Khali! You may have ran away from one home, but now Reiyaseith is here to invite you to run away for more adventures! Don't worry though, you'll always have a home now here at Igen!
Doji and ConfectionCo

Black Forest Dreams Egg

Layers of chocolate lay thick and moist looking at the base of this ovoid, creating the bottom layer of this confectioners delight! Rising upward a thick layer of cherry red mimics the layer below, looking like a soft, spongy cake. This rises into layers of cream cheese white. All of this drizzled in a deep, syrup like red with crumbles of chocolaty goodness mixed throughout.

Egg Inspiration

Black Forest Dream is my favorite dessert of all time. It can be done many ways, as cake, as snack bars, as ice cream…in fact, Coldstone Creamery has a Black Forest Dream dessert!

Anyway, it's a delicious recipe and should be shared! Even in egg form!

Hatching Message

Dream are not just dreams any more as Black Forest Dreams Egg finally cracks right down thin cherry red line marking its shell. Once the crack forms, the rest crumbles quickly and out tumbles a dainty little slip of a green. Initial fall over, she rises quickly and shakes out each tiny green limb. All accounted for, Sprightly Sylvan Spirit Green dragonet springs into action, a dance with every step.

Sprightly Sylvan Spirit Green Dragonet

Springtime beauty blooms
Into sylvan wings spread wide.
Ivy traces her neck
And spreads to chest and legs.
Forest made flesh.

Public Impression Pose

Like a leaf on the wind, Sprightly Sylvan Spirit Green Dragonet practically glides across the sands. There is no rush to this graceful little dance she weaves, but eventually her path takes her to her final partner. The dainty little green lets out a bell-like trill as she stares up into the eyes up into the brown eyes of a holdbred girl just as spirited as she is!

Private Impression Message

Clutch Theme Inspiration/Dragonet Tie-In

Our clutch theme for the eggs were desserts and baked goods, while the dragons themselves were based off of 'cooking styles'. Your Reiyaseith is based on vegan cooking, with a hint of rustic flair thrown in! Being such a woodland creature herself, linking Reiyaseith to edible vegetation just seemed natural. It captures both her roots to the earth, and that desire to do no harm to others. And the slightly more haphazard stylings of ‘rustic’ cooking tie in well to her desire to get out there and do without too much focus on order.

In addition, Reiyaseith is (of course!) your darling dryad dragon.

Description Inspiration

Asking for a dryad dragon made this description perfectly easy! We found some pictures of lithe, fun loving nymphs…

And added a few pictures of springtime in the forest…

And just a pinch of fairy dust…

We find Reiyaseith absolutely magical and hope you do as well!

Name Inspiration

You asked for a pretty, pretty name that fit along with description and personality and so our quest began. We started looking at the Greek names for different types of Dryads and found Meliae were dryads of ash trees and Caryatids for walnut trees, but those weren't quite right. We expanded a little further into nymphs and found that Oreiades were nymphs of the mountains and Alseides of the sacred groves. We played around a little bit (or a lot) with all of this and eventually found just the right combination for your pretty little wood spirit. Reiyaseith!

Eala pronounces it as Ray-yah-seeth.
Doji pronounces it as Ray-yah-sith.

But you can pronounce it anyway you'd like!

Mindvoice

With low light shrouding this rustic glade, it's difficult to tell whether it's just after dusk or approaching dawn. Regardless of time, Reiyaseith's mindscape is always simply magical. In this perpetual bewitching hour, silver moonlight bounces off the delicate flowers that somehow glow from within while the sweet smell of honeysuckle and wild roses rise to greet you.

It won't always be easy to navigate the full beauty and mystery of Reiyaseith's sylvan mind. Especially when she is very young or whenever she's encountering something unfamiliar, her trees will grow to enormous scale and twist ominously over the forest path while a chilly fog rolls in. As she begins to get her bearings, slowly the flickering orbs of the willowisps will appear, first one, then three, and before too long dozens. While some old aunties in Vtol Swamp Hold might tell you the spook-lights are dangerous, Reiyaseith finds them just the opposite. Her wisps dance along the path which she'll follow back home and to subjects where she's much more confident.

Eventually, the wandering path the wisps weave lead to a meadow deep within the forest and this is no ordinary forest. A carpet of dainty flowers coats the ground as far as the eye can see while a single, solitary tree reigns over this peaceful space. The mighty trunk twists and turns and its branches and leaves are almost thick enough to be considered a ceiling. Even with this impressive canopy, somehow golden sunbeams or silver moonlight manages to pierce through. The glowing lights of the willowisps dance in the clearing, mixing with the smell of flowers and wind blown chimes inviting you to dance along. This is Reiyaseith's happy place and somewhere you'll come to know very well, Khali.

Dragons may not be able to physically giggle, but that's not going to stop Reiyaseith. She won't be able to hide when she gets up to mischief as a gentle wind carries the chimes of tiny bells through her forests. She'll try to avoid suspicion of weyrlingmasters or wingleaders by displaying just an ordinary forest clearing but… how often have you known bushes to giggle?

