Kindal Dragonflight

History

The earliest form of the Kindal flight arose in 2811 as a direct consequence of the War of the Flights. A powerful stag by the name of Herkirt recruited ewes from neighboring territories and flights across eastern Europe, forming a large harem. Younger dragons followed their parents as Herkirt claimed territory and migrated their nesting grounds, and the grouping secluded themselves from other dragons, staying largely out of the warring. It is believed that due to their relatively peaceful nature, many more dragons joined the early Kindals.

Culture

Major language groups and dialects

Dragontongue, like with all dragons, is their primary language. The Kindal flight is considered to be much more poetic in their speech, and by many their form of Dragontongue is considered to be its own dialect. Body language is much more fluid and more akin to a dance than the usual snappy and distinct fragments making up words and phrases. By many other flights, Kindal dragons are described as their speech being as though they are singing rather than speaking plainly, and their word choices more flowery and prose-like. Descriptors are often emotion driven or focus on personal aesthetics, rather than factual and observational points about what is being described.

Ideals

Beauty Ideals

The Kindal Dragonflight makes use of scarification, body paint, and tattooing in their beauty culture heavily, much like most other dragon groups. As most of their natural ornamentation falls on the head and tail, Kindal dragons heavily adorn other areas such as the face, neck, and shoulders. Many forms of their scarification is done through the use of fire magic or their own natural flame to create decorative scars. The forms of scarification among Kindal dragons often is done to cover up and alter areas that a dragon is uncomfortable with or feels is 'too plain', while accenting their own features they are proud of and draw the eye to them. Tattooing, while much more uncommon, is most often done to add a sheen to the skin underneath their scales.

Courtship Ideals

The vast majority of Kindal dragons show a heavy preference to polyamory over monogamy, most often forming temporary seasonal relationships in large numbers. Most often, these groups are a single stag and many ewes, communally raising their offspring together with little distinction in who their biological parents are. Adults within these harems adopting hatchlings and eggs from one another is incredibly common- should one lose a nest or another have far too many, others within the harem will take up parental duties for them, raising their offspring as their own or give them some of their eggs to do the same.

Relationship Ideals

The Kindal flight also has particular ideals surrounding true mates- permanent mated pairs among their kind. Among the Kindal, a true mate can be declared by Mating Flights much earlier than other groups at only 5 years of consecutive pairing. The primary idea with this ideal is that one declares their true mate much earlier as a test to see if they can uphold their promise without pairing with other dragons, and can remain dedicated to their mate, rather than a continuation of an already present relationship that is already likely to be life-long when compared to other groups. Kindal dragons also have the expectation that with true mates, under perfect circumstances the pair will come to the end of their lives together. This is done by what is considered mutual suicide, in which the pair will mimic their initial sparring fights but with deadly force until they are near death, at which point they will be put down by a mutual friend, past mate, or as is most often the case, one of their surviving adult children, and be put to rest together.

Encompassed species