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Candidates: Lujayn, Quintar, Shaela, Sferrox, Suvain and Sybil

Search Cycle Helpers: Acadia, C'ael, C'nroy, Illya, M'yr, N'thei, P'draig, R'us, S'kris, T'rien V'delin, V'ryce, and Zahava

Prospector's Prize Egg

Shades of unmistakeable gold sweep across the surface of this large egg, darker hues streaking across its suface like seams in a folded stone. Around the edges, a thin dusting of grey clings to it as though its time under the sand has caused an indellible accumulation of a layer of fine powder. It seems to drift into the hollows and crevices, dulling the colors of the massive egg. By contrast, other portions of the shell gleam brilliantly as though reflecting the light that falls across its surface, glittering fiercely - a siren call to draw the viewer to continued inspection. Together, the patches of color give it a pocked and hollowed appearance that surely must be an illusion.

Inspiration: During the gold rush, these gold nuggets were rumored to be beneath every hill. While there surely was a lot of gold out there, most prospectors never made it big, and a nugget like this would have been priceless. Egg Credit: Zahava

Concealed Vice Egg

Rich chocolaty brown has been drizzled over the shell of this larger-than-normal egg, gifting it with a rather tempting candied sheen. Tiny flecks of green and orange can be spotted on close inspection, sprinkled throughout the delicious base colour to add a touch of flavour. On one side of the egg, darker brown lines decorate the surface, forming into the image of a creature with long ears, while a cream star is the perfect finishing touch for this confectioners delight.

Inspiration: Chocolate! Traditionally hidden twice a year - easter, and the first week of a diet. Egg Credit: Illya

One Layer After Another Egg

A uniform shade of vellum wraps around the rounded sides of this egg, shading abruptly into a deep rosy red at its base. Rounder than most, the egg seems to widen towards the top instead of the bottom, as if it were laid upside down in the Sands. Leaning up on tip-toe however to see the very highest point of the egg reveals concentric circles that seem, through a trick of the eye, to plunge inward into its very heart. What might be hidden within though, who can say?

Inspiration: Matryoshka dolls are so much fun to open, layer after layer to get down to the tiniest doll at the heart, or if lucky a treat hidden inside. Egg Credit: P'draig

Peekaboo Egg

Seeming unremarkable at first, this egg is a matte shade of off-white, punctuated with what look like folds of soft fabric, so that it resembles a blanket dropped in a pile on the floor. Walking around and hunkering down near the bottom though might reveal a surprise: a pair of bright blue splotches that might bring to mind the eyes of a child.

Inspiration: Playing peekaboo with a toddler hidding under the covers. Egg Credit: P'draig

Hidden Love Egg

Muted shades of soft pearl gray swirl over the surface of this egg. Mixed within, hiding it would seem under the very shell itself, are touches of pink and red, blurred and hidden with no clear distinct patch evident to the eye. Peering closer, these hints of blush seem to slip out of view, bashful and uncertain, as if they do not wish to harm the integrity of such a perfect egg. In softer light, the blush seems to show itself more, coming out of hiding to reveal its nature. In harsher illumination, it withdraws all together, leaving only the gray surface on the matte shell.

Inspiration: Hidden Love by Sara Teasdale I hid the love within my heart,
And lit the laughter in my eyes,
That when we meet he may not know
My love that never dies.
But sometimes when he dreams at night
Of fragrant forests green and dim,
It may be that my love crept out
And brought the dream to him.
And sometimes when his heart is sick
And suddenly grows well again,
It may be that my love was there
To free his life of pain.
Egg Credit: T'rien

Seamless Puzzle Egg

The unassuming shade of wood, light tan sanded smooth and decoratively burned, makes this egg appear as a rather large trinket. A finely grained texture can be spotted on close inspection amongst thin, dark spirals engraved in the shell, though this normally uniform pattern runs in several different directions depending on which part of the egg is viewed. It seems as if the egg were pieced together from several bits of wood as a result, but no seams are to be seen or felt.

