January acquisitions: [+8, -1]
The Razanei Lineage Project that I made back in November is taking off! Okay, not really. It’s still mostly me & the crickets in the lineage topic. But I did keep six lineage pups myself to add to the growing collection of colorful icons.
Bought: (1)
- Casimir (Jan 1, free) [g1]: male spiral | blackberry tide | emerald morph | storm capsule
- [originally: triple basic nocturne]
- well that was fast LOL
- ufology hatched this guy in August for their hatch-a-day topic. I scried him and made him an outfit, which I do for a lot of dragons and generally don’t think about it afterwards. But this guy lived rent free in my head. He’s got a very specific color combo: blackberry tide has storm accents, and storm capsule has tinted glass.
- I thought the dragon was probably exalted by now, but no—he was still around for the end-of-year summary post. So I hopped on it. first project of 2024!!
Hatched: (7)
- Guyen (Nov 10): male obelisk | overcast metallic | sanguine trail | cerise runes
- [lineage: Carnivale x Zenika] [Razanei G4]
- aight this is part of the truth-in-logging initiative. bro has been here since early November. in December I revamped Maximillian completely because I thought he was too similar to Guyen (Max went from a flaunt/flair/capsule obelisk to a fern/trail/runes skydancer). however, Guyen stayed in the fodder tab for ??? reason.
- still debating on keeping his half-sister Raxter. (HOW is Zenika so good at this game??) I guess that’s why he stayed in the fodder den—they are a dynamic duo, it feels a bit weird having them separated
- Raxter (Dec 9): female obelisk | abyss metallic | emerald paisley | chartreuse runes
- [lineage: Locke x Zenika] [Razanei G4]
- fuck it. truth-in-logging initiative. she stays too
- (but they are still separated because their colors put them in different tabs lol)
- Coriolis (Dec 8) [g3]: male aether | denim flaunt | aqua blaze | yellow starfall
- [lineage: Jorblorb x Kaboom] [Razanei G3]
- [originally: stinger]
- FINE IF NO ONE WANTS THE CUTE FODDER I WILL KEEP HIM MYSELF
- may not be truly permanent (I say this a lot and it doesn’t necessarily correlate with who sticks around long-term), but his scries with Ellory are interesting, and Caspian’s branch of the family tree needs more vertical development
- oh he looks so good in brightmyth’s fest skin… see, he’s becoming more permanent by the second…
- Alaric (Dec 15): male wildclaw | nightshade starmap | twilight constellation | royal runes
- [lineage: Camlann x Arrokoth]
- gao/brightmyth collab!! space whale cityscape UMA!!! this is not a drill!!
- flashback to a month ago when I hatched a very blurple wildclaw. his siblings are long exalted, but I kept Alaric because I figured a suitable skin would come along for him eventually. turns out “eventually” came pretty quick
- Chug (Jan 17) [g3]: robin flaunt | robin blaze | yellow stinger
- [lineage: Jorblorb x Kaboom] [Razanei G3]
- [originally: breakup]
- lolol and then Coriolis got a natural multigaze surprise double brother. the moths are taking over my lair
- Nikayo (Jan 19) [g2]: female veilspun | sapphire bar | caribbean constellation | sanddollar basic
- [lineage: Razanei x Caspian]
- [originally: male mirror | lionfish | noxtide | basic]
- months ago, I scried the ideal Raz/Caspian veilspun pup as sapphire/azure/sanddollar, with caribbean as a runner-up secondary. given their range (16 for the primary, 26 for the secondary, 15 for the tert), I never expected to see this exact pup; it was simply meant as an exercise in figuring out what I might want for Nalbina’s replacement.
- then they dropped the target pup!! (well, one-off. I WILL TAKE IT)
- this pup is gonna bankrupt me. 2500g including the silhouette scroll. das a lot of egg
- Raiden (Jan 19) [g2]: female mirror | blue lionfish | stonewash noxtide | sanddollar basic
- [lineage: Razanei x Caspian]
- and her sister’s a natural primal!!
- she scries really well as aether and spiral, among other breeds, but I think the play here is to wait for the next ancient release and see if it works for her.
- it feels weird to add a dragon to the clan roster when they’re still completely WIP/up in the air. however, TRUTH IN LOGGING INITIATIVE
De-acquired (1):
- Nalbina (Razanei x Caspian veilspun) [sold for 50g]: BYE!! I was thinking of straight up booting her. instead I found a nice lore lair to take her in, which doesn’t put an appreciable dent in my sunk costs, but it does mean she gets to stay in the official lineage record
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Featured: Casimir, first acquisition & first completed project of 2024; Chug, one of the moths taking over my lair; Nikayo, wallet destroyer
