Dragonborn and Dragons
Basic Information
Anatomy
Dragons
The more common form of dragons, these are the ones that represent the images of what most people associate to "Dragons". With two big wings and two or four legs, a short neck, horns on its head and body and a thick tail, rough skin and wide scales. The size of this Dragons varies greatly being directly related to their age, in general a small dragon can be the size of a car white a big and ancient dragon can be as big as an airplane, thou generally speaking the standard dragon is about the size of a bus.Wyverns
These types of Dragons are smaller than most others, they have way more longer wings and longer necks, thin tails and don't bare any sort of horns. Their scales are more thin, like silk to the touch and can reflect light easily. The Wyvern is a type of Dragon that has adopted to fly at incredible fast speedsDrakes
Long
Sea Dragon
Genetics and Reproduction
- Dragonborn + Dragonborn = Dragonborn
- Dragonborn + Human = Human
Additional Information
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
- Super Strength: All Dragonborn have an unreliable super strength, the Wyverns tend to be the weakest and the Drakes the strongest.
- Enhanced Senses: They can see in dark and have sensible earing and refine smell.
- Control of pulse: They can control their heart beast with some extend, this allows then to enter in trances of meditation easily.
- Breath: While their previous perks where passive and intrinsically to then, the Breath is an ability that must be learn, generally most Dragonborn learn to Breath fire before turning into Dragons for the first time.
- Transformation: The act to transform into a dragon is what defines the Dragoborn, however in order to so so a Dragonborn needs firts to come into full control of their inner dragon soul, only then would a Dragoborn be able to transform, many of them are not able to fully transform into Dragons in their early life, it is expected to be achieve about the puberty age.
- Breath: The fire of a Dragonborn in Dragon form is way more powerful than in its human form.
- Sense of Power: While this perk is present in human form, is not as strong as in Dragon form, to Dragons, power is everything a this is an extra sense for then that allows then to feel how powerful other beings are, more accurately for other Dragons.
- Healing Factor: While not being able to regenerate lost limbs, they can withstand severe physical damages such as cuts and deep stabs, it is believe that they can regenerate their internal organ should they be damage or wounded.
- Life Spam: It is uncertain if Dragoborn have long life spams or are immortal, in their human forms they seem to age at a slow pace, while it was confirmed that most old Dragons where in fact immortal, Tiamat was expected to be at least fifty thousand years old when it died, the oldest Dragoborn today is only about two hundred years old and has no signs of dying from old age. To date, most Dragoborn have meet their end via assassination mostly at the hands of the Dragon Hunters.
Breath
- Yellow Breath: the more common type of breath, it has the lower temperature of all breaths.
- Red Breath: Another common type of breath, is generally hotter than the yellow breath.
- Green Breath: A very hot flame that can still be on even in water.
- Blue Breath: One of the hottest breaths of the Dragons, it can potentially melt rocks and metals in seconds.
- Purple Breath: A extremely dangerous breath able to be on under water or ambients with little oxygen.
- Black Breath: A very rare breath, it has no heat but can produce the same type of burns that other breaths do.
- White Breath: Very rare, the flames of this breath are incredible bright so much that they can blind a human with easy.
- Rainbow Breath: A breath of different bright colorful patterns, this breath does not spread wildly but can still produce burns.
- Thunder Breath: A rare breath that allows the Dragon to expel dangerous arcs of electricity.
- Frost Breath: No Dragon currently has this breath, but there used to lived a pack of Dragons that were able to, rather than being a hot flame it was a cold burst of wind.
Civilization and Culture
Major Organizations
Dragon Council
The Dragon Council is the direct body of government of the Dragonborn, they are the ones that decided the course of action in the major decisions. Dragon CouncilPacks
Dragoborn Packs
The Dragoborn are divided in three major packs, each leading more minor packs, there are also unaffiliated Dragons that do not belong to any pack, is estimated these unaffiliated Dragonborn live within humans and hide their true nature to then.
Major Pack | Total Population | Location |
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Dawa | 62.050 | Asia |
Zmey | 12.480 | Europe |
Andean | 38.490 | America |
Unaffiliated | 10.000 | - |
Total | 123.020 |
Dawa Pack
Dragoborn Dawa Packs
The Dawa pack is the largest of the Dragonborn Pack and have a big number of Packs spread the Asian continent.
