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Post by Bluesonic1 on Dec 26, 2014 19:39:40 GMT -5
This is why I can't wait to get to sorting current issues on Wiki and then go through the MD and put up the extra info- there's a lot on there scattered around that old forum that I'm sure people would be more likely to read if it was condensed into the articles they're already reading on the Wiki. I'll be updating the Wiki project thread with more info later on~
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Post by Ro on Dec 29, 2014 19:04:05 GMT -5
Actually, every human has all the colours of draconium in them, but the ones that you focus on are the ones that are your influences. Here's a quote from the Magna Draconis: What Word cannot see is his greatest failing, and it's exemplified in "The Alchemist" you have all of the colors of draconium in you, but the ones you focus on, are the ones you let define you. Taken from hereSo with this, we know that it's actually how you are raised, and what colours of draconium you are around the most (or which you choose to personify) as well as how you can pull that draconium type from your dragon. (Did you know that T. Pax is actually a red-purple-orange crossbreed? click the link above, it's got some great answers as well as more questions to be had, unfortunately.) Now, with this, yes, how you are raised and what colours you are raised around do help with building of an influence. AM was right that your personality does play a part (however small) into certain aspects of which draconium influences you will have, though being raised around them (even if contradicting to personality) will also play a part into what you're influenced by. So it's very situation-orientated as to which draconium influence you have. But then again, it's a whole different world, so rules as we know it could also not apply as well. This being said, until we have another Q&A with either Rob or Kevin there really is no set in stone way to tell what exactly makes a draconium influence what it is precisely. What I've eluded to is probably what is actually going on, but we'd need confirmation on that, or denial and possibly a full explanation on the topic, as it's not discussed in detail or rather directly what draconium influences are for humans in the draconium department of the Q&A. :/ |
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Post by Bluesonic1 on Dec 30, 2014 5:00:32 GMT -5
Yeah I was kinda taking it from the perspective of how other colours first evolved from Gold- they arose from Gold dragons being specialised to particular types of environments. Just as those environments shaped the dragon's new colours, it would also shape the person's draconium influences. Yes, all the colours are technically there, but the main influences come from various aspects of your environment which then also interact with personalities- the personality type influences which colour becomes your main but likewise, the heavy influences of certain colours from your environment will direct your personality to begin with. The two are almost one in each other I think.
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Post by prettykitty13 on Dec 30, 2014 10:32:29 GMT -5
With all this in mind, kinda makes you a little curious what our draconiums might be if we were in the db universe huh?
I can't help but think I'd be brown, light green and grey; brown because of my environment, and light green & grey because of my fascination with them..anybody elses thoughts on this?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2014 15:31:04 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I'd be Gold, Black and Brown. Gold because I love ALL dragons, (my Dragons is part gold also) Black because I'm pretty good at mind games, have a strong understanding of emotions and behaviors (animals/dragons) and am very independent.  and Brown because I'm hard working, stubborn and disciplined. BUUUUTTT that's just me and kitty. Any other thoughts...  |
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Post by Bluesonic1 on Dec 30, 2014 21:01:27 GMT -5
I think my primary influence would be Grey, as I'm a very situationally-flexible person i.e. I'm a different person in different situations & environments. I also have a very "grey" outlook on life- when people are always taking one side over another in an argument, I prefer to sit in the middle and see both points of view on an issue, hence all the morality conversations I love having so often  Other influences for me would be Black because I do like to lead and I have quite a large independent streak. Possibly Red too? I can get quite passionate over things sometimes and make rash decisions as a result. White would be another small influence I think as I can be a rather spontaneous person at times. I definitely feel we should have an official quiz for this, might add that to my to-do list of interesting stuff to add here~ The one on the official website just DOESN'T do justice- I'm apparently Green on that .___. |
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Post by prettykitty13 on Dec 31, 2014 1:00:18 GMT -5
I definitely feel we should have an official quiz for this, might add that to my to-do list of interesting stuff to add here~ The one on the official website just DOESN'T do justice- I'm apparently Green on that .___.  OH Please OH Please OH Please OH Please OH Please OH Please~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~♫ DOOOOO IIIIIITTTT I'll even offer to help out with question if I can!! But I guess from your description, I don't think I would have grey influence after all, since I stand too firm in my morals and perspectives......hmmmm, but I'm still facinated with grey, orange & light green draconiums because they're so rare! A lust for forbidden fruit I guess lol my naught little oc XD apparently from the "official" quiz, I'm blue :/ |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2014 10:25:32 GMT -5
Hehehe, Yeah, A REAL quiz would be nice. Apparently I'm Orange by that site's standards. :/
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Post by Bluesonic1 on Jan 2, 2015 1:07:13 GMT -5
Haha yeah I noticed it churns out some strange answers! I'm curious though how to differentiate between Orange and Black considering that a controlling nature is the base of both these colours. Black is more independent while Orange has the co-dependency that Purple has but still... they seem very close! ^__^
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Post by Ro on Jan 2, 2015 1:49:25 GMT -5
actually, on the old site Click (go to the link 2 links down and you'll get access to the old site) you do get to take the quiz. I'm meek, and generally am a loner, so I often get orange, but it varies between orange, blue, black and strangely enough brown. Though it does make a lot of sense, considering I have a very meek, but honourable and somewhat vicious personality, so I often take time to think things over before I act due to my confusing tendencies. I've been studying draconium very closely, so if people want I can make a personality to draconium horoscope type thing. Something I might end up doing for the fun of it though, so I guess it depends on if people want to see it. Maybe if we ever get another Q&A we can request a draconium lay-out of what makes a certain draconium your influence (like personality wise and possibly setting if that effects it, along with whatever other source could effect it). That and it's be really helpful for making OCs, to be honest. |
