The most feared villains in all of Skylands, Kaos and his partner in crime The Lost Queen! Dare to ask them questions, their mischievous children Havok and Hysteria, and explore an alternative take on Skylanders!
As for dancing, we had plenty of dances too~ My personal favorite dances were the ones we’d do in the skies. We’d cover our bodies with darkness, and paint over ourselves in whatever patterns we liked. We’d take to the sky, and dance with our wings.
This song made me think of the Queen and Kurosia’s fall, and about how she misses her people greatly.
Lost Queen : It sort of depends on the rank of the family. Though, no matter what, there are two celebrations. The first celebration happens when the clutch is laid. This usually only includes the parents and those closest to them to celebrate with song, dances, and plenty of specialty drinks brewed only for clutch-laying celebrations. There is a fun tradition of the dam and sire having to drink a pint per egg.
However, the second celebration is often city wide. Naturally, Kuros all breed around the same time, so the eggs all hatch within a single week. If a kuros pair bred early, or even if the pair didn’t breed that year, they still participate in this celebration of new life. Possibly one of the biggest celebrations of our tradition, this one lasts for an entire week until most of the eggs hatch.
The second celebration, called “Feilradh Dol’Leasolbocht” or, “Festival of New Life”, often includes visiting as many of the newly hatched babies and congratulating the parents; even if you don’t personally know them. Other activities include lots of dancing, food, music, gifts, and social bonding.
Kurogh wasn’t too big on this celebration, but I did my best to visit as many families as I could. There’s just something about newly hatched children that filled me with such hope and love for our people… I miss it, I miss this festival.
Lost Queen : Oh spirits can I, I could talk about her for hours. But… hm, I’ll pick something more specific, as so I don’t write an entire novel about her.
Queen Athrenna was rarely seen without her helmet and armor. I grew up thinking that it was because she always wanted to assert her regal appearance, but growing older I learned that it was because of her… scars.
She has… had, three ‘major’ scars that she just couldn’t seem to heal. The ones on her wing she received by the same kingdom of sphinxes that Scratch is from. The wound was in attempt to disable her left wing, but due to Athrenna’s strong will, was able to heal it leaving only the scars. Scales seemed to refuse to grow over them, and so she simply kept her armor on.
The scars on her chest are from Burdohk himself. She received it during her battle to become his mate, and since then Burdohk seemed oddly ashamed of himself. Our belly plates, if broken, can take over 50 or more years to heal again, but she never seemed to heal the ones on her chest. I always thought she wore her chest piece because Burdohk told her to. But, from what I learned from the journals of their maids after Kurosia’s fall, Athrenna wore a chest piece to keep her King from feeling bad about scarring her.
Lastly, the scars on her face. Athrenna seemed to be ashamed of them the most. And sadly… I have no idea how she got them. She never told anybody, and she entered Kurosia with them as a young teen. Athrenna herself came from a small settlement of Yinvaht Kuros near one of the many large lakes in the mountains. Her village was destroyed by Arkeyans, so many assumed she received her scars from that battle. Any specifics are unknown… the secrets of the scars on her face died with her.
Hysteria : Not at all. The castle has been cleaned out of those pests for the most part, and I’m not stupid enough to wonder down into the city like my twit of a brother. They’re pretty easy to ignore, though during some quiet nights I can hear them howling in pain. It’s a nice lullaby ❤
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