Royal winter show [RWS]

Art by Efirende | Conall22 | Irsibil | Samantha-dragon | Nerissien

Starts 1st November, ends 31st December. 

🔥❗👉To join, link all your entries into this excel sheet.👈❗🔥

 

"Dragons once were powerful and abundant on Cesferus. But that is no longer true, as Fire war was their demise and now they are gone."  

Every cesferan child knows these hundreds of years old stories, but only a few knew that lesser dragons, the so called feathertailes, survived and in cooperation with humans thrived in secret. Well it's secret no more!

What happened do you ask? Well, human kingdom, called Land of Dawn had little island with dragon farms. How they got dragon eggs centuries ago noone knows, but since then dragons were raised in hunter-free environment, to be possible secret unit of power in case something bad was about to happen to Land of Dawn. 

When colderran king Mikelon made his political marriage with Daggamori, princess of Land of Dawn, Colderra got this Dragon island as a wedding gift, and that was probably best thing that could ever happen. King Mikelon (after affairs with nagas, war, his brother becomming dragon himself, meeting people of Norranon and another circumstances) decided, that is time to show whole world that dragons are no bigger threat than any other race. He allowed to make Dragon shows public, so more people would see nature of modern dragons and the stigma could be broken. Unfortunately this over years increased interest from Dumoshans, the dragon hunters. Despite quite a few dragons died during hunts and it was definitely not a good time to be a dragon, awarness of dragon's existance spread much more quickly.

A lot of dragons, not connected to Dragon Island came out of hiding and after mess with Dumoshans was over, one thing was clear. Dragons need protection, so this won't happen again.
Once again Colderra took leadership and Exam of sentience was created.

So from this year now on, there's no more Dragon show, it's Royal show under banner of Colderra, and it's not only showing off dragons, but also held by dragons.

 

Event will be judged after it's end, based on judging core, and possible additions described in relevant activity.  All event entries must be posted linked in this excel sheet. On deviantArt, post entries into RWS folder.

AVAILABLE ACTIVITIES 

There's lots of available activities, but to make it easier for sake of this game, every year only one main and one side are chosen for competition. Mounts that are allowed to enter also differ. For more informations please click on options below. Marked by ✅ are active this year.

MAIN

• ✅ General show - this year (2024)
• ❌ Battle show
  
• ❌ Heaven's race
• ❌ True dragon show
  

SIDE

• ✅ Aviation day - this year (2024)
• ❌ The bird show
  
• ❌ Dragon helpers
  

For year 2024 it is General show and Aviation day, for everyone! As long as you use atleast a WoC registered rider or a WoC registered mount. So for example, you can enter with Farrosian horse acompanied by WoC registered rider, or you can have a feathertailed dragon acompanied by rider not belonging to WoC.

 

SURROUNDINGS DESCRIBTION

Map of Dragon Island from short comic Dragon's nest

First off! It's important to state, that Royal winter show event won't be always held on the same places. The surroundings will vary, but I will describe here the Dragon Island base.

 

🌡️Climate: Similar to Echo Isles, as they are close, it's temperate climate (for inspiration about nature think of Alps, but surrounded by sea, since it's island). But in time of Royal winter show, as name suggests, it's winter. The Dragon island has incredible winter with a lot of snow, freeze and wind. Generally pretty harsh enviroment, especially at the mountains, where is the show area.

SHOW AREA

It's easily acessible only by flight path. It's on mountain plateau with glorious view over island... in times when the weather doesn't suck. There are no trees at all, only short stumpy dwarf pines, most of the time covered in thick snow layer, so they might appear more like snowy mounds. On a side of plateau is entrance to underground caverns. Entrance is marked by two stylized dragon shaped stone monolits (tall around 4 meters. You can call the 'totems' if you wish). Below the mountains you can see the town, coniferous forest and some villages.

When it comes to aerial view, the landscape is even more amazing. All the riggid wild mountain shapes, blues of skies and ocean, little villages and shapes of clouds lit by morning sun...