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Here's one more post, thanks to a family member participating in the event currently! If you do not know what the hunt items look like, here they are in her basket. They appear the same in the basket as they do in the hunt.

Want some information about The 2022 Legendary Edition - Molten Soul? This is the Birthday Dragon Egg released today to celebrate 1 year of Mystical Creatures! Below is a picture of the dragon welp, and the picture on the box the egg comes in, which shows the adult dragon. I feel like the picture on the box isn't doing it enough justice though. We'll see it in full beauty when it grows!

BTW, these are pictures provided by an SL family member.

I am in love with the new Blaze Baby. I sort of wish it had feather horns, but it's so good as is. I still want to get the Enkindler some day before I cut down on breeding, but these babies were worth grabbing. Thank you again to the artists!

Coming to terms with the fact my pod will never drop an enkindler. I'm fine.

Today was a good day. I saw the new dragon and picked it up but didn't hatch it yet. The only way I could fit it in a spot was if I rotated out my ruby project. I've been waiting for a Ruby Skin Drake to drop to mix with my triple Female of other Ruby Traits. It did, so I was able to start that couple and rotate out my doubles. Now I had room for the new dragon but here was the new struggle:

I needed it to be a female. I have a male and female Zenith, and thought it might be cute to add the bold rainbow to the prism rainbow. I hatched the egg... and it was a girl! I guess all of my dragon rotations today were meant to be.

Now if only my Zuldred Pod would get its act together and make me an enigma LOL

Thank you Mystical Creatures for the Good Friday Surprise!

People may have noticed I suddenly disappeared. I'm still out of work currently but there have been a lot more appointments following that up and reviewing my status weekly, and it's been overlapping my usual time I was at Sirens. I haven't been able to scout pricing and what's out there for weeks so I've just fallen back to checking in on my pods and logging. I may be returning to work after next week pending a better review of my injury improving, but I'm also in the process of applying for a different career as the injury is always going to be there going forward in some fashion. So I'm doing alright, just sorry I haven't been taking extra time to be on and active in the dragon community.

My beautiful girl Aurora, one of my first Dragons and one of the reasons I became a breeder, has reached her point of Ancient Wisdom. Rest well my baby girl. Today marks the start of your forever journey with me as an Ancient

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I hope everyone had a lucky day!

That random drop eye surprise. Wow. That was awesome. Congrats to all who got it!

Luck wasn't really on my side today, in a lot of ways. Not a single Egg of mine today produced the eye to start... but every single egg today was in no way helpful to progressing my projects. Usually an egg has traits I am working on from parents. Today's eggs just seemed to pull as many odd ball or starter traits from the background as possible for all of my dragons. That was a bit of a damper... but that's part of the breeding game. I've had a lot of GREAT luck previously.

And then I had my MRI to find out what is going on with my knee. I got some of the worst situational news I could have from it. The Meniscus was expected to be torn, but now it is expected to be WORN. It's Degenerative. What was a work place injury that was covered and getting me partial wage reimbursement while I recovered, just became due to an underlying pre-existing condition. I very likely just lost my workman's comp/temp disability payments, AND I have an injury that science hasn't come far enough to solve. There are ways to manage the pain and try to keep as much function as possible for as long as possible throughout my life, but it will never be "okay" again. I'm a mess of emotions tonight, and just wanted to share that here so that people who have gotten to know me and/or follow me, understand why my presence may change a bit in the coming days. I need to wrap my head around this, see what the medical professionals tell me next week, and well... see if I can return to work soon or not. I'd have a very hard filing for disability because I can do work sitting... but getting a desk job was something I really wanted for more than 10 years and every attempt resulted in letters rejecting even an interview.

Anyways... The very big life change has directly affected the amount of Dragon Breeding I can maintain. I just had to retire out of Commercial Breeding tonight and decide what projects I can maintain on a smaller personal scale. I'll still be following dragons and collecting, but no longer really funding breeding more than one or two pods. I don't feel very lucky this year.

Again, I really hope everyone else had a good lucky day, and got lucky drops!

Once again I have completely rotated my pods. A lot of it has been subbing in better offspring with traits, but I just had to make room to rotate in an entire ruby project. Now let's see if the  Nessies and the Drake will behave and combine their traits.

My Peppermints are still being very stubborn as well. Everything is there, but they just don't wanna give up that perfect egg quite yet.

This morning I saw another Ascension Zenith Prism Nessie for sale... My wallet is weeping. I'm breeding her out and then she is my SL Daughter's when it comes time to retire. She already loves her. I'm still curious if I might see a trait pass.

THAT NEW ENKINDLER! I would post the image that's circulating but I don't think it's right of me to since I don't own it or the image. But wow. That Zuldred Surprise is a true Show Stopper, Heart Skipping, Stunner! So of course I just cleared out one of my pod projects in hopes that a new starter pod might give me one. I love it. I want to name it Fafnir after the dragon from the Gaia Online lore. Please oh Please, Dragon Lords above, bless me with a single Fafnir!

Oh boy... My Peppermint project just doesn't want to behave. I'm getting great eggs from them, but not the right combination I need. At least I have more dragons to work with if these ones don't pass. I have all Summer to figure them out.

OMG finally some good news. After failing to auction off some of my adored dragoness, one of the girls had 90% ardor so I figured "alright. I'll give her another try with the pink Tolrae". Welp. They dropped their egg. 3x tolrae xaytud eye, ruby horns (feather). Ornament is stone. This is a dream combo for me. Thank God she didn't move at auction. I've been dying for ruby traits on pink and she just delivered

Pics tomorrow. I'm on mobile and haven't even logged in to incubate the baby.

Last night I finally got my Ascension Dragon! I will admit I obtained it in the market, but I am so happy to have this girl!

