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existingtosuffer · 5 months
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Rainwing Redesign! Rainwings are pretty, but this looked a lot better in my head lol.
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wings-of-dc · 2 years
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here's my rainwing redesign! i noticed that my previous posts got pretty long, so i'm gonna put headcanon / design notes under the cut :)!
rainwing skin works the same as chameleon skin- their color is changed via the control of pigment cells under the surface of the skin
their skin is fragile compared to most tribes, contributing to stereotypes of rainwings being unsuited for battle
because of the complex structure of their skin and its use in social displays, rainwings are much more particular about hygiene than most other tribes
most rainwings do not wear piercings or tattoos, as they damage their skin and remove a bodily area's ability to change color
rainwings have excellent vision!
rainwing tails are prehensile and can pick up objects or hold their total body weight with ease
rainwings are capable of gliding, but not true powered flight. their smaller wings are more suitable to weaving between tree than flying through the open air
they are capable of leaping incredibly high, akin to a flea or a frog. this, in conjunction with their gliders, replace any day-to-day need for powered flight
despite being omnivorous, rainwings within the tribe eat only plant matter and find meat unpalatable. due to this culture, rainwings often find others dragons' omnivorous diets to be unsettling at first contact
rainwings are unique in that they have no single ruler. all tribal decisions are made by holding an open forum, and then all members voting for the solution
rainwings have sub-communities based around shared jobs. these are led by overseers, often the eldest or most experienced worker. the overseers' job is to organize and keep records
rainwings work fewer hours than other tribes, as they have no part in the war and thus have more plentiful time and resources.
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iridiss · 10 days
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Sketched concepts of Wings of Fire tribe redesigns <3
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olvitier · 8 months
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Know i havent posted in a hot minute but I did a concept redesign of a Rainwing based on some ideas my friend @hippiichi had like vestigial wings for gliding and chameleon like hands for climbing! I added some of my own flair and figured id post it here!
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foolsome-phantom · 7 days
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Pinkie Pie would of course be a rainwing! It was either mudwing or rainwing in my eyes but I just had to go rainwing.
Peony was raised in a cave system by parents afraid of war and other dragons. Peony never got to experience the feeling of the sun on her scales. One day while exploring the cave system with her sister, she found a wide hole in the ceiling with light pouring out of it. She had never felt something so wonderful. She returned to her parents, who attempted to block the tunnel. Peony left her parents and siblings, of whom were too afraid to go with her. She found her way to the surface and through the years found herself as a dragon and as a friend.
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puppetmaster13u · 8 months
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What's this, a wings of fire redesign thing? Yeah I kind of wish the tribes had more unique body shapes because looking at all of them they have like, the same sort of proportions for the most part.
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I feel like mudwings would have a more crocodilian-sort of body shape, more designed for ambush, with shorter, thicker necks since they're known to be the tanks of the tribes.
Sandwings I took more inspiration from vipers and lizards that actually live in the desert, and I feel like they could almost slither across the sand to sneak up on prey.
Nightwings I took a lot more inspiration from things like komodo dragons, and gave them kind of stretchier skin on their underside and smaller scales across their body, which I feel like mimics things like obsidian and volcanic rock.
Seawings deserve some anglerfish lures and the bioluminescence to be more similar to IRL creatures like deep-sea jellyfish. I also took inspiration from dolphins for the head shape, seeing as we read about how the seawings believe them to be cousins of sorts.
Rainwings I took inspiration from chameleons and frilled lizards, make them look like they can be threatening if they want to.
Icewings I gave almost seal-fur on their undersides for more help on the ice, caribou-esque horns to give a bit of uniqueness to the silhouette, and protruding tusks both for the ice and silhouette.
Skywings I made have a bit of a bird vibe with the head shape, almost like they could hook into whatever they're biting or use it to pick up things like rocks.
