Dragons

Dragons of Ruin are people of animal blood. Often it presents subtly, but it just as often reads incredibly obvious; Tabaxi's animalistic traits could be limited to retractable claws or cat ears, or they can be a literal cat person. Their name, coming from an ancient language, comes from the name of their spirits; Watchers.

Dragons were found in small regions claimed by their ancestors and protected by Watchers, with a very slow growth outward and very few who left. The Collective coaxed many out, but even at it's peak only one in twenty people in the Collective were Dragons, despite there being more Dragons than Giants.

Dragon's Blood is thick, and as such Dragons typically do not produce half-breeds, but Dragons with some variation. There are exceptions, like Bugbears (Giant/Dragon mixed breeds), but these are rare.

Watchers are Dragon spirits, and almost half of all dead Dragons become Watchers. Watchers are naturally compelled to help guard the location they were born and the location they died, but, like all Spirits, they are more or less powerless without external magic. The Dragons have been binding them for millennia to this end.

## Dragonborn

Dragonborn are the epitome of Dragon-ness, and some argue the first Dragons. Others say that they are the last Dragons, with all other types of Dragons slowly breeding upto the point of producing Dragonborn. This is all ancient history and speculation, but neither seems particularly likely or unlikely.

Dragonborn led the Dragon Clans. When the Collective was founded, these leaders were apprehensive, and took the position of "Do what you will, we will neither help nor hurt your efforts." This meant that the Collective's impact was limited, but the Clans did wholly adopt the Steam Tech revolution, and many non-Dragons would join the Clans. The Dragonborn weren't necessarily happy, but are honest to a fault and made no efforts to stop this. Indeed, many accelerated it by proxy by adopting non-Dragon children and customs.

They were the best prepared for the Fall. Their apprehensive nature and general distaste for the Eternals, combined with their bound Watcher spirits, Steam Tech, and Dragon Magic meant that there would be no Husks that could bring them down. The Plague, however, got in, slowly, and the Dragons fell from within.

Nowadays, Dragonborn still attempt to lead, but all who understand their history know that most of the Dragonborn which survived were the Dragonborn which fled, and not everybody takes well to that fact.

## Everyone Else

All other Dragons were beneath the Dragonborn, except for those which left the Clans. This happened before the Collective, but faster afterward. Dragons each hold traits of animals, and some put that to use in specific enclaves around the world, with those in cities and towns being the most out of place, until the Collective was founded.

Dragons are often grouped into specific categories, but the time of the Collective caused them to mix much more, so such distinctions are less prevalent and less popular now, after the Fall, instead favouring the generalized term of "Dragonblooded."

Dragons occupy any number of roles in the apocalypse; As a group, they are easily as versatile as humans, though any one Dragon can do very little to adapt.