DRAGONS



Out of all mystic life there is one specie who name is known by all, one race who is view as magic incarnate, the dragons. Dragons are a sapient race of mythical mystics with two forms of magical at their disposal, one primary school of magic which can normally whatever form their breath weapon takes and general magic. Which means dragons have no limit are what kind of magic they learn and use, but this alone isn’t what makes them so powerful, they far more powers to combine with that, no wonder a group of dragons are called an apocalypse. However, before we go into that there the matter of what dragons are and what they look like, and that no easy answer. For you which many dragons look a bit like reptiles due to their scales and the fact that they lay eggs but they aren’t, in facts dragons aren’t even animals non do they fall under anything under the mundane life classification system as they have traits from all Domains of lifeforms. They are also the most diverse race of all mystics known to exist, with not only close family members looking like different species sometime, but even the same dragon can look like a different specie over time. As such dragons are classified by their body type in a very loose system and there are many different dragon body types.



Adaptation



Dragons are extremophiles in way few other lifeforms can claim and they own this in part do their amazing adaptation abilities. For instead of waiting around for evolve to kick in they have a few abilities to adapt themselves to an area, which means to a dragon changing the environment they live from an arctic tundra to a volcanic wasteland is the same as human moving from one house to another.



RNA Editing: Is a process that allows a living thing some control over altering their DNA allowing them to adapt faster as specie then others, as mystics dragons have their own magical spin on this. Dragons can control this process so well they can permanently alter their they bodies when they concentrate, normally only change the dragon in cosmetic ways which the more useful but less noticeable changes take place on their own but dragons can change some of their abilities this way. However, this isn’t something that can be done on the fly and takes time to do.



Symbiogenesis: One of the most remarkable as well oddest of dragons adapting abilities is their ability to consume things to adapt. Be eating something with genetic material they gather some of the genetic traits and when combine with RNA editing it allows them to strongly boost their immunity or some cosmetic traits but over time they could new abilities or body parts from it. Yet oddest of all this also works to a lesser extent are things without genetic material like spirits, machines, or rocks.



Genetic Transfer: Another ability of dragons is genetic transfer, the ability to transfer genetic information with a mere tough. This allows dragons to share traits they have adapt to live in less than idea areas with one another, and to a lesser extent powers and knowledge. In fact dragons can also make a form of crystal to store this information in for others to come by and use it.



Dragon Powers



While dragons are very diverse in powers as well as appearances there are some powers all dragons have.



Manna Armor: Dragons generate a form of force field around their bodies that absorb most damage that is throw at dragons, giving a form of damage reduction. However, it can only absorb so much damage at one time.



Amphibious: Dragons can survive in almost all forms of fluids with no need to come up for air. Also dragons can breathe almost all forms of air.



Desolation: Dragons can naturally create a mycorrhizal network which allows all dragons, half-dragons, and dragonspawn that in physical contact with to both grain nutritious from it as well as regenerate faster. The desolation also joins with other mycorrhizal networks and increases the overall manna levels in the area, as allowing dragons control over the environment. With this not only can dragons control the environment of the area but they can also control its geological features, which means not only could a dragon control what plants grows in the area and how well, they can also grow metals and minerals. This is one of the reasons dragons have so much gold and gems in their hoards.



Spawncraft: One of the most disturbing abilities of dragons is their ability to create what are little then organic robots from their own flesh. Call dragonspawn these creatures have no free will of their own and exist solely to obey their creator, which controls them by their minds. If a dragonspawn falls out of the control of its creator it will either keep doing the last thing it was order to do, stop moving completely, or fall into a berserk state till another dragon or half-dragon takes control of them. Other than this it is very hard to say anything about dragonspawn do to the fact that are made with a purpose chosen by the dragon that made them, meaning they come in many different forms with different abilities, there are even dragonspawn that are nothing more than fruit trees.



Regeneration: Dragons are unable to be permanently injure or cripple to do their high-level regeneration, any wound or injury that a dragon survives will fully heal overtime with no long-term problems. In fact, while decapitation is normally one of the few ways to kill a dragon for sure, if you’re able to keep the head a live it will regrow its body in a month time. There even been cases where a dragon loss part of it brain but was able to stay alive long to regrow and still had its memories intact.



