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Post by Obsidian on Apr 11, 2009 7:57:50 GMT -6
Alright . . . . Well . . . . .How about . . . .
At the clutch before Svarth's and his siblings clutch, a Gold was born. She was beautiful, her hide burned like the sun, with whisps of dark plum and sea green spindles streaking through her body. She was the only Queen that had been born to the clutch, but soon after her hatching, she went between, taking her newly Impressed weyrling with her. Where the Gold pair went to, no one ever found out, and Black Obsidian Weyr mourned the passing of their strange young Queen and Hers.
Several Turns later, after Svarth's birth clutch had reached muturaty, and two other clutchs had been born, and grew, to Black Obsidian Weyr, the Weyr stood in wonder as a new dragon appeared on their horizon. Her wings were spread, her body lean and beautiful, and her Rider and she, fully grown. She was a Gold, and older Queen than Black Obsidian's Senior Weyrwoman Akri's Violet Lunith, and one that had the ability to claim the right of Senior Weyrwoman if she wanted.
As the days went by, more dragons started to appear at Black Obsidian, all claiming to be the wild spawn of the Gold, and all had Riders. It was a strange sight, this band of Weyr-less Riders, thought the Goldrider claimed that Black Obsidian had been her home Weyr.
It's very rough draft, very rough, but I tried to bring all the ideas together. But I'm going out of town today, and won't be back until later tonight, so I'll finish it now. Questions, comments, additions, subtractions (sp?). All are welcomed.
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Post by dragoncharm on Apr 11, 2009 8:35:25 GMT -6
Is a good idea ^_^ And Weyrfolk can take sides....People that remember the Queen and her rider, or like their ideas, or point out that Queenriders are supposed to be Sr. Weyrwoman vs people that don't want a stranger taking over, stay loyal to Akri, or think the Queenrider's crazy Would make for a nice little conflict. And for a nice twist, there could be a clutch on the sands that the Queen could take control of, or try to influence the young dragonets when they hatch ^_^ Hey, this mean we'll have to age our Weyrlings (Or all riders) by a few Turns?
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Post by IceFire on Apr 11, 2009 12:33:13 GMT -6
Lady Lyn will most definitely have alot to do and think about. Da'im will also not be happy though the question is will he be one to remember her since he is one of the oldest in the weyr.
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Post by amielle on Apr 12, 2009 23:07:48 GMT -6
Ok, here is Amie's idea:
We all know that BOW, before Horibarth, was queenless, the last clutch being transfers from Hadi, the product of Hadi's gold Cometh x BOW's brown Morth.
We also know that apart from Morth, BOW has no riders from prior to those who Impressed at Cometh's clutch, meaning that the Weyr had fallen into severe hard times, or something had happened that had scared most of the BOW riders away.
So the idea goes thus:
Before Cometh's clutch, say about a dozen years ago, there was a queen at BOW, let's call her Zenith so that there can be a name and clarity. The Weyr was doing relatively well and Zenith lays a clutch that even contains a queen egg, which hatches into pretty gold Wrath who Impresses Lucielle, now known as Luci. Now Luci is not the most stable of people and Wrath kind of lives up to her name. They want power and they want it bad. They even want BOW to be theirs, all theirs. I'm thinking that since dragons are hardwired not to harm other dragons, something traumatic happens to them as Weyrlings which really sends them both over the edge, meaning that nice "thou shalt not raise a claw against thine fellow dragon" imperative is not so imperative to Wrath or Luci anymore.
Wrath fakes a rise as Obsi said in her new plot post or does something else (rises at the same time as Zenith?) to put Zenith in harm's way and take over power. Zenith reacts. Fight ensues, since Wrath has no problems with actually physically harming Zenith. Zenith is the winner, forcing banishment on Wrath, who everyone assumes goes between with her rider, but Wrath caused some damage, Zenith is injured and eventually dies of her wounds. This death not only leaves BOW effectively without a Queen, it's also deeply traumatic to all who lived the event, since dragons fighting, and especially Queens fighting, is something that just isn't done. Riders defect to Hadi or other Weyrs, unable to live with the memories and it takes Cometh's clutch to get the Weyr really started again, explaining why there was no queen prior to Horibarth AND why we don't have a single rider older than Da'im and none other than him prior to Cometh's clutch.
