Hypergryph - Welcome To A Clan Of Elites

Hey, so Riot's ability works by dragging up bad memories from someone's past and then magnifying the reaction, sending the victim into a blind rage. It can be resisted or shrugged off completely if someone has just. Made peace with all their bad memories or if someone just has great control over their emotions.

Who would be most affected?? And who would be least affected??

Most of them would be overcome with emotion. Khoga and Matthias, though, would be my best bet for holding it together. 

Character Portrait for the Webcomic! I thought a series of these would look cool at the beginning of the chapter, sort of a character index type deal. ^^ What do you guys think?

This begs the question-

Elemental eggs are all seen to be rather......... delicate. Perhaps with a few exceptions, like ice and earth. But how is a Noc egg opened? On the subject of hard to open eggs, due to the way the were released, are the "unhatched banescale eggs" a rarity? Would they cause something different or new considering?

Noc Eggs seem to be covered in plates, so they'd have to be pried open with a tool.

Oh, I assume they'd be extremely rare! Having the influence of their parents' ancient protection spell(their song) could have changed the Banescale eggs raw magic in some way. Perhaps this influence is even present in all future generations' magic as well, and is simply a part of them.

I imagine this protection enchantment is strongest within the eggs, making it nearly impossible for any dragon to harm them ( example: the egg doing unexplainable things at opportune moments, like disappearing if an Egg Eater is searching for it, or the shell becoming momentarily indestructible to prevent intentional breakage). With this in mind, the results of eating a banescale egg have yet to be discovered.

A funny thought that came into my head: do the Talosians ever say "By Lord Talos this cannot be happening" ?

FUS-RO-DAH!

[Stumbles in here] Oh shit is it egg muncher sharing day?

Hi hello I hope you're doing grand on this fine day! May I offer you a good boy in this trying time? His name is Bonesong, and for the sake of mobile users I'll try and give a tl:dr version here.

-Dad is poggers but mom is power hungry GARBAGE. -Lil man copes by hanging out around his unhatched sibling. -Dad dies before said sibling can hatch (Uh oh! Uh oh! Doomed egg!) -Lil man thinks it's incredibly BS that unhatched sibling can't even get a chance to proove themselves as a survivor and tries to think of a way to save the sib bc he KNOWS they're in there he can feel it in his bones. -Mom is getting worse and is looking weird at sib (uh oh! uh oh!) -UNDER PRESSURE.mp4 -While trying to do some ritual magic lil man hears mom coming closer. -UNDER PRESSURE.MP4 -Decides the best corse of action to save his unhatched sibling is to just down the egg in one mid ritual and leg it. -This works! Kinda! He can hear sib's voice in his own head and his body is changing to accomodate a symbiote. -From this point forth they just kinda lurk around and keep eating eggs under the impression they're Saving them from their mom.

So that's my boy! I'm curious to what you think and what power you'd give him bc rn I'm honestly stumped apart from the ability to see spirits and symbiotic limbs! M also curious to what you say a dragon might get if they wholeheartedly beleived they were doing the right thing and saving the egg by eating it as you are the giant rat that makes all of the rules! Hope your day goes wonderfully!! ovo)/ [sparkles]

Alrighty, as Emperor-President-Tzar-King Rat I have something to declare about your boy Bonesong...

This is among the most clever uses of egg eating I've had the pleasure of reading! The themes of plague (survival, parasitism vs symbiosis) are so neatly interwoven with this particular instance of egg eating that it offers an example of the different directions egg eating can take. He's not just some tortured soul, or a desperate dragon seeking some selfish and egotistically driven desire, but a brother hoping to give his little sibling a chance at a life they were unfairly denied (something that, as an older sibling myself I can deeply respect. Perhaps I am biased in that regard?).

This act, from my perspective, seems truly selfless. While egg eating is generally deemed morally abhorrent, this time it was done altruistically with only Bonesong sacrificing a bit of his body for the sake of his unhatched sibling. It's unexpected, creative, well developed, and a delightful change from the usual brand of egg eater.

Now the egg raiding and revenge plot afterwards bumps him from hero to morally grey character( Vengeance and Altruism become very blurred here) but that is simply how it is.

In terms of powers you've asked: "I'm also curious to what you say a dragon might get if they wholeheartedly believed they were doing the right thing."

To that I say, it depends on the context of what that thing is. His character 'merges' with his sister to offer her some semblance of life, and by giving him the mirror characteristics of his absorbed sister I believe you've manifested these powers quite well. Expanding on the idea of Bonesong sacrificing his body to accommodate the less fortunate, a possible power could be allowing spirits to commandeer his body for a short while. Or perhaps he can craft bodies for these spirits to possess as long as the material he uses has a trace of his own body, like a golem. However, these are mere expansions, as he's pretty solid as is!

Anyways, amazing dragon, great character, and really solid concept! I hope you have an amazing week. Keep on creating awesome characters, you definitely have a knack for it!