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Dragon Peaks


Culture

Around Varlonan, these are the typical aspects of this race's lifestyle preferences.

Weapons: Natural

Armor: Natural

Currency: None. Dragons typically take care of each other if they stay in groups, so there is little need for currency. However, dragons are valuable as currency to other cultures since their parts fetch for a good price (as dragons are hard to kill or capture.)

Diet: Carnivore. Dragons generally don't eat anything other than a meat rich diet. Due to their large mass, the energy it takes just to move burns up quickly. Meat is one of the few things that replaces that energy.

Attire: Nothing is worn in dragon form. Culture relevant attire is worn in humanoid form. Hunters that capture and kill dragons will usually use the dragon's scales, claws, and teeth for armor, jewelry and weapons.

Environment: Mountains, Caves.

Relationships

Partners: Dragons are very loyal to their partners. Usually partnering is until death, at which time a dragon will move on and partner with a new mate. Since they are naturally immortal, partnering until death is an appropriate way to not be lonely, and to always have two parents for offspring. The dominant partner is usually very protective of the other, willing to die in order to defend them in dangerous situations. When a partnering involves a humanoid partner, this still applies, though often the dragon partner will try to adapt to the lifestyle of the other.

Friends: Since dragons are hunted so fiercely, friendship is rare and typically kept to family or fellow dragons of the area. Trust is not easy for a dragon, because once a friendship is made, a dragon will stay loyal completely to that friend. Betrayal of friendship is NEVER forgiven or forgotten.

Foe: Betrayal of a dragon means an enemy for life. Everyone is their natural enemy since they are often hunted down to be slaves, pets, or dissected for their parts. Dragons have a bad reputation amongst humanoids as being beasts that torment and destroy villages, eating the citizens amidst the chaos. However, most dragons only attack humanoid establishments as revenge for an action taken towards them or their family, and aren't the mindless beasts they're labeled to be.

Children: A dragon child is called a Drake in dragon's culture. Once born they are called drakes to individualize them from the adult dragons, because they quickly grow to be almost as big as the parents, even though they are still young. Dragons build nests in unreachable places to lay their eggs. Once hatched, drakes will usually stick close to the nest until they can learn to fly, at which point they will cling to their parent or fly just above them when going out in the world. Drakes learn quickly what to hunt and what to avoid, or else they can get into trouble for attacking something domestic. They typically do not get their breath weapon until they reach maturity.

Territory: They stick mostly to high places, soaring the skies or resting on mountaintops. A dragon walking on lower surface grounds generates a small rumble, giving away their location... so they rarely do it. When in humanoid forms, they'll generally adapt to the culture they're residing in so they blend and do not draw too much attention to themselves. Breath weapons often indicate where a dragon likes to live, because the breath type typically helps the dragon to survive and hunt.

History

Historians have had quite a difficult time piecing together a history for the dragon race. Since they have lived longer than other races, pin pointing their origin has been near impossible, but stories passed down by ancient dragons have survived and been given to some bards and scholars. Thus, a pieced together history is told.


It is said by some that the dragons were the first race, the favored. Majestic, beautiful, intelligent... they seemed to be everything a creature should be. For a long time it is assumed that they were the only race, spreading out over Varlonan to settle into the different regions. These times were peaceful, and dragon kind were able to share vast amounts of knowledge with each other through stories told to the drakes. Peace never lasts though, and eventually some of the dragons grew bitter and tired of life as it was.


There is rumor of a great war between the dragon tribes, but no dragon left alive admits to having existed during that period, so details are nothing more than assumptions and possible evidence left behind by the scars of the world. Some claim that the tallest mountains and deepest oceans were the result of warring dragons. Scholars have no way to know for sure however. As the stories go, the dragons that had grown tired of peace went after the weakest of their kind first... eliminating many types that are no longer found today. As other stronger tribes learned of this, they set out to defend their brethren, getting swept up in the chaos.


Other races soon began to appear in the world... whether they had been there all along but hidden, or having been placed by the Gods is unknown. The dragons by now had long been done with the rumored war, with new generations of drakes taking over for the elder dragons. When they began to be hunted during their search for food, it sent most of them out of the open and into hiding. This is assumed to be the beginning of the dragon seclusion, making rare sightings of the ancient beauties of the skies. Today, dragons have become nearly extinct in some regions, and overly abundant in areas where other races do not flourish.