Time and Dragon Nature (CWS)

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All dragons belong to the draconic species. The dragons in the Io's Blood chain belong to three separate dragon families: metallic, gem, or chromatic. Each family is further divided into five dragon types (or races). For metallic, there are gold, silver, bronze, copper, and brass. For gem, there are amethyst, sapphire, emerald, topaz, and crystal. And for chromatic, there are red, blue, green, black, and white. On the whole, metallic dragons live longer than gems, and both live longer than chromatics; there are occasional exceptions.
Tune is very important to dragons. They live at a different pace than humans and demihumans. During any given age category, a dragon rarely engages in more adventures than it needs to gain necessary wealth and experience. A very young dragon, for example, might participate in no more than five adventures before it reaches the age of 16 (young category) and advances a level. A year or more may separate each adventure, during which time it is learning, training, and contemplating deep dragon thoughts.
DMs should keep a calendar to chart this passage of years, which will pass with astounding speed, much as the weeks and months do for shorter-lived races. If a hatchling PC emerges from its egg in Year 723 of the 36th Cycle, then its first four adventures may occur in the years 723, 725, 727, and 732. As the dragon ages, intervals between adventures become greater. During its young adult years, it may participate in five adventures that occur in the years 775, 786, 794, 812, and 822. The in-between years happen outside of game play, but may be chronicled by DMs and players.
The dragons of Io's Blood use a calendar made up of nine months divided into three fifteen-day weeks each. The nine months, named for the dragon gods and demigods, are urg'Faluzure (the month of Faluzure), urg'Chronepsis, urg'Elemtia, urg'Io, urg'Bahamut, urg' Arcanic, urg'Tiamat, urg'Aasterinian, and urg'Chaosirr. Years are gathered into Cycles that last 2,000 years each. (The Council of Wyrms campaign begins in the 723rd year of the 36th Cycle.) The three weeks are called Arragga (meaning chromatic), Alphias (gem), and Adulda (metallic), respectively, while the days are named for each dragon type: cr'z, az'z, ve'z, dr'z, li'z, ys'z, ir'z, al'z, op'z, ry'z, au'z, ag'z, cn'z, cu'z, and zu'z. (See Chapter Five, "Forms of Address," for information on this use of High Draconic.)