Dragon-kin

The **Dragon-Kin** are a group of draconic races which have dedicated themselves the goddess Reyim, whom they believe to be their creator. They believe it to be their sacred duty and divine right to judge who the enemies of Tenno are and to smite them. Their ranks are primarily out of Dragonborns, Kobolds, and Dragons, although zealots from other races may join their ranks as honorary Dragon-kin.

They life in communities that are called conclaves which dedicate themselves to one single religious quest and disband once this quest is completed. However these quests are often extremely hard or sometimes even just impossible and a conclave can stay together for several generations.

Dragon-kin conclaves are known to use existing caverns and make the kobolds turn them into temple cities. These temple cities have one central road which is wide enough for the dragons to walk through without much difficulty. From this central road several side doors spawn which lead into several side rooms for a wide collection of services, but the majority is spent to personal quarters and prayer chambers. At the end of the central road is a massive chamber in which the dragons life and the main altar lays. This altar can be anything from an underground tree to a pile of dragons skulls piled on top of each other.

## Members

The **Dragonborn** form the bulk of the army and its foot soldiers. They are proud to be on the front line against fighting against what they perceive as evil or heretical but can be slow to accept that the world has changed around them. This often brings them into conflict with Orcish tribes who they still see as follows of a, now long dead, god.

The **Kobolds** are the primary work force of the conclaves. They happily build, dig, and amuse their superiors but aren't very smart or educated.

The **Dragons** form the shining beacon of Reyim's divine glory and often lead the conclaves as both religious and military leaders.

## Culture

Dragon-kin culture is almost completely focused on the worship of their goddess Reyim. Everything besides the worship of her is only an afterthought such as can be seen in their crafts. Most furniture is made out of simple wood or even just logs and doesn't have much effort put into it beyond being functional. Tools and art pieces on the other hand are carefully crafted by the Dragonborns out of bone, metal, and gold.

### Dress

The dress of the Dragon-Kin partly depends on the technology level a conclave possesses. However there are generalisation to be made about all groups.

The Dragonborns will wear a full set of heavy armour, steel whenever possible, that has been adorned with decorative pieces of cloth. Their armour is mostly recognisable by the size of the pauldrons and poleyns. Their armour also usually lacks any form of headgear or pelvic protection.

Kobolds on the other hand usually wear only cloth suits and if they are lucky maybe some leather if their commander is particularly nice. Some clever kobolds (a rare breed indeed) are chosen to lead a division of other kobolds, and receive a big puffy hat with a dragon scale on top to indicate their rank.

The great dragons often reject clothing. They see their bodies as perfect and often don't see the point of hiding it under cloth of armour. Only a dragon who has nearly experienced death might consider enhancing their body by fussing metal plates to it. Dragons who are flawed of character however, might consider wearing small pieces of cloth and chains of gold on their body, to show their wealth and might.

### Funerary rites

When a honoured dragon-kin dies in combat or doing an important service for the conclave it gets brought to the mortuary. Here one of its paws gets cut off to be buried in the sacred tombs with the others. The rest of its body gets cleaned by the morticians. Its flesh gets fed to the young so some of the dragon-kins greatness might enter their body. The internal organs get ritually burned with dragon's fire on a great pile so the spirit might pass on into the dream. And lastly the rest of its body get turned into armour, weapons, and other sacred artifact so they might forever serve the conclave. After the publishing of Death of a Dragon some of these traditions were abandoned. The dragon-kin would be burned in fire from now on.

## History

When the god Konsulh created chaos and discourse across the mortal realm it was Reyim who decided to create an person army for the gods. When creating the Dragon-kin Reyim granted them all each one particular strength, she decided on this division to prevent any of her creations becoming too corrupted by their own power. To the dragons she granted the ability to fly and breath fire from above, but weakened them by making sure that a dragon rarely has children. The dragonborn were to be the most numerous, Reyim granted them the ability to think for themselves yet remember the group they are part of. The kobolds are another story, they were made subservient to the other two races. The kobolds will dig and build without fear of their lives, they in a sense became the driving force of the armies of Reyim. Kobolds gather resources and build grand fortifications which the dragon-kin us to attack and protect from the blasphemous creation of Konsulh. This army was tasked with vanquishing those that endanger the will of the gods. At first they were send out to banish chaos, but soon Reyim had the send them after the rebellious god of death and his army of Orcs.

When the orcs eventually overthrew their god most Dragon-kin felt more offended than relieved, after all it was their god given task to vanquish the rebel god, not the one of these lowly creatures of chaos. Most Dragon-kin decided to continue on as if they knew of nothing, and for years the newly free orcs had to defend themselves from armies of Dragon-kin, which forever strained the relation between the two groups. Nowadays most Dragon-kin are still able to trace their bloodlines back to the ones created by the eternal general and some dragons are even able to give first hand accounts of those long forgotten days.