These days, no one leaves the island.
Oh, it used to happen, in ages past—you can still find the ruined, rotting remains of the docks on the southern coasts, the northern beaches; hear the elders tell stories of the galleons and schooners pulling into port. There was even a breed of couriers—sleek little beasts, with brightly colored feathers and plumed tails, oversized wings to catch the thermals. But these days...these days, the ports are gone. The couriers don’t fly. The Isle of Caerel hasn’t seen the outside world in nearly a hundred years.
And, apparently, it’s killing us.
There was no reason for the rain to fail. Caerel has been self-sustaining since the Flood, hundreds of years ago, even if we don’t have the silkworms of Qiandr or the mounts of Kullath—our farms are good and our people are better; the climate is temperate, the sea winds have always been kind to us; the rainy season is steady and predictable as clockwork. Plus, we have the one thing no other island has.
But five years ago, the spring rains were late. There were mutters, of course, but plenty of the farmers joked about Mother Nature finally hitting a hiccup. The jokes stopped last year, when finally, the storms didn’t come at all. We haven’t had a good thunderstorm in months—the farms are turning brown, and even the trees are brittle and dry. This has never happened before, not that anyone can remember, and we don’t know what to do—so we’re going to try something no one can remember doing.
We’re using the one resource no one else has, and we’re sending our dragonriders to get help
alrighty! there’s our intro! here’s a tl;dr list of where i plan to go with this rp:
- Caerel is an island—one of many! this particular fantasy world is entirely made up of archipelagos, but these days, only a few other islands are known, and the maps that still exist are extremely limited.
- it is also the only island that has dragons! (probably. as far as we know. MOVING ON) also, dragons without riders are extremely rare, so we get to play kickass dragonriders!
- something is wrong with Caerel! the climate is going all wonky! for an isolated island nation, this is, understandably, pretty diastrous!
- to try and find out wtf is going on and possibly get help, a team of dragonriders is being sent out to one of the known islands, and then beyond!
- you can be any age (within reason...no geriatrics or children please), come up with any reason why you might be sent away from the island as a last resort in a time of crisis, decide whether or not you were even born on Caerel, choose your breed of dragon—the character sheet is going to be pretty freeform!
- we'll start off with the characters being informed of their assignment to The Mission, then about a week of time on Caerel so everyone can get acquainted, and then we'll be off for some exploratory fun!
- exclamation points!
and here’s some worldbuilding!
alright, so that’s that—what do you guys think? in the mood for dragonriders exploring the world? cause i sure am!
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