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aesdragons · 2 months
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they’re in love your honor
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escapismmaxing · 26 days
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rainwing headcanons!! + history rewrite and canon tweaks
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physical headcanons!!
they’re kind of small i think, mid sized. very long certainly, i imagine them lounging around in trees like jaguars
maybe THIS is my most canon compliant design actually
manes of long hair aren’t uncommon, but not every dragon has them and very VERY rarely a rainwing will have hair trailing down their spine and ending in a fluffy little tail,, rare but possible
speaking of their tail, it doesn’t really get “thinner” or taper off at the end simply because that’s reallyyy not how prehensile tails work, so while rainwings don’t have thick tails per se, their tails do have a semi consistent thickness
their horns are long and slender, they’re considered very elegant and they usually stay close to the head/neck of the rainwing to not get caught while tree gliding
their frills are HUUUUUGE i'm always disappointed when i remember how small they are in the canon drawings
like NO their frill obscures their neck most of the time, also covers their ears, and it is very prone to being very expressive
the membranes connecting the spines of the frills also come in different shapes!
their frills also sometimes have butterfly like tails where part of the frill near the face hangs really long and thin? if that makes sense. like a swallowtails tail, but on their frills
i also shrunk their wings a little,, still long for gliding purposes but not necessarily wide/tall since those would just get unnecessarily tangled in trees
their little fangs stick out of their mouth,, oh so little
social/family structure,,, 
more communal living!! we love it
rainwings are very communal and lack the family structure of sibs, so they’re comparatively more communal than mudwings
monogamy is slightlyyyy more common, but it’s still not necessarily the norm. rainwings and their polycules,,,
i think they keep track of who their kids are!! sorry but that’s just my belief. i think parents (even if they’re not committed or mates or whatever) will somewhat co parent their kids
they’re incubated all together, but parents keep track of where there egg is and how far along it is and when it will hatch etc, and then they will be there when the egg hatches to make sure nothing goes wrong
even if the parents aren’t there, it is someone’s job to be there and make sure the dragonets hatch successfully, and then they are safely transported to the dragon equivalent of daycare
childcare is such a big job market in the rainwing queendom,,,,
i think depending on the parents, they will raise their dragonets in their home, but these dragonets still spend a LOOOOT of time in the daycare. i think dragonets are just very widely cared for by basically everyone, some pairs of parents just spend a bit of extra time with their dragonets, but they’re never raised 100% secluded from the town
grown dragons will divide the dragonets into age groups and teach them stuff
tree gliding, fruit finding and identification, flower identification, flower drying, leaf weaving/thatching, etc
also oral storytime! very important
grown dragons stay very communal, they don’t really couple off and move into their own “houses”
they have couples and polycules and just kind of go into the next generation, raising the new dragonets in the same communal way
and a history rewrite,,,,
basically i wanted to give them a reason they were so exclusionary in the original five books and this is what came from that
i didn’t like the rainwing racism was like,,, right? obviously some rainwings can be “lazy” or whatever, but the fact that all of them were + not the smartest + not really empathetic was just like,,, not the move imo
maybe about a century before the sandwing war of succession, the rainwings experienced their OWN war of succession, except they didn’t drag other tribes into it and it was kept within the queendom
a queen died and had many daughters who could take the throne, and then the daughters started fighting over this
(this is where it’s somewhat necessary for me to input just a general dragon headcanon,, i think they live for sooo fucking long. like 150 years easy. they don’t mature at 6 they mature at like 25-30. so these wars of succession last for SO LONG because the daughters won’t fuckin die (from old age)!)
so the rainwings fought with each other for ages, and during this war (with a deadly biochemical weapon like their venom) a lot of things like literacy, written history, math, etc, don’t seem as important, so they’re somewhat forgotten because parents are more focused on keeping their dragonets alive and safe
also a lot of scrolls and stuff are literally destroyed
and then this is also the reason for really low literacy rates
post their war of succession, they establish the “court of queens” which is kind of like a voting ruling body, but they don’t always like each other a whole lot and are prone to argue more. also being queen actually DOES mean something (a bit more than a tie breaker)
i’ll align with the book here again that i do think anyone can be on this council, but then queen is chosen from the council members and by the council
and each newly coming in council member does have to prove themselves in their rainwing skills
again, following this war, there was a lot of focus on internal repair rather than fixing relationships with other tribes, so they became very exclusionist as the other tribes saw them
so the stereotype of the rainwing ranges a bit more,, paranoid, exclusionist, lazy, etc
somewhat soon after their own war of succession, the sandwing war of succession breaks out, and they go FUCK NO and hide in their rainforest just trying to recuperate
this is why they’re so self contained when the DoD encounter them
they’re aware of the disappearances, and they’re worried, and they’re putting in measures to try and prevent them,,, but also they do NOT want to fuck with another tribe. please. just let them rest
and they were aware that glory’s egg went missing, but they were like “FUCK one of those snakes got in here” and changed the designs of the hatcheries or something
fitting this into canon
i think it fits pretty neatly?
