Stratus' Research Lab
Ever since the day Stratus first saw lightning arc out of the blight lands and strike copper, he has been curious about lighting's apparent affection for metal! So he has decided to open a lab in his and Midnight's future lair. He began preparations, collecting all the materials for the Right of Passage was the first step, starting to learn lair shaping would be the next. But that wouldn't stop him from experimenting with lightning or primal. No, he still wanted to learn more. More than his teachers would teach him. More than either they knew or were willing to share.
He'd already learned about the positive healing aspects of primal creation energy and its crippling aspects in its use of Drain Bolt and Drain Strike. It wasn't the manipulated forms of Primal he was interested in though, it was the raw forms. The stuff Drulkar was made out of, like fire or the lightning that cracked cross the sky. Shinnara would bring him tidbits of material from here and there for various tasks, some of it he brought in for his work. One of the items he'd been working on in the open was a small piece of obsidian with a copper lattice weave. He noticed that when a strand of copper was attached to it and run to the ground it would draw a lot of lightning, especially if mounted somewhere high up.
Once he had a functional lab, he resolved he would attempt to capture the lightning in essence orbs, just to see what would happen. His studies as a hatchling had also been very limited. He could not get up high enough to actually interact with the source of the lightning. He couldn't put his equipment where he really needed it. So he couldn't wait for his rites to be complete, both to be with MidnightTempest and to really start on his work.