Inspiration: Sliding panel boxes are just what they sound like: boxes made of several individual pieces, of which from two to over one hundred panel 'moves' may be required before the top can be pulled away to reveal its contents. They were first made in Japan over a century ago and have been exported to other countries since the 1920s. To those who don't recognize them, they appear to be purposeless wooden blocks. Egg Credit: Lujayn

Tawny Treachery Egg

Wispy strands of dried grass spike upwards from the bottom of this variegated egg, growing through shades of fresh yellow-green at the base to blades of sunbaked gold through the wide middle, and finally to crispy, pale brown tips at the egg's zenith. Stare long enough and a form may appear, something fluid and feline within the tones of golden brown. A hint to the whereabouts is given only by two tiny, dark spots that stare out from a sea of waving grass.

Inspiration: Lionesses in Africa have pelts perfectly suited to the environment in which they hunt. Teamwork is a big part of their success in bringing down game, though being naturally able to hide doesn't hurt one bit. Egg Credit: Lujayn

Scintillating Hoard Egg

The riot of sumptuous colors on this large egg's shell draw the eye with their seeming random boldness, until one steps farther back and sees the entire picture. With perspective, one recognizes piles and stacks of golden and silver coins, interspersed with large jewels of purple, green, blue, and scarlet. The richness of this treasure practically glows, scintillates even in the depths of the huge Hatching cavern.

Inspiration: Hidden Treasure Egg Credit: V'ryce

Nothingness Egg

Although still egg-shaped and oblong, there's a deceptiveness that makes this moderate-sized egg look to be a near-perfect sphere, outstanding in only one way: its coloration. Through circumference and diameter, not a single tone other than vacuous black impinges on the smooth surface, the depths of that void sucking in matter, light, any hope of escape. Completely untextured, smooth and flawless and unreal-looking, it has an uncommonly glassy sheen for a dragon egg, none of the pebbled ribbing or faint ridges. There's no feature to catch the eye, nothing to settle on or draw focus, just blackness.

Inspiration: Based off of a black hole. Egg Credit: Caitlyn and N'thei

Damp Depths Egg

Watery aquamarine ripples across the shell of this egg, darkening as it flows down towards the sands. The tip is tinged with white and gold, reminiscent of sunlight glinting off waves, while lower down there's murkiness to the colour making patterning harder to discern. A few green tendrils grow up from the base of the shell in plant-like fronds, and in the centre of this patch of weeds there is an odd swirl of black that looks almost like an eye peering out from behind this leafy shield.

Inspiration: The Loch Ness Monster - real or fiction? People tend towards the idea that there's somthing there but it hides and nobody's exactly sure what it is. Egg Credit: Illya

Festive Bands Egg

Rings of bright colors traipse from crown to base of the fawn-undertoned egg. Although the background color is almost too-typical of dragon eggs, a creamy beige with muted mottles, the striking patterns that overlay the undersheathe completely divert the eye. Concentric colored rings break a few times down from top to bottom with stamp-like patterns of simple shapes: a simple band of lavender at the top, then blue and green, then a strand of yellowed squares and more rings in red and orange, a wide swathe of loops in bright white, and then the bottom dipped in a bowl of bright pink. Imperfect, every band is nonetheless bright and festive in its own way, lending to an overall party-look for the mid-sized egg.

Inspiration: The tradition of Easter eggs is difficult to pin down, but the "modern" slant is a fairly simple notion: Hard-boiled eggs are painted, then hidden on Easter morning, to be found by happy children who then go on to eat ridiculous amounts of chocolate and egg-salad sandwiches. Egg Credit: N'thei

End of the Rainbow Egg

A startlingly white crown tops this egg, almost blinding when the light hits it properly. The brightness appears to break across the shell, splitting into a myriad of pale rainbow like strands of colour that arc around the shell and gain in intensity all the way to the base. Peeking out from the sand at the base is a hint of gold, a smattering of small coin shaped patches ready to reward the one that finds their mystery.

Inspiration: Legend holds that a leprechaun always hides his pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Egg Credit: Quintar