Dragon

**Dragons**, also called Great Beasts, are powerful beings which wield immense power over nature and typically antagonistic to gods who attempt to impose order upon their chaos.

## Characteristics

A dragon nation in the Western deserts, ruled by dragons once thrived and were served by humans. This civilization fell due to the invasion of gods and their servants, but it developed the knowledge of draconic shapeshifting. Dragon Lords spent time destroying everything they saw, looking down on lesser beings as they didn't consider them sentient, until encountering gods and their own civilizations were shattered. They were worshipped by primitive races and many got a big head due to this. Dragons are large animals that once dominated the world in the early ages before being dethroned by the gods during the dragon hunts. Dragon is a general term for those creatures with "Third Eye", organs above their eye that they can sense magic with and channel magic through.

They are intelligent and often have names, but are seen as beasts as they don't have civilization as humans see it. Younger and untintelligent dragons often raids and attacks settlements. Intelligent ones tend to be cocky and condescending, provoking and lying to others. Due to their power, they are feared and revered. Some were captured by humans and gods and devolved into lesser dragons. Considered the embodiment of chaos, and seen to be destroyed or tamed by the gods. Very few survive long enough to develop sentience. An injured dragon which sells its scales in exchange for food to locals.

### Types

They are adaptable and have a wide variety of types.

* **Wyrm**: Wyrms live underground with serpent-like bodies and are wingless, pale and relatively small. Wyrm are burrowing dragons with thick hides. Their spit is corrosive when they eat rock.
	+ **Pale Wyrm**: They use long tusks and claws to dig their tunnels deep underground and within mountains. Their bodies are not well armoured and they dwell within the dark for most of their lives. They are most well known for being albino in colour, compared to the light grey other Wyrms.
* **Drake**: Drakes are smaller cousins of the primary dragons and larger in number compared to them. They don't have all the same organs as dragons, and so they attack wildlife and human settlements for food, some are smart enough to forge a deal with humans or gods. They often only have four limbs: two legs and two wings.
	+ **Stormtamer Drake**:
	+ **Barkskin Drake**:
	+ **Stonefall Drake**:
* **Wyvern**: Wyverns are commonly enslaved and appear simply as large snakes with wings, or no wings at all.
	+ **Lava Lurker Wyvern**:
* **Dragon**:
	+ **Craterclaw Dragon**:
	+ **Redhorn Dragon**: The smallest and most common subrace of dragon and recognized by the singular red horn ontop of their heads, which they use to penetrate their prey after charging.
* **Sea Serpents have a flat and long mouth, spiny torso, small and body wings that help them move through the water quickly.**

## Notable

* Barnaeus: Made his nest in the Barnaeus Mountain Valley, which was named after him.
* The Master of the Mountain is a Greater Dragon that has settled in a dangerous mountain range and their presence keeps greater threats from reaching mortal lands.

## Powers & Abilities

Tremendous strength and destructive power are inherent in all dragons. Some are capable of contending with the servants of gods directly, while others can fight and kill gods. Dragons don't need food, but have the urge to eat. They have backward teeth. Dragons cultivate magic power into their bodies that give them strength, but upon death it is unleashed back into the environment and land. They have an organ between their eyes that allow them to see magical energy. Their scales are rather light.

### Weaknesses

* **Magic**: Humans developed spells to counter the flight of dragons.