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First adult challenge for Kiya ([link]).

Your new role as a clan member comes with both new responsibilities and new rewards. Show yourself performing an activity relating to the clan you have chosen.

Ever since she was a little gryphlet, Kiya loved to create. As an adult she joined the Samhradh clan, specializing in jewelry work and metalsmithing. Her flexible Harrier-hawk wrists and opposable halluxes were adept at handling fine detail; even so, she looked forward to one day learning the magic that would allow her to temporarily take human form.

After spying on the human villages, Kiya had started teaching herself to metalsmith, with so false starts she almost gave up a few times. Now that she was getting the hang of it (though she was nowhere near as sophisticated as the humans), gold--a soft and appealing metal--was quickly becoming her favorite material.

Kiya knew that Daine, one of her fellow Samhradh Grandesques, had searched all over Windsonde for the best places to collect precious stones, and she asked the Burrowing Owl gryphon if she had ever seen any good deposits of the yellow metal. To Kiya's delight, Daine was willing to share her knowledge. Together they flew to a shallow canyon river with a primitive stone ford. The area was rich with precious stones and metals! Perched on the ford, Kiya panned (her neighbor had given her an odd look while she banged the unusual--for a gryphon--tool into shape at her tiny forge) while Daine upheld a beautiful garnet she had plucked from the stones on the river bed.

Verlidaine, "Daine" ([link]) belongs to =BGArts
The stream and stones are based on [link] by ~freezeframe666 who kindly let me use it as a reference.

Critique appreciated!