Main description
Dragon. Or dragons? They look like one, but with a striking color scheme.
Much of them is split down the middle between black and white feathers, but
if you look closely, the feathers often move more independently than they
really ought to. Apparently this creature is based on a flockmind of
drackels—but now they gleam, too, with pervasive interlacings and
augmentations in glorious bronze…
The whole is somewhat larger than a horse in each primary dimension, along
with at least four meters of total wingspan. The body plan broadly matches
the usual for a quad dragon, though the legs end in paws with more digits
than you might expect, and the tail has a forked tip. Most of the surface
of the body is black on the left and white on the right, with traces and
dots of bronze scales covering it like circuitry. The wings are an
exception, each one composed of broad expanses of chaotic black and white
feather surfaces bordered at the front by a jointed coppery structure.
Further up, the neck is primarily composed of chaotically braided drackel
weave with a more regular bronze spiral overlay. The head mostly resumes
the bilateral coloration across the tapering muzzle and the macroeyes above,
and the back of the head is graced with three pairs of bronze-tipped horns.
Further down, most of their chest and belly is covered with paler, broader,
overlapping bronze escutcheons which reflect their mood.
Dangling awkwardly around their neck is a square rod of a material somewhere
between marble and crystal, attached to a cord at both ends. The rod has
two patterns of angular joined-up writing carved into alternating sides of
the exterior; the one on the lighter sides translates to ‘QUARTZWING’,
and the one on the darker sides to ‘METIAGON’.
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