i'm not linking their skin because i don't want to expose them. you can look through the thread for the many entries based on opalized fossils and decide if any don't seem earthy enough to you, though.
I could believe it's the one on page 21 with how it's just rainbow colours on a wildclaw wing, but the sandsurge or the spiral are looking the most likely since they are directly opalization/fossilized based in the descriptions. Again though... in the announcement, they said they judge the images without name or backstory context the way that the staff does.
Oh there’s an m ridgeback entry on page 15 that doesn’t mention opal anything BUT features prehistoric marine critters (like ammonites) that appear… alive with like kelp n stuff, potentially underwater, not fossilized stone as might have been intended. This looks like a water entry, not earth.
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(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)here's all the skins that mention 'opal' in the 2023 RBC thread, though it's probably the first link since they specifically mention opalization
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3285797/8#post_55435264
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3285797/10#post_55438267
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3285797/13#post_55444094
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3285797/14#post_55454798
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3285797/18#post_55486081
https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/skin/3285797/21#post_55511927
(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-18 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)this one from page 21 also mentions opal
(frozen comment) Re: Fest Skin Submission Decline
(Anonymous) 2025-03-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)