Color:  Bronze
Dam:  Spectreth
Sire:  Eratoth
Egg:  Hidden Freshwater Pool Egg
Egg Desc:  Sarahlin and Tassana; Gamma and Eilish tweak
Hatchling:  Charismatic Ralph Bronze Hatchling
Hatchling Desc:  Lexi; Gamma tweak
Messages:  Lexi; Eilish tweak
Dragon Inspiration:  Lexi
DragonSong:  "Save me" by Remy Zero
 
 

Clutching_msg:
Spectreth gently digs a shallow indentation with one forepaw, then turns, settling her graven form over it. When the queen moves away, three sleek eggs remain: the two darker ones providing an adequate backdrop to Hidden Freshwater Pool Egg. Satisfied with placement, the golden dragon mounds a bit of volcanic sand around the trio and moves away.

Egg Description:
Edged by deep jungle and smattered by frond-thin silver-green cracks, this translucent orb swells from a pure, clean, tropical blue deep to a coarse, pebbled beach varicolor base.  Ragged cocentric circular lines of bubbling foam hiss from a pale, misty center, drift to a virgin pool of freshwater teal that languishes, hidden among island leaf outlines.  Beneath one end, a dark aquamarine kiss of wave-rounded stones crowds a rushing water froth, forbidden and secretive among the bright fleur of color nestling on the sleek shell.

Hatching_msg:
The peaceful calm of %t is gently disturbed as a silent force ripples its surface.  Verdant fronds waver in time, dancing daintily along with the motion. Like wind tinkling through tropical leaves, bits of shell drift easily away, falling scattered to the heated sands. Ripples turn to cracks, and cracks turn to sizable rifts. The rifts themselves flow apart, revealing such a treasure as %d beneath the surface.

Dragon Description:
Brooding soot dark as endless night shadows every edge of this lithe bronze accented in gold at the trough of each neckridge, at the spars and tips of his wings, and in the creases of his long body.  A sarcastic flash of crimson copper whips over his lean chest and intertwines with the veins of his delicate,  lanky wingsails, seeping along a formidable length flecked with glitter, into awkward unbalanced haunches, finally snaking into striations along copious coils of ebony tail.  Beneath his tail, the broad spacklings of pale silver that explore the wide spade his nether regions twinkle in the twilight of his hide's skies and mimic the gruff upper edge of his calculating talons, black as pitch and glimmering as if wet with ink.

Impress_msg:
Charismatic Ralph Bronze Hatchling is caught: caught up in something he cannot ignore, caught up in something more important than /anything/. Head held high, eyes determined, chest confidently puffed, the bronze takes deliberate steps toward a former stablehand, many-faceted eyes whirling excitement, intensity, love and so much more. Gold-laced wings stretch and dip, and a trill of accomplishment slips from his throat. The hunt has ended, and his %d has been found, his forever butterscotch candie.

Impress_name_msg:
The blackest depths of your mind suddenly burst alive with the crimsons and golds of pure flame, the warmth -- the heat! -- dancing through in wild abandon, flickering and mingling with edges of your existence, creeping and encroaching and soon engulfing to your very core. Intensity permeates from every facet, drowning you in rich waves of sunset hues and pungent odors. << Join me, Z'eir, and we shall hunt and lead together. >> That voice, that voice: husky and forever adoring almost threatens to send tingles down your spine, down to your very core. A pregnant pause brings flames' a-crackling  and smokiness adrift, and the words never forgotten follow: << I am your Qwinth. >>

INSPIRATIONS

Name Inspiration:
Qwinth is from the Gaelic name Qwin, and since you specified wanting a gaelic sounding name that was short and had an unusual begining, and after going through maybe two dozen possible names, and running them by SearchCo, we all agreed that Qwinth was perfect for your dragon.  Qwin, the name, portrays idealistic qualities, with creative edges, while remaining a bit moody at the same time.  People with this name tend to have a very small group of friends that they really care about rather than a large group that they only kinda like.

Survivor Inspiration:
Your Qwinth was based on Ralph from one of the best novels ever written, "Lord of the Flies."  Ralph of the book was very human, very fallible, and very charismatic. He was by far no angel, but he had this tenacity that left him clinging to Hope even when there was no real reason for it. Not optimistic, per se, but he would not even begin to give up on rescue until all options were exhausted. Even when it seemed like the signal fire would never be rekindled, he hoped. He was not swaggeringly brave, but he pulled his fear together and went up to look at the Beast on the mountain anyhow. He had a firm belief that the civilization that the boys had been severed from was perfect, that adults, were they on the island, could make everything better. He daydreamed a lot about the life he had left behind; ponies and tea, and books.

http://cgi.sparknotes.com/index.mpl?path=http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/themes.html&words=lord,flies
http://www.novelguide.com/lordoftheflies/characterprofiles.html under Ralph.

Egg Inspiration:
Wave-washed pebbly beach, surf bubbling away between the rocks and sand, occasional strand of seaweed. Why? Good variety of available materials that can be used for a complex description, yet it all ties in together very easily. --(from Tassana)
This egg was inspired by a book in which I can't even remember the name of.  A couple lost on a desert island came across a pool of fresh water in which, to drink and bath without worry for the lack of water. It ended up saving their lives. The darker pool is where one of them hides to dunk the other in a game.  --(from Sarahlin)
Water -- fresh water, that is -- is essential for human survival, so what is most important if you are stranded in the middle of thousands upon thousands of miles of saltwater? Freshwater! The essence of this egg is a life-giving one, sustaining. Blues and greens indicating the presence of life dominate the shell. A human can only survive for about three days without fresh water before he or she would suffer severe dehydration and perish. Though fictional stories of castaways stranded on desert islands are much more prevalent than actual occurances in reality, if /you/ happened to be stranded on an island  on the middle of the ocean, you had best hope there is fresh, clear water there!

