About Dragons

[Ayzek]

So I'm writing this here cause I'm too lazy to write it ICly in the great library. But, anyway, dragons. URE and I discussed things over Discord, and so we're better exploring dragons and their role in Andlosheim.

Some facts:

• The Order hates dragons, for some reason.
  
• The Order, Sidgard, and their puppets lead a genocide of dragons in the "north".
  
• The Sinne hunts dragons for their material. It gives them hard-ons. Still, dragons aren't extinct here.
  
• The Confederacy, tolerant as ever, accepts and employs dragons.
  
• The Confederacy is also the last remaining state in the Sidgardian Sphere to employ wyvernriders, given the above details.
  
• Dragonborn, humanoid dragonkin, live freely in the Confederacy and even join its military.
  
• Wyverns are the most common dragons, and are what tend to be ridden to battle. While cunning, they are not sapient.
  
• There are Kaiser Dragons: golden dragons that fly above the clouds of Andlosheim separating the gods from the mortals. Not much is known about them (they are sapient).
  
• There's more kinds/races/whatever of dragons.
  

The new details:

• A High Dragon is larger and more powerful than a wyvern. It has a ridiculous(ly long) lifespan and sapience. They're not very numerous, especially after the genocide.
  
• While wyvernriders are cool in their own right, they are not true dragonlords. A dragonlord is a person (human or otherwise) who a High Dragon has chosen to bond with, sharing its power and longevity (though this doesn't make a person immortal).
  
• Dragonlords are granted the ability to speak the dragon tongue and communicate with dragonkin, though there are persons who can inherently speak dragon tongue (though they're rare, and tend to be killed by the Order when their ability is discovered). Those who can inherently speak with dragons tend to have an easier time of a becoming a dragonlord.
  
• The Elder Council is a circle of High Dragons that formed after the genocide in the Confederacy in order to keep the race alive and reduce territorial disputes within their now much-smaller habitat. A few of these High Dragons have a dragonlord.
  

Um...any other suggestions, URE? Comments, Oer? Anyone else?

[Rommy]

I know I discussed it a bit with Lines, but this Elder Council made up of the High Dragons and their Dragonlords tend not to sit in the same place, at least not for long but rather prefer to be scattered and rely on people to distribute their messages between them, typically wyvernriders who can be trusted.

Should be noted, High Dragons are ridiculously rarer compared to like wyverns which are still pretty rare compared to other creatures in the world right.

[Seperallis]

A note on dragons, they are mystical and powerful ancient beings. They are the first ( and thus oldest) of the sapient mortal races.

Many young races used to worship dragons as god-like beings. A few, such as a few of the lesser lizard races, still see them, erroneously or not, as avatars of their chosen deities; many such creatures are often and easily suckered into cult-like communities with particularly malevolent and cunning dragons as their fearsome “spiritual” leaders.

All dragons are closely in tune with the natural flow and tides of magic in Andlosheim; even the feral wyrms and wyvern varieties they fly by fukn magic, boi! That aside, the smarter varieties are capable of deliberate acts of magic; couple that with their long lives and incredible size & strength, and their fear/respect is well earned. Some are even gifted and in illusions, allowing them to live mostly undetected among human populations.

Wyrmlings are not baby wyrms, they’re a breed of small feral dragons, similar in size to a house cat. As dumb as one, too, but some find them adorable. The smarter ones sometimes become familiars to vain wizards.