Telepathic: All dragons have some level of telepathy, it can range for merely a level of empath that allows them to sense when someone is nearby to being able to take complete control over multiply beings all at once. The only different is the skill level the dragon has it, meaning that dragons only get better with it over time.



Immortality: One of the hardest things for many to understand when it comes to how dragons act is that dragons often look to the very long term in their plans. This because dragons aren’t merely long live, they are biologically immortal, meaning that old age simply doesn’t exist for them.

Adamantine Anatomy: Adamantine is one of the strongest metals known to exist and it is a magical metal making very easy to place powerful enchantments on it. It is twenty times stronger than titanium but only as heavy as an iron and non-magnetic, and dragons have so much raw adamantine ore as part of their biology any part of their bodies can be melting down for it. Strangely despite all of the adamantine in their bodies dragon flesh and other soft parts are as elastic as rubber without losing any strength from the adamantine.



Hibernation: If in the very unlikely event that dragons find themselves in an environment they can’t survive in or adapt to they can enter suspended animation state like that of a tardigrade. This state that dragons simply call hibernation allows them to survive almost anything until the environment they are in become more suited for them, of course when they do awake they awake hungry. It is unknown how long a dragon can survive like this.



Spell Resistance: Dragons have a high spell resistance even by the standers of mythical mystics and are completely immune to the follow spell effects unless they will it, transmutation, mind altering, possession, curses, and draining. They are also resistance to all forms of spell base damage base, energy damage, and are immune to any energy damage from their prime magic type.

Dearth Curse: Even if someone was able to kill a dragon they would still be in danger from it as anyone who does kill a dragon in battle is subjected to the dragon death curse.



Ultravore: To say that dragons are omnivore would be an understatement as dragons can eat almost anything. Meat, plant, metal, rock, energy, spirits and basely anything else that can fit down their mouths is probably edible to them.



Alchemical Anatomy: Dragons can alter or create almost any liquid chemical that they know of and excrete it from their bodies from any part of their bodies that excrete liquids, including sweet glands, venom glands, mammy glands, tear ducts, and their own blood. In fact, this is why dragon venom is so deadly as every dragon has a different cocktail of venom of their own, one they often chance base on what they are using it on.



Draconic Senses: The senses of dragons are all top notch with few who can equal them, and they have a wide variety almost them. However there is one sense all dragon share, detect magic making that dragon can tell when magic is being use, what is magical and what isn’t.



Draconic Knowledge: Dragons have a form of inherited knowledge, much like how some creatures can find locations they have never been to on pure instinct dragons are born with a base knowledge of science, magic, and nature. And this knowledge only grows as the dragon matures, meaning that a full grow dragon is highly intellect no matter how it acts and is often smarter than the most learned sages even if they have no real form school learning.



Portals: All dragons have the power to open portals to allow them to travel almost anywhere, including other words.



Dragon Fire: Many people when they hear the words dragon fire think of the fire that some dragons breath, but that is not what it means. You see for most mystics and magical things aura for those who can see it looks like ethereal sparkling mist or fog but this isn’t what dragon magic looks like. It looks like a burning thick piece of pure plasma, as if someone took part of the sun and handed it to them. And like fire a dragon magic aura has live of its own, one that can be used to creature or destroy, this is why it is call dragon fire and why all dragons are said to have even if they don’t breathe fire.



Draconic Sifting: All dragons have some shape shifting and mass sifting ability, however their skill in it depends on the individual in question.



God Slayer: With all their power and abilities there is one power of theirs that keep them on top as the most powerful know race of beings, the god slayer. With this they can ignore all forms of damage reduction and spell resistance, as well as kill spirits as easily as they can kill anything else. This power is so strong even weapons forge from the parts of dragons, half-dragons, and dragon spawn still has it.



Dragon Reproduction



Dragons are hermaphrodites with multiple different forms of reproduction, all dragons have these forms as they help the specie survive. Note that while dragons are not biological male or female they do often use nouns to describe themselves as such as they find it easier for other races to understand. Some even go so far as to adopted a gender identity which isn’t a part of dragon culture in any form. This can cause confusion almost races with multiple biological sexes as gender identity is normally important to them but almost dragons.



