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KING OF THE MOUNTAINSIDE, ATTEMPTED USURPER, all around bastard boi

yes he's named after that godzilla dino dude thing; met this dude after seeing that movie and somehow just from imagining a draconian named 'rhodan' he showed up and started fighting galador x'D
glad to finally have a second one! which means being able to better understand stuff that is species-wide for them and stuff that's just galador-specific, haha

wheeee big story incominggg

~~~

something went wonky with this dude's hormones, which made him grow very fast very quick and gave him horrible demeanour and impulse control as a teen. he's actually from a different region than galador, hence all the differences like wing shape, colours/patterns, and extra toe, but his mother probably flew unusually west and he did too when it came time to find his own territory. he ended up learning very quickly that this particular village he found had livestock which were extremely easy pickings, much to the dismay of the poor villagers who, in the time before guns, couldn't do a whole lot about this giant fuckin dragonman eating their entire livelihood. so after enough attacks and none of their attempts to discourage him succeeding, and fear growing that he'll turn on the human residents soon as well, one girl has the idea to trek to the other side of the mountain and find the much friendlier draconian everyone knows lives there and plead for his help, offering however much free meat as he'd want in return. fight dragonfire with dragonfire, perhaps??

this happens to be galador, who agrees because he loves helping people, and tries to refuse their payment cause he knows how much farmer meat matters to them (seriously, he accidentally killed someone else's sheep when he was younger and didn't know they belonged to anyone, and felt bad so brought back a whole deer to make up for it :'D) and makes his way over to the village to wait for the inevitable attack. this is when rhodan's still younger and not quite at his full size yet, and being younger and far less experienced, galador easily gets the whoopin on him and tells him to fuck right off. rhodan begrudgingly leaves, the villages insist gally at least take a chicken for the trouble, they assume all is well.

except it ain't. cause rhodan's a dumbass bitch who keeps slinking back into galador's much coveted territory to hunt, mate with females with overlapping territories (galador wouldn't mind since he has no intention to do so except that he hates this guy), and piss inside galador's border so that galador knows he's still kicking around. eventually after a year or a few of this nonsense, galador never bothering to chase down the dude in his own territory, rhodan builds up the balls to attack the village again. and the girl comes back to request help once more. gally obliges, except... now puberty's done its thing and rhodan is a massive hulking dude towering over poor galador, and he has no intention of losing this time.

BIG nasty battle ensues, rhodan's reckless fire scorching the poor villagers' houses, both sides taking severe hits (this is where rhodan loses his eye - a gift from galador), and galador, being less youthful and sharp as he once was at this point, ends up pinned under the beast, firm clawed grasp crushing his neck. and rhodan lets out this mighty victory roar, the terrified humans cowering in the background, gally clawing for dear life at the fist around his neck, when suddenly... rhodan lurches forward. he looks behind him for a moment, to see the same human girl who'd called upon galador with her fists tight around a pitchfork's shaft, the three prongs dug deep into rhodan's abdomen. galador takes this brief moment of distraction to flip right-side up and get the jump on rhodan, pinning him down now extremely viciously. and he roars far more ferociously and angrily, a sound to make all life in the surrounding hills cower petrified. and if he were ANY other dragon, any other draconian at all, this would be the final moment rhodan ever lived.

... but galador has the softest heart, and refuses to take a life blessed with a soul, even when it's his pissy rival. so instead he gestures to the surrounding area, then at himself - essentially "this place is under MY protection" - and roughly points again to signify "if you ever step paw here again I will absolutely not hesitate to kill you." and rhodan looks at him, and then... concedes. face turned elsewhere.

so gally lets him get up, both quivering from the intensity and their own respective wounds, but before rhodan steps too far galador makes a sound for "wait" - and then steps closer to yank the pitchfork out of his back. "not yours," he says, and gives it back to the girl.

rhodan tries to open his wings to fly off but finds the pain far too agonizing to do so, so instead slowly crawls away on all fours, past the crowd that silently allows him to do so, onto some path in the woods back towards his own territory.

and he never comes back again!! for good this time!! and everyone cheers and offers medical help to poor gally, and they put on a feast and insist he eat as much as he pleases and take a whole bunch back with him to his cave on the other side of the mountain.

rhodan takes life very easy for the next good while, and only hunts smaller easier things like little mice and the odd bird he can catch while his wounds heal. it's during this time that he chills out MASSIVELY (both from circumstances and his puberty coming to an end). he realizes how nice it is to simple sit and enjoy nature, watch the birds he would previously hunt just for fun flutter about, appreciate the deer and their young passing by without harming them at all. it takes a while, but eventually he's healed enough to fly and hunt properly again, but he never returns to that darn village. he's plenty learned his lesson.

