Land Dragons

Dragons are perhaps the most feared creatures in all the lands and every culture in Axelo has at least one myth of these creatures attacking and destroying their people.
== Biology ==
Dragons are large reptile like creatures with adults being thirty feet long from nose to tail tip.
Each Dragon has six limbs four limbs each of whom ends in a four taloned paw which serve as the beasts limbs, but they also have a second pair of limbs sprouting from their shoulders that have large leathery wings that allow the creatures to Fly through the air with each wing having two sharp claws on it one at thee mid joint and the other at the end of the wing with these claws being able to be used as weapons and when climbing they can be used to assist the beast in finding claw holds.
Reproduction and life cycle:
Dragons rarely reproduce, maybe only once or twice every fifty years, with them finding mates by the size of their hoard, with the larger the hoard of shiny items the more likely they are to attract another dragon to mate with, however if a dragon cannot find a mate but wishes to have eggs, they have the near unique ability to reproduce asexually as all dragons have the ability to lay self-fertilized eggs which can hatch into healthy Dragnets.
When eggs are laid they are laid in clutches of between three and five eggs which take two years to incubate and when the smooth shelled eggs hatch the dragnets need to be fed copious amounts of meat following which they will begin to rapidly grow and develop but still it takes twenty years for one to be considered physically mature enough to leave their parent(s) nest(s) and when they do leave clutches will often stick close to each other before ultimately splitting off one after another although normally they will settle in or around the same area. 
== History ==
Dragons first evolved in the so called Dragon Realms however after the goddess Szeth traveled to their realm two of them, Draco, the first land dragon & Levithan the first Sea Dragon traveled to Axelo in around the year 3500 and each bore a clutch of eggs on their back, Draco had seven eggs and Levithan nine eggs however the two wanted to be sure their eggs would have a safe world and set to work waging war on the native Neh killing millions of them in the process but when the scant few survivors of the Neh received a powerup and became the Nehlim they were able to beat the two dragons into submission and reluctantly the two retreated to their own safe corners of the archipelago.
Draco made his way to the Venio sub-archipelago where he settled on the island now known as Draco's tomb. Where he hatched and raised his eggs and once his seven children were adults the eight dragons swooped across the rest of the sub-archipelago and conquered it. ￼
=== Age of the Pharaohs. ===
The eight dragons ruled over the island as gods with Draco taking the title of Pharoah becoming the first of the Draconic Pharaohs in the process, but with their home secured, (and the Nehlim keeping a close eye on their rivals), the seven younger dragons set to work with the next generation of dragons. ￼
For two hundred years the Dragon population grew and developed both themselves and their cities, But eventually one of the elder Dragons, Apothis grew overconfident in his own abilities and challenged his father to a duel, and with a heavy heart he accepted the challenge expecting to win against his younger and seemingly weaker son but unfortunately, Apothis was better at magic and fought with an unmatchable ferocity which allowed him to tear his father to shreds.
As soon as Draco was dead Apothis claimed his title as Pharoah and ordered his father buried on the island, he raised his children where a pyramid was raised to protect his body from those seeking to profit from his corpse. For centuries Apothis ruled defeating several challengers but after ruling for three hundred years one challenger was successful in her duel against Apothis and was able to slay the red beast and following in his footsteps crowned herself as the new pharaoh and built a pyramid for Apothis.
Neyris; the Dragon in question had a fairly short reign at only around seventy-five years however her brief reign was marked by her taking great strides towards increasing her people's trade and proto economy and to that end she founded the city of Kedun and made it her capital in place of the inland city her predecessors had used as a capital, but ultimately a younger dragon attacked and slew her believing it undraconic to care for the other lands.
For centuries this cycle of dragons slaying each other to rule as pharaohs would continue until, like all things, it must come to an end, and so during the reign of the eleventh pharaohs in the year 100 B.E. the dragon Raveth the aforementioned eleventh pharaoh held a great feast to celebrate his victory over his latest challenger however during the feast something unexpected happened and the pharaoh choked to death on a crab, however as their government had always relied on promotions by slaying their predecessors a succession crisis erupted.
==== War of Fire and Scales. ====
Over the next century dozens of dragons fought one another both themselves and by fielding armies of reptillians, but ultimately many dragons fled their ancestral homeland 
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