Breezewings-specific lore

Explanations of lore specific to the world of Clan Breezewings.

## Site Mechanics

### Coliseum

Coliseum venues are treated as locations in the world. Actual use of the coliseum is mostly irrelevant to lore. Dragons' levels/stats/equipped stones may or may not be acknowledged by lore.

### Exalting

Exalting is always a dragon's personal choice and is treated as just another path of life. There is no way to remain in contact with those exalted, however.

### Familiars

A dragon's equipped familiar item can represent a variety of things.

#### Pets

Sentient but not sapient animals, creatures, or beings kept as companions. These are the types of familiars that Levi and Fiona care for.

#### Beastclan Members

Independent, sapient beings who are friends/allies. The following groups of familiar items are treated as members of Beastclans:

* Centaur
* Dryad
* Faun
* Harpy
* Kamaitachi
* Kitsune
* Longneck
* Manticore
	+ *this excludes the proto-manticores*
	+ Sphinx
* Maren
* Mith
* Serthis
* Talonok
	+ Aviar
	+ Corven
	+ Raptorik
	+ Tengu

#### Objects

A representation of an item important to the dragon in some way. May or may not be sentient.

#### Another Form

A representation of another form a shape-shifter can take or the true form a non-draconic being.

#### Elementals

Powerful beings with direct ties to the Eleven and their corresponding Elements. If a dragon has an elemental as a companion, this means the elemental chose to be with them--never the other way around. These are all Holiday Familiars directly associated with the deities, which includes:

* Sprites
	+ Nymphs
* Bears
	+ "Imposter" Bears
* Goblins
* Spirit animals
* Elemental Acolytes
* Gem Guardians

### Flights

Dragons may identify as multiple Flights/Elements. Their Flight of origin/initial Element cannot be changed, but this has no bearing on what they have chosen to identify as. Dragons choose which deity (or deities) are their patrons. Some dragons disregard the Eleven entirety and don't serve any of them, and sometimes no longer associate themselves with any Flight at all.

### Site Lore

Clan Breezewings exists within the canon lore of the site, although it does not strictly adhere to it. The past described in the Encyclopedia's Lorebookis part of the Breezewings canon and added lore events such as the Beastclans on the Rise! and Bounty of the Elementsare ongoing in their world.

#### Breed Attributes

Some aspects of the breeds' specific behaviors listed in the Encyclopedia are used, sometimes they are ignored. Same situation with breed/dragon sizes.

#### Festivals

The eleven elemental festivals are celebrated by Clan Breezewings. The Festival Grounds are decorated accordingly for each one and feature various activities and events. Clan members who are of the festival's element are honored during the festivities. Guests are warmly welcomed to celebrate with them.

#### NPCs

Clan Breezewings is acquainted with and interacts with the dragons working the various Trading Post destinations, including Baldwin, Crim & Pinkerton, Fiona,Galore, Roundsey, Swipp, Pipp, & Tripp,Tomo & Scribbles as well as Joxar.

## Life

### Age

Dragons' ages are all vague in lore, for the most part identified by the following categories:

* **Hatchling** - equivalent to a child
* **Adolescent** - equivalent to a teenager
* **Adult** - covers the widest range. can be further specified into:
	+ **Young Adult**
	+ **Middle-Aged**
	+ **Senior**
* **Elder** - the oldest of them all
* **unknown**

The closest to exact age characters have is "X is older than Y but younger than Z."

#### Gender

Dragons are of a variety of genders. They are not assigned genders when born and will choose how they identify.

* *note: a lot of my dragons will just be marked male/female in their character pages in relation to the pose they have on-site. to be completely honest, i have never really thought about the genders of most of my dragons at all in all the time I've been playing.*

#### Relationships

The general term for dragons in a relationship of a romantic nature is "partners" while dragons in a relationship and have nested together are considered "mates." It is not unusual for a dragon to have more than one partner/mate. Dragons may use their own terms to describe their relationships and significant others. When dragons who are not in a relationship together nest are not considered "mates."