however, after many many years pass, he realizes he hasn't heard the boundary-setting roars of his distant neighbour in some time, nor has he smelled any of his scents at the border, and gets curious what's happened to him. so he flies over and veeery carefully approaches the land. even areas near galador's cave which should be active are very faint. so he peeks his head into the cave itself... and finds that galador's peacefully passed away of old age. rhodan is surprised, disappointed, and relieved, all at once: this means he can finally inherit the cave and territory he craved for so long, but the end of that final battle cemented galador as a figure rhodan hugely respected, so before anything else, he carefully removes galador's body and takes it higher up the mountain to a clearing and sets it aflame, an enormous act of respect for a dragon. and he lives in that cave and area from now on. (he also leaves galador's old beloved pile of furs from his hunts in the cave, because hey that's useful and he did a great job cleaning them, and they're interesting to smell sometimes.)

and one day rhodan is surprised by a visitor, who resembles a draconian far more than any human, yet very clearly isn't. they seem very confused about rhodan's presence here and asks about the previous resident. rhodan's verbal language skills are kind of weak but they eventually communicate enough to make it clear that this was an old friend of galador's, so rhodan goes "!" and leads him up the mountain to the old pyre he'd laid galador to rest. the stranger is clearly very distraught to learn of his passing. they sit down to mourn, and rhodan, who cares FAR more about feelings than he used to, sort of asks about their past and stuff. and it turns out this stranger is in fact a gargoyle who'd been studying galador for years, learning much about draconians and publishing studies and such on them (the first time the world really began to learn about draconians and respect them more as 'people'). eventually the two become buddies and alois (as it turns out his name is, who also happens to be jesse's ancestor - recognize the double horns? 👀) is very pleased to finally have a second dragon to study, since thus far all the work had been done solely on galador, and learning about all the differences between the two helped expand understanding of the species as a whole. alois continues devoting his life's work to helping the world better understand this species and helping develop protections for them and their land, mediating skirmishes between wild dragons and farmers, and preventing many deaths and casualties as such. he also, after rhodan ends up passing, continues studying dragons from the surrounding territories, many of whom happen to be rhodan's descendants :> his work laid the base for most of today's laws regarding feral draconians, WOO

few more things:

• as soon as puberty hit rhodan he was up in the skies offering mating calls to any females, who were mostly un-receptive due to his size, voice, and horn size (which are signs of health and age), but unfortunately since he also sucked he never really took 'no' for an answer so he got into a few fights with female dragons when he was younger, lost some fights and acquired many scars from this shit behaviour, and mated with a few anyway (reptile culture and psychology is extremely different from that of humans, so the times he forced himself on a female anyway they just kinda let him like "oh okay if you're this strong I guess your genes are good anyway" without any lasting mental harm or even grudges to speak of, because they're extremely animalistic - most would even accept his calls the following year and let him breed again then too)
once he becomes a full adult tho they basically never turn him down lol - he's like PRIME daddy fodder and brings great gifts every time and between his size, the scars, and his smell which tells them that he's genetically very different from them, every female is like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) yes plz lmao

also I don't think it actually happened but had he encountered any females as a teen who he smelled as being related to him, he would actually just go ahead and breed anyway cause he didn't give a shit so long as he got to mate and any offspring were his. he cares now tho and would just go "oh you're related to me nah we good" and just leave :'D

(when I tell you he was a real shit teen I mean he was a REAL shit teen)

a side note, sex isn't the same for reptiles as it is for humans - it feels nice to succeed just because your instincts are telling you to, same as how peeing when you have to feels good, but they don't go out of their way to do it unless it's breeding season and they're in heat and want to

• he's more fine with females crossing his land than males, but so long as they're quickly on their way he's not too aggressive anymore

• his eyes are catlike and reflect in the dark; he blinks sideways with nictitating membranes as well

• he uses his fire for hunting and fighting, though the latter is pretty infrequent these days

• once he takes over galador's zone he also picks up the same role galador did in helping any lost souls on the mountainside

• he was nicknamed 'the mountain devil' due to his horns/colours and his tyranny, but that name's faded in recent years with his old habits, to be replaced with the name that alois gave him (dragons don't really tend to name their kids or each other in the same way that other people do)

• it was due to his actions that many nearby humans wanted to just indiscriminately kill any neighbouring draconians, but the villagers saved by galador convinced those peeps not to, as well as all the lost people galador helped guide on his mountain over time

• his hair is all white!! (adding because people keep drawing his hair black due to my lineart style I guess, lol)

• also added a note about his horn height, because peeps keep also drawing them very smol, but they're the same height as his entire face - like 8-10 inches :'D

~~~

I thinkkk that's everything; took like an hour to type that all LOL

in case anyone don't know, this is gally!