Pack | Population | Location |
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Dawa | 12.000 | Nepal |
Hium | 7900 | Nepal |
Tara | 4500 | Nepal |
Purano | 1200 | Nepal |
Candrama | 540 | Nepal |
Skar Ma | 2300 | TIbet |
Sugon Kha Lo Pa | 1800 | Tibet |
Zhomo | 420 | Bhutan |
Myit | 540 | Myanmar |
Naathpyan | 320 | Myanmar |
Lum | 400 | Laos |
Khuaam osk sao | 340 | Laos |
Rùngxruṇ | 4300 | Thailand |
Ngein | 2600 | Thailand |
Mikea | 890 | Thailand |
Tim | 8300 | Vietnam |
Cuoi The | 4200 | Vietnam |
Hat Giong | 1800 | Vietnam |
Mat Bioi Sang | 700 | Vietnam |
Kraham | 5400 | Cambodia |
Ring | 1600 | Cambodia |
Total | 62.050 |
Zmey Pack
Dragoborn Zmey Packs
The Zmey Pack and its direct vassals are the smallest packs of the Dragoborn, Centuries ago the Dragon Hunters expelled the Dragons from the most parts of Europe, only a small number of then stayed.
Pack | Population | Location |
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Zmey | 2500 | Romania |
Vechi | 1400 | Romania |
Barbar | 890 | Romania |
Sabie Scut | 450 | Romania |
Aur | 310 | Romania |
Egbolt | 2000 | Hungary |
Folgengres | 1500 | Hungary |
Porodica | 890 | Serbia |
Reflesksija | 400 | Serbia |
Minalo | 1200 | Bulgari |
Kamenna Stena | 940 | Bulgari |
Total | 12.480 |
Andean Pack
Dragoborn Andean Packs
While in the Dawa and Zmey Packs are usually sparsely populated across their continent, the Andean packs tend to be much more densely populated, many of their communities act as small towns in many occasions.
Pack | Population | Location |
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Andean | 7800 | Argentina |
Baja Montaña | 6000 | Argentina |
Rio Plateado | 4500 | Argentina |
Viñar | 4500 | Chile |
Alta Montaña | 4400 | Chile |
Tempano | 2300 | Chile |
Patagonia | 1800 | Chile |
Ezperanza | 920 | Bolivia |
Sol | 1500 | Peru |
Nazca | 830 | Peru |
Quebarada Alta | 540 | Peru |
Palma Dorada | 1300 | Ecuador |
Hojarasca | 2100 | Colombia |
Total | 38.490 | |
Geopolitical Map
Sea Dragon Packs
Since the Sea Dragon do not make contact with humans, is very hard to make an estimation on the number of packs the Sea Dragons have, but is estimated that they held several packs across the different oceans in the world and that the biggest packs are located in the Atlantic and the Pacific.Gender Ideals
Relationship Ideals
Power
For Dragons the most important aspect for then to consider when approaching other brethren is their power, Dragons feel the power of other beings, specially Dragons and as prideful, arrogant and ambitious as they were, they seek to obtain power above all else. While the Dragonborn are able to control those reckless emotions better, they still felt the power of their brethren and thus, their social hierarchy is build based on this sense. The most powerful Dragonborn are in charge to lead their pack while the lesser ones follow orders and instructions.Major Language Groups and Dialects
Feral Dialect
Initially the Ancient Dragons behave and comminate like very other feral creatures of the land, by showing dominance, roaring and bitting and using their breath. Dragonborn don't believe these Ancient Dragons were able to properly understand more complex communication which was not needed since at that time, the humans had not build any civilization yet.Curiosity led to knowledge
While Tiamat was fascinating by the growing population of humans, buildings settlements and civilization, it began to learn from then, primarily their way of communication, while it is uncertain how the first attempts of communications went, it is easy to estimate that the first encounters the humans had with the Dragons were not very pleasant, none the less, the more humans developed, the more they could also understand the beings they were surrounded by, specially Dragons, Some Dragoborn believe there were some offspring of Tiamat that made successfully communication with the humans, having a close relation similar to those of a master and its dog.First Relations
By the time the humans were spread around the globe and their civilizations had grown exponentially many Dragons began to have closer relation with some humans, to the point of establishing close ties with them, while humans have the incredible gift of voice, Dragon had a similar perk, using their purring and roaring as ways to communicate, body languages and expression on their faces were also used, it is believe the Dragons acquired a great level of self consistencies and rationality on this era and let them to become more communal entities, when the Dragon Followers started to gather, the Dragon mastered this form of communication creating the first pseudo Dragon tongue that would be known.The Dragon Tongue
While the Dragon followers were spread around the world, each Dragon leader would used its inherent dragon communication to make an standard language within their domain, this meant that each pack of Dragon Followers would effectively use a different Dragon Tongue, this does not produce many complication since the Dragon Followers were very spread out around the world and had little contact with each other. When the Dragons almost came to extinction at the Hands of the Dragon Hunters, a group of Dragons decided to do one more final attempt to save themselves by fusing with their followers, now Dragons became Dragoborn and they had the ability to comminate with their voices, at this moment they decided to unify the Dragon Dialect and create the official Dragon Tongue, a language comprehensible both in Dragon and in Human form, having two ways of expressions on each, in Dragon, the individual would uses different tones of purrs and roars, using prolonge intervals and accents and in their Human form they would use their voice instead. Today, the Dragon Tongue is used by all Dragoborn and despite being two hundred years old now, this language had stayed relatively unchanged only adding new worlds due to the passing of time and the founding of new technologies, some regional variants are present and accents are to be expected but a Dragoborn from and Andean Pack can communicate with another of the Dawa Pack.Culture and Cultural Heritage
