Tier 1 - Trust  

This is the beginner's stage of training, and one of the most important. Draw your hatchling or adolescent Stryx interacting with his/her rider or another Stryx, learning basic movements, or how your rider/Stryx guide otherwise gains your dragon's trust. (Drawing you rrider/companion stryx is REQUIRED. Riders one per stryx with three stryx max, companion stryx counts for up to two stryxes being trained.)

 Tier 2 - Confidence   

You must learn to walk before you can run, and a Stryx must learn how to run before they can fly. Young dragons are often rather clumsy, and must learn how to center themselves. As well, learning to walk and run steadily will prepare them for hunting on land, and chasing down prey. Draw your Stryx jogging or running, following after its rider or another Stryx. (Drawing your rider/extra Stryx is optional.)

 Tier 3 - Control  

Congratulations! You've reached the middle tier, and your Draco Stryx has become highly coordinated on its feet. Now it's time to stretch out those wings and strengthen those legs! Gliding and jumping are an important skill when your Stryx is learning how to use updrafts and air currents to lift its body into the sky, or how to make swift turns and powerful leaps during a fight or hunt, and gently builds toward the strength a Stryx will need to become a competent flyer, hunter, and fighter. Draw your dragon gliding down from a hill, or rocky outcropping, toward its rider or another Stryx waiting and coaxing it from below, or leaping into the air/jumping across a stream, or over some form of obstacle. (Drawing your rider/extra Stryx is optional.)

 Tier 4 - Strength  

It takes strong muscles and a sturdy heart to be able to fly and/or carry a rider. By now, your Stryx is finally old enough and large enough to take on this task. Draw your Stryx learning to fly alongside someone else's Stryx, or being ridden. For Runner types, you may draw them pulling something heavy across the ground with their jaws, or hitched up with a harness, pulling a rider, sled, or other heavy weight. (Drawing your rider/companion stryx is REQUIRED. Riders one per stryx with three stryx max, companion stryx counts for up to two stryxes being trained.)

 Tier 5 - Bravery  

Your Stryx is now ready to take on the complicated and exhilarating task of hunting down large prey! Draw your Stryx running after land prey, swooping down to catch something in the water or on land, or eating a successful kill. (Drawing your rider or extra Stryx is optional.)