Drákōn

## Anatomy & Morphology

The drákōns are a blend of human and the dragons of old, though their ancestors were unhappy with the outcome, the drákōns proved to be the prefect result to allow for their survival. Mostly human looking they could easily blend in with their neighbors, that which marked them as dragon descendants were mostly small changes.

They have small scales that cover much of their skin, the mature teeth are sharper, sometimes even a little pointed, their muscles are often stronger than that of an average human.

There were however some slightly more obvious giveaways which much of this new race quickly learned to hide. Wings and a tail are likely the most difficult to conceal but also they have a pair of horns on their head and spines down their back.

Their colours can vary widely, of scale, hair, and eye, from bright green or blue to muted brow, gray or even black. A drákōns colour could be traced to the dragon who sired their ancestors, who gave them the same colours as the scales he bore.

and to make things more complicated none of the traits would show until puberty, even the wings and tail would show no presence until that point.

## Perception & Sensory / Extrasensory Capabilities

Drákōns are of limited senses, dulled down by the human genetics, however, their reflexes are faster, a requirement for safe flight. They also have a perception for magic and can sence it's presence, even the brifest of whispers.

## Genetics & Reproduction

### Genetics

The purity of the blood of the drákōn will often dictate what features are be present, where some may have only the imprint of scales or slightly sharpened teeth others may grow with all of the features, finding themselves alone in the world, to afraid to show what they were, never knowing their true origins, just believing that they are freaks of nature.

Fate is cruel and unforgiving, though successful at first the drákōn genes proved to be a problem. The genes are recessive, therefore, often, there would be no new drákōn children for many generations, and the thinner spread the genes got, the less children were born, and those that were showed less and less the mark of the dragons who sired their ancestors. The centuries passed and this fledgling race began to die out.

### Reproduction

Drákōns bread like any mammal and have much the same time frames as a human, with around 9 months of pregnancy.

## Growth Rate & Stages

The drákōns are much like humans in terms of life cycle, their children even look just like little humans, it's not until puberty that things begin to change. therefore from an infant until roughly thirteen years of age they live and grow as any human child would. their teenage years are them most dangerous, the hormones of puberty awakening the dragon DNA within their blood creating new parts to their body. learning to hide these is an added difficulty to a teens life. just as they mature so too do their dragon tributes, if fully developed wings were to be grown and age of 20 is when they can fledg, though many don't. Drákōns live, on average, until they are 100, living a little longer than a normal human but nothing extrodanary.

## Dietary Needs & Habits

Drákōns can eat anything, they are omnivores, though they do prefer meat. Their bodies can process meat a little better than other food stuffs but they don't need it to survive.

## Brief History

The drákōns are the youngest race in all of Arret Ashcrath, being created by the dragons of myth. The great beasts saw their coming end, along with the fading of magic, so set out to continue their lineage by mating with the growing human population. This, some would call, unholy action, produced the drákōn, a cross of dragon and human.

In the early days, as the dragons died out, thousands of drákōn emerged from their cavernous prisons looking on the world with new eyes. However, nothing is ever easy, the human race saw these new people and pushed them away, scared of their appearance, beveling they were some kind or demon. Many of the drákōns returned to their cavernous homes, hiding from the ridicule of their cousins. Others sort to stay above ground, setting up camps and villages within woods and mountains. Even the other races tried to stay away, unsure what to make of the strange combination or human and dragon.

Eventually their small settlements became the norm much like the dwarves or orks, and their human ancestory did let them a little more friendship with their human cousins, eventually. Over hundreds of years many of their villages got absorbed into human society, but with their final acceptance into the world came a whole new host of problems. They began to bread with the humans who accepted them, diluting the blood.

Unlike many of the other races who ended up having to hide themselves, the drákōns were accepted fully into human society due to their closeness with them. As things began to get rough for other races the drákōns only had to hide a little, wear heavier cloths, or live alone, or only seek the company of other drákōns, that kind of thing, blend in with the new rageme.

## Current World Standing

This race may be the youngest in all Arret Ashcrath, but they are also the smallest in number, and with each generation there are fewer of them. The dragons my have carried on their legacies, but it seems no matter what, they were destined to vanish from this world, they had simply found a way to delay that inevitability. There are currently only a few hundred in among the billions of other intelligent beings populating the world.

No one knows what happened to those that stayed underground. it is said they are still live deep within the worlds crust, a pure breed of drákōn. Some tell stories of great caverns filled with their number, cities carved into the very rock, but if there are they've never been found.