Prideful, arrogant, powerlust
For Dragons, they only had one goal in mind and that was to become to strongest Dragon, and that desire is what has caused their downfall in many occasions. For the Ancient Dragons, they were so pride about themselves that they never considered any other being as worthy to then, but the early humans soon showed to them what determination could achieve, they were unable to understand how weak beings with so short spamming lives could oppose a threat to then, but when they finally did, they were so arrogant that they refuse to change their behavior or to look for another options, only Tiamat, the Mother Dragon was able to understand that,Cunning, Relentless, adaptable
Even if the Children of Tiamat still hold into the old habit of powerlust, they would understand that they were not the strongest being in the planet and they in turn would look for ways to achieve that, either via cunningness or relentlessness, they would use other Dragons or even humans to achieve that, strucking deals with then or terrorizing them so they would server them. They would prove to be adaptable to each situation and to plan ahead of the situation to have the bigger chances of success.Deterministic, faithful, wishfull
The biggest clash of the Dragons ideals came when they fuse with the humans, suddenly two completely different beings that felt and saw the world in two different ways unite, their emotions and their thoughts. The Dragoborn are considered to have all the properties of the Dragons as well as the Humans, both the good and the bad and this often time means a severe clash of internal emotions. In their human form Dragoborn also experience the emotions the Dragons do, however, this emotions tend to be much more strong and in certain ways, express very differently. At the same time when a Dragonborn is in its Dragon form, his mind is also flooded with human emotions, fear, doubt, calmness, this emotions clashed in their mind causing the Dragonborn to potentially felt itself powerless. All this conflicts in emotions can potentially make a Dragoborn very emotionally unstable and can have negative perception in both forms, in humans forms is presented as a strong sensation of sadness or depression or bipolar disorders while in Dragon form the Dragonborn becomes enrage and lost any control and capability to rationalize becoming effectively a feral creature. Because of all these, Dragoborn then to meditate a lot, they become very disciplined and adopt a rigorous life style in which they need to control their own emotions, thus adopting a calm attitude most of the time, thanks to this they are to maintain full mental and physical capabilities in their dragon form.History
The Arrival (50.000BC)
According to the legends of Tiamat, Dragons are not originally form this world, it is believe they came to our planet some time around fifty thousand years ago and it is uncertain if they traveled from the space landing on earth due to its rich natural resources or that they came to this planet traveling from a some sort of wormhole that formed at some moment, what ever the case, the intentions of the Dragons were to remain in here and roam this land.The Feral age (50.000BC-12.000BC)
At the begging the Dragons roamed the earth alone, they were powerful and no being on the planet could match their power, is it uncertain how many of then there were at this moment but is believe that not that much, probably around a hundred or so dragons, they lived in an area and made that place their domain and would crash with other dragons that came close to their domains.The first contact (12.000BC-8000BC)
Around this time the Dragons roaming the lands came into contact with the first human ivilization, maybe they ignore the early human settlers at the beginning but at this moment is believe they become intrigue by the relatively complex social hierarchies that early humans had present in their small communities. In this era conflict was common between humans and dragons and the result was always the same, the Dragon had control over the humans, in rare occasions a early mythical human would be able to defeat one dragon from time to time, this was the moment Dragons discovered their own mortality.The Legend of Tiamat (8000BC-3000BC)
Tiamat is to be believe the mother of all Dragons, while there were more dragon around it at the time, Tiamat was the first dragon to adapt to its environment in order to survive, by this time the early human civilization were growing more and more and were presenting an ever present threat to the Dragons, they could not understand how a weak being was able to defeat them, Tiamat was the first to understand that the unification of humans were the trait that grant then advantage over them, one of the reasons was due to the capability of the humans to learn and to transfer that knowledge to their future generations. Tiamat would imitate that behavior and would began to laid eggs in order to gave birth to new Dragons.The end of the Ancient Dragons (3000BC-500BC)
