Dragonblood

The dragonblood of Exandria are a people of unknown origin, and countless myths surround their ancestral creation. One particularly pervasive tale states that dragonblood were created by the Scaled Tyrant and the Platinum Dragon during the Calamity, serving as loyal soldiers who eventually earned their freedom. Regardless of how they came into being, though, the dragonblood lived for many centuries in relative isolation in the southern wastes of Xhorhas, on the continent of Wildemount.
Today, dragonblood live all over Exandria, though they remain a scarcer sight in Tal’Dorei than in Wildemount. Their spread across the world was hastened by the assault against the free peoples of Exandria by the Chroma Conclave. During that conflict, the ancient white dragon known as Vorugal the Frigid Doom destroyed the magical city-state of Draconia, the ancestral homeland of most dragonblood.
The destruction of Draconia and the loss of many of its people was a tragedy. But to roughly half the dragonblood of Exandria, it also marked the end of an oppressive regime. Dragonblood of Exandria can either be born with a tail or without. In Draconia, those with tails were called draconians or draconbloods, for they were seen as closer in form and power to true dragons. Those without tails were given the name of ravenites and enslaved. Their blood and toil built the mighty towers of Draconia, yet the ravenites enjoyed none of their city’s splendor.
The ruin of Draconia thus marked the start of an era of freedom and self-determination for the ravenites. In Tal’Dorei, it’s apparent that any differences between the ravenites and the draconians have nothing to do with bloodline or draconic power. Those differences are cultural, and rooted in a past whose conflicts still haven’t been resolved. The oppression that existed in Draconia remains largely unknown within Tal’Dorei to this day, and outside of major cities such as Emon, dragonblood can go for months, even years, without seeing another of their kind.

Draconians

The tail-bearing draconians who survived the destruction of Draconia have been scattered across the world. In the time that’s passed since the fall of the dragonblood city-state, a generation of draconbloods have grown up in Tal’Dorei’s towns and cities, disconnected from their parents’ privileged upbringing. Only a scant few draconians—typically ones able to teleport away from Vorugal’s attack—escaped with any sort of wealth. Most other refugees were lucky simply to escape with their lives.
Clinging to the Past. A social divide continues to grow between draconians who have wealth and those who don’t. Many of those with wealth greedily cling to the shadows of their former tyrannical glory, but other draconians seek instead to bury the past and create their own destiny, on their own merits.

Ravenites

Following the end of the Draconian order, the ravenites ventured into the world eager to make the most of their newfound freedom. In the generation since, many have formed a new homeland in Xhorhas known as Xarzith Kitril, content to reclaim the lands of their birth. Those ravenites who departed Wildemount have found a new home in the cities and the icy north of Tal’Dorei, where they enjoy the freedom and privileges of equality that this land provides.
Rebuilding from Scratch. Most ravenite children grew up poor, either in slum towns at the edges of cities like Emon and Westruun, or helping their parents laboriously carve out rural lives in the Dividing Plains or Cliffkeep Mountains.