Wrath, however, didn't go between. She and Luci were biding their time and now that BOW is without anyone (except maybe Da'im) who remembers who they are and what they did, she feels she can return. The moment is particularly well chosen since BOW still has no gold holding court, making her effectively not only the most senior queen by age, but also by colour-rank. The fact that the event was traumatic and probably never spoken of ever makes it so that the younger ones don't know what she did and therefore are more likely to trust her. She also holds power over them by virtue of being the only goldrider, forcing them to choose between Wrath, an older, more experienced but possibly dangerous golden Queen, or Lunith, a less experienced, more junior in all ways but well-liked violet who has proven herself to her Weyr.
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Post by Shiftergirl on Apr 13, 2009 7:42:25 GMT -6
*Drools* Can't make choice. Must have all........ I do like obsidians though, so not to be mean, just do. But your idea is really good too, i have none yet, so i'll just sit back and watch until i think of one, or this is decided.
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Post by amielle on Apr 13, 2009 10:56:29 GMT -6
My idea is basically elaborating Obsidian's a bit more. I just feel it would explain some of BOW's backstory too.
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Post by Bookworm on Apr 13, 2009 14:51:03 GMT -6
I like Amie's idea a lot, but I think we should still try and incorporate the part in Obsi's plot about an entire band of Weyrless riders.
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Post by Obsidian on Apr 13, 2009 19:01:54 GMT -6
Lol. Thanks guys, but it isn't just my plot. It's everyone's plot. I just mushed it all together, with Amielle's help on pieceing together Black Obsidian history and not just Hadi's. [/blockquote]
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Post by dragoncharm on Apr 13, 2009 19:27:31 GMT -6
I like this. It's a cumulation of all our idea's (Or most). We all contributed. But Amie and Obsi did most of it, and its awesome.
I've got one question, though: How do we justify Luci being Searched at all? If her mind is so unstable, no Searchdragon in their right mind would ever give her a chance at Impressing.
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Post by Obsidian on Apr 13, 2009 19:44:01 GMT -6
Old Searchdragon. It was his/her last Search and he/she was sloppy? Or Luci was the Weyrwoman's daughter and she just kind of got pushed ahead of everyone on the Sands and no one questioned the Weyrwoman? [/blockquote]
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Post by dragoncharm on Apr 13, 2009 19:48:29 GMT -6
Sounds good to me. Or a rookie just-got-out-of-weyrlinghood type dragon that doesn't know what he's doing quite yet.
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Post by Obsidian on Apr 13, 2009 19:50:00 GMT -6
*nods* As far as aging goes . . . . I would say everyone needs to be aged at least one or two years. That would put Svarth's clutch as full fledge dragons and Lunith's clutch at the graduating point of their Lessons . . . . . . Right? [/blockquote]
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Post by Amie on Apr 13, 2009 20:08:15 GMT -6
Old Searchdragon. It was his/her last Search and he/she was sloppy? Or Luci was the Weyrwoman's daughter and she just kind of got pushed ahead of everyone on the Sands and no one questioned the Weyrwoman? [/blockquote][/quote] Maybe she was mostly stable, too, enough that it wasn't obvious that she could lose it that badly, then something happens while she's a Weyrlilng that really makes her snap?
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Post by Obsidian on Apr 13, 2009 20:18:28 GMT -6
*nods* Whoever adopts Luci and Wrath could come up with that. [/blockquote]
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Post by amielle on Apr 13, 2009 20:20:19 GMT -6
I went and corrected a typo in the new plot, but it looks great! If we stick with the idea of a "wild" Weyr that comes from clutches Wrath has had over the turns, would Embyrth be one of the offspring, since she was "found"?
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