Try as she might, Reiyaseith can't always be all happiness and light. Like her laughter cannot be hidden, neither can sadness. The smell of damp soil and a steady drip of rain will cling to every word she says as long as the blue spell may last. And when she's truly angry? The rain will turn into a downpour that threatens to drown any in its path and the crack of lightning lashes out at whatever poor fool might earn her fury.

As easily as Reiyaseith may share the rest of her forest, there's one small corner that will always be a special place. It's a secret place to be shared just between you and her and MAYBE (just maybe) your nearest and dearest. This perfect circle of toadstools shall not be invaded by outsiders, but when you cross into this place, that's when it happens. A breeze stirs up the leaves from the forest floor and slowly they begin to take shape. Whenever you need a shoulder to cry on or your closest confidant, she'll be there.

Physicalities

Like many baby animals, young Reiyaseith is all big eyes and extra cuddly limbs. When scared, she has a tendency to curl up in on herself. Eventually she'll blossom into a full fledged, fully confident adult dragon, but that takes time even though she'll grow up to be the smallest dragon of this clutch.

Don't let Reiyaseith's stature fool you even though she has perfected a skill of appearing smaller than she actually is, especially when she thinks it will work to her advantage. She won't actually be too small to move that boulder that was assigned as part of her PT (the weyrlingmasters wouldn't have assigned it to her if there was a chance). The slacking will only be for tasks that Reiyaseith finds unimportant or more often BOOOO-RING. Once a task captures her attention, Reiyaseith will be completely hooked and trying to drag her away is like trying to uproot a massive tree in that you'll be at it forever and may have to leave a giant crater behind. She'll even dig those dainty little talons of hers in if it helps at all.

She sleeps. Surely she sleeps, but it might be hard to tell when exactly those times will be. When Reiyaseith is awake, she will be go-go-go, as equally likely to explore this whole new (to her) world with others as she is to want to explore solo. The moons seem to have some sort of siren's call, because while she may go to sleep in the evening, it won't be uncommon to find her waking up in the middle of the night and staring at the moons from her ledge or even the star stones.

Even when Reiyaseith reaches her full growth, she'll always be a willowy thing. The way the spring and darker forest greens of her hide blend together to give the appearance of a mass of vines delicately entwined together. Whenever she's on the move, be it in the air or on the ground, she's the exact opposite of wooden. Reiyaseith can bend so much she practically defies physics. Hang on tight during Threadfall, Khali, since your dainty little green can and will turn around so quick she could possibly give you whiplash. Those fancy moves won't be isolated to life and death matters. She loves the thrill of flight. The quicker, the better. Any time to stretch her wings and join a delightful dance through the air, Reiyaseith will seize it, accompanied or not.

Personality

With all the wooden themes shared between Raktraeth and Reiyaseith there can be little doubt that she is her father's daughter (as if all that egg turning on the Sands wasn't clue enough), but while her sire's trees are solidly rooted, your dainty little green revels in all the wild freedom her forest-y spirit embodies. We hope you're ready for an adventure, Khali, because Reiyaseith certainly is and she'll be sure you'll see it with her.

Your Reiyaseith won't waste a single second with the exploring. Even while she's busy having her delicate little maw stuffed with meat after the hard work of Hatching, she'll be craning her head all around to get a good look at her clutchmates, what food they might have, their weyrlings and she'll have a million and one questions. Those questions won't stop, except for when she eventually has to sleep, but sometimes she'll even wake up asking the same question she almost fell asleep mid-question. There won't be any subject that Reiyaseith views as offlimits which means you may end up having to explain multiple times that no, she can't just ask Zsaviranth why her butt is so shiny. Forgive her, she's a dragon. Memory is definitely not her strong suit and that's why she has you!

All this question asking isn't just for the sake of asking questions. It's for information gathering! Eventually you'll learn to recognize the faint shimmer of excited bells ringing through Reiyaseith's head as she finds an especially useful tidbit. She won't remember all of them long, but she'll remember enough to begin seizing any moments of opportunity that might present themselves. She loves to create a little bit of mischief, but not too much. Reiyaseith doesn't have a malicious bone in her body and while she loves pranks, she'd never want to purposefully hurt anybody's feelings. Every shirt she temporarily steals or bucket of water arranged to splash the unexpected is done in the spirit of fun!

Unfortunately for you and Reiyaseith, not everybody has the same sense of 'fun' and 'adventure' that she does and so eventually those harmless little pranks are bound to get the attention of weyrlingmasters or wingleaders. When it turns out that the target of whatever merriment ended up not so merry, nobody will be more remorseful than Reiyaseith. Those promises that she'll never do it again will only last as long as her memory of the particular event does (so about a sevenday), but she will throw her whole heart and soul into whatever her punishment might be. You won't hear a peep from her about getting stuck with the bad sweeps for the next month, although on those sweeps you may hear all about how she thinks she should grab one of those wild caprines on the way home for Odskovith as an apology for whatever it was this time.

