Mist Stride

Name: Coldest Night
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium 10' s / 40' l / 90' ws
Colors: body on neck, belly, under tail dark hazy blue-grey; limbs, wing arms and fingers, face, dorsal from neck to tail tip incredibly dark indigo blue-black, on wing shoulder, upper arms and face also star speckling; face armor and side scales lighter blue and blue-grey; wingsails pitch black grading to transparent blue-grey, speckled liberally with tiny white stars; claws and horns, spikes, icy-white blue; eyes black
Features: highly likely at least a quarter Nightwing but only for coloration in the current generation; otherwise Icewing
Powers: Winged Flight, Coldest Night is powerful but best flies at night, it is as if cold air sustains his flight, and warm or dry air actively hinders him; he is fast and to the point, rarely doing any kind of stunts or extra silly movement; he is known to be able to put his foreclaws out and slice his way through thin sheets of ice, light walls, and forest canopy without taking damage at full speed, as his claws just sheer away anything in their path
Ice Burrowing, everything about this dragon is suited to cut through things, and only Mist Stride dares to touch any of his sharp spines - they and his claws are equally sharp, and can tear through ice, stone, wood, pretty much any solid matter if it's not remarkably strong or somehow treated to resist damage. In a moment he could put a hole in a 4 foot thick chunk of ice, in the same moment he might burrow a serious dent into solid stone, and definitely go straight through dirt or crumbling ruins or building materials (without metal struts). He can also obviously do this to living things, needless to say do not stand near his claws or spikes
Telepathy, Verbal Speech, proving that he is clearly Nightwing descended, he has a strong but focused telepathy that he can use to contact his rider or nearby telepathic dragons up to 500 feet away. He tends to be quiet but has a sharp, somewhat shrill voice - if he lets loose he might cause an avalanche in the right conditions
Ice Adapted, cold, snow, icewater, slush, hail, blizzard conditions, serious fog, slick surfaces... you name it, Coldest Night is easily able to maneuver through them like nothing at all; however that does come at the serious weakness to warmth and fire he has, though he doesn't 'melt' his scales will blister at flames bigger than a human-held blowtorch, and his eyes are very sensitive to bright lights so he tends to sleep during the day
StarFrost Breath, an interesting combination of chill air and particles, which looks incredibly pretty as it catches dim light and sparkles like the night sky... but it's also as deadly as his claws, as each of those tiny particles are also razor sharp, imagine weaponized cold glitter
Parentage: Unknown, apparently unrelated to other Rookery-based dragons
Origin: adopted from SynthwaveTerror with K9 lines, WoF by Tui Sutherland
Other Info: he has to be really careful not to damage things, so his presence near the school is rather limited. In fact his presence near anything is limited, and he will vastly prefer to be wandering Abode when they decide to go there... He is a touch envious of Rulkin and Slatestone, as they get to be around the rest of the people at this interesting school; when he learns of the Zero Degree Lab, he's absolutely thrilled!

Name: Rulkin Dae'Laanir (left)
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: 3'5"s / 5'10" l / 11'7" ws
Colors: black bodied white marked dalmatian; pale buff white-marked wing feathers; amber eyes
Features: Winged Wolf
Powers: Sentience, verbal speech - Laanir is very clearly sullen and opinionated after his abandonment, but still you can tell he was always a smart wolf by the size of his vocabulary
Common magic - able to produce scrying spells and minor lights to see in dark places, produces a very quick protective shield (only lasting about 10 seconds) that can keep him from harm, other minor forms of magic but none of them tremendously well practiced, since he never learned more than the basics
Parentage: dalmatian Eaaril-Sil'Rein and black prism Daelan Rulkin
Origin: Planet Twenty Melolong Wolfkeep (reclaim from Delyar)
Other Info: Quick-Witted, Rambunctious, well he used to be. These days he's still quick to think of things to do or say, but quite hesitant to go ahead and implement them. However, since hearing the call to Carramba for some amount of non-human students, and learning that there were people with wolves like him out there, he's joined up with Slatestone and Mist Stride, to form the basis of a small new pack here... or somewhere! Who knows where. Slowly but surely the excitement that he showed as a pup will return to him.

Name: Slatestone (right)
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: 3'6"s / 6' l / 12'ws
Colors: foggy white, pale grey, medium grey, marked wings
Features: Winged Wolf
Powers: Sentience, verbal speech - yes, she growls and chirps enough to be called a bird or a wolf, but that's not all. Though slightly difficult, she can actively communicate in a language that seems familiar to many sentient lifeforms but not quite like any of them
Air magic - even if she's wolf in size, she's a free flying bird in the air, and her magic helps with this greatly. You would never imagine a wolf dive bombing a large prey animal from 200 meters in the air, but there she is... She can go nearly completely silent, masking any sounds with a swirl of air, or speed herself up, providing lift below her wings, and soar for hours without exerting much muscle power; also this power can amplify her voice, so she can sing to the world... quite loudly. At 3 am.
Parentage: unknown Reriran winged wolves
Origin: Winter Gather 2020 from Dray / Nidus Novalux
Other Info: Though clearly not a dragon, Slatestone is also hardly a pet. She is her own person and says so at times when it's in doubt. People do try to pet her, people are dumb; they can pet her only if they come bearing a gift or nibbles! Also other elves are a bit weird, because they know some of them who ride wolves, but those don't have wings. She feels sorry for those, because flight is everything!

Laanir and Slatestone have heard a little about a specific and amazing event called the Checkerboard Ball. While their presence there was merely as party-goers with a few of the students and their instructors around to guide them away from doing anything incredibly stupid, it got them thinking.

They are both stunningly shaded in greys, blacks, and white! Why not... um, well - that's for some other time, right?

** Yes, they will form the first pair of participants in the future Checkerboard Ball events! But that'll be after 2023 for sure, no need to panic...