For me personally, writing lore on FR gives me the chance to merge all my interests and fascinations into two more of my favourite things – writing and dragons. Science fiction? In. Cyberpunk? In. Seaside? In. Cowboys? In. Fandragons? In. Psychological after-effects from disasters? In. Heavy metal death screaming? IN. My lair? Wack. Of course, different people love their lairs according to different plans, so although I’m happy to mix and match dragons you may find inspiration strike by having certain elements in your lair, such a lair of one breed only or a certain theme (e.g royal court, blood-thirsty mercenaries, scavengers etc).
SO in other words I take a lot of inspiration from existing media, as well as real places and objects (e.g the lock in my hometown that inspired the Seoladair Staircase) and even a lot of my in-lore language is heavily Gaelic and Latin based!
One of the most impending things that gets in the way of people creating in all creative industries is the need to be 1000000% unique and different which leads to stress then giving up. Realising the line between inspiration and plagiarism is an important detail to remember when coming up with any art, but shouldn’t be an obstacle.
Also, getting involved with other people’s lore and official lore helps a ton with developing your own. Now you don’t have to waltz into their blog and start an in-depth conversation every day (or you can, if you both have the time!) but even small acts such as reblogging their lore stories and adding comments in the tags, or even just reading their stories and keeping track of where the plot is (if anyone follows mine and is lost I am so sorry and I completely understand) & gradually justbuilding up this mutual-ship can help the both of you without realising it, and if they make it obvious to you that they’re happy to talk lore and other stuff anytime take up the opportunity!
On this note, buying lore hatchlings or dragons with history or quirks that catch your eye (e.g a Naomi descendent or a 2-year old G1 with 5 kids named “elatrednUsnaS”) may help you shape a whole chunk of lore entirely. Just buying a simple old engineer who punched robots got me a whole new sub-clan ._.
One more important thing to remember is if you don’t feel like writing lore, don’t force yourself to. If you’d rather play the new game you’ve been looking forward to all year then do it. Like homework, being forced to do something is no fun and you’ll find yourself dreading it. Dreading it means you’ll hate it. Hating it means you’ll never want to touch your lore and again and wipe out your entire clan in despair. Then you’ll regret that and feel even more hopeless. Not fun, I assure you.
Inspiration outbursts as I call them, aka the brief ideas that may float into your head and genuinely feel the urge to type down even though you’re right in the middle of calming down your niece while your sister’s out and low-key panicking, can range from an outburst every day to nearly a whole year without ideas. Don’t despair if you find yourself without a path to follow your clan on. Keep finding new inspiration, and if necessary, start over on a blank slate with a new clan, new dragons and even a new element.
So basically “what the hell is this wall of text guard gimme the deets”;
Find inspiration everywhere from outside your house to films and games to within the FR universe itself and the community.
Get involved in the community, from reblogging lore posts you liked to striking up a short conversation with someone who’s said they’re open to lore discussion.
Mash up all your interests or follow a certain theme to make your lore connect how you want it to.
Don’t be afraid to use cliches or use a traditional base for your clan such as a gathering for hurt dragons. All lore is unique to you in the end, if you remember to tread the line between plagiarism and inspiration carefully.
Don’t force yourself to write lore when you don’t want to. Let the ideas come to you in time and in the mean time focus on something else such as caring for yourself.
Weave in new inspiration to your clan as it comes. If it’s not working and you can’t salvage anything and all feels hopeless, turn over a new page and start again.
Hope this helps and thank you for asking! ❤
aLSO when physically writing your lore you don’t have to write down all 15 chapters in one night. Heck, you don’t have to write all of page 1 in 2 hours. Even if it’s just a sentence or word a day to help you keep track, it’s still lore ❤
Pyx and Vylan are twin brothers conceived of Tryx and Haiya. Being direct descendants of Tryx, the boys are powerful and exceptional at possessing at will. Both are weapons, so to speak and could be unstoppable given the correct training and supervision.
Being born within plague nests, not only do they infest the host with their voices, and general being– they also have the ability to manipulate the hosts’ mind into believing they have an incurable disease, or even draw out as far as having mental illnesses without a means of reprieve.
Given their history, background, and magic capacity, put into the wrong hands; this force could became nightmarish. However their mother is a kind soul; and with the right training they could be put to use as a sort of medical assistance with their possessive and diagnostic abilities.
It’s up to you how they turn out, will they stay together? Or will they head off to separate clans? Only you can decide.
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