Trials of Aquella

Rules:

- One guide dragon must be present in each image. A maximum of 3 dragons may complete their trials together.  (not including the guide dragon)
- Guide dragons may be any other dragon who's completed their Trials of Aquella, or any of the starter dragons.  Even if they have the Trainer Perk, they must still have their Trials completed before they may be a Guide for other dragons.
- Each trial image must show at least a Fullbody, Coloured or Grayscale and at least a Standard Background.
- Literature must include 700 words per Trial entry. Include details such as thoughts, speech and feelings.  Every additional dragon must add 150 Words.
- Each Trial piece will gain your dragon a bonus +6 SP.
- The Guide Dragon may also claim the +6 SP bonus for Trial entries.

You must complete any two of these prompts!  Any choice!

Balance:

  • Aqrion are very social and care for their young. But soon they need to learn how to swim for best survival chances.
- Draw or write about your Aqrion learning how to float, move around and/or swim. - 

  • There is more to being an adult than the balance of the body, but the balance of the mind and soul.
- Depict your Aqrion learning the ways of finding balance and serenity of the body, mind and soul, be it in the forms of yoga, meditation, or other methods. 

  •  Balance of good and evil plagues aqrions decisions every day out in the large bodies of water. While good cannot exist without evil, neither can evil without good.  The struggle is in an endless cycle.
- Depict your Aqrion either weighing a good, evil or neutral path as their way of acknowledging the balance of the ways. -

Endurance:

  •  Your Aqrion has become fairly good at swimming.  Now it's time to head out of the nest.  Now they are eager to play and race each other.  Several young aqrion will get together with a guide dragon, similar to a school session.  Often hunting inanimate objects, each other or smaller easy to catch prey.​
- Draw your young Aqrion learning how to hunt small objects, small prey or even other young aqrion. -

  •  Your Aqrion has been challenged to a race by their mentor, but not just any race! It's a race through a dangerous route of caves and lagoon pools. One cannot win this race with just speed, but also through self-pacing and knowledge.
- Depict your Aqrion in the middle of the race overcoming various obstacles that might appear. -

  •  Your Aqrion has been tasked with going a four day journal from their home biome to another biome to visit with the elders of a sister pod. The journey will be long and lonely with your aqrion needing to hunt for themselves and find their own shelter along the way.
- Depict your aqrion in the middle of the journey outside of their native biome. -

Strength:

  •  Your Aqrion is starting to grow up.  They are beginning to reach sexual maturity and begins noticing the other Aqrion in different ways.  They begin putting on large amounts of muscle start to show off their looks. They will often fight, testing out their strength and skills on each other. 
- Draw your Aqrion testing his strength with another Aqrion. -

  •   A cave in has occurred at the border of your biome!  The elder owners of the cave have asked your for your by clearing boulders and debris that has blocked the way. Unsure if you can do it alone or not, this will be a true test of your strength.
- Depict your Aqrion proving their strength while clearing debris from the cave in. - 

  •  Aqrion are often competitive with one another.  They enjoying proving who's the strongest and fastest.  Where some prefer to fight, others prefer to partake in tests of strength.
- Depict your Aqrion pulling a large heavy load across the seafloor.  They may also be playing tug of war, or tail wrestling. - ​

Dedication:

  •  Your Aqrion has reached sexual maturity now.  Many Aqrion choose a partner for life, therefore in order to woo a mate, they need to show that they can be relied upon.
- Depict your Aqrion building a nest in preparation for having a family.  Nests are typically made of kelp and can be fashioned in any way or location, including in caves. -

  •  Dedication isn't just applicable to mating, but with studies. Many Aqrion value their careers greatly and is often the driving force for success of many pods.
- Depict your Aqrion studying hard to learn new things. Studying from scrolls and books happens first, before being able to apply them in practice. - 

  •   Dedication also occurs not only from studies, but from daily strenuous training.  Some Aqrion prefer to benefit their pods by protecting them.
- Depict your Aqrion training or new fighting techniques to help defend the pod, or even new ways to hunt to help supply the pod with food. -

Courage:

  •  Your Aqrion is now ready for a family of his own.  It takes great amount of courage to try to woo a mate.​ They will now partake in elaborate dances and songs to woo another Aqrion.  They often will adorn themselves with varying seaweeds, shells or crafted materials.  On rare occasions they will use their elements or create musical instruments to use as well.  
(A guide dragon is not required here, but may be present if an odd number of dragons are doing the trials together.)
- Depict your Aqrion wooing another Aqrion. - 

  •  Courage is not only for wooing a mate. Emotional, Mental, and Moral courage are all important.  Such as speaking in front of others. Or doing the right thing, even when your peers are disagreeing with you.  Telling the truth, even though you would get in trouble from others.
- Depict your Aqrion finding the courage to do something right, even if it's against the wishes of their peers. - 

  •   Courage is also physical, by pushing through pain and fear to do protect someone. Sometimes your fears are too great.  But sometimes, you need to face your fears to protect another from harm.
- Depict your Aqrion facing his worst fears. - 

Blessings:

(Blessings often will use the deities in place of the guide dragons.)

  • Proluo embodies the tides and physical strength of the world.  To gain his blessing, you must fight through the raging storms at the oceans surface.
- Depict your Aqrion battling through a rough storm on the surface. - 

  •  Enule guards the realm of the dreams.  If one can meditate with enough dedication, they can enter the dream world.  Enule loves to have have fun.  She chases away nightmares and brings the spark of imagination in it's place.  The dream realm does not resemble our own, anything the mind can create exists here.
- Depict your Aqrion racing with Enule in the dream world. - 
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  •  Lua is the goddess of love, spring and emotions.  She loves to see creatures caring for one another.  To gain her blessing, one most put themselves aside for the needs of others.
- Depict your Aqrion and Lua helping elders with their daily needs. -  

  • Aestus is the spark of life on this planet.  To gain his blessing one must prove a feat of strength.  He doesn't give out his blessing easily.  The goal, is to reach the sun, realistically, as high as they possibly can.
* One way to prove is to jump out of the water as high as they possibly can, this is a challenge for Aqrion.
* Another way is to climb a mountain as high as they possibly can, this is a challenge for Terron.
* One way is to fly towards the sun as high as possible, this is a challenge for Volkir.
- Depict your Aqrion trying to prove themselves to Aestus. - 

  •  Aquella is the mother of all.  She greatly respects her creations and planet.  To gain her blessing one must prove they care for the planet.
One can prove this buy cleaning up the waters and planting new reefs, especially after storms have wrecked them.  Creating new homes for smaller, more defenseless creatures.
 - Depict your Aqrion helping Aquella tend to the planet. - ​
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