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"Praying to the gods was no longer enough: I had to become one." - Tosh Raka, the Dragon of Akavir.

Music of the Moment: Can't Stop The Gods (Goran Dragas - ft. Phillipa Michael) - [link]

Viewers, behold: a rare insight into the artistic creative processes of ShoutFinder:
Brain: Let's kick off 2017 art with a bang! How about another attempt at this guy?
Hand: This'll be the fourth or fifth time we've tried...
Brain: Ah, but I've a good feeling about this one. I have a feeling we'll finally nail a standing-on-a-precipice pose, and get through all those stripes!
Hand: Why. WHY did you give him so MANY?! And make them all GLOW?!
Brain: Because, he's a Potunese Emperor of uncounted millenia who remade himself into a god and uplifted his suffering people into a nation that ultimately broke the remaining power of the Dragons in Akavir and have matched the Tsaesci in battle time and time again. HE DESERVES TO HAVE GLOWING STRIPES, DOES HE NOT?!
Hand: ...Fine. I still hate you.
Brain: You can go on strike after we upload this to DeviantArt.

...
Hooray, I finally finished a more draconian concept of everyone's favourite speculated Dragon of the East Land! Enjoy him at your leisure. Or not, depending if you like the design or nay. Here's hoping you do
Just because there are times when I'm way too invested in the mysteries of Akavir.
...

"Ka Po' Tun is the "Tiger-Dragon's Empire". The cat-folk here are ruled by the divine Tosh Raka, the Tiger-Dragon. They are now a very great empire, stronger than Tsaesci... After the Serpent-Folk ate all the Men, they tried to eat all the Dragons. They managed to enslave the Red Dragons, but the black ones had fled to (then) Po Tun. A great war was raged, which left both the cats and the snakes weak, and the Dragons all dead. Since that time the cat-folk have tried to become the Dragons. Tosh Raka is the first to succeed. He is the largest Dragon in the world, orange and black, and he has very many new ideas." - anonymous, excerpt from 'Mysterious Akavir'.

"He is the Sovereign and the Servant, the Power and the Patriarch... He is our Sire, the Father of us All... Exalt him! Cherish him! For from the Frost, from the Snakes, from the murderous Shadow... there is nothing he would not do to protect us." - ancient sermon extracts from the Church of the Living Flame, dated 3033A.A. in Ka Po'Tun reckoning.

"This is no myth. One Dragon remains in Akavir, and he was not born that way. There certainty ends and myth resumes over how the form was attained. The exceedingly patriotic Ka Po'Tun will under questioning insist upon divine intervention, from blessing to prophecy, with frequent reference to Ka; the Master of Motion, Legacy and Eternity, and the fabled god-father of the Po'Tun race. The Tang Mo refer the cause with vehemence to the Primal, the conjunction of the four primordial elements of Akavir, that bred a sentinel to restore balance during the Aeon of the Six Commonwealths and the incredibly destructive War of the Three Empires. My kindred, however, retain our usual healthy skepticism to all that concerns either the primordials we barely understand or the celestials we heartedly despise - we prefer to believe Tosh Raka allowed Fell forces to corrupt his flesh, and in Ka's name sealed a dreadful bargain in order to master death; the one inescapable doom that becomes of all mortals in the end. Only the long-lost Dragons, and Tosh Raka himself, know the truth of the Ascent." - Emperial Senator Galaathakel, from 'A History of Akavir, vII, Chapter V: The Empire of the Sun and Moons'.

"Tosh Raka wanted the gifts, but Akatosh did not care for His bastards. So Tosh Raka, like a true thief of the night, stole the gifts and forced them upon himself. Befouled wyrm. He is no honourable creature." - The Last Daughter of Akatosh.

"It's foolish to deny he has prowess. After all, he has kept his Empire of mortals alive as long as we Empire of immortals have existed. The fact that the cats have endured is testament to the Dragon's power. But do you know why he is so seldom seen, even by his own 'children'? Do you know why in battle our soldiers scour the skies in foolish vain? Because Tosh Raka remembers what our people did to the Dragons, and he fears our Queen Empress and her daughters for remembering how." - His Grace Octaavin-Agusa, Emperor of the Tsaesci Empire.
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Description
"Praying to the gods was no longer enough: I had to become one." - Tosh Raka, the Dragon of Akavir.

