Dragon

Example

## Stats

### Power Level

Mini-Boss, Boss, DeathQuest Mini-Boss, Plot Mini-Boss (Depending on age of dragon)

### Main Abilities

Flight, large size, physical strength, breath weapon, Celestial magic

## Common Knowledge

Dragons are large, winged lizards that breathe fire (or ice, sometimes) and hoard valuables with violence and extortion. They are very territorial.

## Location

Dragons have no known homeland, but tend to make homes for themselves based on their own preference: Black dragons prefer towards old ruins and castles; Blue dragons prefer mountaintops and other high places, green dragons prefer forests and swampy bogs, red dragons prefer dense mountain ranges and volcanically-active regions, and white dragons prefer tundras and chilly northern mountains. Left with no other option, a dragon will make any sufficiently isolated place its dwelling, but very often tries to keep a mortal settlement within flying distance.

## Biology

Dragons are colorful scaled lizard-like beasts, with four legs and two wings. An adult dragon can be comparable in size to anything between an elephant to a small house. Dragons usually have horns, fangs, and claws.

Dragons are functionally immortal, and generally are only somewhat more intelligent than a common animal; however, dragons have the ability to gain sapience over time, after living for many centuries.

Dragons are carnivorous predators, and will often raid the farms of mortals for livestock. They are very territorial, and often live alone or in small groups of less than 5, usually related dragons. They tend to travel and hunt alone, as their size, scales, and various powers make them extremely difficult to kill.

Dragons, like flowers, are colorful. While most dragons possess the ability to assume a mortal form through their innate magical abilities, dragons also possess a breath attack based on their color: red dragons have fire; green have poison; white have ice; blue have lightning; black have death magic.

Differently colored dragons tend to prefer different environments. This information can be found in the Location section.

Dragons hatch from eggs, reach sexual maturity after 24 years, physical maturity at 50 years, and attain intellectual sapience around 300 years.

Dragons typically live alone, or with a partner and young children. There is an expectation for dragons to leave the literal and proverbial nest to seek their own hoard. Dragon family bonds sometimes coalesce into larger clan structures.

## Rarity/Power Level

Dragons are fairly uncommon creatures, and they tend to keep to themselves when not actively extorting nearby villagers for their belongings or laying waste to countrysides.

Dragons have immense physical power, nearly unmatched in contests of brute strength, which they can supplement with their breath weapon. All dragons inherently possess the ability to emit something from their mouths, either through magic or biology, and the specific method of this innate ability depends upon their scale color, as described above.

Given enough time to become fully sapient, dragons have an affinity for magic, especially celestial magic and elemental magic similar to any breath weapons they have (or soul magic, in the case of black dragons).

## History

As time passed, the Celestial Dragons began to frequent the mortal realms less and less. This was due to a number of things, but mostly that it was inconvenient, and they frankly didn’t really care for the other cosmic entities that kept showing up there, like Fae. They really did not like Fae. Their magic was too chaotic and contrasting from theirs.

So the solution? More dragons! The Celestials crafted more of themselves, but different. These dragons would be material. “Mundane,” so to speak. To put it simply, they were intentionally created to be lesser, both out of the Celestial’s vanity, and out of the fact that the Celestials really couldn’t make more of themselves in those quantities without divine intervention. They would still be able to command immense power, both magical and physical. They would be able to transform themselves into mortal forms, to better interact with mortals. They would be, most importantly, extremely adaptable to the still primordial, still ever-changing world that the mortals inhabited.

The first dragons, which at the time bore no elemental alignment, were placed in what would be known as Orelisle. From the first group of a few dozen, they elected to split, and travel around the continent in 5 packs, to better reach all corners. This is where the Celestial’s adaptability would come into play.

A group of dragons would venture to the peaks of Orelisle’s highest ranges. The cold air would prompt them to learn to breathe fire to keep warm, and as volcanoes within the mountains would erupt, their hides would become red, infused with that fiery energy to protect themselves from it.

Another group would find themselves in deep forests, and would nest in swampy bogs. To shape the foliage that housed them, they learned to breath acidic poisons, and to guard from the often toxic liquids of the bogs they slept in, turning their scales a vibrant green.

One group of dragons took to the frozen north. Unlike their mountain-dwelling cousins, they adapted to the cold by mastering it, by making ice their weapon and their defense. They turned white to blend into the snow.

Several dragons took to the skies, and never left them. They would sleep in scattered caves, but they lived their lives among the clouds, no matter how stormy they became. And as they became stormy, they would follow those storms, knowing they would lead them somewhere worth going. And in time, they became storms themselves, able to create the lightning that surrounded them. They’d been struck by it so many times, their scales had turned blue with electric power and had begun to insulate them against further shocks.

And the final of the original draconic clans found their home in a decaying kingdom, nowhere important, a kingdom that would be lost to history. But they found they liked the ruins. The decaying structures inspired them, and, while few in number, these dragons attempted to learn from them. Their scales became black, like the shadows of history. Their breath would disintegrate what it came in contact with. They would carry the ruins with them in their bodies wherever they chose to call home.

As they spread, the dragons began to interact with the mortals but found that they often would prefer to enrich their own lives or sequester themselves in their own clans. In that regard, the Celestials had overlooked that in giving their creations physical minds and bodies, they were prone to develop their own wants and needs. This wasn’t seen as a failure, though, as in the end, the Material Dragons were everything they were created to be. They were, if anything, slightly more. So, they declared the project a partial success and allowed them to continue to propagate within the mortal realm. The Material Dragons would continue to spread, now in chromatic variants, and became increasingly territorial and isolated. Some would interact with mortals regularly, but many preferred to hide, or, in some cases, to take what they would call rightfully theirs.

## Further/Related Information

* Celestial Dragon
* Fae
* Magic