here's a bit moree infos on draconians

and here's the story after galador naturally passes, where rhodan meets and befriends alois :3c

can't wait for all the inevitable commission complexity fees this guy's gonna send me lmao

~~~

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Description
KING OF THE MOUNTAINSIDE, ATTEMPTED USURPER, all around bastard boi

yes he's named after that godzilla dino dude thing; met this dude after seeing that movie and somehow just from imagining a draconian named 'rhodan' he showed up and started fighting galador x'D
glad to finally have a second one! which means being able to better understand stuff that is species-wide for them and stuff that's just galador-specific, haha

wheeee big story incominggg

~~~

something went wonky with this dude's hormones, which made him grow very fast very quick and gave him horrible demeanour and impulse control as a teen. he's actually from a different region than galador, hence all the differences like wing shape, colours/patterns, and extra toe, but his mother probably flew unusually west and he did too when it came time to find his own territory. he ended up learning very quickly that this particular village he found had livestock which were extremely easy pickings, much to the dismay of the poor villagers who, in the time before guns, couldn't do a whole lot about this giant fuckin dragonman eating their entire livelihood. so after enough attacks and none of their attempts to discourage him succeeding, and fear growing that he'll turn on the human residents soon as well, one girl has the idea to trek to the other side of the mountain and find the much friendlier draconian everyone knows lives there and plead for his help, offering however much free meat as he'd want in return. fight dragonfire with dragonfire, perhaps??

this happens to be galador, who agrees because he loves helping people, and tries to refuse their payment cause he knows how much farmer meat matters to them (seriously, he accidentally killed someone else's sheep when he was younger and didn't know they belonged to anyone, and felt bad so brought back a whole deer to make up for it :'D) and makes his way over to the village to wait for the inevitable attack. this is when rhodan's still younger and not quite at his full size yet, and being younger and far less experienced, galador easily gets the whoopin on him and tells him to fuck right off. rhodan begrudgingly leaves, the villages insist gally at least take a chicken for the trouble, they assume all is well.

except it ain't. cause rhodan's a dumbass bitch who keeps slinking back into galador's much coveted territory to hunt, mate with females with overlapping territories (galador wouldn't mind since he has no intention to do so except that he hates this guy), and piss inside galador's border so that galador knows he's still kicking around. eventually after a year or a few of this nonsense, galador never bothering to chase down the dude in his own territory, rhodan builds up the balls to attack the village again. and the girl comes back to request help once more. gally obliges, except... now puberty's done its thing and rhodan is a massive hulking dude towering over poor galador, and he has no intention of losing this time.

BIG nasty battle ensues, rhodan's reckless fire scorching the poor villagers' houses, both sides taking severe hits (this is where rhodan loses his eye - a gift from galador), and galador, being less youthful and sharp as he once was at this point, ends up pinned under the beast, firm clawed grasp crushing his neck. and rhodan lets out this mighty victory roar, the terrified humans cowering in the background, gally clawing for dear life at the fist around his neck, when suddenly... rhodan lurches forward. he looks behind him for a moment, to see the same human girl who'd called upon galador with her fists tight around a pitchfork's shaft, the three prongs dug deep into rhodan's abdomen. galador takes this brief moment of distraction to flip right-side up and get the jump on rhodan, pinning him down now extremely viciously. and he roars far more ferociously and angrily, a sound to make all life in the surrounding hills cower petrified. and if he were ANY other dragon, any other draconian at all, this would be the final moment rhodan ever lived.

... but galador has the softest heart, and refuses to take a life blessed with a soul, even when it's his pissy rival. so instead he gestures to the surrounding area, then at himself - essentially "this place is under MY protection" - and roughly points again to signify "if you ever step paw here again I will absolutely not hesitate to kill you." and rhodan looks at him, and then... concedes. face turned elsewhere.

so gally lets him get up, both quivering from the intensity and their own respective wounds, but before rhodan steps too far galador makes a sound for "wait" - and then steps closer to yank the pitchfork out of his back. "not yours," he says, and gives it back to the girl.

rhodan tries to open his wings to fly off but finds the pain far too agonizing to do so, so instead slowly crawls away on all fours, past the crowd that silently allows him to do so, onto some path in the woods back towards his own territory.

and he never comes back again!! for good this time!! and everyone cheers and offers medical help to poor gally, and they put on a feast and insist he eat as much as he pleases and take a whole bunch back with him to his cave on the other side of the mountain.

rhodan takes life very easy for the next good while, and only hunts smaller easier things like little mice and the odd bird he can catch while his wounds heal. it's during this time that he chills out MASSIVELY (both from circumstances and his puberty coming to an end). he realizes how nice it is to simple sit and enjoy nature, watch the birds he would previously hunt just for fun flutter about, appreciate the deer and their young passing by without harming them at all. it takes a while, but eventually he's healed enough to fly and hunt properly again, but he never returns to that darn village. he's plenty learned his lesson.