I've named her partly after "The Chariot". My first Tarot Deck (and only one) was themed after Dragons, and I dreamed about it the night before. I wasn't even looking for it. I didn't even know it existed. I was seeking an entirely different deck. I had dreamed about a golden dragon the night before as well. My Mother told me that the dream was a sign, and that I should definitely be getting the Dragon Tarot (she was helping me shop for it). Later, in the deck, I discovered that there was a Golden Dragon on one, and ONLY ONE of the cards in the entire deck; The Chariot. This was also already deemed as my representing card. Whenever I was overusing my deck and asking the same thing over and over it would throw me a reversed Chariot to tell me to stop going in circles, one of the times that I could feel the deck actually speaking to me (even if it was to tell me I was being a dumb child).

The Ascension Dragon is very important to me due to these memories. I thought I'd share this. Say Hello to Hoshiko | The Chariot.

I went to see how my pet dragons were doing (these guys are not being used to breed at all, they are personal babies), and I found them naturally like this. I think this is the cutest thing I have seen.

I've decided to go ahead and name my favorite dragon combination (assuming it hasn't been given a name prior to this... I haven't seen one).

5x Fruzy with Stone Ornament and either Fin or Feather horns (preferably), and ripple sky marking, shall be known as Diamond Dust. Well... by me at least. The coat reminds me of spells used in Final Fantasy by Shiva, and Meru in Legend of Dragoon. Shattered Ice Crystals. It's fine if others don't want to call it that. I just think I want to from now on.

Here's an update on my crazy little Dragon Family and Current Projects

I haven't posted in a few days. Oops. 

I have a good line of Selene (fruzy ripple sky) starting to come out reliably but it's not perfect every time yet on ornament type. Still, it's my favorite dragon so that's exciting!

My Datentuds are really set but I couldn't get the zaetus eye like I hoped. The line is consistent to try in the future when some space frees up.

I'm still trying to get adored to pass any ruby trait to my tolrae. Nothing yet.

I have a pod of Xmas traits I put together from a very good day at auctions this week. Thank you breeders. They'll be of age in another couple of days.

I missed out on a set of iakus with lots of briarthorn but I'll have more chances when I have money again. Such a stunning combo little miss made.

I did track down ceondet with orchid finally. I don't know why but this is the only ceondet combo at all to really really fancy me.

Working on a full xemmy with ripple and my 4x tolrae. No idea what I want out of that. Ill know when I see it.

Should I put ripple sky on ceondet? I haven't seen it yet... Maybe with the right touch of another pastel or white air type I could make a sunset...

How many of us have lived this story?

You go to the dragon markets. You tell yourself you know exactly what you are looking for, and that's all you need. You came to find one specific looking dragon... but oh look! Look at that designer! It's perfect! And suddenly you're taking home even more dragons just because. And then you still find what you're looking for on top of it and now you need to shuffle your dragons on your land. Again. haha

Send HALP (I'm not a big time breeder so this is a lot for me)

Wish me luck!

Hey all! What did your Dragons get you for Valentines Day?

Selene caught me off guard in the middle of a photoshoot. She wanted a hug!

The community collecting and breeding dragons is full of wonderful and generous people. I don't want to share details of my encounter to protect their generosity and privacy, but when someone remembers you didn't have a hard to get trait, and then gifts it to you when they have extra... that means a lot. Thank you you all for being so wholesome.

What are some features you'd like to see in a future update?

We have the ability to wake a dragon at 30% sleep, but not the ability to let our dragon know it's okay to sleep. They won't sleep until 0% and then you can't wake them until 30. I've seen this affect some live bid panels. Wouldn't it be nice to plan a bit and let the dragon sleep sooner? Maybe you wish to take the dragon on an outing and want it to be rested more. EDIT: I realized this would defeat the purpose/use of the energy booster, so maybe this idea won't hold water.

We finally have ancestry! But can we make that available with a web link directly through the status menu? This would bypass a step for potential buyers not having them to take the UUID and make the URL or search the dragon/egg.

Could we maybe see the offspring of a parent in the ancestry? This could be helpful in selling parents of a successful line and helping prove that they are passing traits reliably in the RNG. I can see breeders and buyers benefiting from this.

These are just some ideas I've had for a future update. I don't know if these ideas are already out there or being considered. What do you as a user or fan of the dragons wish to see?

A while back I saw my dream dragon. Such a beauty but I couldn't afford her when she came up at auction. I happened to find her again a few days later after the auction, and she was still for sale. I was gone for a week and came back curious if I might find her again after finally securing some funds. She was gone... but to my surprise there was another young girl there that was identical and from the same line. Even though this isn't physically the same dragon, it is still the dream dragon I was hoping to someday make. Someone made it before me and I'm thankful because honestly I'm a collector more than a breeder... especially trying to make a designer work out.

Thank you to this breeder, and all of the breeders who are out there working to make beautiful difficult combinations available.

Also, I named her Selene.

I found a lovely drake with DOS of both Peppermint Horn from one parent, and Peppermint Claw from the other. Wish me luck that it's hidden! I'd really like to finally land on this trait (especially horn).

My Datentuds have laid another baby, and it was a 5x Dat with Smolder Ruby. Pretty girl. I have a future couple of 5x male with char and 5x female with ruby. I love these two, and hope they make people happy in the future. I'm still working on getting a zaetus eye on them because I personally love that eye.

What combinations are people working on that they love?

Today I found a lovely couple of adult DATs that I paired up. Immediately they birthed a perfect baby with all markings I wanted and pigments. How wonderful! Since it was a boy, I decided to name him Rikue after a doggo I had growing up. When he hatches and grows I'll post pictures! But for now he's an eggo.

The Lovely Lady Talia has hit adulthood. Pretty Girl!