Black Dragonflight

Though the black dragonflight had been annihilated in times past,there are a few left. With their lord Deathwing either dead or missing, they seek to appease themselves. They are immensely cruel and powerful and revel in mortal suffering.
==Culture==
Black dragons are large creatures that are carnivorous. They spend their time hunting, as well as watching the various wars around the world, and can often be found torturing prisoners, animals, or anything else unfortunate enough to fall into their care. The Aspect of the black flight, Deathwing, is one of the fiercest and most evil creature in existence. In his lifetime, he has destroyed many ancient cities. Deathwing often makes deals with intelligent races, trading members of his dragonflight for slaves and humanoid torture subjects.
Male black dragon's names may sometimes end with -on and females with -ia. Often they are based on words synonymous with the color black, darkness, fire, or modifications of words usually used to describe an undesirable character trait.
====Society====
Black dragons were once earth-warders, caring for stone and mountain and using their formidable abilities to cause the rise and fall of terrain. Then came the madness that destroyed Neltharion's mind. As the black dragonflight followed their leader into madness, so did their powers.
In modern times black dragons are some of the most evil, sadistic creatures known on the face of Azeroth. Black dragons are vicious, selfish beings, not caring even for the lives of their flightmates and children, often killing other blacks to rise in prominence among the flight.
====Guises====
The preferred humanoid forms of the black dragonflight when in disguise amongst mortals are humans with black hair and dark eyes. Humans are also far less sensitive to the presence of dragons than other races. night elves, for instance, can identify a dragon with relative ease.
==History==
Khaz'goroth, the Titan shaper and forger of the world, bestowed some of his vast power upon the mighty black wyrm, Neltharion. The great-hearted Neltharion, known afterwards as the Earth-Warder, was given dominion over the earth and the deep places of the world. He embodied the strength of the world and served as Alexstrasza's greatest supporter.
Black Dragons were once, like their aspect Neltharion, the defenders of Azeroth, living deep in the caverns of the earth. They shaped the lands, raised mountains, and created valleys. For countless millennia the black dragons and the other flights lived in peace and harmony and worked together to safeguard Azeroth from all forms of violence and destruction.
Then they fell prey to the whispering of the Old Gods, Neltharion most of all. Neltharion, having lost all sanity, created a device called the Dragon Soul (later known as the Demon Soul), taking a portion of each dragon's power, but he and the black flight did not contribute their own power, unknown to the other flights. He claimed the device was to fight the legion but in reality he planned on using it to take control of all of Azeroth, and make the black flight rulers of the world.
The ensuing civil war between the black dragonflight and the other flights decimated the species, with all flights losing members, Immediately after the sundering, to ensure Deathwing would never hold power over dragonkind again, Alexstrasza, Ysera, and Nozdormu placed an enchantment upon the Demon Soul, so that no dragon, including Deathwing, could wield it, and hid the foul disc deep beneath the earth.
In the early years following the sundering, is said that Deathwing's black flight attempted to subjugate the bronze dragons. The assault was unsuccessful, primarily because the bronze dragons did not stay and fight as expected.
During the orc's second intrusion into Azeroth, the black dragonflight briefly joined the Horde.
The blacks were nearly extinct and their master, Deathwing, was believed to have been brought down in battle against the Kirin Tor. Secretly he had assumed the guise of Lord Daval Prestor and sought a way to rebuild his flight. He devised a plan to steal the eggs of his greatest foe, Alexstrasza, who was still enslaved by the Dragonmaw.
Like the other dragonflights, the black dragonflight did not play any significant role in the events of the Third War.
The remaining black dragons are now in a state of civil war, fighting over who will rule the flight. Recently Nefarian and Onyxia managed to take control over a large portion of the flight, and the two ploted on how to scour Azeroth of the mortal races and other dragonflights. Following their defeat, their mother Sintharia, took up her son's failed experiments before being defeated herself. Their experiments were not in vain however, as the patriarch of the flight, Deathwing, has continued on with their work.
==In WoW==
*Onyxia's brood resides in Dustwallow marsh.
*Nefarian has taken control of Blackrock spire.
*A number of Black dragons reside in Blade's Edge Mountains.
*There was a meeting between Illidan and the black dragonflight on Netherwing Ledge.
*At the Wyrmrest Temple there is also a black dragon.
*A black dragon in disguise is waiting for adventurers to help him recover the Obsidian Dragonshrine.
*the black draongflight has assaulted the Ruby Sanctum.
*In Cataclysm Deathwing will return to the scene.