Reptillians

Reptillians are one of the major races native to the realm of Axelo, with them calling the sub-archipelago of Venio home however of all the major races perhaps they have suffered the most after their mother goddess disappeared and they were conquered by the Land Dragons and ruled as their slaves for some two thousand years, but over the centuries since the Land Dragons were forced to give up their rule of Venio, at least for the most part, the Reptillians have been able to bounce back and now their ancestral lands are split between several great factions almost all led by Reptillians.
== Biology ==
Reptillians as most people know them most certainly earned their name as they as stout bipedal creatures with two legs, two arms, a tail that often times drags on the ground behind them as well as a head with two eyes and a mouth full of teeth however their most distingushing feature and that which separates them from other sentient species is their skin, or rather what covers their skin as they are covered from head to toe in a layer of leathery scales that helps protect them from predators native to their isles.
=== the Dragonborn ===
Like most sentient races in the isles, the Reptillians have an uppercaste who serves as their innate rulers however unlike most of their sister races where the difference between Upper and Lower Castes is barely noticeable, and have more to do with grooming, clothing, or quite often lineage, the Uppercaste of Reptillian society, known as the Dragonborn are very distinct from their smaller cousins.
The first and most obvious difference of course is their size, dragonborn are oft two to four feet taller then their subjects as well as being many times their weight due to having a heavier build, in addition their scales which are usually more vibrantly coloured are thicker and more durable then regular reptillian scales which grants them an advantage in defense, the last difference is birth rate, as Dragonborn lay a single egg every five years which hatches into a pair of twins, known as Soulkin, these twins are expected to spend their entire lifes together and if one dies before the other the survivor is to go on a quest until they die in combat.
Dragonborn names are two part names, with each part being the use-name of one of the two soulkin in the pair, for example: Ahi-Hiro, Ver-oia, Hen-Fiver.
== History ==
the Reptillian people were first created by the goddess Szeth when she traveled to the Venio Archipelago and claimed it as her retreat between her travels sometime around 4000 B.E. and following constructing a library for herself in the north of the islands, she formed the Reptillians to serve as keepers and custodians of her islands, and they she named the Yuan-ti.
Over the next centuries Reptillian society developed and spread across their main island however at some point Draco and Levithan came to Axelo and rampaged across her islands nearly wiped-out life, but when the Nehlim were able to beat the duo into submission, they retreated, Levithan chose to sink into the depths and would only resurface centuries later. However, Draco, feeling a special pull to their islands, settled on the island of Draco's tomb where he hatched and raised his seven eggs into the first generation of the Land Dragons, and when they were considered adults, he lead them to the main Veno island where the eight of them combined conquered the young Yuan-ti society and split their lands up eight ways with each dragon receiving its own slice of land, the seven younger dragons ruled as so called Nomarchs over their nomes, but Draco himself crowned himself the first pharaoh.
Draco ruled for centuries but ultimately was slain by his son Apothis who in turn ruled as pharaoh before he in his own time was killed by the she-dragon Neyris who wishing to expand her people's trade founded the city of Kedun to serve as her capital but she was slain after only seventy five years in power.
this Cycle of violence when it comes to who rules as Pharoah only ended in the year 100 B.E. When the dragon Raveth, the eleventh and reigning pharoah, choked to death during a feast which due the fact that another dragon didn't kill him, triggered a succession crisis known as the war of Fire and Scale, which over the next decades all but destroyed land dragons as a whole and entirely killed their reign over Venio.
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