Dragons

Dragons are creatures of power from the prime material plane, who can live thousands of years. The dragonborn of the Veiled Dragon Lands use the pronouns ze/zir (or zem)/zirself (or zemself) -- a loan word from draconic -- when referring to dragons. Most dragons don't particularly care what humanoids call them, or about humanoids at all.

## Known dragons

* Patience is an ancient gold dragon.

* Plague is an ancient black dragon.
* Drexel the Freckled is a white dragon.

## Dragonborn

Dragonborn are humanoids born from a long ago union between a humanoid and a dragon. Dragonborn are much more humanoid than they are draconic, but most dragons consider them kin, albeit kin that never live long enough to age out of childhood. Dragons often see their own pursuits as so far beyond the pursuits of mortals that the only mortals they're likely to be concerned with are the Dragonborn. Most of the humanoid inhabitants of the dragon lands are dragonborn.

## Chromatic vs. Metallic Dragons

From the perspective of most mortals, chromatic dragons are and metallic dragons are good. The attitudes these two categories of dragons have towards the lives of mortal differ starkly. To metallic dragons, humanoids are fellow thinking creatures to be treated with respect, if perhaps not taken very seriously. To chromatic dragons, humanoids are lesser things to be used or destroyed.

Some chromatic dragons have a legendarily evil drive to bring the lower plains to bear on the mortal plane in their quest for power. Someday they will raise Tiamat and she will lead them to ultimate power over the prime material plane.

## The Dragon Lands

The Dragon Lands encompasses a vast territory north of the Casper Mountains.

### The Veiled Dragon Lands

The southernmost part of the dragon lands is a region referred to as The Veiled Dragon Lands. This region is protected by a power known as "the veil", which makes it more difficult for forces outside the prime material plane to reach in.

The Veiled Dragon Lands are ruled by dragons, who tend not to involve themselves much in the daily affairs of the dragonborn there. However, when humanoids try to take too much power for themselves they have been known to swoop in and take vengeance for the audacity. The locals have, as a result, developed a somewhat anarchic society. When the heroes visited, there was an enormous banner out front declaring "NO GODS. NO MASTERS. ONLY DRAGONS".

Among the dragons of the veiled lands, both metallic and chromatic, there's a pretty strong consensus that Tiamat would not be a good party guest. For one thing, she's a god, so that's a NO. And she wants to be the master of all dragons, so that's a much harder NO. But worst of all she's not even exactly a dragon. She's a fiend, a creature of evil from the lower planes, not a creature of power from the prime material plane.

In the veiled dragon lands, whether the dragons in charge are chromatic or metallic, they all largely value independence and their own power and hoards above all else. Color does still matter. A chromatic dragon who learns of a plague in one of its towns may simply destroy the infected quarters to prevent the spread, while a metallic dragon in the same situation might try a harm reduction approach.

They are united, however, in their desire for a prosperous and stable land for them to roost in and collect their hoards.

### Northern Dragon Lands

From the northern chromatic dragon lands, some dragons were coming and going to raid the veiled dragon lands, and these were planning to raise Tiamat. The heroes, who are not dragonborn, were advised to skedaddle because to those dragons, anyone not dragon born is a beast to use or a vermin to extinguish. The Veiled Dragon Lands do not tend to hold that opinion. They were also told that the northern dragon lands had not raided in force in a thousand years.