Desc Inspiration:
Many things inspired the desc of your Qwinth, I wanted to combined aspects of his personality with your dream dragon as well as physicalities from the survivor he was based on, and I think I managed a pretty good bablance.  His long lanky form from the lankiness of Ralph in Lord of the Flies, combined with the darkness you wanted for your dragon.  The darkness fit his personality quite well actually.  Him being more secluded and a little more brooding than the rest of his color.

Dragonsong Inspiration:
This song just completely portrays someone who needs to be saved from their present lifestyle, and that is your dragon through and through. Even though he is the skilled hunter and very tough indeed, he will always need you there to save him from various dreary aspects of life.

Mind Voice:
A mindvoice like no other, bursting and crackling with crimsons and golds of a bonfire.  Husky, yet still adolescent, his voice can waver between the two. When serious, doing drills or fighting thread, his voice is the utmost in maturity, but when he is just laying around the Weyr with you, he takes on a distinctly teenage tone, with just a little hint of whining every now and then.

Scent:
The smell of a camp fire to a child, smoke and charred wood, with the most delicate hint of sweetness as delicious things are roasted on said campfire.  The smell is very subtle, giving him the impression of being an outdoor type, that rugged scent which is quite unique in itself.

Personality:
Unique probably best describes your Qwinth.  Simply put he is not like the other young males his age.  Instead of the usual hatchling behavior of playing and having fun socializing, he would rather just stick by your side.  Not that he doesn't like his clutchmates, he just always seems to say the wrong thing to them.  Such as, <<Eewwwwww Greenth!  What is that stink?  Oh?  Your lifemate made a new oil for you?  Well it makes you smell like rotting flowers.>> or <<What?  You made an accident on your couch /again/ Brownth.  Sucks to be your lifemate.>>

He means well of course, but these comments usually don't gain him the favor of his clutchmates.  But don't worry, he will grow out of it surely by the end of Weyrlinghood.  As an adult dragon, Qwinth will be very attached to you, although he will never admit to it.   As you go to the lake to do some bathing, he will follow, but only because the sun here is better than on his ledge.  Even though grown up, he will still often times act like a teenage boy, sarcastic in nature and always waiting with a snippy remark to anything.

At times, he may very well seem a little withdrawn but that is simply because he is rather uncertain with how to act towards other dragons let alone their lifemates.  But to those few other than you that he does get close to, he will be very protective and loving over.  And this isn't only females either. Qwinth will relish friendships with other male dragons.  He will feel more understanding of how a male thinks than a female.

Not that females will go unnoticed, not at all.  Just Qwinth will take a long time figuring out just what they like to hear.  The first few times he will probably end up putting his foot in his mouth for the longest time.  He just doesn't know how to talk to girls.  That's it.  He is like the typical adolescent boy with a crush, thinking the only way to get the females to notice him is by teasing or picking on them.  With your help though, he may gradually come out of this affliction, but when he is really impressed by a female, you may just see him going back to his old ways

But flights are a whole other deal altogether.  When a flight is near, and he is ready to chase, he becomes the hunter once more, and will stalk his prey.  No discrimination to greens or golds, he will hunt them all, they are all a challenge to him.  And those he manages to catch will become his trophies in a way, he will make sure that they are well cared for until as long as he stays interested.  This could be days, months or even Turns, no one knows.  Although, if he ever fathers a clutch he will be rather uncertain how to deal with it at first, but most likely settle into being a regular daddy figure, concerning himself with making sure his eggs will have the most perfect lifemates.

You are and always will be his number one though.  No female will ever come between the bond you and he share.  Closer than best buddies, he will look on you more as a bloodbrother, an equal, someone to hunt with, to help him as he will help you.

Physical:
Your Qwinth is unique in his physicality, his body is long and slender, very lanky in build.  He's not as robust as others of his color but he may surpass the most in length.  His head, neck, wings, and tail all stretch out to give him a very unique structure.  In his hatchling stages you will find that because of this added length of body he may tend to be a little more awquard than his clutchmates always tripping over a tail or foot, but he will be determined to quickly overcome his clumsiness.  As he ages though, everything will be in perfect proportion for him, making his movements rather slinky, graceful and serpent-like.

His coloration matches his build in being quite unique indeed.  He is dark, very dark for his coloration, bordering on pitch black at all his extremities.  But black is not all he is.  A very rich crimson copper flows over his chest and onto his wingsails which then pales into a rich golden red.  Underbelly is shadowed with sooty darkness but here and there dappled with silver specks, giving the illusion of a star twinkling night sky.

One thing he will be proud of throughout his male life is his long long tail.  It's just keeps going and going and going.  Snaking it around those he loves will be a favorite pastime as well as flicking it in agravation.  If you want to know Qwinth's state of mind,. just watch his tail.  Idle snaking here and there means a rather relaxed mood, where as when he is contemplative and calculating, it may be still, paused in it's movements until he has things figured out.  When it becomes more whip-like, watch out because he will not be in the best of mood.

When oiling, you'll find that his  wingsails and wing joints will take alot of care, he will complain about them quite alot.  As well as his ebon tail, he will want to always keep it glistening and in top shape.  Around his talons will be another trouble point for him.

FINAL NOTE:
Well, I was there for your Search, and you just seemed to be such a great player right off the bat that I wanted to make sure your dragon was just perfect for you.  I put alot of thought into him and really hope that you enjoy your Qwinth as much as I enjoyed creating him for you :) (--from Lexi)