the general vibe of the rainwings is that they’re all a whole lot more scared/paranoid, but we still see a lot of the chilled out moments where they’re at peace
the council (again) isn’t lazy (at least not all of them)
they kind of exist along a spectrum where different members kind of have different vibes
it’s the same queens from the book, now just on a council
some of them care a lot about the disappearances, but they’re still scared/too cautious to get involved
some of them don’t reallyyy care, and they would rather just focus on the rainwings that are still here, tighten up the border to reduce disappearances and just hunker down
also they don’t have an army, and they consider themselves pacifists and really don’t want to fight anyone or organize an army considering their history
glory becomes apart of the council rather than directly becoming the queen, and grandeur is the official queen
a turnover of the council happens because glory is PISSED and grandeur just lets it happen lol
this is where the group competition fits in like it fits in in the book
so basically glory + the rainwing gang is challenging the council members because she thinks they’re so incompetent
not saying that kinkajou (a child) or tamarin (a child) STAYS on the council, but it’s just the start of the turnover for the council to get more proactive rainwings involved
grandeur takes a shining to glory and lets her lead the invasion as it happens in the book
fashion and jewelry!
although in modern days, rainwings incorporate some very gauzy, light, see through fabrics into their fashion as shawls and such, this wasn’t always the case
for a long looong while, the main components of rainwing fashion was stringing plants across and around horns, wings, tails, necks, etc
the main fashion was the changing scale color and pattern, which still holds up, but now with a little extra flair
jobs
rainwings grow exotic flowers and trade these with other tribes! with tribes that are farther away, trading dried or otherwise preserved flowers is more common since the flowers are indeed prone to dying
rainwings also make perfumes from flowers,,,, like that one fuckass queen she was onto something
their expanse of flowers and fruits also give them access to the most dyes! so any other tribe that produces a fiber frequently works with rainwings to get them dyed pretty colors
also also, rainwings make paints and trade these to other tribes 
rainwings are pretty advanced healers, despite seeming a bit uh,, confused in the books. they just didn’t know how to treat a sandwing stab bc they haven’t dealt with sandwings in ages! but when it comes to other aches and pains and illnesses they have a wide amount of remedies
they also focus a lot on the mind especially after the rainwings are gotten back from the nightwing island
they study the effects of the no sunlight vs sunlight,, they see a lot of mental effects,,, basically they become wellness influencers.. KIDDING but they do start a “mental health matters” type thing lol
along with the healing, lots of potions and elixirs are created for healing purposes, and rainwing small magics (related to my animus magic rewrite, dw abt it, but basically a lot of dragons have the ability to do “small magic”) relates to potions and elixirs and such
rainwings are incredibly good mimics! so after they come out of their shells, they learn other tribe’s languages super easily and therefore are great verbal translators! 
it’s very common for rainwings to work with other tribes on a queen’s counsel as a translator for foreign and inter tribal affairs
history researchers? like of their own internal history trying to recover stuff from pre their war,,
there’s also a lot of biologists/naturalists/dragons who are studying the animals and plants of the forest just for the sake of science
“royalty” and commoners
so, this “council of queens” is established after this war of the queen’s remaining daughters
i truly think this war was devastating, so they start on rebuilding their queendom right away
internal focus, accidentally icing out other tribes
they want to avoid the war happening again, so they stop passing down the throne through daughters, rather any female dragon can petition to join the council
and any GROUP of dragons can petition to remove a queen from the council
it’s a very,,, democratic? system
but it boils down to their being only a little bit of separation between royalty and commoners,, and it kind of doesn’t exist tbh
this along with the really intense communal feelings and being raised communally and raising dragonets with one another,, very close knit tribe
not a whole lot of class strife like icewings or seawings or something
superstitions
there’s a lot of beliefs surrounding different flowers, kind of similar to victorian messaging around flowers
i’m not really sure how superstitious/religious they are tbh,, again maybe a lot of this fell away during the war as more cautionary tales were told rather than superstitious fables or anything
but there is definitely a system of flower messaging
i think they hold all animals in high regard, and think they all have high intelligence (they just favor sloths)
some animals do have certain beliefs surrounding them
seeing an increase of frogs means the rainy season is coming soon, when they start decreasing the rainy season is ending
sightings of pods of dolphins around the coasts means generally good tidings and a positive short term future
i think they do have a lot of pet superstitions?