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Post by Bluesonic1 on Jan 2, 2015 21:44:32 GMT -5
Yeah that was the site we were talking about that has the quiz but it's extremely inaccurate I'd love to see it if you do end up making one! I'm definitely going to give it a go in the future, and put my personality studies from psychology to good use The difficult part is that there are many colours that we don't know too much about, so it's hard to map them towards certain personality types. For example, Orange and Black share controlling aspects while Light Green and Brown share building/mechanics. I think though that they were made this way on purpose, as the colours are supposed to share similarities considering they can all trace themselves back to Gold, who encompasses a balance between all the polarised personality types that the other colours produce. E.g. Purple is team based, Black is individual based while Gold can work both equally good in teams or alone, though there in lies the argument that because the colours evolved due to specialisation, that in some cases one colour might actually do a job better than Gold can. Though in all, the similarities between colour types translates well to personality types as many share similarities between them. This was kinda why the Big 5 personality theory was developed- originally there were far more personality types in the research but because many of them shared similarities across the board, they could all be condensed down to 5 (and occasionally 3 though there are strong critiques against this theory) different types, and within each of these 5, there are many branches that a person can go down. Though again, it highlights the importance to treat personality as a spectrum rather than containing discrete variables e.g. black and white. Which makes the whole accurate draconium-personality thing even more complicated x___x |
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Post by prettykitty13 on Jan 3, 2015 11:26:59 GMT -5
Yeah that was the site we were talking about that has the quiz but it's extremely inaccurate I'd love to see it if you do end up making one! I'm definitely going to give it a go in the future, and put my personality studies from psychology to good use The difficult part is that there are many colours that we don't know too much about, so it's hard to map them towards certain personality types. For example, Orange and Black share controlling aspects while Light Green and Brown share building/mechanics. I think though that they were made this way on purpose, as the colours are supposed to share similarities considering they can all trace themselves back to Gold, who encompasses a balance between all the polarised personality types that the other colours produce. E.g. Purple is team based, Black is individual based while Gold can work both equally good in teams or alone, though there in lies the argument that because the colours evolved due to specialisation, that in some cases one colour might actually do a job better than Gold can. Though in all, the similarities between colour types translates well to personality types as many share similarities between them. This was kinda why the Big 5 personality theory was developed- originally there were far more personality types in the research but because many of them shared similarities across the board, they could all be condensed down to 5 (and occasionally 3 though there are strong critiques against this theory) different types, and within each of these 5, there are many branches that a person can go down. Though again, it highlights the importance to treat personality as a spectrum rather than containing discrete variables e.g. black and white. Which makes the whole accurate draconium-personality thing even more complicated x___x ......I never thought about that .___. boy, this would be kind of a summer project sorta thing then huh? the hardest part would probably be thinking up the right questions in regards to the personality types that correspond with the right draconiums. we would definitely need some of that psychology voodoo of yours to pull this off Blue I'm no shrink myself, but I do have a decent understanding of how most people operate mind-wise, but I'm not sure how much help I'd be... |
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Post by Bluesonic1 on Jan 4, 2015 3:40:12 GMT -5
Nah I think the hardest part will be accurately linking draconium colours to personality types. I'm thinking it might be more helpful to have a ranking type answer at the end- so instead of getting one definitive answer, it tells you which one you scored best at as well as how you scored for all the other colours. Makes sense DB-lore wise considering people and dragons are mixes of colours rather than just one colour alone This would also solve the problem of certain colour overlaps as one answer can give points to both colours (but in general, give one colour the most points). So for example, "Do you work best in a team or alone?" with "Alone" giving 2 points to Black and 1 to Green while "Team" gives 2 to Purple and 1 to Orange. A really rough idea, but you get the picture. Hehe psychology voodoo. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 19:08:28 GMT -5
Just on the subject of Dragon Designs and such I found this from the old Dragon Booster Forum. Here's the original post. z10.invisionfree.com/Dragon_Booster/index.php?showtopic=3923 Thanks again to our good friend, Stormryda.  Personal thoughts: 2 words: HOLY COW! Dragons are freaking HUGE!!!! Though I'm going to say that I feel some of these are only a hare inaccurate. I have a hard time believing Beau, Sonic or PSI Class Dragons are that huge. Energy, Bull, Nautilus, Magma and Earth however, seem to be the most correct. Here are some screen shots to back up my skepticism. Hehe, look at Parmon... XD   I also think Lebris is just a little too big. For the record, the original poster of this chart said they were going by a rough human height of 5"8'. |
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Post by Bluesonic1 on May 1, 2015 4:17:30 GMT -5
I scrolled through that chart like "Hmmm hmmm.... *hits Libris* WHOA-OK LIBRIS". Yeah they're really big compared to humans, although I think the anime was somewhat inconsistent with their sizes so in some cases I think the chart is accurate but in others like you've linked, it's not. And yeah Libris looks a liiiiiittle too big haha Pack class looks too large to me though- I thought they were much closer to Magma class? |
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and Brown because I'm hard working, stubborn and disciplined.
I wonder if the forum should host a DB server? Not sure how lively that would be haha