Internal Reproduction: Much like humans and many other animals, dragons engage in internal sexual reproduction. All dragons have at least one phallus and cloaca which is normally retractable so they can be kept safe. Dragons are fertile all year long so they may engage in this form reproduction whenever they wish to have children, if fertilized they will lay somewhere to dozen or more oval shape eggs with scale like patterns and bright colors a month later. It normally takes six months for them to hatch after that but this can change based on the amount of manna around them by making take longer if there less or faster if there more than normal. Dragons can also store the sperm not use of their mates for many years and combine it with the sperm of other dragons fertilized their eggs meaning it is possible for a dragon to far more than two parents. This is the prefer way dragons reproduce both because they believe the offspring will be stronger than other ways and they find more pleasurable.



Asexual Reproduction: If dragons find themselves without a mate and wish to reproduce they can simply cough up some round pearl like eggs. And yes, we do mean cough as the sphere eggs made by asexual reproduction comes from the dragon mouth. Other than their looks and how they are made these eggs are the same as normal dragon eggs.



Infusion: This is an odd from of sexual reproduction dragons have, at will dragons can lay unfertilized oval eggs. These eggs look and feel as if they are nothing more than stone, however if another dragon was to hit with a blast of dragon’s fire the egg would instantly into a new born dragon. Despite this meanly being a blast of magic in does indeed past on the genes of the dragons doing the blast, it is also possible for non-dragons do also use manna to fertilize the egg but takes a lot more manna than dragon’s fire and the hatchling is always a full dragon. Dragons often lay a lot of these and store them around their territory and will happily trade them, sense they are unfertilized dragon care little for them.



Hybridization: While all mystics can crossbreed with other species dragons take it to another level by making a part of their nature reproduction cycle. Now because of their shape sifting and magic dragon hybridization with anything capable of sexual reproduction, if the dragon is the one acting as the biological “mother” than the offspring will always be a full dragon. However, if they are acting as the biological “father” than the offspring will be a half-dragon, at least at the time of their birth. Unlike other half-mystics half-dragons will become full dragons slowly over time, normally about their hundred birthday if not sooner, they can speed this up by studying their dragon. Strangely there a chance that if a half-dragon has offspring with a non-dragon the child could be a half-dragon or a full dragon, and if two half-dragon have children than the offspring will always be full dragons. Dragons seem very to enjoy this way greatly.



Infection: Dragons can created half-dragons in another way than hybridization, they can instead take a creature and using the same principles behind the way they transfer genes turn it into a half-dragon. These half-dragons are almost like born half-dragon in every way but two. First they can never become full dragons by aging, and second dragons see these half-dragons not as offspring but servants. This is since dragons often make these half-dragons from their most loyal servants as a form of reward for their work.



Parasitization: This is the one-way dragons reproduce that they look down on making it the second rarest, and this is due to the fact that the dragons born from it start out weaker than the other ways. Dragon can create microscopic eggs that when ingested will hatch into a form of draconic parasites. The parasites will give their host some draconic powers while they grow with in them and as they grow they will eat each other, becoming larger and giving more power to their host. The host during this will become more draconic in looks till the one remaining parasite grows strong enough to take control of the host, not long after this the parasite will take its host someway safe so it can absorbs the host’s body to create its new dragon body. It is possible to cure this if caught soon enough but if not any attempted will cause the parasites to bust from the host’s body, normally killing them, and wander off to try and grow larger on their own.



Spore: Dragons release spores off all the time, most of them are absorb by their desolation or eaten by other things and other wise fill to grow. But sometimes the spores lands in the right sport and starts to put in the free foaling manna around them a as fuel to grow. After a hundred years, give or take, what use to be a spore and now is a chrysalis bursts open releasing a grow dragon. A grow dragon with the intellect as a common animal and a large appetite that needs to be taken care of. Lucky these dragons don’t know how to use their full power and will become as intellect as any other dragon in due time.



Merging: Without a doubt the rarest and strangest ways dragons reproduce is merging. In the rare event of a dragon dying or leaving an area without taking its dragon spawn with it a merging may happen if another dragon or half-dragon does comes along to take control of the spawn. The spawn that don’t die or stop functioning will after a time be draw to each other, once enough of them meet up they will merge together into a pile of flesh. After about a week the flesh will start to take the shape of a full grow dragon and unlike those born from spores these dragons will be fully sapient at birth. However this doesn’t mean they are less dangerous, in fact it is the opposite for not only do they have the full power of a dragon but also a strange and alien mind set even by dragon standers making them unpredictable.