While the old Ancient Dragons were dying one by one in their arrogance and recklessness, Tiamat and their offspring were thriving, they began to roam the lands and expand ever more, many of its children would came into early contact with various humans, which Tiamat was marveled to see how fast they expand over the world, Tiamat would died early on this era after a clash with a mythical human with great powers called Marduk, a member of the Sumerian Civilization. While the death of their "mother" was felt by all its offspring, it barely caused any tantrum on the Dragons, they were in various ways, like the Ancient Dragons, arrogant, prideful and reckless, however, they were able to also learn, change and adapt and many of then began to have more closer relations with the humans, learning from them a way to communicate using sounds.The born of myth and legends (500BC-1100AC)
In this era, the children of Tiamat came into contact with various human civilizations around the world, they would produce more dragons, would learn from more humans, would came into conflict and friendship, all over the world the Children of Tiamat would leave their mark on the planet either a good one or a dreadful one.The First War against against the man (1100AC-1400AC)
A movement in the Baltic region known as the Crusades, create the first organization that would later be known as the Dragon Hunters. Dragon Slayers existed before, but apart from a small hero of the past or a groups of adventures dwelling in a dungeon, no group of humans existed with the sole purpose to slay dragons. This war would end in the Battle of Saule, where the Crusaders fought against the Legendary Dragon Jörmungandr, possibly the greatest Dragon ever to exist. This war was devastating for the dragons, some time at the end of the XIII century, most dragons decided to migrate off Europe escaping the Crusaders in the process, Asia and the Middle East were the most common destinations.The Followers of the Dragons (1400AC-1700AC)
While escaping the wrath of the Crusaders, the Dragons also used their power over the pity humans to command then, this humans that follow and obey the orders of the dragons would be called the Followers of the Dragons, they would created big and prosperous societies, although most Dragons were ruthless rulers, some were more benevolent and they offer then protection in exchanged of servitude. One of the most popular Followers of the Dragons were the Republic of Novgorod, when the Dragon Fafnir protect them against the hordes of the mongols. The threat of the Crusaders were always present in Europe, but outside of if, most Dragons thrive and grow prosperous, establishing more communities of Followers of the Dragons.The Second War against the man (1600AC-1800AC)
After years of absence of the Crusaders, the Dragons found themselves in a stable position, unfortunately, that peace would soon be over. At the XVII century, the Crusaders establish themselves as a secret society in most of the inner circlets of the monarchies of Europe, most notably, the British monarchy and the Portuguese, using their influence over the East India Company, they were able to wage the war against the Dragons outside of Europe, just as the first war, this war proved to bee too costly for the Dragons, hundreds of then were slay. By the end of the XVIII Century the end of the war came not especially by the defeat of the Crusader, but by the collapsed of the massive organization, it had grow so big, so corrupt and inefficient that it collapse completely. dissolving into many smaller organizations.The ones that follow the tradition of Dragon Slaying now called themselves the Dragon Hunters. When the second war ended, the Dragons find themselves in a pity position, they were small as they ever were and it seems that they would no longer be the dominant force they once were. This time came with a lot of civil conflict among the Followers of the Dragons across Europe, Middle East and Asia. The dragons were in an spiral of decadence.The Fusing (1800AC)
Around the XIX Century, everything seemed dark for the Dragons, it seems that their time on earth was about to end, then a group of 4 dragons and 4 humans decided to unite all the squabbling communities of followers, and proposed an idea that could save all the Dragons, the Fusing, using the teachings of the Dragon Fafnir, the group did the first ever fusing of Dragons and Humans and created the race of the Dragonborn. This act came with great revolt among the community and only a small group follow this practices, but after the growing threat of the return of the Dragon Hunters, many communities would inevitably fuse with their followers. The last Dragons that decided to don't fuse were quickly slayed by the Dragon Hunters once they start operations again, Is believed that a small group of last Dragons went to the South pole as the last resort to surviving.The Dragonborn (1800AC-Present)