sloths are pretty common, so nothing super crazy there
but if a dragon has a big, jungle cat, other dragons will view them as very charming/caring, as it takes a lot of work to get a big cat to trust you
small amphibians or reptiles means that a dragon is detail oriented
snails and insects and mollusks are considered like an “old dragon’s” pets
so yeah! rainwings. this still feels weirdly,, incomplete? maybe it’s just because of how much i like them i just want to make them fully fleshed out which they aren’t really here. but i think they’re really cool, i just don’t love their canon all the time. yeah! idk. complex feelings. as always, hit me UP with your ideas anywhere you please i love hearing feedback :)
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limeaidart · 1 year
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the jade winglet + darkstalker, reimagined with tattoos! made to help expand my thoughts on their cultures
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corvid-feathers · 4 months
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I have redrawn my first ever Tumblr post! I'm not gonna reblog the original because I'd have to scroll down my blog for an annoyingly long time
Wingless redraw variant:
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Original:
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orchid the rain/hive hybird! local painter (mostly does portraits and realism, but perfers to do abstract) she is a very stressed and spunky teen, only the dark red stripes can change color
2024 vs 2022 ish
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groovygladiatorsheep · 10 months
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„It cuts you deep and leave a scar..“
Meet Pomelo !! My Moonwatcher x Kinkajou ship child <3
⋆。゚☁︎。⋆。 ゚☾ ゚。⋆°☁︎。⋆。 ゚。⋆°⋆。
☾ Credits.
Moon and Kinkajou belongs to - Wings Of Fire
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☾ Info.
☁︎ Name.
- Pomelo !
☁︎ Gender.
- Demi-Girl, She/They !
☁︎ Age.
- 8 years in dragon age !
☁︎ Tribe.
- RainWing/NightWing.
☁︎ Abilities.
- Venomous bite, cannot directly projects venin.
- Can read minds, but only at night !
☁︎ Occupations.
- Student at the new Jade Academy.
☁︎ Residence.
- Previously the Rainforest, now Jade Academy.
☁︎ Other
- Loves to show off !
- Mysterious gal..
- Wishes to studies the sky !
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sirstrawberryhead · 2 months
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Pyrrhian Tribe Redesigns/Reimaningings/Headcanons (whatever you wanna call it)
Mudwings —
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Basically nothing changed except for horns and teefs, idk I think they’re fine design-wise.
Seawings —
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Messed with the horn shape + additional fins, other than than nothing really changed (still one of my favorites)
Rainwings —
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Probably my least favorite attempt, idk I like regular Rainwings and so I sorta feel like I just threw in stuff for the sake of adding it.
Nightwings —
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Multiple horns, many sets of 3 overall, and (hopefully) visually thicker scales bc volcano.
Sandwings —
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A bit spikier, additional frill reminiscent of cobra hoods, thicker scales on tail.
Icewings —
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Spikier (somehow).
Skywings —
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Thick scales on back (meant to act as vents), more feathery (was gonna give them feathered wings but forgot), I wanted to make them look like they fight for fun.
Might do Pantalan tribes later but honestly I’m not the fondest of them (and also suck at original designs) so might not.
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errorbat · 1 year
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dragins
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olvitier · 8 months
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After reading the first book I had some realizations about rainwing powers and wanted to draw them, as well as play around a bit more with their designs and how its be influenced by other animals!
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cinnamon-flame · 2 years
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This is a clean-up of an old sketch that got turned into experiment with non-canon designs for wof characters. Characters from left to right : Peril, Winter, Qibli, Moonwatcher, Carnelian, Kinkajou
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