#dragon shifter
The Cypress Grove
Genre: Romance/Historical/Fantasy, slightly based on thismythSetting: Greek Anatolia, early 900s, Byzantine Empire
Word Count:7200
Since Halia could remember she belonged more on the land than in the seaside city of Abydos, the tender soil as close to her heart as her mother’s line, who before they became known as healers lived off the land as farmers and hunters. It was here, on the outskirts of Astyra, that Halia was content.
She didn’t need marriage or children or love or family if only she could stay on the land.
Halia didn’t want to knock her birthplace by the Dardanelles. But the young Byzantine medic cherished that innate feeling of home, as she surveyed their dwindling olive groves. In this maternal alcove outside the main city, she felt at once at peace and loved. Nourished by the soft sun, the gleaming rocks, the scent of pine and cypress, and the crisp air.
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@omegaversetheory excuse my lateness, I’ve been busy but have some time now. I decided to make this a separate post so I could keep better track of it I hope you don’t mind!
Original post for context can be found here
First for those who are new to my content I don’t write abo in the typical way, here’s more info if you want it, but it can be boiled down to everything is more about scents and social behaviors than physical characteristics, though basics like nesting, bonding heats and ruts are still included.
Now as for dragons! You’re in luck because I love world/lore building and have a way I’ve structured dragon courtship, nesting, and even fantasy logic gestation of eggs!
Instead of packs, dragons have colonies that functions similar to cats. So mostly independent but willing to rely on each other to find food, safe resting areas, or just to bring up their hatchlings since there’s safety in numbers.
Dens are the caves an Alpha claims for themself to live in after extensive checks for resource and personal security, if they’ve done a good job and gather a pleasing horde they may attract the attention of an Omega.
To an Omega the horde the Alpha collects serves two purposes, two be a good source of potential nesting material and seeing how good of a provider they are in general. If they deem them a good option and like them enough they’ll offer their prized possession to add to the horde. If accepted this starts courtship.
In general it’s grooming each other and hunting together as a show of trust. Sometimes it’ll be play fights and storytelling. Really anything they think will help understand each other better they’re gonna try it
Now, the egg laying thing. This one is very heavy on fantasy logic doesn’t make sense in any other context then it’s basically magic.
I have a more detailed version of it somewhere around here but the basic gists of it is that the amab partner, regardless of presentation will lay their eggs in their afab partner during mating seasons. They absorb genetic material from both parents during the laying process and gestate inside the womb for a couple of months before being laid again, it’ll take about another month or two for them to hatch though
Ariadne
⚠️ Crescent City 2 spoilers below ⚠️
“She held Ruhn’s stare, and he stilled as he caught a glimmer of something molten course beneath the skin of her forearm, making her flesh look like… scales.” - Sarah J. Maas, Crescent City House of Sky and Breath
Character/s by: Sarah J. Maas
Book series: Crescent City