Music of the Moment: Can't Stop The Gods (Goran Dragas - ft. Phillipa Michael) - [link]

Viewers, behold: a rare insight into the artistic creative processes of ShoutFinder:
Brain: Let's kick off 2017 art with a bang! How about another attempt at this guy?
Hand: This'll be the fourth or fifth time we've tried...
Brain: Ah, but I've a good feeling about this one. I have a feeling we'll finally nail a standing-on-a-precipice pose, and get through all those stripes!
Hand: Why. WHY did you give him so MANY?! And make them all GLOW?!
Brain: Because, he's a Potunese Emperor of uncounted millenia who remade himself into a god and uplifted his suffering people into a nation that ultimately broke the remaining power of the Dragons in Akavir and have matched the Tsaesci in battle time and time again. HE DESERVES TO HAVE GLOWING STRIPES, DOES HE NOT?!
Hand: ...Fine. I still hate you.
Brain: You can go on strike after we upload this to DeviantArt.

...
Hooray, I finally finished a more draconian concept of everyone's favourite speculated Dragon of the East Land! Enjoy him at your leisure. Or not, depending if you like the design or nay. Here's hoping you do
Just because there are times when I'm way too invested in the mysteries of Akavir.
...

"Ka Po' Tun is the "Tiger-Dragon's Empire". The cat-folk here are ruled by the divine Tosh Raka, the Tiger-Dragon. They are now a very great empire, stronger than Tsaesci... After the Serpent-Folk ate all the Men, they tried to eat all the Dragons. They managed to enslave the Red Dragons, but the black ones had fled to (then) Po Tun. A great war was raged, which left both the cats and the snakes weak, and the Dragons all dead. Since that time the cat-folk have tried to become the Dragons. Tosh Raka is the first to succeed. He is the largest Dragon in the world, orange and black, and he has very many new ideas." - anonymous, excerpt from 'Mysterious Akavir'.

"He is the Sovereign and the Servant, the Power and the Patriarch... He is our Sire, the Father of us All... Exalt him! Cherish him! For from the Frost, from the Snakes, from the murderous Shadow... there is nothing he would not do to protect us." - ancient sermon extracts from the Church of the Living Flame, dated 3033A.A. in Ka Po'Tun reckoning.

"This is no myth. One Dragon remains in Akavir, and he was not born that way. There certainty ends and myth resumes over how the form was attained. The exceedingly patriotic Ka Po'Tun will under questioning insist upon divine intervention, from blessing to prophecy, with frequent reference to Ka; the Master of Motion, Legacy and Eternity, and the fabled god-father of the Po'Tun race. The Tang Mo refer the cause with vehemence to the Primal, the conjunction of the four primordial elements of Akavir, that bred a sentinel to restore balance during the Aeon of the Six Commonwealths and the incredibly destructive War of the Three Empires. My kindred, however, retain our usual healthy skepticism to all that concerns either the primordials we barely understand or the celestials we heartedly despise - we prefer to believe Tosh Raka allowed Fell forces to corrupt his flesh, and in Ka's name sealed a dreadful bargain in order to master death; the one inescapable doom that becomes of all mortals in the end. Only the long-lost Dragons, and Tosh Raka himself, know the truth of the Ascent." - Emperial Senator Galaathakel, from 'A History of Akavir, vII, Chapter V: The Empire of the Sun and Moons'.

"Tosh Raka wanted the gifts, but Akatosh did not care for His bastards. So Tosh Raka, like a true thief of the night, stole the gifts and forced them upon himself. Befouled wyrm. He is no honourable creature." - The Last Daughter of Akatosh.

"It's foolish to deny he has prowess. After all, he has kept his Empire of mortals alive as long as we Empire of immortals have existed. The fact that the cats have endured is testament to the Dragon's power. But do you know why he is so seldom seen, even by his own 'children'? Do you know why in battle our soldiers scour the skies in foolish vain? Because Tosh Raka remembers what our people did to the Dragons, and he fears our Queen Empress and her daughters for remembering how." - His Grace Octaavin-Agusa, Emperor of the Tsaesci Empire.
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