As you may have gathered already from the love of pranks, Reiyaseith tends to have poor impulse control. This may be a trait she shares with Vazilskyeth, but while her brother is constantly fighting to reign in his wilder impulses, she is busy trying to give into them if you'll let her! Sitting still in lessons is a bore! She wants to fly! Or flame! Or Fly and flame! Betweening is another exciting thing, at least in theory. She loves the first visit to places however the tedious trips back and forth, back and forth to all the main landmarks as they're drilled into your brains are mindnumbing. She'll quickly turning to picking out the tiniest detail to make it more exciting.

Reiyaseith will throw herself wholeheartedly into her loves, but that also comes with the downside of her throwing equally into her hates and sorrows. When someone gets on her wrong side, difficult though it might be, they're basically dead to her until she forgets the transgression within the seven. And when either you or her suffer heartbreak? She'll feel it with both of her hearts and yours as well. Nobody can mope quite as well as Reiyaseith, probably because she has this innate ability to find the most picturesque waterfall to lounge under considering Igen weather rarely obliges with a downpour when you emotionally need one.

Life may be a whirlwind of adventure with Reiyaseith, but at least it will usually be one filled with mirth. Sure, there will be the occasional blips of grey skies but she knows together the two of you can weather any storms life might throw and go on to enjoy many forest frolics later.

Thread

When it comes to Thread, playtime is over. Mother nature has a bit of a bite and when push comes to shove, Reiyaseith does as well. Her intense, instinctive hatred for this ancient nemesis can be nearly overwhelming, especially in your first few turns of fighting 'Falls. Tunnel-vision is a bit of an understatement. She'll be laser-focused on whatever clump of thread is directly in front of her. It's a good thing that she's naturally fleet-winged as those second-nature evasive maneuvers will help save her hide and your own many times.

This focus isn't just isolated to actual Threadfall. When you're on sweeps, Reiyaseith will have a sixth sense for when you're coming up to an area that had a recent burrow. You'll be able to fill the tension building in her neck as you fly closer and she won't let you leave until the area is thoroughly inspected.

Hatred alone won't be enough to sustain Reiyaseith through an entire 'Fall. She may not be the smallest of greens at the Weyr, she is certainly one of the smallest in her clutch. With her tendency to throw herself full force at her enemy immediately, she'll burn through whatever energy reserves she might have and some days she might even struggle to make it to the halfway mark before needing to rotate out. Not that she'll ever go voluntarily, but weary wings are more likely to become injured wings and she will need to switch out.
Even when she's grounded, Reiyaseith will still be wanting to check on her her wingmates still in the air. Her willowisps will flutter between one wingmate to another as she checks on each of them. All those facts she picks up with her myriad of questions will come in handy as she can point out which wingmate might do better on the left side of a formation instead of the right. This need to check on everyone may even extend to an interest in dragonhealing. If she can settle down and focus for long enough Reiyaseith can be quite nurturing although during long rehab sessions she might lose focus.

Flights

Considering how impulsive or down Reiyaseith can be on a normal day, it may be hard to tell when she has become proddy, but those days will come! The faerie fire dancing through her mental forests will shimmer just a little brighter and her chiming bells will ring just a little louder.

Unfortunately for you, along with the brighter and the louder comes the absolute inability to make a decision. One moment she'll want to go for a swim. The next, she'll be wanting to play a game of tag with Odskovith. Mealtimes for proddy Reiyaseith will take absolutely forever as she debates between wherry and porcine or maybe a herdbeast but no, that wherry looks pretty plump and around and around.

And how exactly do you expect Reiyaseith to choose between suitors? She definitely won't be entertaining any ugly ones, but for most of the draconic population that has at least acceptable looks this dainty green will encourage them to come dance with her at all hours. Eventually after she's put enough males through their paces and her sparkling is at its maximum and the full moons both shine brightly, Reiyaseith will take to the skies for the actual flight with all the fancy twists and turns you could expect and she'll reveal in every moment of it!

All good things must come to an end and eventually Reiyaseith will be caught, even if the catcher isn't the dragon of her dreams. Dreams will be all that she leaves the lucky winner with as she is not the cuddly type. Before the sun rises, Reiya will drift off to do whatever her fancy takes her to next. And before too long, you'll get to repeat all the joys again because turns out, Reiyaseith loves flights as much as she loves everything else!

Credits

Name: Eala, Doji
Egg Desc: Sesa
Dragonet Desc: Doji
Messages: Doji
Puppeteer: Doji
Inspiration: Doji

Clutchmates:

Ja'un's Wandering Pilgrim Bronze Loranduth
Ka'ge’s Wraith of Eternal Battle Bronze Vazilskyeth
Xanthee’s Love Like You Do Green Liowyth
Zetali's Huggable, Loveable Brown Odskovith

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