Eldemore

ErulasseAranel wrote:I don't know where to put this so I'm not making a new thread (yet) and am just commenting here. I was reading the new lore section, specifically the part about Dragoons and the drake trials. I decided to make an OC (still very much a work in progress) who wanted to become a Dragoon and failed; she was fortunate enough to escape with her life.

However, I need more information on the details of the trials because I'm not sure exactly how they work, what's the chance you'll get out without being maimed or killed, etc. Where are they held? I read somewhere that it was in the Endless Forest, so do they just release the people into the woods and they wander around and find a drake? How does the fighting work?

...or do you not know all of this yet and I'll have to wait to write my fanfiction. I mean, I guess I can leave it fairly vague and not describe the trial itself, but I would like to know about chance of injury and how they're expected to fight. Surely they're not aiming to kill the drake they want to bond with...?

Scyanatha wrote:

ErulasseAranel wrote:I don't know where to put this so I'm not making a new thread (yet) and am just commenting here. I was reading the new lore section, specifically the part about Dragoons and the drake trials. I decided to make an OC (still very much a work in progress) who wanted to become a Dragoon and failed; she was fortunate enough to escape with her life.

However, I need more information on the details of the trials because I'm not sure exactly how they work, what's the chance you'll get out without being maimed or killed, etc. Where are they held? I read somewhere that it was in the Endless Forest, so do they just release the people into the woods and they wander around and find a drake? How does the fighting work?

...or do you not know all of this yet and I'll have to wait to write my fanfiction. I mean, I guess I can leave it fairly vague and not describe the trial itself, but I would like to know about chance of injury and how they're expected to fight. Surely they're not aiming to kill the drake they want to bond with...?

The survival rate is extremely low. Hundreds of people participate every year, and from what I read I imagine that only one or two survive and win the loyalty of the drake to become a Dragoon - maybe five if it's a really good year. Not all of the casualties will die, there will also be a lot of heavily injured contestants who lost but got lucky enough to have their lives spared by the drake - but there WILL be a lot of dead people.

As for the location, I'm not quite sure. From what I understood, the trial in the Endless Forest is only the first part of the Trials, to root out the weak ones and those that only desire power, leaving a smaller group for the actual Drake Trials - which I myself imagine to be held in perhaps a giant arena or coliseum-style venue in Alabaster itself or nearby.

However, I'm certainly no expert on the matter, so anyone who has better knowledge of Eldemore's lore is welcome to correct me wherever necessary. ^-^

Edit: This thread is also a very good place to check out the lore. There should be a part about Alabaster City somewhere, which I recall included a little information on the Drake Trials.

Scyanatha wrote:

The survival rate is extremely low. Hundreds of people participate every year, and from what I read I imagine that only one or two survive and win the loyalty of the drake to become a Dragoon - maybe five if it's a really good year. Not all of the casualties will die, there will also be a lot of heavily injured contestants who lost but got lucky enough to have their lives spared by the drake - but there WILL be a lot of dead people.

As for the location, I'm not quite sure. From what I understood, the trial in the Endless Forest is only the first part of the Trials, to root out the weak ones and those that only desire power, leaving a smaller group for the actual Drake Trials - which I myself imagine to be held in perhaps a giant arena or coliseum-style venue in Alabaster itself or nearby.

However, I'm certainly no expert on the matter, so anyone who has better knowledge of Eldemore's lore is welcome to correct me wherever necessary. ^-^

Edit: This thread is also a very good place to check out the lore. There should be a part about Alabaster City somewhere, which I recall included a little information on the Drake Trials.

Scyanatha wrote:

Scyanatha wrote:

The survival rate is extremely low. Hundreds of people participate every year, and from what I read I imagine that only one or two survive and win the loyalty of the drake to become a Dragoon - maybe five if it's a really good year. Not all of the casualties will die, there will also be a lot of heavily injured contestants who lost but got lucky enough to have their lives spared by the drake - but there WILL be a lot of dead people.

As for the location, I'm not quite sure. From what I understood, the trial in the Endless Forest is only the first part of the Trials, to root out the weak ones and those that only desire power, leaving a smaller group for the actual Drake Trials - which I myself imagine to be held in perhaps a giant arena or coliseum-style venue in Alabaster itself or nearby.

However, I'm certainly no expert on the matter, so anyone who has better knowledge of Eldemore's lore is welcome to correct me wherever necessary. ^-^

Edit: This thread is also a very good place to check out the lore. There should be a part about Alabaster City somewhere, which I recall included a little information on the Drake Trials.

I read the thread that I linked above again, and I realized that I'd been a bit wrong last night.
The first part of the Trials is the festival in Alabaster City, and the real trials seem to indeed be in the Endless Forest itself. The thread mentions "wild drakes" (in the forest) and "the drake's lair" - which leads me to believe that the fights do take place in the Endless Forest, and that they do go into that forest to seek out the wild drakes.
This is reinforced by the section about Brittle Creek Village (in the Endless Forest) where it is said that the inhabitants of this village "are valued for their assistance during these trials and often help any survivors who were wounded or rejected by the wild drakes that they wished to tame".

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