Dragonborn

Fierce, stong, and proud, dragonborn are thought of as dangerous and to be feared. Most that dwell in Tariksan are metal-linage, and are wise enough to keep their heads down.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

If their ancestry can be traced back to a particular dragon, most dragonborn will have that name as their surname, usually ending with -i, meaning 'of' in most old dialects. (eg abraxusi/abraxi/abraxii means "of abraxus".) Clan names are also common, or in some cases they take names of other race styles, in an attempt to show loyalty to the country they dwell in.

Major Organizations

The Yan'katar, a collective of seven large drgonborn clans (and many other, more recent, supporters). They are all of chromatic linage, and have a noticable lack of empathy for other races. This has allowed for their relatively recent and brutal expansion, enslaving the native population, and only stopping as they reached the coast.

Beauty Ideals

Those of pure colour of scales are seen as beautiful and entitled, although in less traditionalist circles this is less emphasised, and some see the subtleties of healthy interbreeeding to be much more beautiful. Metal-chromatic mixes are especially stunning to outsiders, but seen as almost sinful to most dragonborn culture, as the two kinds of linage still hate each other.

Gender Ideals

Dragonborn do not think gender is important within their society. This is a concequence of their race's slightly stange approach to having children.

Relationship Ideals

Lots of dragonborn are almost asexual, as a result of centuries of tribal leaders deciding on childbearing couples. They have partners, but usually in a strictly romantic way, and may adopt the children of one of the partners as their own. They have two words for partner in draconic, one of which translates as "husband/wife/partner" and the other has no common equivilant, "hanzan" meaning sexual partner.

Within clans and other draconic societies, dragonborn attempt to have children around midsummer, to make the odd mismatch between the biological and adoptive parents as unobvious as possible. This does not nessicarily work, many dragonborn hate the old tradition and wish to be allowed to live and love like the other races do.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

Common and draconic. Draconic is a strange language to most, with lots of snarling noises. The more normal sounds are almost latin or middle eastern sounding.

History

After the wave, the ancestors of the dragonborn were the closest to being humans. However, each group made some form of deal with one of the many dragons that roamed the land at the time, usually in exchange for relative safety. To mark their subjects out from the others that roamed the world, each dragon infused each of their followers children with the dragon's own blood, forming the race of dragonborn. Although they no longer live under the eye of their draconic parents, habits and rules built up over centuries do not wear off. Lots of dragonborn are scattered across continents, with only their pride and ancestry to link them back to a greater past. A few remain in the clan structure that is a direct result of their old way of life. Tariksan is most familiar with dragonborn in the form of the Yan'katar, a dragonborn-run slave empire that dwells off the southeast coast. A significant portion of Tariksan's inhabitants are refugees from the expansion of this empire.