Ashenmaw - Dragons of Marrowoods (WIP) (Dragon Fantasy) (ShortStory on 124)

Small guide to the flight boni while I polish ch1 (update soon-ish, prolly around New Year’s).
Also, when stats are increased/decreased the flights also get a small bonus/malus to it.

Red/Gold:

  • +20% Charm & Diplomacy
  • +10% Wit & Cunning
  • +5% Magic
  • -5% Prowess & Stamina

Red Dragons are born diplomats with silver tongues, and a helpful understanding of magic. What they lack in physical strength their natural talent to talk circles around others more than makes up for it.

Green/Brass:

  • +20% Sneaking & Dexterity
  • +10% Magic
  • +5% Wit & Cunning
  • -5% Prowess & Stamina

Green Dragons at home in the shadows of the forest and the otherworldly realms of the Dewlight Wilds. They learned a lot from the folk of the Wilds, which makes up for their common lack in physical strength.

Black/Copper:

  • +20% Prowess & Stamina
  • +10% Wit & Cunning
  • +5% Sneaking & Dexterity
  • -5% Charm & Diplomacy

Black dragons are fierce fighters and strategists, but commonly very blunt. The only subtlety found amongst them, so people say, is when they took up the path of rogues.

Blue/Silver:

  • +25% Magic
  • +10% Wit & Cunning
  • +5% Charm & Diplomacy
  • -5% Prowess & Stamina

Blue Dragons are clever scholars with a natural talent for magic. They’re not strong, and a bit scatterbrained, but usually they tend to be rather… charming.

The +25% on magic are not a typo. But they come at a cost down the line.

Gray/Bronze:

  • +20% Wit & Cunning
  • +10% Charm & Diplomacy
  • +5% Magic
  • -5% Sneaking & Dexterity

Gray Dragons are born traders and adventurers, albeit some go straight for being con artists, sometimes with a little help from the arcane. They often the only ones outshining the red flight’s cunning, but can be a little boisterous, and in general subtle seems to be one of the few words not found in their dictionary.

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Partial Update 0.0.5.5

Partial update to 0.0.5.5

New wordcount: 24k total

  • Changes made to how stats are applied.
  • Changes made to the glossary
  • Added text to the green and blue path.

What feedback am I looking for:

Please check if the story and its flow in the green and blue path work and if it makes sense like that. Let me know if it feels off for the characters to have those conversation yet.

Also let me know how you like the new characters. Thank you.

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Enjoyed the new stuff for Blue and Green, flow seemed fine, did notice that the one choice where you have the option to refrain from asking a question because you don’t wanna pry, you end up asking anyway in both Blue and Green path and I was wondering if that was intentional?

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latter might be a leftover from a different wording of the option, I’ll overhaul that :3 The choices there set your curiosity stats and a small bit of bold stat, so I’m trying to keep that even between the paths

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Can you be charming and such as a black dragon?

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Of course, it’s just a bit more work.

I mean, Ferhon had a reputation to be a flirt and smooth-talker, no matter how in love he and Akylhoi were (she was usually amused by it cause she knew he’s loyal beyond reason to her)

Also, you don’t get a malus when practising skills, only when they are tested in very specific situations.

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Radical, wonder how Black and Grey/Gray are gonna turn out, also whats with the Bronze and all that stuff?

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The metallic colors are a variation that can occur in those flights. sometimes in scales, often in claws or horns.

Padamonos for example has a very nice ashy bronze color, like a faint white-ish patina.

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So why no options to select them?

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The plan is that it’s tied to your stats/deeds throughout the story. As said, that’s the plan, details are bound to change. :3

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Wonder what kinda being Ashenmaw is, any details you’d be willing to give up?

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He’s a twisted god. Alerhon explains it to his best abilities when you ask him (there’s more info in the red path) and Astia has some info in her history lesson. Beyond that, very very little is know.

Well, Ferhon and Salbri might have known more, but they never said anything. And it’s not as if you could ask them somehow, right?

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Aww and :: grins :: there are ways

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I enjoy the premise few games were you are not just a human. So the stats are tied with color, understandable but will you be “type-cast” to a play style. For example the magical blue/silver could you train to be very strong. I guess train stats in spite of your color.

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None that could be taken safely. Just saying.

The colour gives a bonus, but you can train up everything. plus potentially you can find artefacts and stuff.

Also I will try to not tie skillchecks to a certain ‘style’. you can get through the adventures with all flights. the main difference are sidequests

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:: snickers :: nothing risked is nothing gained

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More sneak peeks for how you are ‘meeting’ the black flight’s RO… aka him trying to kill you while Alerhon and a group of training soldiers are nearby.

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Small status update for the end of the year.

Total Wordcount Ch1 so far: ~28k

Individual Paths:

Green: 1840/~5000 (RO character met? YES)

Black: 2100/~5000 (RO character met? YES)

Blue: 2000/~5000 (RO character met? YES)

Gray: 216/~5000 (RO character met? YES)

Also: The grey dragon RO has been renamed to Rhidiyope (formerly Wynnenos)

I’ll push a partial update as soon as any of the paths is called to the Court.

Have a happy or at least tolerable new year <3

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Loving the new introductions to the blue and green whelps! I thoroughly enjoyed the thought you put in to make each path different. I’ve always been a sucker for dragons and this is scratching that itch phenomenally :smiley:

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Another Partial update.

  • Added some more text to the black and blue path.
  • fixed some checks on naming (currently only available in the red path), especially for easter egg names.

New wordcount 27,800 total, around 7000 per playthrough.

Current status of the paths:

Red: Incomplete, allows for gender choice and naming, red RO introduced.
Green: Incomplete, no gender setting or naming yet, green RO introduced.
Black: Incomplete, no gender setting or naming yet, black RO introduced.
Blue: Incomplete, no gender setting or naming yet, blue RO introduced.
Gray: Incomplete, no gender setting or naming yet, no RO yet introduced.

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