Tag: dragonriders of pern

dragonsintheattic:

fandomjunkie2004 replied to your photo:
dragonchoice:

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I love it, but if you don’t mind me saying so: I think Epherineth is just a tad too gold-colored here. That’s Donauth in the background, and they’re the same color, at least on my screen.

I have always seen Epherineth as being quite a light, clear, goldenish bronze in my mind’s eye, so that has shaped some of my colour choices (including the choice of a light gold highlight colour and a chartreuse point highlight colour to go with the greenish-olive base, milk-chocolate shadow and dark olive deepest shadows). I do think the atmospherics in place between Donauth and Epherineth might be causing a bit of a visual illusion as to how similar they are in actuality, though – without those in place she’s very egg-yolk and buttery in colour.

Ahh, I see what you’re saying. The clouds would affect how Donauth’s color appears. It also helps knowing that Epherineth isn’t supposed to be a stereotypical bronze shade. Thinking about it more, there would be golds that looked like bronzes and vice versa. Especially golds as they aged, I think. Like Holth.

dksartz:

WIP –  Workin’ on a Blue Pernese dragon :3 

the wing is probably a little far back/too small…but it’s canon that a dragon can do what it believes it can do – so the wings don’t really have to make sense, yes? ;D or maybe it’s a baby blue~

 nah mostly it’s, i got this far and it’s not worth the effort to fiddle over that rn ^^’

The Impression: this time it’s awkward

dragonchoice:

(A deleted scene from Dragonflight.)

“Hey, Kirrian, you got a brown! Wow! What’s his name!”

Kirrian
– K’rian, now – flinched back from Danally; or, rather, from Danally’s
dragonet. The blue seemed to be calm, now, as calm as K’rian’s own
Harinth.

He hadn’t been so calm an hour ago.

K’rian swallowed hard. “Didn’t you…hear…Danally?”

“D’nal,” Danally said, beaming. “I’m going to be D’nal. And this is Janneth. What didn’t I hear?”

“About Gefend,” said K’rian. He couldn’t take his eyes off Janneth. Was there still… on his claws…?

“Oh,”
said D’nal. His smile faded, a little. “He…he got in the way. Janneth
didn’t mean to hurt him. He’s going to be all right, though, isn’t he?
Did he Impress?”

K’rian swallowed again. “He’s…he’s not all right. They couldn’t stop the bleeding. He’s…he died.”

D’nal’s face went slack. He took a breath. He glanced down at his dragonet. Janneth looked adoringly back up at him.

Then
the blue lowered his head to his forepaws to lick fastidiously at the
crust of dark red that still lingered around the soft, new nail-beds of
his talons.

I have a question about inbetween. If a dragon and rider are inbetween for too long won’t they simply suffocate because there is no oxygen? And then die lost in the span of space and time? So when a rider dies the dragon suicides and goes inbetween to die? Or are the dragons simply lost since they are genetically modified would they need oxygen? I’ve been reading but that concept confuses me beyond belief.

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I was just talking about this with a friend earlier. The way I perceive it working is that, yes, a dragon would die if they stayed long enough between – it’s why they jump there when their Rider dies and why it’s such a great risk to Lessa when she originall jumps back in Dragonflight, because she can’t breathe. (Tell me how I’m s’posed to breathe with no aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir.)

I’ve been looking through The Dragonlover’s Guide to Pern to see if there’s a proper answer for this question, but the most they talk about between is in the Weyrling section:

When all the weyrlings of a Hatching are flying well in formation, the Weyrlingmaster starters training the weyrlings to go between. This training starts with drilling of terrain recognition, as the Weyrlingmaster instructs the dragonriders on how best to visualize their destination. When he is satisfied with the progress of a particular dragonpair, the Weyrlingmaster flies with the pair and takes them between – the rider playing the role of passenger as his dragon takes visual reference from the Weyrlingmaster. The fist jump between is always startling; the Weyrlingmaster will jump between with a pair several times before letting them visualize the destination and make the jump unaided.

Again, even with the greatest precautions, a few new weyrling pairs go between  and never reappear. During the more hurried training that has to be conducted during a Threadfall, it is not uncommon at this point to lose one or more weyrling pairs per Hatching. (pg. 56)

Otherwise, they just mention losing Riders between with no explanation. So I don’t know the actual specifics, but I think my theory holds.