Today, the community of Dragonborn had grow to increasing numbers, reaching more than one hundred thousand Dragoborn, a staggering difference considering Dragons never achieve a number close to one ten thousand before. This new kin have found themselves in a rather comfortable but stale position, while they are let alone for the most part they are also excluded by various other societies of the world, until very recently, they had been able to unite The League of Heroes under the status of Autonomous Societies, this had grant then more relations with humans in general, however, the conflict with their old rivals, the Dragon Hunters is still present.Historical Figures
Tiamat
The Mother Dragon, the closest entity Dragonborn see as a Deity.Nidhogg
The Dragon who fought Odin IJörmungandr
The Legendary Dragon who battled against the Vikings and dealt to then their biggest defeat.Fafnir
It is said to be a mythical Dragon able to sift into human form, it is unknown if that was a mysterious power of his or if he fused with a human.Aethiopia
One of the first and most powerful Sea Dragon ruling the Baltic sea for centuries.Drakontos
This Leviathan had encounters with the humans of the Ancient Greek, he learn much from them.Gorynych
Was a Drake living among the old Slavic tribes of Europe.Vahagn and Vishap
They were a Drake and a Sea Dragon that had a close relationship, similar to love.Ddraig Goch
Was the most powerful Dragon in what is today the British isles, this dragon fought against King Arthur himself.Vritra
Was a Sea Dragon that lived in the Indian seas.Naamghars
Was a Drake veneered by the people of Assam.Pakhangba
Was one of the first Longs to travel to Asia.Druk Gyalpo
Was one of the first Wyvern to lived among humans, establishing their first followers.Azhdaha
A Wyvern that had several encounters with the the old civilization of Persia.Nachash
This Legendary Sea Dragon ruled in the seas for thousands of years, making the Sea Dragon a total dominant race in the sea.Longshen
A Long Legendary Dragon that ruled over all of Asian for at least a century, it had powers over the thunder, it, Ryu, Ryong and Shennong were all brothers of the same mother and very powerful Dragons.Ryu
A Long with great powers over the seas, despite being a Long it habited the water as much as the sky and land.Ryong
The Dragon of the north, a Legendary Dragon who could move in the skies with easy.Shennong
The Dragon of the south, it has powers over the mountains and nature, he lived in the Taklamakan desert.Li Shen
One of the first Dragonborn to fuse, the fuse of the Long Fei Shen and its most beloved follower Li. He is considered the last remaining Original Dragoborn to date, while many of the previous ones have dies at the hands of Dragon Hunters. Due to him being the oldest Dragoborn makes him also the most powerful and thus in some ways the ruler of the whole kin.Common Myths and Legends
The Dragon Mother
While not religiose themselves, Tiamat also known as the Dragon Mother is the closest thing Dragoborn have to an idol or diety, being the mother of all Dragons that roamed the land along side humans, it learnt from humans the act of reproduction, to ask and to learn and because of this it was able to live for millennia. Although it would face it end to a mythical human, it would forever be in their minds of its offspring.The Ancient Dragons
Obsidian Dragons
This is a pack of unidentified kind of Dragons that roamed the vast dunes of the Sahara desert, moving thru the desert beneath the sands, this pack would have total control over the area and probably the ancients Egyptians served tribute to then.Is believed that rather tan go extinct, this pack went deeper and deeper underground until a point were they no longer have the necessity to went to the surface at all.Quartz Dragons
Before the Longs migrated to Asia, the area was control by the Quartz Dragons that lived so high at the sky that it seemed they never touch land, but rather move thru the sky almost touching the stars, they feed directly of the star dust and sun rays.They had massive sizes, up to 10 kilometres of length and their scales reflect all colours, depending on the angle. It is uncertain what truly happened to them, some Dragonborn believe that they eventually fly off the planet to become space fairing entities.Moonstone Dragons
These Dragons are an unique type of dragons that were able to control not the heat, but the cold, they lived in the cold landscapes of the Scandinavian peninsula. Very little information about their disappearing is known, but is believed to be something related with the occupation of the Germanic Tribes n the peninsula.Serpent Dragons
The Serpent Dragons are one of the many species of Dragons that went extinct, since they habit the continent of America mostly, by the time the Dragon Hunters came to the Americas in the XIV century, these Dragons didn't knew about this order and thus, couldn't properly fight back. The only recording known about this lost Dragons are the legends attributed to them by the inhabitants of the Americas, more especially, the Aztecs and their god Quetzalcoatl or the Mayas and their God Kukulkan. The appearance of these Dragons is to be believe of long serpent like creature with extending wings, adopting also feathers and having vivid colors.Smoke Dragons
These Dragons inhbited the Gobi Desert in china and are said they would trick lost travelers into the deeps of the desert where they would devour them, They were able to turn into dust and become invisible to the eye. At some point they vanished without a trace and nothing has been known from then ever since.Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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