When Stardragons became an open species, a number of the lore aspects were left incomplete.
As much information as we have been able to find has been placed here, but you may find the pages inconsistent because of this.
In the future we will look to try and fill in the blanks with imagery similar to what's been previously done. Thankyou for your patience and happy reading!
Stardragons gems are preserved to keep their magic, but without a living host, the magic eventually fades. When the Magic is depleted, the gems are cut into small bits that Starshooters use as currency. Of course, this is done by regulated mints, engraved with royal seals in order to maintain a stable economy. Since there's no way to ensure uniform colours, the cuttencies are cut into specific shapes. Smaller denominations are counted in metal coins.
The current royal emblem is that of the Sterling Dynasty.
The emblem is changed based on the emperor currently in power. You can actually date the minting of the currency based on the emblem. Older mints are considered collectors items.
There are two primary alphabets on Jo'Arca. The first is the one that the majority of Stardragon races use. On the left is the more formal serif that you'd see in a printing press, while the right side consists of more free-form handwriting.
The second is the alphabet of the Starshooters, who created their own alphabet to continue to seperate themselves from the rest of the Stardragon races. All alphabets are available as fonts.
A bit of something for the world-builders out there, the alphabet scripts for the primary residents of Jo'Arca. You can now download said fonts and use them for your very own stardragon and stardragon accessories. The first half is the primary alphabet used by 7/8 of the stardragons and is the oldest... where as the second half is the language developed by the shooters who abandoned the traditional stardragon language and went onto doing what they felt was a more uniform and civilized script. Both fonts feature numbers and several symbols.
The left side are the Serif fonts, which are the more uniform "printing press" formal writing, where as the ones on the right are the more free-form and the style you would likely see actually written by hand.
The Jo'Arca languages are an open font so if you want to use these for some random fantasy script font as well feel more than free!
How to install fonts:
(In case you don't know. If you do, disregard this note you savvy internet person you and treat yourself to some delicious snacks!)
Windows:
Step one: After extracting the files from the rar rile, select the ttf files and copy them
Step two: Go to C > Windows > Fonts and paste the ttf files in
Step three: Treat yourself to some delicious snacks because next time you load up your photoshop or word program or anything that uses fonts they should now be in there. You did it!
Mac:
Under Mac OS X 10.3 or above (including the FontBook): Double-click the font file > "Install font" button at the bottom of the preview.
Under any version of Mac OS X: Put the files into /Library/Fonts
Linux:
You probably already know how to do this and are probably already talking about how it is much easier to do than on a mac or a pc.