however, after many many years pass, he realizes he hasn't heard the boundary-setting roars of his distant neighbour in some time, nor has he smelled any of his scents at the border, and gets curious what's happened to him. so he flies over and veeery carefully approaches the land. even areas near galador's cave which should be active are very faint. so he peeks his head into the cave itself... and finds that galador's peacefully passed away of old age. rhodan is surprised, disappointed, and relieved, all at once: this means he can finally inherit the cave and territory he craved for so long, but the end of that final battle cemented galador as a figure rhodan hugely respected, so before anything else, he carefully removes galador's body and takes it higher up the mountain to a clearing and sets it aflame, an enormous act of respect for a dragon. and he lives in that cave and area from now on. (he also leaves galador's old beloved pile of furs from his hunts in the cave, because hey that's useful and he did a great job cleaning them, and they're interesting to smell sometimes.)

and one day rhodan is surprised by a visitor, who resembles a draconian far more than any human, yet very clearly isn't. they seem very confused about rhodan's presence here and asks about the previous resident. rhodan's verbal language skills are kind of weak but they eventually communicate enough to make it clear that this was an old friend of galador's, so rhodan goes "!" and leads him up the mountain to the old pyre he'd laid galador to rest. the stranger is clearly very distraught to learn of his passing. they sit down to mourn, and rhodan, who cares FAR more about feelings than he used to, sort of asks about their past and stuff. and it turns out this stranger is in fact a gargoyle who'd been studying galador for years, learning much about draconians and publishing studies and such on them (the first time the world really began to learn about draconians and respect them more as 'people'). eventually the two become buddies and alois (as it turns out his name is, who also happens to be jesse's ancestor - recognize the double horns? 👀) is very pleased to finally have a second dragon to study, since thus far all the work had been done solely on galador, and learning about all the differences between the two helped expand understanding of the species as a whole. alois continues devoting his life's work to helping the world better understand this species and helping develop protections for them and their land, mediating skirmishes between wild dragons and farmers, and preventing many deaths and casualties as such. he also, after rhodan ends up passing, continues studying dragons from the surrounding territories, many of whom happen to be rhodan's descendants :> his work laid the base for most of today's laws regarding feral draconians, WOO

few more things:

• as soon as puberty hit rhodan he was up in the skies offering mating calls to any females, who were mostly un-receptive due to his size, voice, and horn size (which are signs of health and age), but unfortunately since he also sucked he never really took 'no' for an answer so he got into a few fights with female dragons when he was younger, lost some fights and acquired many scars from this shit behaviour, and mated with a few anyway (reptile culture and psychology is extremely different from that of humans, so the times he forced himself on a female anyway they just kinda let him like "oh okay if you're this strong I guess your genes are good anyway" without any lasting mental harm or even grudges to speak of, because they're extremely animalistic - most would even accept his calls the following year and let him breed again then too)
once he becomes a full adult tho they basically never turn him down lol - he's like PRIME daddy fodder and brings great gifts every time and between his size, the scars, and his smell which tells them that he's genetically very different from them, every female is like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) yes plz lmao

also I don't think it actually happened but had he encountered any females as a teen who he smelled as being related to him, he would actually just go ahead and breed anyway cause he didn't give a shit so long as he got to mate and any offspring were his. he cares now tho and would just go "oh you're related to me nah we good" and just leave :'D

(when I tell you he was a real shit teen I mean he was a REAL shit teen)

a side note, sex isn't the same for reptiles as it is for humans - it feels nice to succeed just because your instincts are telling you to, same as how peeing when you have to feels good, but they don't go out of their way to do it unless it's breeding season and they're in heat and want to

• he's more fine with females crossing his land than males, but so long as they're quickly on their way he's not too aggressive anymore

• his eyes are catlike and reflect in the dark; he blinks sideways with nictitating membranes as well

• he uses his fire for hunting and fighting, though the latter is pretty infrequent these days

• once he takes over galador's zone he also picks up the same role galador did in helping any lost souls on the mountainside

• he was nicknamed 'the mountain devil' due to his horns/colours and his tyranny, but that name's faded in recent years with his old habits, to be replaced with the name that alois gave him (dragons don't really tend to name their kids or each other in the same way that other people do)

• it was due to his actions that many nearby humans wanted to just indiscriminately kill any neighbouring draconians, but the villagers saved by galador convinced those peeps not to, as well as all the lost people galador helped guide on his mountain over time

• his hair is all white!! (adding because people keep drawing his hair black due to my lineart style I guess, lol)

• also added a note about his horn height, because peeps keep also drawing them very smol, but they're the same height as his entire face - like 8-10 inches :'D

~~~

I thinkkk that's everything; took like an hour to type that all LOL

in case anyone don't know, this is gally!

here's a bit moree infos on draconians

and here's the story after galador naturally passes, where rhodan meets and befriends alois :3c

can't wait for all the inevitable commission complexity fees this guy's gonna send me lmao

~~~

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