Dragon Culture



When most people think of dragons they think only of them living in caves when in reality this is merely the homes some dragons prefer to their cities on the worlds they rule. In those dragons’ homes are more like castles fill servants and dragon spawn really to do anything the dragon commands. Now as to how this culture works is hard to explain as only a few things about it is easy for mere mortals to understand.



Egg Care: Whenever dragons have they always divined them up into four groups as close to equal as they can get, each group will then be raise differently. The first group will raise by parent that had them, the second will be send off to a temple in one of the dragon’s cities to be raise, while the third group will be handed out to other races to raise, and finally the last group will be scattered into areas with a dragon present. Dragons do this to make sure the largest amount of young will not only survive but grow strong in different ways to help make the species stronger.



Kur: Dragons don’t have a religion of their own due to seeing themselves on the same level of the gods, but there is one being that they all respect and call upon, and that is Kur the first dragon. The dragons say that Kur was the very first of their kind and was born at the same time the first gods came to be and that Kur later birth the dragon race. Interestedly unlike most other race which claims that the first of their kind were perfect and all others that came after have been imperfect copies the dragons believe that Kur was the weakest dragon ever born.



Hoard: All dragons have an instinct to collect things, and while they can decide what to collect they can’t not collect things. Many believe that this hoarding instinct is to attract mates and dragons with large hoard do seem to have better social standing then dragons with smaller hoards. Now many dragons like to hoard treasure and magical items while others prefer stranger items like bones, or cloths.



Dragon God/Goddess Emperor/ Empress: The ruler of all dragon kind is known as the dragon god/goddess emperor/empress (the draconic word for it doesn’t translate well), this isn’t to be confuse with the many other dragons that take royal titles both as part of their job and just to sound more powerful. The true ruler of dragon kind is without the most powerful ruler in the universe, both on the grounds that they are the solo ruler of the most powerful race there is and because to hold this title a dragon must be able to fight off all challengers till one finally defeats them, or until they get bored and hold a contest to give the title away. This is without doubt the most common way dragons both loss and get this title as not to many dragons win to rule over all of them forever sense dragons don’t just blindly obey like their non-dragons servants do.



Why don’t they just take over: With all their power and all their resources why don’t dragons just take over everything, simple as far as dragons are concerned they already rule everything. One dragon can easily make an army of dragon spawn to take over almost any nation, if they don’t decide to do the work themselves that is, and many beings worship them as gods. So as far as the dragons are concerned they do rule everything and other races just need to be reminded of that every now and again.



Dragon Classification



Dragons are class classified in three ways, their primary magic, any templates they may or may not have, and finally their body type. So, a dragon with pyromancy as their primary magic, no templates, and the wyrm body type would be a fire wyrm as example.



Body Types:



Here is a quick list of some of the more common dragon body types, mind you this not all and there is a lot of diversity in these body types.



Drake: Quadruped dragons with no wings.



Wurm: Limbless serpent dragons.



Wyrm: Quadruped dragons with wings.



Lindorm: Serpent dragons with front legs/arms.



Drac: Serpent dragons with front legs/arms and wings.



Lung: Serpent dragons with four limbs and no wings.



Wyvern: Dragons with a pair of wings for their front limbs and legs.



Leviathan: Dragons who body is shape like a shake or cetacea.



Amphiptere: Serpent dragons with a pair of wings for front limbs.



Knucker: Serpent dragons with four limbs and a pair of wings.



Saurus: Bipedal dragons with a body like that of a saurischian, may have wings or not.



Vurm: Serpent dragons with a pair of back legs.



Tarasque: Testudinata dragons.



Dragontaur: Dragons with centaur like body plan, may or may not have wings.



Draconian: Wingless humanoid dragons.



Dragoon: Wing humanoid dragons.



Kirin: Wingless dragons with an equidae shape body.



Longma: Wing dragons with an equidae body.



Carcolh: Gastropod shape dragons



Templates:



Some dragons have templates which are features that set them apart from the normally reptilia like dragons, or extra parts. It is possible to have more than one template.



Beast: Dragons that look mamalia.



Arthro: Dragons that look like arthropods.



Basilisk: Dragons with more limbs than normal for their body type.



Raptor: Dragons that look avian.



Flora: Dragons that look like plants.



Hydria: Dragons with multiple heads.



Swagon: Dragons who abilities and powers are strongly inclined to breeding and reproduction.



Peluda: Dragons with tentacles.