Great Dragons

There are four subspecies of Great Dragon:

• Great Western Dragons
• Great Eastern Dragons
• Feathered Serpents
• Leviathans

"Watch your back, shoot straight, conserve ammo, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon." -Street Proverb See: The Great Dragon Civil War

Basic Information

Anatomy

Western dragons tend to resemble large, serpentine lizards with two wings, two clawed arms with opposable thumbs and two legs. They grow up to 20m long with a 30m wingspan.
Eastern dragons have four limbs and dexterous, four-fingered claws. Despite their lack of wings they are able to fly just as well as their western brethren. They grow to about 15m long but they have long tails, sometimes as much as 20m long.
Feathered Serpents have long, snakelike bodies, one set of limbs and brilliantly coloured, feathered, wings. Their feet have five digits, one of which is able to function as a thumb. They are about 20m in length with a wingspan of 15m.
Leviathans are sea dragons - 25m long serpentine figures with four stubby limbs that have powerful webbed claws. Leviathans heads are long and flat with powerful jaws and usually have a strip of long kelp-like hair along the dorsal ridge. Unlike their land-dwelling brethren, leviathan scales are small and fine.

Additional Information

Social Structure

They won't tell us. What we know:

• We know that Loremaster is a title given to a Great Dragon that settles disputes between others.
• Great Dragons traditionally hoard, and the hoard is split by some kind of external consensus after their death

Average Intelligence

Far, far more intelligent than you.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Astral Sight, powerful mundane senses.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Great Dragons choose names from cultures that they live in, often taking a name that means something in the local language.

Major Organizations

All of them.

Average Technological Level

Only one Great Dragon, Eliohann, has uses a datajack, and it is theorised that most do not use the Matrix extensively. Aside from that, the same as metahumanity.

History

They won't tell us this either. They almost certainly created both normal and immortal elves, and perhaps some of the other metasapient races as well.

Historical Figures

• Aden (Sirrush Variant)
• Alamais (Deceased)
• Arleesh
• Bai Zhenzhu
• Batavor
• Booryazmei
• Całożerca
• Celedyr
• Chiao
• Choi-mu
• Damon
• Dunkelzahn (Fourth World: Mountainshadow/Far-scholar, Deceased)
• Dzitbalchén (Deceased)
• Eliohann
• Fanany
• Feurschwinge (Status: debatable)
• Ghostwalker (Fourth World: Icewing/Dollmaker)
• Haesslich
• Henequen
• Hestaby (Exiled)
• Hualpa
• Kaltenstein
• KyleWyr
• Li
• Lofwyr
• Lung
• Mang
• Masaru
• Mujaji
• Nachtmeister (Deceased)
• Naheka
• Nebelherr
• Perianwyr
• Pobre
• Rhonabwy
• Ryumyo
• Scar Snout
• Schwartzkopf
• Sirrurg (Imprisoned)
• The Sea Dragon
• Yat Gwan
• Zacualtipán
• Zebulon

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Most dragons view metahumanity as a resource to be exploited. A few do not, notably Dunkelzahn and Hestaby, both of which have tried to bridge the gap between the two on several occasions.
After The Great Dragon Civil War, the new Loremaster Celedyr declared a deadline for all grievances that Great Dragons have against metahumanity. After 26/12/2075, no dragon will be allowed to commit large-scale acts of violence against metahumanity without the other dragons acting, and all existing grievances are considered settled.

Scientific Name

Draco Sapiens Magna

Lifespan

Unknown

Average Weight

~6000kg

Average Length

20-35m (including tail)

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Western and Eastern Dragons tend to have chromatic or metallic scales.
Feathered serpents often have brightly coloured scales and feathers.
Leviathans have green or blue coloured scales, normally finer than the others.