broader dragon society to the point where their input is rather moot (Moon, the DoD, Peril, Qibli). Qibli is the closest thing we have but the Scorpion Den is a combination of a shanty town and refugee camp that makes it harder to draw conclusions for the rest of the population. (We're also not counting Darkstalker bc. well. 2000 years)

For my writing, my stance is usually that dragons are primarily nomadic. Dragons who live in/around towns stay there primarily for reasons like child-raising, business, injury, apprenticeships, or just laying low/blending into a crowd. Like with how dragons don't need to cook their food to eat it, dragons are not dependent on housing and are able to comfortably sleep and live outside (barring extremes such as the central desert or really the entire Ice Kingdom). So, the exact permanence of a dragon's stay in town is situational and tribe/job-dependent more than anything else.

As far as the tribes go, Icewings and Nightwings are the most home/town oriented tribes- both tribes have the rarest approach to housing in that almost all members of both tribes live and sleep primarily in one home location that they return to for the majority of their life. For Icewings, this usually looks like multi-generational families that split off into new homes/houses only once there's a real need for it. On the other hand, Nightwings living on the volcano lived primarily together in caves/dormitories divided by age- even though this no longer exists, most Nightwing towns and houses involve many shared buildings and resemble something more like tight clumps of houses or caves.

For the majority of the tribes (Skywings, Sandwings, Mudwings, Rainwings), most dragons will have multiple houses that they move between as needed or wanted. While outliers exist, most dragons have at minimum two homes/dens: one in a more populated area that might operate as a job homebase or a place to receive guests, and a more isolated, private home that exists for the dragon in question to stash any items of importance or valuables, as well as eat and sleep. For more nomadic dragons, banks exist in towns to hold treasure, freeing up their secondary/non-work den to be little more than a shack or burrow with sleeping arrangements. More houses usually equals more money/class power, up to a certain point, where you start to see buildings more akin to Vulture's mansion or even the Royal Palaces, where one building or collection of buildings is large/grandiose enough to host other people's jobs and living spaces (on a related note, gardening is a very stereotypical high class hobby to have, as it shows both an abundance of leisure time and of space).

Between these tribes, Skywings are the most town and home oriented- Skywings often live primarily in towns and only leave for what is essentially a nesting den, as without rudimentary flight skills, Skywing towns are borderline unnavigable and occasionally hazardous for dragonets. Even with their relative isolation, nesting dens in the past have often been located near other nesting dens, creating something of a nesting village for Skywings parents to socialize and raise their hatchlings. Queen Scarlet's reign did irreparable damage to this style of collective child-rearing and nesting dens as a whole. With her breeding programs, most Skywings were forced into partnerships for the sole reason of producing more future Skywing soldiers, and the majority of eggs were instead stored in mass hatcheries until their hatching day.

On the other hand, Mudwings are the most isolated and nomadic, in part due to the structure of sib groups creating a situation where most Mudwings hatch into life with a social network already established. The Mud Kingdom is also temperate enough that housing isn't always necessary, and most Mudwings only congregate in towns for business or seeking a mate.

Finally, Seawings are almost entirely nomadic, and will usually move between a territory, with small dens and hoards scattered within. These territories can hold many multiple families, or they can exist for a single dragon- Seawing property laws are almost nonexistent and mostly maintained by honor and frequent patrolling of the territory to maintain order and mark it as lived space. These territories aren't uninhabited land either- Seawings will grow seaweed and herd schools of fish on their territory, and many take a certain landscaper-esque role, shaping the terrain into something aesthetically pleasing or useful to the inhabitant and helping signal to other Seawings that the land is occupied. One of the few times Seawings will settle in one den or space is for a hatching den- this lasts from the laying of the eggs until the hatchlings become able to swim well enough to keep up with their parents.

I've been pretty burnt out on WOF writing for a while, but this was honestly a refreshing change of pace from what I've been working on recently. Thanks for giving me an excuse to ramble about dragon housing !! I'd love to hear what other ppl think, the more headcanons the merrier :>

fierceteefers

yeah, i drew something today purely because i was bored </33

but the silly mean lady!! love her, wish she did more in the books, her role in Arc 2 was garbage

here's a non shaded version too, and yes, i know i couldve just uploaded them both at the same time, but i dont care

Mostly, I either see myself as a SkyWing or an IceWing.

( Names being Debris for SkyWing, and Elk for IceWing )

Nightwing called Cuntserver

Okay but what if NightWings had more than just black with some white speckles on their wings. Maybe some more blues and greens, kinda like unpolluted skies since I highly doubt the world of wof has that kind of technology to pollute the sky? Maybe auroras (perhaps for ice/nights)? And depending on how starry the night they're hatched on they'll have more speckles than other NightWings do and vice versa

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*Kicking open the door* HI HELLO YES I'M BACK

I got sidetracked by holidays, burdened by shoulder pain, and stumped on a few prompts, but I am CAUGHT UP on all the art, and unless Tumblr smacks me with the post limit again, I will ALSO be caught up on all the posting. And I'm making 11 different posts about it, because I'm stubborn. Anyway, this was for day 17, which had the prompts Observer and Feared; obviously, I had to mash the special interests together and draw Jon as a Wings of Fire dragon. Not sure how I didn't draw this sooner, to be honest.

WIP :D!! Suggest some NightWings you'd like to see!

(Starflight, Darkstalker, and Whiteout are possible candidates but Im open to all!)

nightwing headcanon // moonwatcher and darkstalker // seawing headcanon

all my headcanons will eventually be uploaded here :)

i have so many posts I need to make involving my art guys,,,

Waypoint, the Night/Ice hybrid.

This art is a little bit older, but I wanted to share it because this was another one of my concept ideas about abilities and how it affects them.

In this case, I simply had wanted to draw a piebald Night/Ice but with the basis of a star, both in appearance and ability. However, it evolved more once I came up with the idea of what if there was a nightwing power that had to do with specific directions. Hence came this idea:

Waypoint has the gift of prophecy, however, it is based more on areas in specific. They will have visions about places far away from where they are, rather than what's happening in their vicinity. They are automatically drawn towards these places though, having visions days ahead of getting there. Like a waypoint, a beacon, leading them towards the place their prophecy is about.

I haven't done anything else with them yet, but I may do more in the future. Stay tuned!